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A Treatise on Diamonds and Pearls;
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Jeffries
London: E. Lumley, No date.In which their importance is considered; and plain rules are exhibited for ascertaining the value of both; also the true method of manufacturing diamonds. First published in 1750, being “the first book in English to describe how diamonds and pearls can be evaluated on the basis of the factors of size (or weight) and style of cut”. This edition, while stated as the Fourth Edition, is produced by the London bookseller Edward Lumley sometime in the 19th century, and differs from the fourth edition of 1871 “While resembling the 4th edition, it has been prepared by a different publisher and the contents are drastically re-arranged. The explanation of technical terms omitted in the previous edition (despite its claim to completeness!) is here restored.” SINKANKAS 3203. Though given the career of Lumley it is likely this edition was published prior to the 1871 fourth edition.
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Viavi Hygiene: Explaining the Natural Principles upon which the Viavi System of Treatment for Men, Women and Children is Based.
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Hartland Law]; [Herbert E. Law]; Almah Lawson
San Francisco: The Viavi Company, 1914.Health guide published by the San Francisco based Law brothers, Hartland and Herbert, who throughout the late 19th century established a line of Viavi medicines growing to an international company with offices around the world, in the process making them two of San Francisco’s most wealthly citizens. This copy with the stamps of the NSW Viavi office and their office address at 350 George St, Sydney in manuscript. Also mounted in at the front endpaper is a 4 page booklet of the New South Wales Viavi Co., with an introductory pitch by branch manager Almah Lawson.
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Fata Morgana; or, The Bristol Sculptor’s Idol, A Poem.
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartH. Jephson
Hobart: T. L. Hood, 1881.Early Tasmanian poetry. The story, in narrative verse, of a genius contending with poverty. Henry Jephson (1810-1896) emigrated from England to Hobart in 1857 becoming associated with the Methodist Free Church and joining the Tasmania Operative Lodge of Masons for which Jephson composed Masonic Songs. The preface of this work is written by Rev. R. D. Poulett-Harris, who became the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Tasmania in 1890.
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Brian Blomerth’s Lilly Wave
AU$70.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian Blomerth
New York: Anthology Editions, 2024.“In the third entry in his ongoing series, Blomerth opens a porthole on the life, experiments, & addictions of John C. Lilly – the man whose development of the isolation tank and ketamine-fueled dives into the nature of consciousness made him perhaps the most notorious researcher of the psychedelic era. Featuring alien visitations, interspecies encounters, and no shortage of concerned onlookers, this is a story thatÂ’s equal parts cosmic & paranoid, transcendent & tragic.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line
AU$125.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTomoko Sato
New York: Mucha Foundation Publishing, 2025.“This volume reappraises the graphic work of Alphonse Mucha and explores its influence on graphic art since the 1960s. Published in conjunction with a touring exhibition in the US & Mexico, this volume surveys the development of Mucha’s style, synonymous with Art Nouveau. It explores how it was rediscovered by later generations of artists, becoming an artistic idiom for the Psychedelic Art of the 1960s and 1970s as well as a wide range of visual culture from the late 20th century to today. Coinciding with the opening of the new Mucha Museum in the baroque Savarin Palace in Prague, ‘Timeless Mucha’ is organised into three thematic sections: Inspirations for the Mucha Style, Le Style Mucha, and Art Nouveau and The Rebirth of the Mucha Style and Its Legacy. The first two sections focus on Mucha’s artistic development, examining the theoretical basis of MuchaÂ’s style–famously known as “le style Mucha” in fin-de-siecle Paris–and its context. Tracing the artist’s footsteps from his youth in Moravia through the 1890s, when he attained fame as a poster artist, the first section highlights a selection of works of art, crafts and books from his own collection. The third section explores visual links between Mucha’s artistic idiom and the styles developed by later generations of artists. While Mucha’s style continues to influence today’s visual culture, including fashion, animation movies and computer games, this catalogue also focuses on a philosophical aspect of Mucha’s legacy: the art of message-making.”
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Reasons of the Heart
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBron Nicholls
Melbourne: Penguin, 1993.Australian pederasty novel by Bron Nicholls, her first published novel for an adult audience.
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The Getting of Wisdom
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenry Handel Richardson
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1931.First published in 1910, this is the first US printing of the 1931 revised edition of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson’s Australian coming of age novel set in an 1890s Melbourne all-girls boarding school. In the original jacket illustrated by Paul Wenck.
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Humane Policy; or Justice to the Aborigines of New Settlements
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartS. Bannister
London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1830.Saxe Bannister (1790-1877) was the first Attorney-General of New South Wales, though short-lived in the position due to constant clashing with other figures of the new colony, including over the mistreatment of the Aborigines. Though failing to find content in his work he is noted as being philanthropic and humane in his disposition with “a devotion to the welfare of children, convicts, and coloured inhabitants of the Empire” (ADB). Upon returning to England he authored numerous pamphlets on behalf of indigenous people in the colonies, and this, his longest work on the subject, largely devoted to South Africa, though with numerous references from his time in New South Wales. This copy with the armorial bookplate of Fairclough and the Aborigines Protection Society in manuscript at the crown of the title page.
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An Essay on Average; and on Other Subjects Connected with the Contract of Marine Insurance
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Stevens, of Lloyd’s
London: Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy, 1822.Together with an Essay on Arbitration. Dedicated to the Committee for Manage the Affairs of Lloyd’s
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The Story of an Athlete (A Picture of the Past)
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartH. C. A. Harrison
Melbourne: Alexander McCubbin, No date.Autobiography of one of the pioneers of Australian rules football, AFL.
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Tom Petrie’s Reminiscences of Early Queensland
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Constance Campbell Petrie]
Brisbane: Watson, Ferguson & Co., 1904.Reminiscences of early Queensland dating from 1837 recorded by Tom Petrie’s daughter. Prefatory note by Walter E. Roth. The first edition rebound in plain green cloth.
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Skinflicks: The Inside Story of the X-Rated Video Industry
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Jennings
: 1st Books Library, 2000. -
Lights, Camera, Sex! An Autobiography by Christy Canyon
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChristy Canyon
: Christy Canyon, 2003.Autobiography of pornstar Christy Canyon (1966-). This copy inscribed by Canyon to Louis.
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Before Porn Was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartElizabeth Heineman
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2011.The story of stunt and Luftwaffe pilot turned sex shop entrepreneur Beate Uhse-Rotermund (1919-2001).
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Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian McNair
London and New York: Routledge, 2002. -
Walerian Borowczyk: Cinema of Erotic Dreams
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJeremy Mark Robinson
Maidstone: Crescent Moon, 2008.Study of the Polish film director.
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Baby Oil and Ice: Striptease in East London
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLara Clifton
London: The Do-Not Press, 2002.Photobook with quotes in facsimile manuscript from the dancers.
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Phantastique No. 4
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSteve Carter; Desmond Waterman; Francis Maconochie; James Kronol
Sydney: New Age Graphics, 1986.Final issue of the 1986 Australian underground horror comic anthology Phantastique.
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The Sugar Cube Trap
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMadelaine Duke
London: White Lion Publishers, 1974.A fictional tale of children encountering the dangerous world of LSD.
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Drugtakers in an English Town
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMartin A. Plant
London: Tavistock Publications, 1975.Sociological study of drug users in England.