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Researches on Colour-Blindness
Original price was: AU$500.00.AU$400.00Current price is: AU$400.00. Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge Wilson
Edinburgh: Sutherland & Knox, 1855.With a Supplement on the Danger Attending the Present System of Railway and Marine Coloured Signals. Early work on colour blindness and one of the most important books on the subject which led to testing for colour-blindess in many critical jobs. This copy inscribed by the author to Alexander Russell, Dean of Adelaide and relative by marriage to Wilson, and with an engraved portrait of Wilson mounted to the front pastedown
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The Chemistry of Common Life (2 Volumes)
Original price was: AU$150.00.AU$90.00Current price is: AU$90.00. 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.