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Die Menschlichen Genussmittel
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. Hartwich
Leipzig: Chr. Herm. Tauchnitz, 1911.[Human Stimulants: Their Origin, Distribution, History, Use, Components and Effects.] Monumental encyclopedia of ethnopharmacology by German pharmacist Carl Hartwich (1851-1917) based on anthropological and ethnological studies from remote sources.
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On Hallucinations: A History and Explanation of Apparitions, Visions, Dreams, Ecstasy, Magnetism, and Somnambulism
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. Brierre de Boismont; Robert T. Hulme
London: Henry Renshaw, 1859.The first psychiatric survey of hallucinations by the French physician and psychiatrist Alexandre Jacques Francois Briere de Boismont (1797-1881), first published in English in 1853, on offer here is the first UK edition, translated from the French by Robert T. Hulme. Boismont considered hallucinations to be one of the most important aspects of man’s psychological history.
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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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Stranger in Paradise: An Expatriate’s Diary
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMade Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1980.An Expatriate’s Diary. Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. This work was his first in his Fotokopi series of architecture/artists books, being a collection of articles recording his observations of life, culture, and architecture in his new home as he attends innumerable religious ceremonies. A detailed record from an expatriate perspective of culture and religion in Bali in the late 1970s. This is the First Edition published in an edition of only 4 numbered and signed copies, with a lengthy inscription from the author on the publication information page together with a gratified passport portrait photograph of the author.
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Balinese Architecture: Towards an Encyclopaedia
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMade Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1988.This book grew out of a report by students of the University of Sydney during a holiday design programme in Bali to which Wijaya was the tutor. “Most of the photographers were taken over the six months April – October, 1984. The selection is comprehensive in that it covers the full spectrum of Balinese Architecture — mountain to coastal, north to south, palatial to makeshift..” (from preface) Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. The New Compiled Edition, combining volumes 1 and 2. Photocopied pages (as issued) with 14 original colour photographs pasted in (copies are known to have differing numbers of added photographs). One of 50 numbered and signed copies, this copy further inscribed by Wijaya to the title page, and with numerous manuscript corrections as well as additional information tabs further describing many of the illustrations.
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Indian Paintings in the Sarabhai Foundation
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartB. N. Goswamy
Ahmedabad: Sarabhai Foundation, 2010.Catalogue of paintings in the collection, each with an extended text description.
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The Forgotten Frames: A Photographic Voyage with the People of Bastar
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartManoj Kumar Jain
[Uttar Pradesh]: Manoj Kumar Jain, 2014. -
Paradeisos
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChristopher Koller
Melbourne: M.33, 2011.“Produced over a period of 12 years, Christopher Koller’s plastic camera photographs of gardens and otherwise mediated greenery forge a very different atmosphere to what one would expect from such subject matter. Warped, stretched and almost affronting in their blurred optical qualities, the images that fill Paradeisos are vivid and almost visceral in their odd beauty.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Open Shutters Iraq
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEugenie Dolberg
London: Trolley, 2010.“This book is a collection of individual photographs and photographic essays made by women from Baghdad, Basra, Falluja, Kirkuk and Mosul in 2006/7. These women were not photographers or writers, but were brought together by their need to tell their stories.” (from preface)
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Sarah Lucas: 4.2 – 31.3.1996
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSarah Lucas
Rotterdam: Museum Boymans van Beuningen, 1996.Catalogue for an exhibition by English contemporary artist Sarah Lucas. This copy from the collection of photographer Lewis Morley, with the Lewis and Patricia Morley Library exlibris plate.
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Saltwater People of the Broken Bays: Sydney’s Northern Beaches
AU$90.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Ogden
Sydney: Cyclops Press, 2011.A focused look at the shorelines of northern Sydney, New South Wales, and the people who inhabit them, from ancient times through to modern surfing.
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Wilderness Collections: Swan Song
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRodney Lough Jr.
Happy Valley, Oregon: The Lough Road, 2016.Nature / wilderness landscape photo book.
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Landscape, 2007 – 2014
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPiyatat Hemmatat
[Chicago]: Serindia Contemporary, 2015.“LANDSCAPE 2007-2014 by Piyatat Hemmatat is a limited edition (of 500) artist’s book of his Landscape series in which for the last seven years he explored ‘his alternate reality’, the landscape. His exploration of nature has informed many of his published projects and has enabled him to get back in touch with his instincts and derive creative strength from them. LANDSCAPE is a collection of his most illuminating encounters that translated into a stunning selection of thirty landscape photographs in this beautifully-produced artist’s edition volume.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Portrait of a People: The Tiwi of Northern Australia
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHeide Smith
Narooma: Hobbs Point Publishing, 2008. -
Saltwater People of the Broken Bays / Fatal Shore: Sydney’s Northern / Southern Beaches (2 Volumes)
AU$160.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Ogden
Sydney: Cyclops Press, 2012.The slipcased issue of both volumes, together encompassing a focused look at the shorelines of Sydney, New South Wales, and the people who inhabit them, from ancient times through to modern surfing.
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Daughters
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMargaret M. de Lange
London: Trolley, 2009.“Fifteen years ago Norwegian photographer Margaret M. de Lange was at home looking after her two young daughters. She soon picked up her camera and began to photograph what came a natural subject matter to her – her daughters.” (from back cover)
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Cactus: Surfing Journals from Solitude
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChristo Reid
Forresters Beach: Strangelove Press, 2010.Illustrated history of surfing in South Australia.