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The Windmill Collection: Photographs by Rose & Emma Windmill
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Elliston
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2008.“These rare photographs, never published before, present a charming portrait of times gone by, an Australian ambience that no longer exists. The Collection comprises vignettes of family and social life in the years between the first and second world wars in Victoria. The photographs also provide the viewer with an opportunity to see what life was like at that time, the emotional landscapes of cities and towns that are today dramatically altered by the modernisation of life.” (publisher’s blurb)
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10×100: 10 Australian Photographers
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartMaurice Ortega
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.“Fujifilm Professional and T&G Publishing have selected 10 of Australias finest contemporary photographers for this unprecedented publication. They were invited to explore their creativity using Fujifilm’s recently developed, compact, new generation Finepix X100 digital camera, submitting 10 photographs each for publication. The photographers are Max Pam, Narelle Autio, Lee Grant, Heide Smith, Jack Picone, Louise Whelan, John Ogden, Marian Drew, Brad Rimmer and Tim Page.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Cabramatta: A Moment in Time
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartMarkus Andersen
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2016.“Cabramatta is not your typical Australian suburb. If you took a stroll through the streets of this south-western Sydney hub, you may feel like you are in Southeast Asia. However, the suburb of Cabramatta is emblematic of modern Australia — urban, busy and brimming with multicultural activity. Sydney photographer Markus Andersen has captured this melting pot of cultures in his distinctive, street photography style. His raw, sometimes playful images show the uniquely diverse and human side of Cabramatta, seizing little moments of beauty in everyday life. A year in the life of one of Australias most vivid multicultural communities, suspended in the amber of Markus Andersen’s lens.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Andersen.
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Atlas Monographs
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009.“Atlas Monographs is a compression of eight travel journals, beginning with Pam’s most recent work (Karakoram 2006) and shifting back through the decades to his first journals begun in 1970. The journals map, through text, photo and marks on paper his engagement with the cultures he has travelled through. Just as importantly, the journals provided the engine room for his development as a photographer, a writer and an artist. Max Pam is one of Australia’s most important contemporary photographers. Working as a professional since the early 1970s he is among a handful of Australians to make a substantial impact on the intensely competitive international photographic scene.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Atlas Monographs
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009.“Atlas Monographs is a compression of eight travel journals, beginning with Pam’s most recent work (Karakoram 2006) and shifting back through the decades to his first journals begun in 1970. The journals map, through text, photo and marks on paper his engagement with the cultures he has travelled through. Just as importantly, the journals provided the engine room for his development as a photographer, a writer and an artist. Max Pam is one of Australia’s most important contemporary photographers. Working as a professional since the early 1970s he is among a handful of Australians to make a substantial impact on the intensely competitive international photographic scene.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Pam.
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I to Eye
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartLewis Morley
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.“In a career that has spanned some 50 years, Lewis Morley has worked with equal ease in theatre, fashion, portraiture, magazine photography and documentary reportage. His body of work, particularly his portraits of key figures of 1960s London, is highly recognised, and with his famous photo of Christine Keeler naked upon a chair, Morley produced an image that is probably one of the most memorable, and most copied, of any photographs of any time.” (publisher’s blurb)
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I to Eye
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartLewis Morley
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.“In a career that has spanned some 50 years, Lewis Morley has worked with equal ease in theatre, fashion, portraiture, magazine photography and documentary reportage. His body of work, particularly his portraits of key figures of 1960s London, is highly recognised, and with his famous photo of Christine Keeler naked upon a chair, Morley produced an image that is probably one of the most memorable, and most copied, of any photographs of any time.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Morley to the title page.
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Ducati: A Photographic Tribute (Limited Edition)
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartPhil Aynsley
Sydney: ANP Press / GTI Media, 2009.Limited Edition box set, being 1 of 100 copies with 3 silver gelatin photographs signed and numbered by the photographer together with a signed and numbered certificate, and signed and numbered copy of the book which is also signed by 3 time World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss, housed together in a custom box. A pictorial tribute to the Ducati motorcycle by Australian photographer Phil Aynsley.
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No Worries (Limited Edition 2)
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartMartin Parr
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.Limited Edition box set, being 1 of 50 copies with 1 pigment print signed and numbered by the photographer together with a signed and numbered certificate, and copy of the book, housed together in a custom papered box. The first major project of the British Magnum photographer in Australia, documenting three Western Australian port cities.
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Silence: The Western Australian Wheatbelt (Limited Edition)
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartBrad Rimmer
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2010.Limited Edition box set, being 1 of 50 copies with 2 chromogenic photographic prints on Fuji Crystal Archive Flex, signed and numbered by the photographer together with a signed and numbered certificate, and a signed and numbered copy of the book, housed together in a custom pictorial box.
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Atlas Monographs (Limited Edition 2)
AU$3,000 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009.Edition 2 of the limited edition, being 1 of 50 copies with 4 chromogenic photographic prints on Fuji Crystal Archive Flex, signed and numbered by the photographer together with a signed and numbered certificate print housed in a custom folder, and a signed and numbered copy of the book, housed together in a custom pictorial box.
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Atlas Monographs (Limited Edition 1)
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009.Edition 1 of the limited edition, being one of 150 copies with a signed and numbered silver gelatin photograph together with a signed and numbered certificate print housed in a custom folder, and a signed and numbered copy of the book, housed together in a custom pictorial box.
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The Naturalised Flora of South Australia
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. M. Black
Adelaide: J. M. Black, 1909. -

A Field Guide to Fungi of South-Eastern Australia
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartRoss McDonald; John Westerman
Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1979. -


The Bike From Hell
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex R. Stuart
London: New English Library, 1973.Pulp biker novel.
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The Truth About Incest
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Hawkes
London: Luxor Press, 1971.Sexploitation pulp sensational sexological study of incestuous relationships.
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Why We March
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartSoul Brother #44 (Ernest White)
New York: Paperback Library, 1969.“An angry protest from Black America.”
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Splendora
AU$20 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward Swift
London: Penguin, 1981.“Splendora: a steamy East Texas town where Sue Ella Lightfoot furthers her study of sexual motives with every issue of Real Crime magazine while Agnes Pullens drills young ladies in the finer arts of Dance and Expression and Zeda Earl Goodridge faces a life of ruin if her Christmas yard display doesn’t take first prize this year. Timothy John Coldrige left this town, unhappily, at the age of eighteen; now, at thirty-three, he returns with a dazzling companion, Miss Jessie Gatewood. Draped (an impeccable accessorized) in Victorian finery and drenched in social graces, she takes the town by storm.”
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Male for Sale
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Millerson
United States: Saturn, 1967.20th century American pulp smut fiction. SN 1159.
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Morocco
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartAnnabelle Barker
New York: Rosebud, 1997. -


The Girls, the Massage, and Everything
AU$20 Read MoreAdd to cartBernhardt J. Hurwood
Sydney: Eclipse Paperbacks, 1973.The naked truth about massage parlors.
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In The Long Run
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartPhil Jarratt
Sydney: James Fraser, 1984.“An Australian marathon runner stops at nothing in his pursuit of LA Olympic gold.”
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The Wasted Years
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartJess Stearn
New York: Macadden-Bartell, 1968.“Sex, sadism, murder, brutality, perversion, prostitution, drug addiction. Trademarks of the teen-age gangs.”
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Run, Little Leather Boy
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Townsend
New York: The Olympia Press, 1971.SM leather gay pulp. The Other Traveller, the gay imprint of Olympia’s The Traveller’s Companion. TC-505.
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Subconscious Phenomena
AU$125 Read MoreAdd to cartHugo Munsterberg; Theodore Ribot; Joseph Jastrow; Pierre Janet; Bernard Hart; Morton Prince
Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1910.Collective effort by a number of psychologists and physicians to come to a consensus on the psychological definition of subconscious phenomena.
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Manners and Customs in Manchoukuo
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartMasatoshi Kobayashi; Noboru Hidaka
Manchoukuo: The Manchuria Daily News, 1942.A detailed and thoroughly illustrated guide in English to life and culture in Manchuria. Published at the height of WWII, depicting a completely normal world inside the Japanese puppet state with chapters on races and tribes, costumes, residential houses, food and drink, salutation and etiquette, tastes and pastimes, annual festivals, religions, symbols of religious faith, and happy and unhappy affairs.
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[Manshu Showa Jugonen: Kuwabara Kineo shashin shu]
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartKineo Kuwabara
Tokyo: Shobunsha, 1974.Photobook by Japanese photographer Kineo Kuwabara (1913-2007) documenting his trip to Manchuria in 1940.
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All-in-Vue 84 Drink Recipes
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartMatthew J. Feeney
New York: Matthew J. Feeney, No date.Cocktail and bar guide mainly compiled from The Professional Bartenders guide and distributed in various wrappers as promotional material for bars and booze businesses. Here with the wrappers for Brooklyn wine importer Matthew J. Feeney. Includes quick sight tabs for cocktails, fizzes, rickeys, highballs, punches, and more. Also facts about wine, canapes, garnishes, etc.
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Deep Blue
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartBrad Johnston
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2004.A special issue of Not Only Blue celebrating masculine sexuality featuring photography too explicit for the magazine. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Blue Muse: Blue Magazine Photographers Reveal Their Favourite Models
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2006.(not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others. This special issue features short descriptions of some of Blue photographers favourite models, of course accompanied by numerous images.
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The Sixties
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Altman
Santa Monica: Santa Monica Press, 2007. -


Telegraph 3 A.M.: The Street People of Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, California
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Misrach
Berkeley: Cornucopia Press, 1974.First photobook of American photographer Richard Misrach (1949-), being street photography of the homeless residents of Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California.
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Atlas of Fungi
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartK. Kavina
London: Lincolns-Prager, 1947. -


Practical Mycology: Manual for Identification of Fungi
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartSigurd Funder
New York and Kingston-Upon-Thames: Hafner Publishing Company, 1968. -


A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England,
AU$1,000 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 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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A Guide to the Poisonous Mushrooms in the Greater New York Area
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartThe New York Mycological Society
New York: The New York Mycological Society, 1976. -


A Treatise on Diamonds and Pearls;
AU$200 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 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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Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line
AU$125 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 Muchas 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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The Getting of Wisdom
AU$500 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 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 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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Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian McNair
London and New York: Routledge, 2002. -

Starting Your Own High School: The Story of an Alternative High School
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartElizabeth Cleaners Street School People
New York: Vintage Books, 1972. -


A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartGraham Willett; Angela Bailey; Timothy W. Jones; Sarah Rood
Melbourne: Australian Queer Archives and Heritage Victoria, 2021.“A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects was commissioned by Heritage Victoria to highlight the rich, diverse and unique history of queer communities in Victoria and to demonstrate how these communities are reflected in the places, objects and landscapes that surround us. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, asexual, sistergirl and brotherboy (LGBTIQ+) people are, and always have been, an integral part of Victorian social, political and cultural life. However, the experiences and voices of queer communities have not commonly been included in the historical record and, consequently, queer heritage has remained largely invisible. This report identifies 100 places, objects and collections that have specific and unique meaning to Victorias contemporary queer communities. Identifying and exploring the meaning of these places, objects and collections to members of the LGBTIQ+ communities who have suggested them adds depth and richness to Victorias history and heritage. It also makes visible the stories and experiences of communities that have, until recently, been ignored and at times actively persecuted.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Through the World’s Eye
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Kirby
Sydney: The Federation Press, 2000.Collection of speeches from then Justice of the High Court of Australia Michael Kirby on human rights, the law, and its institutions.
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The Message of the Buddha
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartK. N. Jayatilleke
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975.A posthumous work edited by Ninian Smart.
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A History of Shell Collecting
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartS. Peter Dance
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986.Revised edition of Shell Collecting: An Illustrated History (Faber, 1966).
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Bioluminescence in Focus: A Collection of Illuminating Essays
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartVictor Benno Meyer-Rochow
Trivandrum: Research Signpost, 2009. -

Drosophila melanogaster: Practical Uses in Cell and Molecular Biology
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartLawrence S. B. Goldstein; Eric A. Fyrberg
San Diego: Academic Press, 1994. -

Drosophila Protocols
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Sullivan; Michael Ashburner; R. Scott Hawley
Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2000. -

Tonmeister Technology: Recording Environments, Sound Sources, Microphone Techniques
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Dickreiter
New York: Temmer Enterprises, 1989.With 157 tables and illustrations. Translated from the German by Stephen F. Temmer.
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The Science of Musical Sounds
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartJohan Sundberg
San Diego: Academic Press, 1991.Part of the Academic Press Series: Cognition and Perception.
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Cobweb of Trips: A Literary History of Psychedelics
AU$55 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Dickins
Vale of Pewsey: Psychedelic Press, 2024.“Cobweb of Trips is a literary history of psychedelics that catches a sublime aesthetic weaving its way through mid-twentieth century Britain and beyond – one which asks how early experimenters sought to find a role for psychedelics in society. Spinning a psychospiritual thread from literature and the history of medicine, this story brings to light how the question of psychedelics, and the trips people had, were animated by the eras cultural transformations. From spiritual reimaginings and scientific novelty, to political agitation and the counterculture of the 1960s, Cobweb of Trips is a poetic thread emerging when the psychedelic experience alighted in modern history.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Philosophie Rurale, ou Economie Generale et Politique de l’Agriculture,
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartVictor Riquetti Mirabeau; Francois Quesnay
Dusseldorf: Verlag Wirtschaft und Finanzen, 2002.The one hundredth and last edition of the facsimile edition of Classics of National Economic, produced from the first edition published in Amsterdam in 1763. Limited to 200 numbered copies, of which this is hors commerce.
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If The Walls Could Speak: A Social History of the Mechanics Institutes of Victoria
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartPam Baragwanath
Melbourne: Mechanics Institute Inc., 2000. -

Tokyo GlamRock: The Work of Matsukage and Ujino
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartChris Horrocks
: iMMprint, 2002.The art, music and design of the Japanese duo Matsukage and Muneteru Ujino.
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Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet’s Fiction
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartElizabeth Stephens
Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. -

Illustrating Camelot
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartBarbara Tepa Lupack; Alan Lupack
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008. -

The Complete History of Surfing from Water to Snow
AU$20 Read MoreAdd to cartNat Young
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2008. -


Chiang Kai-shek
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHollington K. Tong
Taipei: China Publishing Company, 1953.The revised edition of Tong’s biography of the Chinese leader. Tong was a journalist and diplomat, serving as the Ambassador of the Republic of China to Japan when this edition was published later as the Ambassador to the United States. This revised edition, published 16 years after the first edition, condenses the story of Chiang Kai-shek’s life pre-1936, which was covered at length in the two volume first edition, and focuses on the epic years which followed, 1937-1953. This copy inscribed by Tong in Tokyo, 1953, to the polyglot Boris Strjeshevsky, an officer in the Imperial Russian Army that fled to China where he learned English and Chinese and taught Russian to the Chinese, before moving to Japan in 1939 where he learned Japanese and taught languages, before finally moving to Queensland, Australia, where he taught Russian at the University of Queensland.
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The Building of the Queensland House, 1880-1920: A Carpenter’s Handbook and Owner’s Manual
AU$45 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrew L. Jenner
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Gay Heart Throbs (3 Issues, Complete)
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Fuller; Mike Kuchar
San Francisco: Fulhorne Productions, Larry Fuller Presents, and Inkwell, Inc., 1976-1981.A complete run of the intermittent and short-lived underground gay erotic comix anthology, the three issues published in 1976, 1979, and 1981. The title is thought to be a reference to the romance comic Heart Throbs. The stories are campy and pornographic. Featuring the work of Larry Fuller, Ray Horne, Mike Kuchar, and many others.
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After Sex
AU$35 Read MoreAdd to cartEdna Bonhomme; Alice Spawls
London: Silver Press, 2023.“The last decade has seen a rise in activism and arguments over women’s reproductive freedom reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. This title provides personal and political perspectives from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, setting feminist classics alongside contemporary accounts and highlighting the experiences of women of colour and working-class women. Contributors include Nell Dunn, Anne Enright, bell hooks, Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde and Sally Rooney. These essays, short stories and poems trace past understandings of reproductive freedom and consider what it might look like in future, making urgent connections between womens equality and access to contraception, healthcare and childcare. The writers pay special attention to people — both fictional and real — who have sought control over their sexual lives, and the joy, comedy, difficulties and disappointments that entails. But above all, After Sex testifies to the power of great writing to show us why that freedom is worth pursuing — without shame and without apology.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Lay ’em Straight
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartStuart Rowen
New York: Surree, 1981.Surree Stud Series gay pulp. SSS106. One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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Le Pornographe, ou Idees d’un Honnete-Homme sur, un Projet de Reglement pour les Prostitutes,
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cart[Nicolas Restif de La Bretonne]
Londres and La Haie: Jean Nourse and Gosse Junior, 1770.Propre a prevenir les Malheurs qu’occafionne le Publicisme des Femmes. Avec Des Notes Historiques et Justificatives. [The Pornographer, or Ideas of an Honest Man on a Draft Regulation for Prostitutes, Proper to Prevent the Misfortunes Occurring from the Publicity of Women. With Historical and Justificatory Notes]. Second Edition of the classic 18th century utopian text on sex work in which Bretonne envisions prostitution as a public institution with numerous social and medical benefits. This copy in a 20th century rebind in quarter leather with new endpapers, and extra-illustrated with one erotic illustration bound in at page 16.
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Trautes Heim: Fotos aus dem Wirklichen Leben
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartAnna Blume; Bernhard Blume
Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 1987.Exhibition catalogue.
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Cressida Campbell: 12 – 28 October, 2017
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartCressida Campbell
Brisbane: Philip Bacon Galleries, 2017.Exhibition catalogue exhibiting at Mossgreen, Woollahra.
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Awakening a Curate’s Library: The Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887): His Life, His Book Collection, and his Legacy to New Zealand
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartDonald Jackson Kerr
: The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2022.“This book is the first to provide an account of the life of Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887) and his book collecting. It is also the first detailed examination of a true survivor, his book collection of some 5600 items, including medieval manuscripts, incunables, books on ecclesiastical history and primitive church rites and rituals, philology, bibliography, science, travel, and Arabic and Persian texts. The contents cover Shoults’s early years at St. John’s College, Cambridge University, his work in some of the poorer ritualistic parishes of London, his association with the Rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne (1837-1908), the controversial, enthusiastic, revivalist known as ‘Father Ignatius’, his work on Latin hymns, his marriage, and his travel overseas, which included visiting the Vatican Library. After Shoults’s death at 48, his collection was gifted to Selwyn College, Dunedin, arriving in New Zealand in 1893. The survival of this collection is remarkable and it exists as a fine example of what a nineteenth-century curate could collect.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Dictionnaire Portatif de Cuisine, d’Office, et de Distillation;
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
Paris: Chez Vincent, 1767.Portable dictionary of cooking, office, and distillation: containing the manner of preparing all kinds of meats, veal, game, fish, vegetables, fruits, etc.: the manner of making all kinds of jellies, pastes .. : and of composing all kinds of liqueurs .. : work equally useful to the most skilled office and kitchen chefs .. : medical observations have been added which make known the property of each food, relative to health, and which indicate the foods most suitable for each temparment.
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The Dimensions of Values: A Unified Theory
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRadhakamal Mukerjee
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1964.Later economic sociology work of Indian social scientist Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889-1968).
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The Birds
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartTarjei Vesaas
London: Peter Owen, 1968.Translated from the Norwegian, Fuglane, by Torbjorn Stoverud and Michael Barnes.
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Rues et Visages de New-York
AU$2,200 Read MoreAdd to cartChas Laborde; Paul Morand
Paris: Lacouriere, 1950.Streets and Faces of New York. The final, and posthumous, of Charles Laborde’s series of works on famous world cities, having previously produced similar volumes on Paris (1926), London (1928), Berlin (1930), and Moscow (1935). The New York volume produced from sketchbooks he made on his trip in 1932, containing 15 accompanied by text by Paul Morand. One of 200 numbered copies on Arches from a total edition of 230.
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La Ballade de la Geole de Reading
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartOscar Wilde; G. Cornelius
Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927.French edition of Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol illustrated with 15 coloured copper engravings by Jean-Georges Cornelius. One of 225 numbered copies.
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L’Homme qui a perdu son Ombre
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartAdelbert de Chamisso; Bernard Naudin
Paris: A. M. Peignot, 1913.French translation from the original German of Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (English: The Man with No Shadow) by the exiled French aristocrat, poet, and botanist, Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838). The story follows Peter Schlemihl who sells his shadow to the Devil for infinite money. The first edition with 15 engravings by French artist Bernard Naudin (1876-1946) limited to 100 numbered copies, this being one of 75 copies on Van Gelder paper, in a signed fine binding by Bernasconi with the original wrappers bound in. Peter Schlemihl was Naudin’s first major project after giving up painting to devote himself exclusively to printmaking.
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Histoire Naturelle des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartG. Sicard
Paris: Librairie Ch. Delagrave, 1883.Natural History of Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms by Guilleaume Sicard. Rebound in plain cloth with the plates in a second volume. VOLBRACHT 1981.
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Les Champignons Toxiques et Hallucinogenes
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRoger Heim
Paris: Societe Nouvelle des Editions Boubee, 1978.Toxic and Hallucinogenic Mushrooms. Published with the assistance of the National Centre for Scientific Research. The Second Edition, completely revised and expanded.
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La Psilocybine (Experiences et autocritique): Revue de Mycologie Tome XXV, Fasc 1, 15 Juin 1960
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartRoger Heim; Henri Michaux
Paris: Laboratoire de Cryptogamie du Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 1960.Single number of the Revue de Mycologie with a feature article by Henri Michaux on psilocybin.
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A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England,
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles David Badham
London: Reeve Brothers, 1863.Containing an Account of their Classical History, Uses, Characters, Development, Structure, Nutritious properties, Modes of Cooking and Preserving, &c.,.
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Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux de la France et des pays Circonvoisins
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Richon; Ernest Roze
Paris: Octave Doin, 1888.Atlas of edible and poisonous mushrooms of France and surrounding countries containing 72 color plates or figures of 229 types of the main species of mushrooms sought for food, and similar suspect or dangerous species with which they are confused drawn from nature with their reproductive organs amplified by Charles Richon… Accompanied by a monograph of these 229 species and a general history of edible and poisonous mushrooms by Ernest Roze… Text illustrated with 62 photoengravings of primitive drawings by old authors and organographic figures by recent authors after reproductions made by Charles Rolet. Key late 19th century work of French mycology. VOLBRACHT 1753. BITTING pg. 398. This copy with the bookplate of French mycologist Raymond Bertault.
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Raw Meat Cannibals!
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartSharon Cruise (Maboota)
: Sharon Cruise (Maboota), No date.Duplicated typescript for an unpublished erotic-horror short story based in the Amazon. A man alone in the jungle comes across a tribe of black muscular nude women that torture him and force him to perform sexual acts on them before eating him.
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Ecole Pratique des Accouchemens.
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. B. Jacobs
A Gand: Chez J. F. Vander Scheuren, 1785.First French translation of the important Dutch obstetrics manual by Jan Bernard Jacobs (1734-1790). At the time of its appearance, it was one of the most complete treatises on the art of childbirth and remained a standard work into the middle of the nineteenth century being described as a pearl of scientific production from the last years before the French Revolution.
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The Magic of Colour [Color] Harmony in Dress
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartMona Moncrieffe
Sydney: Bebarfald’s, 1927.1920s ladies’ fashion, though more extensively a guide to succeeding as a crafty and fashionable woman with a particular focus on the successful use of colour for different types of women. The majority of the illustrations signed Hilton, possibly Cecil Hilton Jones, also Alec J. Wood.
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Pagan Innocence
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartK. F. Wong
London: Jonathan Cape, 1960.Photobook of Sarawak’s indigenous peoples, the Dayak, taken in the late 1950s and published in London in 1960. 30 pages of text with an introduction by Malcolm MacDonald.
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A Treatise on Gonorrhea Virulenta, and Lues Venerea
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartBenjamin Bell
Edinburgh: G. Mudie and Son, 1797.Primarily regarded as surgeon, Bell is considered to be the first Scottish scientific surgeon. His scientific approach is especially evident in this treatise in which he convincingly argues, against the prevailing medical opinion of the time, that gonorrhea and syphilis are separate diseases. Bell’s work is foundational to the modern understanding of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The rare Second Edition, corrected and enlarged.
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Place of the Stinging Nettles
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartPhyllis Shatte
Ilfracombe: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1970.A novel of Gympie, Queensland. This copy signed by the author.
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Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems (2 Volumes)
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartAugust Weismann
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1889-92.Edited by Edward B. Poulton, Selmar Schonland, and Arthur E. Shipley.
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Die Nutzlichen und Schadlichen Schwamme, nebst einem Anhange uber die islandische Flechte
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHarald Othmar Lenz
Gotha: Beckersche Buchhandlung, 1840.The useful and harmful mushrooms, with an appendix on the Icelandic lichen. The second edition enlarged with descriptions of German fungi. The elegantly coloured plates showing a total of 46 illustrations drawn by J. C. Ausfeld. VOLBRACHT 1165.2.
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Dutch Hashcoffeeshop Tour
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
Breda: Ja Ja Exports, 1995.1990s guide to the coffee shops (marijuana cafes) of Amsterdam (and other Netherlands cities). Very detailed including the author’s review of each shop, as well as information about other cannabis culture. Also touches on the sex culture of the city.
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Stamp Help Out! And Other Short Stories: The Pot Smokers
AU$550 Read MoreAdd to cartLenny Bruce
[New York]: [Lenny Bruce], No date.The 1962 self published zine of American comic Lenny Bruce (1925-1966). See… Actual photos of tortured Marijuanaites. See… Hookers Resort to Prostitution. See… Shame. See… Shame Sell. See… Shame Sell Sea Shells at the Shim Sham! The second issue, with the rude words typed over out of fear of persecution.
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Zinkzong Musikmagasin Nr. 4
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartArild Polden
Ski: Zinkzong Musikmagasin, 1981.Single issue of Norwegian music zine Zink.
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Les Champignons Comestibles et les especes veneneuses avec lesquelles ils pourraient etre confundus
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartLouis Favre-Guillarmod
Paris: Librairie Agricole, [1869].Edible and poisonous mushrooms in the Canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland. The first complete edition with the 2 parts in 1 volume. The first part being a reprint of the 1861 edition, Les champignons comestibles du canton de Neuchatel, the second with a new introduction and further invaluable information on the edibility of mushrooms VOLBRACHT 586. This copy with the mycological bookplate of Jacques and Helene Bon.
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The Littlewood Press
AU$10,000 Read MoreAdd to cartKatherine N. Simitian
Stoke-on-Trent: The Lytlewode Press, 2007.Being a monograph dealing with the development of an Australian private press featuring eighty-nine etchings printed in the atelier of The Press. A short history of the Littlewood Press from 1996 to 2007 featuring original etchings printed at the Press editioned from its published works and commissioned artists including Sir Lionel Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Derham Groves, Allan Jordan, Trish Hart, Tony Irving, Pro Hart, Andrew Sibley, Caitlin Littlewood, Robbie Harmsworth, Peter Jones, Marc Severin, and Leslie Tarrant. Bound in stingray, likely the first Australian publication using this skin, the natural white star of the skin forming a decorative emblem to the spine. The idea for this book originated in 1996 when the publisher undertook to print ten additional copies of every etching printed at the press with the intention of creating a history volume at a later date. A number of the etchings are ex libris bookplates. One of the finest Australian art publications, limited to just 10 copies, signed and numbered by the author and the publisher, 5 of which are housed in Australian institutions. This copy is number 10 and includes the original prospectus, The History of The Littlewood Press, featuring an additional Trish Hart etching and signed by the publisher, Robert Littlewood. Issued with 81 of the 89 listed etchings, and with 4 of the Pro Hart etchings supplied twice, making for a total of 85 etchings and photographic portrait of the publisher. The plates not included as per the checklist are: 10. Trish Hart: Nesting Gull; 34. Tony Irving: The Old Kiosk [Black]; 37. Tony Irving: Home Alone [Black]; 39. Tony Irving: Ramsen Place; 40. Tony Irving: Drewery Lane; 42. Tony Irving: Hosier Lane; 43. Tony Irving: Waratah Place; 44. Tony Irving: China Town. The four Pro Hart plates that are included in duplicate are: 45. Singers at the Southern Cross Hotel; 46. Miner’s Kids; 47. Yabbie Picnic; 48. Gethsemane. The plates not included do not appear to have been removed, but as in true Private Press fashion, the difference in actual issue to the stated intention differing as per the whim, requirement, or temperament of the publisher.
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New York Nowhere: Meditations and Celebrations, Neurology Ward, The New York Hospital
AU$6,000 Read MoreAdd to cartGeoffrey Dutton; John Olsen
Melbourne: The Lytlewode Press, 1998.One of 30 deluxe copies from the total edition of 175 numbered copies signed by John Olsen and Robert Littlewood containing ten original signed etchings by John Olsen. The deluxe issue bound in brown kangaroo leather by Friedhelm Pohlmann also contains a tipped in sheet of original manuscript by the poet, ten original photographs of the artist and the poet signed by the publisher, five pieces of typescript correspondence hand signed by the publisher, 2 additional unsigned Olsen etchings, and an envelope containing a CD of Dutton reciting his poem. The recording of the CD made only weeks before Dutton’s death. New York Nowhere was Dutton’s last literary work, reflecting on the poet’s stroke and recovery in a New York hospital. Also included is the original prospectus and The Australian Magazine Dec 12-13, 1998 with the cover story on this work.
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Psychedelic Press (Complete Set, 40 Volumes)
AU$3,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Dickens; Nikki Wyrd
London: Psychedelic Press, 2012-2023.A complete run of the psychedelic studies journal Psychedelic Press, early issues also titled psypressUK, and billed as an Anthology of Pharmacography. Comprising 40 issues published between 2012 and 2023 edited by Robert Dickins and Nikki Wyrd, together containing hundreds of papers on the history, literature, philosophy, and culture of psychoactive plants and substances. Features contributions by Andy Roberts, David Graham Scott, Reverend Nemu, Martin W. Ball, Nikita Petrov, Are Thoresen, David Nickels, Mike Crowley, Ben Sessa, Havelock Ellis, Julian Vayne, LiZ Elliot, Mike Jay, Roger Keen, Henrik Dahl, Thomas Hatsis, James W. Jesso, Ross Heaven, Peter Sjostedt-H, Stanislav Grof, Graham St John, James Oroc, Rick Strassman, and many others.
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A Portfolio by Howard Chaykin Illustrating Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Chaykin
Denver: Middle Earth, 1977.Portfolio by American comic book artist Howard Chaykin, the first plate signed and numbered by him and with a COA signed by the publisher. Edition of 1,000 numbered copies.
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Handbook of Australian Fungi
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartM. C. Cooke
London: Williams and Norgate for the Departments of Agriculture in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobarton, 1892.The first monograph on Australian fungi by English botanist and mycologist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914). Containing descriptions of 2079 species of macrofungi, microfungi, and slime moulds (or myxomycetes), of which 377 figures are illustrated across 36 plates. The samples which the handbook are based on were supplied by Ferdinand von Muller, Flora Martin, F. M. Bailey, Sven Berggren, and others, and shipped to Cooke in England. This distance limited the accuracy of the work, nevertheless, as the first volume devoted to the subject its historical import cannot be understated and remains a key work in any Australian mushroom collection.
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A General Abridgment of Law and Equity (30 Volumes)
AU$5,500 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Viner
London and Dublin: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Payment, E. and R. Brooke, T. Whieldon and J. Butterworth; and L. White, 1791-1806.Second Edition of Viner’s monumental digest of English law, together with the six volume supplement, An Abridgment of the Modern Determinations in the Courts of Law and Equity. (London: A. Strahan, 1799-1806). The work is alphabetically arranged under subject headings, with extensive notes and references throughout. This edition comprises the twenty-four-volume second edition of the General Abridgment and the complete six-volume supplement, issued over a period of fifteen years. The English jurist Charles Viner (1678-1756) devoted much of his life to the compilation of this vast legal encyclopaedia, an undertaking ultimately derived from Rolle’s Abridgment but greatly expanded in scope. Drawing upon reported cases, manuscript authorities, statutes, and earlier legal compilations, it became one of the principal reference works of the common law tradition. J. G. Marvin described it as “the most voluminous production of any single individual in the whole bibliography of the Common Law”, nothing that Viner had “translated, abridged, remodelled” and incorporated material from the older abridgments and reports. A substantial and influential legal reference work, forming one of the foundations of eighteenth-century English legal scholarship.
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Das Jahr der Seele
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartStefan George; Ernest Briggs
Brisbane: Ernest Briggs, No date.Autograph transcription of German symbolist poet Stefan George’s 1897 work Das Jahr der Seele [The Year of the Soul] by Australian poet, broadcaster, and critic Ernest Briggs (1905-1967). The complete work has been copied in the original German, though the poem starting ‘Keins wie dein feines ohr’ has only been titled with a blank space left for the poem, and the final 9 poems from ‘Ob schwerer nebel in den waldern hangt’ to end have not been included, presumably only because Briggs ran out of room in the book. Penned during Briggs time at 4BK Brisbane sometime in the late 1930s or early 1940s.