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British Edible Fungi: How to Distinguish and to Cook Them
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. C. Cooke
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1891.With coloured figures of upwards of 40 species. This copy with 2 manuscript notes in the hand of mycologist John Ramsbottom and a 1919 postcard addressed to Edward King from an unidentifiable hand with mention of Paxillus involutus.
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A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England,
AU$1,000.00 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$80.00 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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Moulds, Mildews and Mushrooms: A Guide to the Systematic Study of the Fungi and Mycetozoa and their Literature
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLucien Marcus Underwood
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1899. -
A Guide to the Poisonous Mushrooms in the Greater New York Area
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe New York Mycological Society
New York: The New York Mycological Society, 1976. -
Ungeniessbare Pilze
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Schneider
Dresden: Rudolph’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1925.Inedible Mushrooms: The most important and most common inedible and poisonous mushrooms as a warning for all mushroom hunters, presented in 48 color art prints with accompanying text. Scarce German mushroom guide book, 3 copies recorded in OCLC, none outside of Germany.
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Select Trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, for Murder, Robberies, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds, Bigamy, and other Offences.
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNo author
London: John Applebee for George Strahan, et al., 1742.To which are added, Genuine Accounts of the Lives, Behaviour, Confessions and Dying Speeches of the most eminent Convicts. Rare complete set of this collection of 18th century British crimes with explicit descriptions of crimes, trials, and punishments. Therein are numerous accounts of sodomy including that the case of one of the most famous of London’s gay meeting spots of the time, Clap’s molly house, being the coffee house of Margaret Clap AKA Mother Clap. “Margaret Clap, for keeping a Sodomitical House, July, 1726. MARGARET CLAP was indicted for keeping a disorderly house, in which she procured and encouraged Persons to commit Sodomy, December 10, 1725, and before and after. Samuel Stevens. On Sunday Night, the 14th of November last, I went ot the Prisoner’s House in Field-lane, in Holburn, where I found between 40 and 50 Men making Love to one another, as they call’d it. Sometimes they would sit in one another’s Laps, kissing in a lewd Manner and using their Hand indecently. Then they would get up, Dance and make Curtsies, and mimick the Voices of Women. ‘ I, Fie, Sir ! – Pray, Sir, – Dear, Sir, – Lord, how can you serve me so? – I swear I’ll cry out. – You’re a wicked Devil, – and your’e a bold Face. – Eh ! ye little dear Toad ! Come, buss ! -‘ Then they’d hug, and play, and toy, and go out by Couples into another Room on the same Floor, to be married, as they call’d it…” (vol. III, pp. 37) and so on and so forth are similar and many other crimes told, such as the murderer Sarah Malcolm (who was sketched by Hogarth), Catherine Hayes and her accomplices, the murderer poet Richard Savage (as described in Samuel Johnson’s Life of Savage), the thief John Jack Sheppard, and the sodomy trial of Charles Hitchen.
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A Treatise on Diamonds and Pearls;
AU$200.00 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$50.00 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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Fata Morgana; or, The Bristol Sculptor’s Idol, A Poem.
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartH. Jephson
Hobart: T. L. Hood, 1881.Early Tasmanian poetry. The story, in narrative verse, of a genius contending with poverty. Henry Jephson (1810-1896) emigrated from England to Hobart in 1857 becoming associated with the Methodist Free Church and joining the Tasmania Operative Lodge of Masons for which Jephson composed Masonic Songs. The preface of this work is written by Rev. R. D. Poulett-Harris, who became the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Tasmania in 1890.
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Brian Blomerth’s Lilly Wave
AU$70.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian Blomerth
New York: Anthology Editions, 2024.“In the third entry in his ongoing series, Blomerth opens a porthole on the life, experiments, & addictions of John C. Lilly – the man whose development of the isolation tank and ketamine-fueled dives into the nature of consciousness made him perhaps the most notorious researcher of the psychedelic era. Featuring alien visitations, interspecies encounters, and no shortage of concerned onlookers, this is a story thatÂ’s equal parts cosmic & paranoid, transcendent & tragic.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line
AU$125.00 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 MuchaÂ’s 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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Reasons of the Heart
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBron Nicholls
Melbourne: Penguin, 1993.Australian pederasty novel by Bron Nicholls, her first published novel for an adult audience.
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The Getting of Wisdom
AU$500.00 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$1,200.00 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$150.00 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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The Story of an Athlete (A Picture of the Past)
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartH. C. A. Harrison
Melbourne: Alexander McCubbin, No date.Autobiography of one of the pioneers of Australian rules football, AFL.
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Tom Petrie’s Reminiscences of Early Queensland
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Constance Campbell Petrie]
Brisbane: Watson, Ferguson & Co., 1904.Reminiscences of early Queensland dating from 1837 recorded by Tom Petrie’s daughter. Prefatory note by Walter E. Roth. The first edition rebound in plain green cloth.
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Skinflicks: The Inside Story of the X-Rated Video Industry
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Jennings
: 1st Books Library, 2000. -
Lights, Camera, Sex! An Autobiography by Christy Canyon
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChristy Canyon
: Christy Canyon, 2003.Autobiography of pornstar Christy Canyon (1966-). This copy inscribed by Canyon to Louis.