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Light Through Darkness
AU$1,100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenri Michaux
New York: The Orion Press, 1963.The accounts, observations, and literary manifestations of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian born French poet and artist, on mescaline, psilocybin, and marijuana. Originally published in French in 1961, then translated into English by Haakon Chevalier and first published in America in 1963. Associated with the Tachiste movement in the 1940s and 1950s, Michaux was one of the original 20th century artists to take drugs and make art. This copy in a fine signed full leather binding by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire based on the original jacket design.
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Miserable Miracle (La Mescaline)
AU$1,100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenri Michaux
Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1956.The accounts, observations, and literary manifestations of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian born French poet and artist, while on mescaline. Associated with the Tachiste movement in the 1940s and 1950s, Michaux was one of the original 20th century artists to take drugs and make art. This copy has been finely bound in full leather by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire, with a design based on one of Michaux’s drawings. One of the standard edition of 1,500 numbered copies, of which this is 1,256.
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Official Handbook: The Port of Sydney, N.S.W.
AU$850.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners
Sydney: The Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners, 1919. -
A Dissertation Upon the Origin and Structure of the Latin Tongue / Two Dissertations / Hebrew Grammar and Lexicon / Seven Letters Containing a New and Easy Method of Learning the Hebrew Language / An Hebrew Lexicon
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGregory Sharpe
London: John Millan, 1751.Two scarce works on Latin and Hebrew language by English theologian Gregory Sharpe (1713-1771) bound in one volume, being: A Dissertation Upon the Origin and Structure of the Latin Tongue: Containing a Rational and Compendious Method of learning Latin: Taken from The Powers of the Servile Letters, The Uses of the Greek Digamma, and The Cuases of the Latin Tongue TOGETHER WITH Two Dissertations: I. Upon the Origin, Construction, Division, and Relation of Languages. II. Upon the Original Powers of Letters; wherein is proved from the Analogy of Alphabets, and the Proportion of Letters, that the Hebrew ought to be read without Points. To which is added, The Second Edition, enlarged, of a Hebrew Grammar and Lexicon, Without Points BEING Seven Letters Containing a New and Easy Method of Learning the Hebrew Language: The Second Edition Enlarged AND An Hebrew Lexicon, Containing all the Primitive Words in Hebrew, and Many Deriv’d Words in that and other Languages: with their Various Significations in Hebrew and English. Free from the Masoretic Points. To which is added An Alphabetical Table or Index of all the English and other Words in the Lexicon; with a Reference by Figures to the original Hebrew, The Second Edition, Enlarged, Answering to, or Derived from the Hebrew: in which The Hebrew Letter is the First Radical, and the numerical Figure refers to the Third Radical. The Greek, and all Words in Italic Character, are Derivatives.
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The Strength and Elasticity of New South Wales Timbers of Commercial Value
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. H. Warren
Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1887.“Written to accompany the timber exhibits in the New South Wales Courts at the Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition and the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition.” (from preface). Plates show the testing machine, diagrams showing loads and defections in cross breaking and diagrams showing loads and compression. FERGUSON 18203.
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Codex Seraphinianus
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLuigi Serafini
New York: Rizzoli, 2013.The deluxe 2013 edition of the ever mysterious Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini (1949-). Possibly an illustrated encyclopaedia of an alternate universe, Serafini has alluded that it is perhaps all just the thoughts of a cat passed through his hand. The Codex is written in an imaginary language and illustrated phantasmagorically throughout. This being the deluxe 2013 edition, being the second Rizzoli edition, expanding on their 2006 edition. The deluxe edition was published in an edition of 600 copies, of which this is number 70, signed and numbered by Serafini on a plate mounted to the colophon and includes the Decodex in the rear pocket, as well as a signed and numbered print, housed in a clamshell folder. This copy also with a copy of the standard edition of the only published volume of literary criticism in English on the Codex Seraphinianus, Confronting Serafini by Jordan Hunter (2017). Confronting Serafini is a 36 page saddle-stitched booklet bound with a treated page from the 2013 Rizzoli edition of the Codex, numbered 39 in an edition of 60.
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Codex Seraphinianus (2 Volumes)
AU$6,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLuigi Serafini
Milano: Franco Maria Ricci, 1981.The first edition of the ever mysterious Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini (1949-). Possibly an illustrated encyclopaedia of an alternate universe, Serafini has alluded that it is perhaps all just the thoughts of a cat passed through his hand. The Codex is written in an imaginary language and illustrated phantasmagorically throughout. This being the true first edition published in 2 volumes by Italian art publisher Franco Maria Ricci. This copy numbered 2295 and signed by Serafini to the colophon of volume 2, with the original trilingual letter from the editor laid in, together with a FMR catalogue, several photocopied Italian newspaper clippings related to the Codex, as well as the deluxe edition of the only published volume of literary criticism in English on the Codex Seraphinianus, Confronting Serafini by Jordan Hunter (2017), all housed in the original shipping cartons. Confronting Serafini is a 36 page book hand-bound with treated pages from the 2013 Rizzoli edition of the Codex, signed and numbered in a limited edition of 10, of which this is number 10.
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The Franchise Affair
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJosephine Tey
London: The Folio Society, 2001.Introduction by Antonia Fraser. Illustrations by Paul Hogarth.
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Pre-WWI German Real Photo Postcard
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Military Theatre]
[Germany]: No publisher, 1911.Depicting a group of young soldiers posing in a private apartment as though for a theatrical play. They wear long shirts but no trousers, a few carry weapons – rifles and a sword – and most have a hat. One wears a spiked helmet, another what looks like a tin helmet. Posted in Rustersiel to Herr Hegemann in Aachen and postmarked 1911, it identifies them as members of the third sea battalion. The letter is mostly everyday notes, references going to China after Christmas.
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Provisional Instructions and Complementary Lecture on the Organization and Use of the Corrector for the Anti-Aircraft Firing of Infantry Machine Guns
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAmerican Expeditionary Forces, France
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1917.Confidential No. 704. Translated from the French Edition of 15 April, 1917, and Lecture of 23 May, 1917 at Headquarters American Expeditionary Forces, France. “Not to be taken into first line trenches. Issued down to include Machine Gun Officers.” (from wrappers).
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Christmas Carols
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChaplain H. L. Winter
Oahu: Schofield Barracks, 1917.Christmas Carols arranged by Chaplain H. L. Winter, 1st Infantry: Christmas 1917, Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Instructions on the Defensive Action of Large Units in Battle
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeneral Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces
[France]: The Base Printing Plant, 29th Eng’rs, U. S. Army, 1918.Translated from the French Edition of Decmeber 20, 1917, at General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces, France, March, 1918. November, 1918 reprint.
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A Survey of German Tactics, 1918
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHistorical Section, General Staff
[France]: The Base Printing Plant, 29th Eng’rs, U. S. Army, 1918.Tactical Studies, No. 1.
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Lectures on Discipline and Training by Colonel Applin of the British General Staff and Hints to Young Officers by a British Officer
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartColonel Applin
Washington: Army War College, 1918.A memo of the 321st Infantry Headquarters, Oct. 6, 1918, laid in.
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Hints on Service in France: Containing Lists of What to Take and How to Take it with Other Valuable Information for Officers and Men
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Davis
Kansas City: Union Bank Note Co., 1918.Tips for an officer. Label on the wrappers: With the compliments of Brooks Brothers; with a 14 page fold out catalogue for Brooks Brothers Clothing pasted in the back. ” This list includes a representative selection of merchandise in our stock for the outfitting of Officers in the various branches of the Army and Navy” (from page 1 of the catalogue.)
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The Rock of the Marne: A Chronological Story of the 38th Regiment, U. S. Infantry
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. W. Wooldridge
Columbia: The University Press, 1920. -
Bulletin for Field Officers Issued by the Second Section, General Staff, A. E. F.: Number 7, November 17, 1918: Captured German Documents
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cart29th Engineers, U. S. Army
[France]: 29th Engineers, U. S. Army, 1918.Subjects include German battle tactics, protection and defense against enemy aircraft, jamming of machine guns and German comments on American troops; much of it sourced from captured German documents. Includes a folding map and 2 folding diagrams for tank defence in pocket attached to rear panel of wrappers.
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Instructions for the Defensive Combat of Small Units: Infantry: Platoon to Regiment
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeneral Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces
France: General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces, 1918.Confidential No. 1312 “Adapted from French, British and American Instructions and other Sources. Confidential: Not to be taken into front line trenches. Issued to include Platoon Commanders.” (from title page.) 66 figures.
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A Symposium on America’s Stake in Vietnam
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAmerican Friends of Vietnam
New York: American Friends of Vietnam, 1956.The edited record of the Conference on Vietnam held in Washington D.C. on 1 June 1956. Attendees included almost 250 representatives of government, the armed services, universities and national civic organisations. John F. Kennedy was amongst the speakers.
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Letters from Orange and Lemon Growers in the Tulare County Citrus Belt
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCalifornia Grove Planting Company
Los Angeles: California Grove Planting Company, 1914.Eight letters from citrus growers in the Tulare County area that verify the output and recommend the purchase of citrus orchards in the district. Unrecorded in OCLC.