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Les Sept Femmes de La Barbe-Bleue et Autres Contes Merveilleux
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnatole France; G. A. Mossa
Paris: Librairie Des Amaterus, A. Ferroud. – F. Ferroud, 1921.Bluebeard’s Seven Wives and Other Wonderful Tales. France’s reinterpretation of the French folktale of Bluebeard. First published in 1909, this is the first edition with illustrations by Gustav-Adolf Mossa. One of 70 numbered copies on Japanese paper with the etchings in 3 states (from a total edition of 1,200). This copy from the collection of Australian actor and bibliophile Barry Humphries, with his bookplate, in a fine signed binding by Flammarion bookbinder Jean Vaillant.
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Les Amours de Psyche et de Cupidon
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. De La Fontaine
Paris: Defer de Maisonneuve, 1791.The Loves of Psyche and Cupid by Jean De La Fontaine with colour illustrations based on paintings by M. Schall. One of the most striking editions of Fontaine’s adaptation of the story of Cupid and Psyche with coloured stipple engravings by Bonnefoy, Mme Demonchy, and Colibert after Jean-Frederic Schall. This copy with the advertisement leaf (often lacking) announcing the publication of Milton’s Paradise Lost, with an additional portrait engraving frontispiece by Edelinck after H. Rigault, and an original drawing dedication “quatre amis dont la connaissance avait commence par le Parnasse” [four friends whose acquaintance had begun at Parnassus]: La Fontaine, Racine, Moliere, and Boileau, in pen and Indian ink enhanced with gold and colouring on vellum signed L. Benard 1893, bound in a fine signed binding by the Paris bookbinder Salvador David (1859-1929).
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Illustrating Camelot
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBarbara Tepa Lupack; Alan Lupack
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008. -
Huichol Indian Sacred Rituals
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMariano Valadez; Susana Valadez
Oakland: Amber Lotus, 1992.Monograph of the peyote inspired paintings of the Huichol Indians. “The sacred ways of the Huichol Indians are vividly communicated in traditional art works called “yarn paintings”. Their symbols represent natural forces that are normally invisible, as well as shamanic ceremonies performed by the Huichol to contact, learn from, and work with these energies.” (from jacket blurb)
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Dragons and Dragon Lore
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErnest Ingersoll
New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928.With an introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn.
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Cassirer and Langer on Myth: an Introduction
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Schultz
New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.A detailed overview of the significance of myth in the context of civilization and cultures, conducted by way of two leading twentieth century philosophers on myth, Ernst Cassirer and Susanne Langer.
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Vedic and Mesopotamian Interactions
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartN. Kazanas
Adyar: The Adyar Library and Research Centre, The Theosophical Society, 2007. -
Katu Folktales and Society
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartInstitute of Research on Lao Culture and Society; Nancy A. Costello
Vientiane: Ministry of Information and Culture, Institute of Research on Lao Culture and Society, 1993.A collection of stories of the Katu peoples of Vietnam and Laos. An oral storytelling tradition many stories are here recorded in Katu phonetically and with Lao and English translation.