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Rituals of Love: Sexual Experiments, Erotic Possibilities
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTed Polhemus; Housk Randall
London: Picador, 1994. -
LSD, Man & Society
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard C. DeBold; Russell C. Leaf
London: Faber and Faber, 1969.Papers from a 1967 symposium at Wesleyan. Edited by Richard C. DeBold; Russell C. Leaf.
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Servian Popular Poetry
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Bowring
London: Thomas Davison for the Author, 1827.Serbian poetry translated by John Borwing.
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Freakshow
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacquin Sanders
London: Peter Davies, 1955.The first UK edition of an American sideshow noir featuring strongman Bat Fidler as he falls for beautiful but deformed Fish Girl. An underground classic reprinted as a 1950s pulp, Strip the Heart, and by Loompanics under its original title in 1995.
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Deadly Diamond
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoan Storm
London: Hammond, Hammond & Company, 1953.A Cloak and Dagger Mystery. A continental honeymoon is interrupted by a murder when the husband, a member of British Intelligence, assists the local police with the investigation.
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The Arunta: A Study of a Stone Age People (2 Volumes)
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBaldwin Spencer; F. J. Gillen
London: Macmillan and Co., 1927.Spencer and Gillen’s expeditions between 1875 and 1912 marked the beginning of modern anthropological fieldwork in Australia. They amassed an enormous collection of notebooks, films, audio recordings, illustrations, and photographs which are well represented throughout.
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Savage Life in Central Australia
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartG. Horne; G. Aiston
London: Macmillan and Co., 1924.Study of the Wangkangurru (Wonkonguru) and Dieri people. Photographic illustrations throughout.
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Seen In Three Days
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdwin J. Ellis
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893.Written, drawn, and tinted by Edwin J. Ellis. Sixty plates (including the title), each with a large design and text printed in sepia in the manner of William Blake, Ellis being an ardent devotee of Blake’s having edited The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical together with W. B. Yeats, also published by Quaritch in the same year. Despite the clear indications to the dreams of Blake, the work stands as its own: the apocalypse is absent, the women are prettier, and while not of Blake’s mastery, the technical differences are more than appetizing.
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The Ethics of Service
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Sewall
London: James Speirs, 1888.An essay on ethics read before the Ruskin Society of the Rose in Glasgow, January 1888, by the Swedenborgian clergyman Frank Sewall (1837-1915). Scarce, 3 copies recorded in OCLC.
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The Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Johnson
London: T. and G. Underwood, and Highley and Son, 1818.To which is added Tropical Hygiene; or the Preservation of Health in All Hot Climates (Adapted to General Perusal). Includes Medical Topography of New Orleans; with an Account of the Principal Diseases that affected the Fleet and Army of the late unsuccessful expedition against that city by Archibald Robertson.
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Fables by the Late Mr. Gay. In Two Volumes
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Gay
London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. and R. Tonson, [et al.], 1757.Two volumes in one (as usual). Frontispiece and title page engraved by G. Scotin after Hubert Gravelot, and 66 half-page engravings by Van der Gucht after William Kent, John Wootten, and Gravelot, as well as numerous woodcut tailpieces.
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Minute Marvels of Nature: Being Some Revelations of the Microscope
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn J. Ward
London: Ibister and Company, 1903.A close up look at the natural world with 185 photo-micrographs taken by the author.
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A System of Magick
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Defoe
London: EP Publishing, 1973. -
A Dictionary of the English Language
AU$20,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSamuel Johnson
London: W. Strahan, For J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755.In Which The Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. To which are prefixed, A History of the Language, and An English Grammar. The Paton Collection copy with the bookplates of Skene Library, Mr. Wiliam Agnew Paton (The Century Club, New York), and Stewart Paton. A sturdy and very presentable first edition of one of the landmark works of the English language.
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The Law and Practice Relating to Letters Patent for Inventions
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Fischer Agnew
London: Wiley and Sons, 1874.Together with Notices of the Patent Laws in Force in the Principal Foreign States and in the Colonies. With an Appendix Containing the Statutes, Rules, Etc.
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Autoerotic Phenomena in Adolescence: An Analytical Study of Psychology and Psychopathology of Onanism
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartK. Menzies
London: H. K. Lewis, 1919.Early 20th century psychoanalytical study of masturbation written for a lay audience. With a foreword by Dr. Ernest Jones. An important text in helping to normalise healthy self-pleasure and provide a balanced approach to unhealthy behaviours in the early 20th century.
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Issue: Social Strategies by Women Artists
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLucy R. Lippard
London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1980.Catalogue for an influential feminist art exhibition, including the works of Jenny Holzer, Suzanne Lacy, Leslie Labowitz, Nicole Croiset, Nil Yalter, Sue Richardson, Monica Ross, Kate Walker, Margaret Harrison, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Alexis Hunter, Maria Karras, Mary Kelly, Margia Kramer, Loraine Leeson, Beverly Naidus, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, Miriam Sharon, Bonnie Sherk (the Farm), Nancy Spero, May Stevens, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Marie Yates.
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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 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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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.