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Histoire des Amazones Anciennes et Modernes, Enrichie de Medailles
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. l’Abbe Guyon
Paris: Jean Villette, 1740.Study of the history and mythology of the legendary race of warrior women, the Amazons. With 8 engraved plates based on ancient coins and medals. Provenance: This copy with a warm inscription to the front flyleaf of vol. 1 dated June 1925 from German political scientist Arnold Bergstraesser (1896-1964) to humanitarian Eleanora Iredale.
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Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn T. Gulick
Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1905.Human evolutionary theory by Hawaiian naturalist, missionary, and snail collector John Thomas Gulick (1832-1923). The three colour plates showing numerous shells.
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The Enigmatical Repository; or Museum of Entertainment,
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. Dawson
Norwich: J. Dawson, No date.Containing Enigmas, Charades, Rebuses, Anagrams, Transpositions, Queries, Logogriphs, Acrostics, &c. Including A Selection of Harmless and Pleasing Experiments in Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Magnetism, &c. Also a variety of Miscellaneous Receipts In the various Departments of Art and Science. A collection of word puzzles and simple chemistry experiments designed for youth amusement. Not in Toole Stott. This copy inscribed by the publisher J. Dawson and from the collection of magician Ricky Jay.
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Philosophical Recreations, or Winter Amusements
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Badcock
London: T. Hughes, No date.A Collection of Entertaining & Surprising Experiments in Mechanics, Arithmetic, Optics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Electricity, Chemistry, Magnetisism, & Pyrotechny, Or Art of Making, Fire Works, together with the wonders of the Air Pump, Magic Lanthorn, Camera Obscura, &c. &c. &c. and a variety of Tricks with Cards. (circa 1828). TOOLE STOTT 77.
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Chemical Amusement, Comprising a Series of Curious and Instructive Experiments in Chemistry,
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFredrick Accum
London: Thomas Boys, 1817.Which are Easily Performed, and Unattended by Danger. 103 chemistry experiments with magical application for the conjuring chemist. The rare first edition with the 60 page, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Apparatus & Instruments Employed in Experimental and Operative Chemistry, in Analytical Mineralogy, and in the Pursuits of the Recent Discoveries of Voltaic Electricity, Manufactured and Sold by the author, at the rear, the separate title on the verso of pp. 191. Friedrich Accum (1769-1838) was a German chemist who lived in London from 1793 to 1821. He played a key role in the establishment of gas lighting in London and wrote a number of popular chemistry works, most notably campaigning against the unscrupulous use of chemical additives in food in his 1820 A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons. HALL 1, TOOLE STOTT 1. This copy in a Zaehnsdorf half leather binding with the author’s calling card laid in and the bookplates of magicians Roland Winder and Ricky Jay.
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The Chemistry of Common Life (2 Volumes)
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames F. W. Johnston
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1855.“The first work in English to treat the entire psychoactive plant kingdom.” (Phantastica, 114) Thorough chapters devoted to opium, cannabis, coca, betel nut, Amanita muscaria, as well as tea, coffee, beer, wine, and liquors.
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Bioluminescence in Focus: A Collection of Illuminating Essays
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVictor Benno Meyer-Rochow
Trivandrum: Research Signpost, 2009. -
Drosophila: A Laboratory Manual
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Ashburner
Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1989. -
Drosophila melanogaster: Practical Uses in Cell and Molecular Biology
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLawrence S. B. Goldstein; Eric A. Fyrberg
San Diego: Academic Press, 1994. -
Drosophila Protocols
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Sullivan; Michael Ashburner; R. Scott Hawley
Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2000. -
The Economy of the Animal Kingdom: Considered Anatomically, Physically, and Philosophically (3 Volumes)
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEmanuel Swedenborg; Augustus Clissold
: Swedenborg Scientific Association, 1960-1976.Translated from the Latin by James John Garth Wilkinson and Alfred Acton Clissold. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was a Swedish mystic, theologian, philosopher, and scientist. After a successful career as a scientist and inventor, at the age of 53 he had a revelation that Jesus had chosen him to write ‘The Heavenly Doctrine’ to reform Christianity. He published 18 theological works before his death which he predicted. His writings have been very influential around the world, with The New Church or Swedenborgism being founded in 1787. It is still present around Australia.
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The Simple Plant Isoquinolines
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlexander T. Shulgin; Wendy E. Perry
Berkeley: Transform Press, 2002.A complete reference book for simple isoquinolines, detailing their common names, molecular structures, and the plants that contain them.
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The Plastic Banknote: From Concept to Reality
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Solomon; Tom Spurling
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2014. -
The Wakulla Springs Project
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam C. Stone
Derwood: United States Deep Diving Team, 1989.Detailed report of the 1987 expedition mapping the underwater cave at Wakulla Springs, Florida. A cave diving classic which some mark as the beginning of technical underwater diving.
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Chemical Atlas; or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects
AU$8,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward L. Youmans
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856.Exhibiting the General Principles of the Science in a Series of Beautifully Colored Diagrams, and Accompanied by Explanatory Essays, Embracing the Latest Views of the Subjects Illustrated. Edward Livingston Youmans (1821-1887) was an American scientific writer, editor, and lecturer, and founder of Popular Science magazine. Youmans’ Chemical Atlas is one of the 19th century’s pioneering publications of science popularization, with striking colour plates both conveying information and capturing the imagination, and was featured in the William Reese exhibition Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books: “This chemistry textbook was a pioneering publication in the use of color to convey quantitative information”. There are recorded printings each year between 1854 and 1857. This 1856 edition being the third year of printing and from the collection of the renowned neurologist, author, and educator Dr. Oliver Sacks, with his bookplate laid in.
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The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Darwin
London: John Murray, 1890.Darwin’s first published work after the Origin of Species, providing evidence supporting his theory of evolution through natural selection. Darwin believed this volume tackled the question of design in nature. He maintained that the complex internal arrangements and ornate ridges of orchids were not created for the sake of beauty, but for the functional purpose of facilitating reproduction. This copy with the advertisements dated June, 1897, and from the collection of the former Premier of Queensland, Sir Thomas McIlwraith, with his embossed stamp.
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Darwin Made Easy
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward Bibbins Aveling
London: Progressive Publishing Company, 1885.An introductory work on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by Karl Marx’s son-in-law Edward Aveling. This volume is comprised of three separately paginated lectures: ‘The Darwinian Theory’, ‘The Origin of Man’, and ‘Monkeys, Apes, and Men’.
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Time
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartS. T. Butler; H. Messel
Sydney: Shakespeare Head Press, 1965.Selected Lectures on Time and Relativity, the Arrow of Time, and the Relation of Geological and Biological Time and on Men of Science. A course of lectures contributed in the Nuclear Research Foundation Summer Science School for fourth-year high school students at the University of Sydney, January 4015, 1965.
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Miscellaneous Observations Connected with the Physical Sciences
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEmanuel Swedenborg; Charles Edward Strutt
Bryn Athyn: Swedenborg Scientific Association, 1976.Translated from the Latin by Charles Edward Strutt. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 – 1772) was a Swedish mystic, theologian, philosopher, and scientist. After a successful career as a scientist and inventor, at the age of 53 he had a revelation that Jesus had chosen him to write ‘The Heavenly Doctrine’ to reform Christianity. He published 18 theological works before his death which he predicted. His writings have been very influential around the world, with The New Church or Swedenborgism being founded in 1787. It is still present around Australia.
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The Inside Story of Dry Batteries: A Guide for Students
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartUnion Carbide Australia
Sydney: Union Carbide Australia, 1964.