Online Catalogue #51

Online Catalogue #51

Highlights from our last offering for 2020 include an 1890s Yokohama Nursery Company catalogue with 142 superb handcoloured plates; Pastoral Homes of Australia (1931), the last volume – and possibly the scarcest – in the seven-volume series commenced in 1910; a selection of rare editions signed by J.M. Coetzee; and numerous ephemeral Boer War printings.

Photographs and autographs are also well-represented: among them are Indigenous Australian portraits; a significant collection of 44 vintage photographs (circa 1887-94) of indigenous life in the Bismarck Archipelago and German New Guinea by Richard Parkinson; a group photograph signed by Charles Kingsford Smith and the crew of the first trans-Pacific flight in 1928; items signed by Birdwood of Anzac, and a menu signed by 14 VC winners.

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Item #120627 The Book of Lies, which is also falsely called Breaks. The Wanderings or...

CROWLEY, Aleister

The Book of Lies, which is also falsely called Breaks. The Wanderings or Falsifications of the One Thought of Father Perdurabo (Aleister Crowley), which Thought is Itself Untrue. A Reprint, with Additional Commentary to Each Chapter

New York, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1972/ 1952 (revised edition)/ 1913. '"The Book of Lies" is a witty, instructive, and admirable collection of paradoxes; however, it is not a philosophical or mystical treatise. Actually, its subtleties exhilarate. Scholars have said it is "stupendously idiotic and amazingly clever"' (and this is just..... More

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Item #121639 The Book of Thoth. A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians. Being 'The Equinox',...

CROWLEY, Aleister

The Book of Thoth. A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians. Being 'The Equinox', Volume 3, Number 5 by the Master Therion

New York, Weiser Books, 2017 (facsimile edition)/ 1969 (first thus)/ 1944. A limitation label is tipped in on the front flyleaf; this is number 40 of 156 copies. More

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Item #120105 The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. An Autohagiography. Edited by John Symonds and...

CROWLEY, Aleister

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. An Autohagiography. Edited by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant

London, Jonathan Cape, 1969 (first thus). A pencilled inscription on the half-title states it is 'To Be Published In London | July. | Pre-Pub Price £5/5/- | Aust $15.00 | After July £6/6/- | $18.00 | Aust'. The first two parts of the book (pages 29-389) were first published in..... More

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Item #121636 Konx Om Pax. Essays in Light. Introduction by Martin P. Starr. Aleister CROWLEY

CROWLEY, Aleister

Konx Om Pax. Essays in Light. Introduction by Martin P. Starr

Chicago, The Teitan Press, 1990 (first facsimile edition)/ 1907. The original edition was limited to 500 copies. More

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Item #120724 Thelema [in Greek]. The Holy Books of Thelema. Aleister CROWLEY

CROWLEY, Aleister

Thelema [in Greek]. The Holy Books of Thelema

York Beach, Samuel Weiser, 1983 (first edition). The 'first published collection of the fourteen Holy Books received by Aleister Crowley. It could well be called the bible of Thelema.... A comprehensive preface by Hymenaeus Alpha, Caliph of the OTO, surveys the sensitive issues concerning the editorial handling of revealed material'..... More

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Item #120629 The Vision & the Voice, with Commentary and Other Papers. The Collected Diaries of...

CROWLEY, Aleister (with Victor B. NEUBURG and Mary DESTI)

The Vision & the Voice, with Commentary and Other Papers. The Collected Diaries of Aleister Crowley, Volume II, 1909-1914 E.V. The Equinox, Volume IV, Number II

York Beach, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1998 (first thus). This work is 'the record of Aleister Crowley's exploration of the 30 AEthyrs of the Enochian system of magick developed by the Elizabethan magicians Dr John Dee and Edward Kelly. Crowley obtained these visions in Mexico in 1900, and in Algeria in..... More

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Item #120860 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of...

DARWIN, Charles

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Birmingham, Alabama, Gryphon Editions, Inc., 1987 (facsimile edition)/ 1859 (first edition). One of the Classics of Medicine Library: a facsimile of the 1859 edition, complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet (duodecimo, 44 pages). [2 items]. More

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Item #117303 A small quantity of ephemeral material relating to the military service of 1594...

DENT, Robert

A small quantity of ephemeral material relating to the military service of 1594 Robert Dent, F Company, 2nd Contingent, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles

Boer War items include a vintage photograph of a Boer commando (140 × 195 mm, a little damaged, signed on the verso ''Sgt. R. Dent | 5th VMR', and presumably souvenired by him); a snapshot of soldiers in the field, including a British officer using a telescope; the front panel..... More

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Item #121726 A photograph depicting a day in the life of three shooters at Bool Lagoon in...

[Duck Hunting]

A photograph depicting a day in the life of three shooters at Bool Lagoon in south-eastern South Australia, circa 1900

'Bool Lagoon on South Australia's Limestone Coast has been the most disputed of the state's game reserves set aside for conserving wildlife and managed seasonal game hunting. Bool Lagoon, south of Naracoorte, was simultaneously declared in 1967 a game reserve ... and a fauna conservation reserve ... While Bool Lagoon..... More

Price (AUD): $400.00

Item #120632 Mystery of Mystery. A Primer of Thelemic Ecclesiastical Gnosticism. Ecclesia...

[Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica]

Mystery of Mystery. A Primer of Thelemic Ecclesiastical Gnosticism

Maple Grove, Ordo Templi Orientis USA, 2014 (revised second edition). The book 'was first published as Red Flame No. 2 in 1995 ... and reprinted in trade paperback format in 2005' (introduction). The Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (EGC), the Gnostic Catholic Church, is 'the ecclesiastical arm of the Ordo Templi Orientis..... More

Price (AUD): $200.00

Item #120774 Borough of Newcastle, Natal. Souvenir Programme of Events held to commemorate the...

EDWARD VII, King of England

Borough of Newcastle, Natal. Souvenir Programme of Events held to commemorate the Coronation of His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII. 26th June, 1902 ... [cover title]

[Newcastle, Natal, Greaves & Teversham, Printers, 25 June 1902]. Provenance: a Western Australian member of the 4th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse. More

Price (AUD): $200.00

Item #119612 The Encyclopaedia Britannica. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General...

[Encyclopaedia Britannica]

The Encyclopaedia Britannica. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information. Thirteenth Edition, being Volumes One to Twenty-Eight of the Latest Standard Edition with the Three New Volumes covering Recent Years and the Index Volume

London, The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, Ltd., 1926 (thirteenth edition). The India paper edition, desirable not least because it occupies less than 90 cm of shelf space. [32 items]. More

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Item #120534 Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, compiled upon a New...

[Encyclopaedia Britannica]

Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, compiled upon a New Plan in which the Different Sciences and Arts are digested into Distinct Treatises or Systems ...

[Chicago, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1982, a facsimile of the first edition]/ 1768 to 1771. [3 items]. More

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Item #120631 Visions & Voices. Aleister Crowley's Enochian Visions with Astrological & Qabalistic...

ESHELMAN, James A.

Visions & Voices. Aleister Crowley's Enochian Visions with Astrological & Qabalistic Commentary

Los Angeles, The College of Thelema, January 2011. More

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Item #76752 A signed photograph of a portrait in oils of Admiral Edward Evans in full dress...

EVANS, Admiral E.R.G.R. (Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell, 1880-1957)

A signed photograph of a portrait in oils of Admiral Edward Evans in full dress uniform

Evans was second officer of the 'Morning', the ship sent out by the Royal Geographical Society in 1904 to the relief of Scott's first Antarctic expedition. In 1909 he was selected by Scott himself as second-in-command of his second expedition and captain of the 'Terra Nova'. He accompanied Scott in..... More

Price (AUD): $650.00

Item #120913 Harrison Fisher's American Girls in Miniature. Harrison FISHER

FISHER, Harrison

Harrison Fisher's American Girls in Miniature

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. The plate on the front cover is not reproduced in the book. More

Price (AUD): $150.00

Item #120824 A Voyage to Terra Australis, undertaken for the Purpose of completing the Discovery...

FLINDERS, Matthew

A Voyage to Terra Australis, undertaken for the Purpose of completing the Discovery of that Vast Country ... in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803

Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1966 (facsimile edition)/ 1814. Peade A37: 2150 sets. [3 items]. More

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Item #74814 An Alphabet of Owls et cetera. With a Text suitable for all Children, Grown-ups,...

FRIEND, Donald

An Alphabet of Owls et cetera. With a Text suitable for all Children, Grown-ups, Non-Readers, Ornamental Hermits. Et Alia

South Melbourne, Gryphon Books [Richard Griffin], 1981. Number 86 of only 150 copies signed by the artist; 'There are no out of series copies'. The title is partially correct: the book is more suited to non-readers. More

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Item #120630 Exu [and the Quimbanda of Night and Fire]. Nicholaj de Mattos FRISVOLD

FRISVOLD, Nicholaj de Mattos

Exu [and the Quimbanda of Night and Fire]

[London], Scarlet Imprint, 2012. Number 252 of 769 copies bound in cloth; another 70 copies were bound in black goatskin. 'Exu is the fusion of Umbanda, Angolan sorcery, European demonology and Kardec's Spiritism, erupting in a uniquely Brazilian cult of practical magical action. Spells, workings, hierarchies and origins are all..... More

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Item #117194 'Autographs of My Comrades On Active Service' [cover title of a small album...

[Gallipoli]

'Autographs of My Comrades On Active Service' [cover title of a small album containing the particulars and signatures of 20 Australian servicemen, at least 16 of them Gallipoli veterans]

Most of the men who have entered their details here enlisted in Victoria; many appear to have gone ashore at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. Many were wounded at the Dardanelles and invalided home. A slightly more detailed (but still typical) entry is that provided by 33 Sapper David Mackay..... More

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Item #117481 Dardan-Hells, 1915. Being the Unofficial Log of a Battleship which took an Active...

[Gallipoli]. ARLINGTON-BURKE C de G, Frederick

Dardan-Hells, 1915. Being the Unofficial Log of a Battleship which took an Active Part in the Exploit from Start to Finish of the Dardanelles and the Gallipoli Campaign Adventures [an unpublished typescript manuscript prepared for publication circa 1960]

The author's short introduction to this work speaks for itself: 'I'm getting towards the afternoon of life now. Looking back to the Dardanelles and Gallipoli in 1915, and the part played by the naval forces and squadrons, I am not only surprised, but am definitely annoyed that, although innumerable volumes..... More

Price (AUD): $5,000.00

Item #117054 Soldiers and Sportsmen. An Account of the Sporting Activities of the Australian...

GODDARD, Lieutenant George Hubert

Soldiers and Sportsmen. An Account of the Sporting Activities of the Australian Imperial Force during the Period between November 1918 and September 1919

London, AIF Sports Control Board (and printed by the Rosebery Press), 1919. The plate depicting the AIF Cricket Team accompanying the relevant fourteen-page chapter contains some familiar names: Gregory, Oldfield, Pellew ... Dornbusch 235; Fielding and O'Neill, page 246. More

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Item #120825 A Visit to Japan, and Notes by the Way. A Series of Letters to Young People ......

GOODE, Charles Henry

A Visit to Japan, and Notes by the Way. A Series of Letters to Young People ... specially written for the 'Young People's' Column of 'The Chronicle' and 'Express'

Adelaide, J.L. Bonython & Co., 'The Advertiser' Office, 1898. Sir Charles Henry Goode (1827-1922) was an Adelaide merchant and philanthropist. The front cover of the binding is stamped 'C. Gwen Lloyd'; this is Constance Gwen Lloyd (circa 1884-1913), one of Goode's two step-daughters ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). More

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Item #120746 A Monograph of the Macropodidae or Family of Kangaroos. John GOULD

GOULD, John

A Monograph of the Macropodidae or Family of Kangaroos

Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1981 [expanded facsimile edition]/ 1841-42 [originally published in two parts]. Number 548 of 750 copies numbered and signed by Joan M. Dixon, Curator of Mammals at the National Museum of Victoria, who has supplied detailed appendices tracing the background, content and distribution of this work plus current information..... More

Price (AUD): $250.00

Item #120723 The Ninth Arch. Kenneth GRANT

GRANT, Kenneth

The Ninth Arch

London, Starfire Publishing Ltd, 2002. One of 1000 copies; it is 'the final volume of a series of Trilogies which trace the emergence into historic times of an ancient body of occult doctrines known as the "Typhonian Tradition"' (dustwrapper blurb). Offered with a fine copy of the 2016 revised edition..... More

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