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The Tragedy of Paotingfu
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartIsaac C. Ketler
New York, Chicago, and Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1902.An Authentic Story of the Lives, Services and Sacrifices of the Presbyterian, Congregation and China Inland Missionaries who Suffered Martyrdom at Paotingfu, China, June 30th and July 1, 1900.
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A Thousand Miles of Miracle in China
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartArchibald E. Glover
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906.A Personal Record of God’s Delivering Power from the Hands of the Imperial Boxes of Shan-si. An account of fleeing China during the Boxer Rebellion by a missionary of the China Inland Mission. The second, or Popular Edition.
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The Edible Fishes of New South Wales: Their Present Important and Their Potentialities
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid G. Stead
Sydney: Government of the State of New South Wales, 1908.Listing of edible fish species of New South Wales with descriptions of each, together with photographic plates and a large folding colour map of New South Wales.
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Cosulich Line Saturnia (Souvenir and Menu)
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartArgio Orell
Trieste: D. Modiano, 1927-1928.Portuguese edition of the pre-maiden voyage introductory souvenir book for the Italian ocean liner MS Saturnia WITH a menu and program in French for the night’s dinner and entertainment for 21st of March, 1928. Both with cover illustrations by Argio Orell.
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Cigars & The Man
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Graves
London: Martins, No date.Who are the men who smoke cigars? Successful men according to this promotional piece by Martins Cigar Shippers of Picadilly. More than mere promotional puff, Graves provides tips to the new smoker, and outlines histories and traditions of the practice. A lengthy Q&A section is followed by a colour supplementary of Martins cigars according to Graves’ seven classifications. Order form with envelope laid in, together with an autographed typescript letter dated 2nd December, 1938 from the firm’s sales manager on Martins letterhead.
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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839.The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy edited by his brother, John Davy, Vol. III: 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. An early edition of a landmark work in chemistry and anesthesia.
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Uxor Ebraica, sue de Nuptiis et Divortiis ex Jure Civili, id eft, Divino & Talmudico, Veterum Ebraeorum, Libri Tres.
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoannis Seldeni [John Selden]
Francofurti ad Oderam: Andr. Becmanus, 1673.Treatise on the Jewish laws of marriage and divorce by English polymath, jurist, and scholar of Jewish law John Selden (1584-1654). Bound (as usual) with a second separately titled work on Jewish law of succession, De Successionibus ad Leges Ebraeorum in Bona Defunctorum. Liber Singularis: In Pontificatum, Libri Duo.
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The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Mitchell
New York: Calamus Books, 1977.First edition, first printing. 1970s queer communal living fantasy classic. “The queens luxuriate in variety. They often make fun of the men’s fashions. The queens display infinite weirdnesses to the world. For them, style is the path into the unique self and so to transcendence. They long for everyone to reveal themselves wherever they are.” (page 63). Illustrations by Ned Asta. YOUNG 2736*.
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The British Librarian: Exhibiting a Compendious Review or Abstract Of our most Scrace, Useful, and Valuable Books in all Sciences, as well in Manuscript as in Print:
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Oldys
London: T. Osborne, 1738.With many Characters, Historical and Critical of the Authors, their Antagonists, &c. In a Manner never before attempted, And Useful to all Readers. With a Complete Index to the Volume. The collected volume of the 18th century bibliographic periodical with an added index by William Oldys. This copy with a portrait and biography from The European Magazine, and London Review; for November 1796 bound in at front.
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Round the World
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. P. Thomson
Brisbane: Outridge Printing Co., 1904.Account of the round the world voyage of James Park Thomson (1854-1941), decorated Scottish born-Queensland geographer and public servant. Includes descriptions of New Zealand, Samao, Fanning Island, Hawaii, North America from California to New York including San Francisco, Salt Lake City and the Mormons, the Rockies, Canada, Niagara, the United Kingdom including London, Westminster Abbey, Scotland, Aberdeen, The Crofters, Edinburgh, Belgium, Cologne, Switzerland, Paris, Rouen, Naples, Pompeii, The Suez Canal, Colombo, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, home to Brisbane, and more in between. Thomson recounts much of Australia and in particular Queensland to those he meets as well as participating in numerous Geographical Society meetings and the twenty-fourth National Congress of the French Geographical Societies at Rouen. The telling of his meeting with Prince Roland Bonaparte was responsible for putting in motion a series of events leading to the State Library of New South Wales’ eventual acquisition of the prized Tasman Map of Abel Tasman’s 1642 and 1644 voyages.
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A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro
AU$5,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlfred R. Wallace
London: Reeve and Co., 1853.With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley. The rare first edition written from Wallace’s notes of his first fieldwork expedition to the Amazon, 1848-1852, his specimens and most of his work having been lost in a cargo fire on the return voyage.
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The Mimiambs of Herondas
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHerondas; Jack Lindsay
London: The Fanfrolico Press, [1929].Mimes by Herondas translated by Jack Lindsay with 19 drawings by Alan Odle and a foreword by Brian Penton. Limited to 375 numbered copies, of which this is number 2. ARNOLD 35. This copy with the bookplate of David D. Levine.
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The Alligator Rivers: Prehistory and Ecology in Western Arnhem Land
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarmel Schrire
Canberra: Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1982. -
The Discovery of Australia
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge Collingridge
Sydney: Hayes Brothers, 1895.A Critical, Documentary and Historic Investigation Concerning the Priority of Discover in Australasia by Europeans before the arrival of Lieut. James Cook, in the “Endeavour,” in the year 1770. With illustrations, charts, maps diagrams, &c. copious notes, references, geographical index and index to names. FERGUSON 8465.
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Where Strange Paths Go Down
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. M. Duncan-Kemp
Brisbane: W. R. Smith & Paterson, 1964.Description of aboriginal social life and customs by Alice Monkton Duncan-Kemp (1901-1988), who grew up on a cattle station in remote South-West Queensland. This being the second edition which includes large portions of Our Sandhill Country, her memoir published in 1933, providing insight into life on the cattle runs of the Channel country. Numerous photographs. This copy signed by Alice on the dedication page.
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Listen, Little Man! A Document from the Archive of the Orgone Institute
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilhelm Reich; William Steig
New York: Orgone Institute Press, 1948.First edition in the English language of Reich’s antiauthoritarian classic calling for direct action by the working class. Translated by Theodore P. Wolfe. Illustrated by William Stieg. Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) was an Austro-Hungraian-American doctor and psychoanalys, and is one of psychiatry’s most radical figures. In the late 1950s many of his books were burned by order of the court in one of the largest cases of modern censorship making early editions of his work scarce.
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Ben Westwood
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBen Westwood
Tokyo: E. T. Insolite, 1999.“A celebration of femininity — fetish photography by Ben Westwood, the son of British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. The first monograph of the new star of U.K. fetish photography, Ben Westwood, is full of fetish and chic costumes from “Agent Provokature,” the cultic lingerie shop that his beloved brother runs. This is his first photo collection. Many erotic photos of women posing provocatively in lingerie and fetish gear. Some partial nudity, a little full nudity.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Ocean and Isle
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Edgar Geil
Melbourne: WM. T. Pater & Co., 1902.Accounts of Pacific missions by American evangelist, explorer, lecturer, photographer, and author William Edgar Geil (1865-1925). Illustrated with 100 full page engravings, technically 94 plates with 6 being double-paged. Geil is best known for his evangelistic travels, which took him to China, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific Rim and South Seas. He is considered one of the important explorers of his generation. In addition to his writings, Geil lectured extensively with numerous photographs of packed theatres present in this work. Geil married later in life and had no children. His widow, Constance, survived him until the late 1950s. In 1959 his estate was sold at public auction including the contents of his library, which was purchased by a Bucks County book dealer “Gus” Gustafson. It remained in his possession until shortly after his death in February of 2008.
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A Woman’s Place: 100 Years of Queensland Women Lawyers
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSusan Purdon; Aladin Rahemtula
Brisbane: Supreme Court of Queensland Library, 2005.Published to coincide with the centenary of the Legal Practitioners Act 1905, which first enabled women to practise law in Queensland. Foreword by Mary Gaudron, former Justice of the High Court of Australia. This copy with a lengthy inscription by Aladin Rahemtula to the title page
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Athletic Queensland: A History of Amateur Rowing, Boxing and Physical Development, Pedestrianism and Cycling, in Queensland
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. B. Carmichael; H. C. Perry
Brisbane: H. J. Diddams & Co., 1900.Under the official patronage of the Queensland Rowing Association, Queensland Amateur Athletic Association, Brisbane Gymnasium, Queensland Cyclists’ Union. 4 works in 1 comprising the most detailed history of 19th century sport in early Queensland recorded by . Not only a detailed guide for physical fitness it is an invaluable record of local history. The four works are: 1. Amateur Rowing: By W. B. Carmichael with contributions by R. H. Roe, C. B. P. Bell, and F. W. de Little: Comprising a history of rowing Brisbane, Maryborough, Rockhampton, &c., crew discipline, how to row (with poses), training, &c.; 2. The Art of Boxing: Hints on Its Acquirement – How to Train – History of Amateur Boxing in Queensland by Harry C. Perry. With which is interwoven a detailed History of the Brisbane Gymnasium, the leading institution of its kind in the colony; and A Special Illustrated Article on Physical Culture, by T. Wilkinson, Together with a concise account of every Athletic Display and Boxing Tournament held under its auspices.; 3. Amateur Pedestrianism by W. B. Carmichael. Also an article on Best Methods of Starting, How to Train, &c. by C. Campbell. A Complete Record of All Intercolonial and Pedestrian Events in the Colony since the Year 1873.; 4. Amateur Cycling by Harry C. Perry. Including an Article on Best Methods of Training and Riding by J. A. Smith, also Recollections of the Pioneers by Geo. Tombuco. A Complete Record of All Principal Events, Both Local and Intercolonial. FERGUSON 7958.