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Men Are Pigs
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBueno de Mesquita
Sydney: Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1927.A tit for tat reply to the book about women, Cats, Not by Louis Wain. The first Australian Edition, published the same year as the Cecil Palmer UK Edition.
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Manrape
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarta Tikkanen
London: Virago, 1978.Translated from the Swedish ‘Man kan inte valdtas’ by Alison Weir. The first English edition released alongside the 1978 film ‘Men Can’t Be Raped’. “On her fortieth birthday Eva Randers, library assistant, divorced, living alone, is asked to dance by Marty Wester at a local disco. After a few drinks they go back to his flat, where he proceeds to tie her up, pour liquor over her, and rape her. .. She’s stunned, humiliated, frightened, confused. She doesn’t report it to the police. And she can’t and won’t forget it. Stubbornly and obsessionally she makes her plan to alert the world to her experience…” (from jacket flap)
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Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. O. Oldman
London: W. O. Oldman, 1976.Limited Edition Facsimile of 130 catalogues of British ethnographic dealer William Ockleford Oldman (1879-1949). Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, of which this is number 434.
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Atlas of Fungi
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartK. Kavina
London: Lincolns-Prager, 1947. -
Practical Mycology: Manual for Identification of Fungi
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSigurd Funder
New York and Kingston-Upon-Thames: Hafner Publishing Company, 1968. -
Champignons et Plantes Medicinales (Therapeutique par les Plantes): Petit Guide a l’usage des familles
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Riguet; G. D’Hommee
Paris: Librairie Grund, 1943.Mushrooms and Medicinal Plants (Plant Therapy): A Short Guide for Families.
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Les Champignons Comestibles & Veneneux
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. de La Rocque
Paris: Nodot Editeur, No date.Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms: General Notions. Classification. Study of Characteristics.
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Some Edible Mushrooms and How to Know Them
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNina Lane Faubion
Portland: Binfords & Mort, 1938.Pocket mushroom hunting manual on edible varieties together with a chapter on poisonous amanitas.
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The Essential Psychedelic Guide
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartD. M. Turner
San Francisco: Panther Press, 1994.A detailed, and very drug nerdy, guide to psychedelic experimentation. An experiential view on many of the classical psychoactive substances.
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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: Butterworths, 1972.Researches, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide. First published in 1800, when Davy was only 22, outlining his experiments with nitrous, coining the term laughing gas, and suggesting to its anesthetic qualities, which were not regularly used in medicine for many years to come. Facsimile edition of a landmark work in chemistry and anesthesia.
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Die Gifte in der Weltgeschichte: Toxikologische, Allgemein-verstandliche Untersuchungen der Historischen Quellen
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartL. Lewin
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1920.First edition of German pharmacologist Louis Lewin’s (1850-1929) important contribution to the history of medicine being a history of poisonings with innumerable citations from ancient and modern literature.
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Phantastica: Die Betaubenden und Erregenden Genussmittel
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartL. Lewin
Berlin: Georg Stilke, 1924.First edition of the psychedelic classic by German pharmacologist Louis Lewin (1850-1929). Set the standard for the classification of psychoactive drugs: Inebriantia (Inebriants such as alcohol or ether), Excitantia (Stimulants such as Khat or Amphetamine), Euphorica (Euphoriants and Narcotics such as Heroin), Hypnotica (Tranquilizers such as Kava), Phantastica (Hallucinogens or Entheogens such as Peyote or Ayahuasca). Later translated into French, Italian, and English, the 1931 English edition said to be Aldous Huxley’s introduction to drug literature.
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Traite Pratique des Champignons Comestibles
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. Lavalle
Paris and Dijon: J.-B Bailliere and Lamarche et Drouelle, 1852.Practical Treatise on Edible Mushrooms, including their organization, their botanical characteristics, their nutritional properties, their cultivation, the manner of preparing them, the means of distinguishing them from poisonous species and the care to be given to persons poisoned by the latter.
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British Edible Fungi: How to Distinguish and to Cook Them
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. C. Cooke
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1891.With coloured figures of upwards of 40 species. This copy with 2 manuscript notes in the hand of mycologist John Ramsbottom and a 1919 postcard addressed to Edward King from an unidentifiable hand with mention of Paxillus involutus.
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A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England,
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles David Badham
London: Reeve Brothers, 1847.Containing an Account of their Classical History, Uses, Characters, Development, Structure, Nutritious properties, Modes of Cooking and Preserving, &c.,.
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Description de Deux Nouvelles Especes de Ptychogaster et nouvelle preuve de l’identite de ce genre avec les Polyporus
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. Boudier
Paris: J. Mersch, 1887.Description of Two New Species of Ptychogaster and New Evidence for the Identity of This Genus with Polyporus. Extract from the Journal de Botanique 15 February, 1887. This copy inscribed by Boudier.
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Moulds, Mildews and Mushrooms: A Guide to the Systematic Study of the Fungi and Mycetozoa and their Literature
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLucien Marcus Underwood
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1899. -
A Guide to the Poisonous Mushrooms in the Greater New York Area
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe New York Mycological Society
New York: The New York Mycological Society, 1976. -
Ungeniessbare Pilze
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Schneider
Dresden: Rudolph’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1925.Inedible Mushrooms: The most important and most common inedible and poisonous mushrooms as a warning for all mushroom hunters, presented in 48 color art prints with accompanying text. Scarce German mushroom guide book, 3 copies recorded in OCLC, none outside of Germany.
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Select Trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, for Murder, Robberies, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds, Bigamy, and other Offences.
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNo author
London: John Applebee for George Strahan, et al., 1742.To which are added, Genuine Accounts of the Lives, Behaviour, Confessions and Dying Speeches of the most eminent Convicts. Rare complete set of this collection of 18th century British crimes with explicit descriptions of crimes, trials, and punishments. Therein are numerous accounts of sodomy including that the case of one of the most famous of London’s gay meeting spots of the time, Clap’s molly house, being the coffee house of Margaret Clap AKA Mother Clap. “Margaret Clap, for keeping a Sodomitical House, July, 1726. MARGARET CLAP was indicted for keeping a disorderly house, in which she procured and encouraged Persons to commit Sodomy, December 10, 1725, and before and after. Samuel Stevens. On Sunday Night, the 14th of November last, I went ot the Prisoner’s House in Field-lane, in Holburn, where I found between 40 and 50 Men making Love to one another, as they call’d it. Sometimes they would sit in one another’s Laps, kissing in a lewd Manner and using their Hand indecently. Then they would get up, Dance and make Curtsies, and mimick the Voices of Women. ‘ I, Fie, Sir ! – Pray, Sir, – Dear, Sir, – Lord, how can you serve me so? – I swear I’ll cry out. – You’re a wicked Devil, – and your’e a bold Face. – Eh ! ye little dear Toad ! Come, buss ! -‘ Then they’d hug, and play, and toy, and go out by Couples into another Room on the same Floor, to be married, as they call’d it…” (vol. III, pp. 37) and so on and so forth are similar and many other crimes told, such as the murderer Sarah Malcolm (who was sketched by Hogarth), Catherine Hayes and her accomplices, the murderer poet Richard Savage (as described in Samuel Johnson’s Life of Savage), the thief John Jack Sheppard, and the sodomy trial of Charles Hitchen.