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Geodaetes Practicus: or, the Art of Surveying
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVincent Wing
London: Wil. Leybourn, for George Sawbridge, 1664.The first edition of this practical land surveying handbook intended to be of use to architects, engineers, carpenters, bricklayers, and other craftsmen by English surveyor Vincent Wing (1619-1668). “..probably the first work on surveying to be written for use as a handbook” (Richeson, English Land Measuring to 1800, pg. 122) Provides a comprehensive manual of the principles and practice of land and quantity surveying, using some of Vincent Wing’s own commissions as case studies. “Surveyed and laid out in a more Accurate, Plain and Expeditious Plat, then hath hitherto been performed.” WING W2991. This copy with various owner names of the Chorley family, one Alexander Chorley dated 1773, also John and Sarah, as well as James McDonald, and with their marginalia throughout.
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Palya
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStewart Roper
Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2013.Palya is a word used frequently in Pitjantjatjara / Yankunytjatjara, and it can have a variety of meanings, essentially translating to ‘good’. This volume depicts images and recollections from two decades on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in north western South Australia.
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The Laws of the Muromachi Bakufu: Kemmu Shikimoku (1336) & Muromachi Bakufu Tsuikaho
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKanamoto Nobuhisa; Kenneth A. Grossberg
Tokyo: Monument Nipponica, Sophia University, 1981.On the history of constitutional law in Japan, specifically the Muromachi period, once described by historian Sir George Sansom as being an age of “much law and little justice”.
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Darwin Made Easy
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward Bibbins Aveling
London: Progressive Publishing Company, 1885.An introductory work on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by Karl Marx’s son-in-law Edward Aveling. This volume is comprised of three separately paginated lectures: ‘The Darwinian Theory’, ‘The Origin of Man’, and ‘Monkeys, Apes, and Men’.
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De la Kola (Sterculia Acuminata): Etude Physiologique et Therapeutique
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLeon-Ernest Monnet
Paris: Lille (Camille Robbe Printing), 1884.Kola (Sterculia Acuminata): Physiological and Therapeutic Study. A detailed study of the physiological and therapeutic uses of the African stimulant Gotu Kola. In the original Doctor of Medicine Thesis wrappers, reissued as a monograph in the same year. An advertisement for Fisher & Co’s Mighty Alok Kola Nut tonic in The Brisbane Courier, 1898 quotes Monnet’s report: “I gave a strong infusion of Kola Nut to a railroad track layer, who was suffering from ‘blue devil’s’ (hypochondria) extremely, and within two hours he felt like going to his hard duties, and laughed and talked.”
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Do Catalog: Source Book of the Good Life (U.S.A. ’76)
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMitsuo Kamiya
[Tokyo]: Sankei Shimbun Publishing Bureau, 1975.Japanese American lifestyle fetish catalogue copiously illustrated throughout with interior design, self sustainable living, crafts, and more. An addition to the library of Japanese American lifestyle fetish catalogs, a contribution to the mid 20th century development of the Japanese fascination with the American way of fashion, design, culture, and capitalism.
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Destroy All Monsters Magazine
AU$280.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDestroy All Monsters; Cary Loren
New York: Primary Information, 2011.“Facsimile edition of Destroy All Monsters Magazine including remnants of the “lost” seventh issue, which was never released. Destroy All Monsters Magazine features work by Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw. Destroy All Monsters Magazine was edited by Cary Loren and contained artwork, photographs, and flyers from band mates Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw. Printed using any papers and techniques available to the band, the issues combine the cut and paste tactics of punk zines with a psychedelic affinity for color. Destroy All Monsters Magazine functions as a kind of manifesto, providing insight into the band through densely layered pages with movie imagery, kitsch, cartoons, delicate drawings, and counter-culture collages. While Destroy All Monsters has been the subject of recent exhibitions and partial reprints, this is the first time that all issues have been reprinted.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Dark Spirits: The Magical Art of Rosaleen Norton and Austin Osman Spare
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNevill Drury
Brisbane and Chiang Mai: Salamander and Sons, 2012.Extensively illustrated and exploring the intersections of Norton and Spare’s practice of Western esoteric traditions including magic, theosophy, kabbalah, Eastern mysticism, and modern psychoanalysis. Dark Spirits profiles the artist-magicians, who never met, and draws distinct parallels between the influence of self-hypnosis and trance states in their work.
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South Manchuria Railway 1935
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSouth Manchuria Railway Company
Dairen: South Manchuria Railway Company, 1935.Traces the history, development, and administration of The South Manchuria Railway Company as it expanded its enterprises to influence almost all areas of economic, political and social life in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. This copy with the company’s New York office stamp to the title page and with the 1936 Statistical Abstract laid in.
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The Farce of Sodom
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDonald Friend
Melbourne: Gryphon Books, 1980.By the Right Honourable Earl of Rochester. Written for the Royal Company of Whoremasters, and printed a-new upon the three hundredth anniversary of the untimely demise of our noble author in the thirty-third year of his life. With sets and costumes suitable for theatrical performances designed by Donald Friend. Limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, this being one of 10 deluxe editions in ornate full leather (described as Artist’s copies).
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Superb Youth in a Camera Life-Class, For Artists and Students including Anthropometry and Anatomy (2 Volumes)
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn S. Barrington
London: John S. Barrington, 1970.John S. Barrington (1920-1991) was a prolific 20th century British physique photographer. Receiving a formal art training in Paris, he was also a visual artist and sculptor, and earlier in his career worked in theatre design. Barrington began picking up and photographing men at the pool, eventually going on to establish one of the most prolific physique studios of the 20th century, during which time he probably published and distributed more full male nudes than any of his contemporaries up until the changing censorship laws in the latter part of the century. Superb Youth in a Camera Life-Class is one of his scarcest works, unrecorded in public collections, and with a stated limited edition of 100 copies (though this could be Barrington’s marketing at work). It combines his photography and visual art with detailed instruction in the art of the measurements and proportions of the male body, and features numerous photographs and drawings of many of his favourite models, who were also his lovers or unrequited lusts. A prospectus at the end of volume two alludes to a third and fourth volume to be published and available only to subscribers of the first two volumes, though no record can be found of them ever having been published. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC at October, 2023.
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A Visit to Queensland and Her Goldfields
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChas. H. Allen
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.A memoir of the Queensland goldfields by English painter and traveller Charles H. Allen (1824-1904) during his time in in Queensland in 1868. This copy inscribed by the author to his son, Charles Mansfield Allen, additionally autographed with his name and address to the front endpaper.
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The Queensland Illustrated Guide; for the use of Farmers, Fruit-Growers, Vignerons, and Others
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Alfred Midgley]
Brisbane: James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1888.Distributed in Great Britain to promote emigration to Queensland in the late 19th century. The 9 original photographs by prominent studio Poul C. Poulson. Includes folding Map of Queensland Shewing Land Agents Districts in rear pocket. FERGUSON 12573. This copy signed by the Under Secretary for Agriculture and with the stamp of the Department of Agriculture, Brisbane.
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Westminster School: Past and Present
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrederic H. Forshall
London: Wyman & Sons, 1884.A history of the Westminster School in London, though also a recording of its past customs and a lengthy biographical recording of headmasters and numerous distinguished students, and personal reminiscences. Frederic H. Forshall was a Queen’s Scholar at Westminster and won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, but left after a year, moving to Sydney. He was part of the first cohort at The University of Sydney in 1852, and while still a student was appointed the University Librarian. In 1853 he was the first prizewinner for Greek verse composition which are printed here (pp. 358-360). Plates illustrating various interiors, Westminster beating Eton at rowing in 1845, and others.
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The Laws of Piquet
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCavendish
London: Thomas de la Rue & Co., 1873.The Laws of Piquet edited by Cavendish and adopted by The Portland Club with A Treatise on the Game by Cavendish. Guide to one of the oldest card games still being played today.
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Architectural Details
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAntonin Raymond; Noemi P. Raymond
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1947.The Second Edition of this classic of 20th century architecture by Czech-American architecture Antonin Raymond. Raymond commenced his career working with Frank Lloyd Wright and Cass Gilbert. In 19Wright sent him to work in Japan and there he went on to do his own work. This book presents architecture elements developed in Japan during the interwar years. This copy with the original comb binding covers slipped into a custom cloth binding for Michael Hugo-Brunt (1924-1988, an architecture professor at Cornell before moving to the School of Architecture of the University of Western Australia.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade)
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMark Twain
London: Chatto & Windus, 1884.The first UK edition published prior to the US edition with the first issue advertisements dated October 1884. BAL 3414. The stapled sequence.
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The Virgin Sperm Dancer
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Levy; Ginger Gordon
The Hague: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1978.An ecstatic journey of a boy transformed into a girl for one day only, and her erotic adventures in Amsterdam, magic centrum. A classic publication from the age of sexual liberation, The virgin sperm dancer is an early photobook which illustrates the story of Joop, a young Dutch man who experiences a day transformed as Joopie, a sexually awakened woman. Published as a Suck Special Issue of the Amsterdam-based pornography magazine Suck, The virgin sperm dancer clearly aims to titillate with its uncensored graphic photographs of the escapades in this fantasy. However through the lengthy narrative and exploration of the versatility of sexual experience, Sperm Dancer finds itself as a prototype for later works that explore sexual freedom and concepts of gender. Through depictions of free love in Amsterdam in the 70s with a focus on transsexuality, bisexuality, transvestism, and homosexuality, Sperm dancer avoids gender paradigms of masculinity and power, and includes women’s sexual empowerment and orgasm as a focus of the work. Unusually for a sex magazine, this standalone publication does not appear to pitch its eroticism to a particular sexuality but rather embraces the versatility of sexual experience as being its greatest appeal. The virgin sperm dancer was immediately influential and homaged on the cover of the September 1972 issue of London Oz. A second edition was published in 1978. Suck is touted as the first European sex newspaper and was launched in London in 1969 before moving to Amsterdam to avoid England’s anti-obscenity laws. Written by William Levy. Photographs by Ginger Gordon. This second printing copy signed by William Levy on the title page and inscribed by him to the wrappers verso, For Marta Norman – I became you – Bill 25 IX 78, and with the promotional flyer reproducing the title page laid in.
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’93: Punching the Light
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSimon Burstall
[Bologna]: Damiani, 2019.Photo documentation of the early 90s underground rave subsculture in Sydney, Australia, captured by the then 17 year old Simon Burstall.
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Bible of Filth
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Crumb
Paris: Futuropolis, 1986.Collection of some of Robert Crumb’s filthiest comix and illustrations from the pages of Snatch, Zap, Weirdo, Snoid, Jiz, and others. Printed on thin “bible” paper. Edition of 1,000 numbered copies, of which this is number 778.