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De Jure Belli et Pacis Libri Tres (3 Volumes)
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22.5cm x 14cm. [ii], lxxix, 416; [vi], 457; [vi], 445, [1] pages. Original brown cloth, gilt lettering, blind decoration. Text is in Latin and English.
Accompanied by an Abridged Translation by William Whewell. With the notes of the author, Barbeyrac, and Others. Edited for the Syndics of the University Press. Early re-issue of the Whewell Edition of the seminal work on international law by Hugo de Groot (1583-1645) first published in 1625 as De iure belli ac pacis.
Ex-University of Queensland Law Library, with stamps and plates, and with the former ownership stamp of Queensland judge Manus Boyce QC. Vol. 1 with some splitting to lower joint and with tender hinges, other volumes firm. Chipping to spine heads and tails. Minor insect damage to edges. Foxing to first and last pages. Fair Condition. -
New Hopes for a Changing World
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First Edition.
19cm x 12.5cm. 218, [6] pages. Tan cloth, grey lettering, lettered jacket.
Foxing to top edge and endpapers. Bookseller’s label of Craftsman Bookshop, Sydney. Clipped jacket with minor tanning. Good Condition. -
The Impact of Science on Society
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First Edition.
19cm x 12.5cm. 140, [4] pages. Maroon cloth, white lettering, pictorial jacket.
Minor tanning and foxing to endpapers and top edge. Jacket somewhat foxed and with small chips and tears to edges. Very Good Condition. -
Compulsory Dancing
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Reprint.
17.5cm x 11cm. [vi], 153 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Talks and Essays on the Spiritual and Evolutionary Necessity of Emotional Surrender to the Life-Principle.
Creasing to spine and wrappers. Stamp of The Laughing Man Institute, Melbourne. Good Condition. -
The Descent Into Words: Jakob Bohme’s Transcendental Linguistics
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First Edition.
23cm x 15cm. xiv, 201 pages. Lettered wrappers, illustrated jacket.
Minor shelf wear. Previous owner’s name. Very Good Condition. -
In Pursuit of Gold: Alchemy Today in Theory and Practice
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Second English Edition.
24cm x 16cm. 212 pages, [54] pages of illustrations. White cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
Revised and expanded second edition of English laboratory alchemist Lapidus’s observations and conclusions based on his work in the mid to late 20th century. This copy with a limited edition presentation bookplate signed by Tony Matthews, grandson of Lapidus, laid in.
Minor foxing to edges, cloth, and jacket. Very Good Condition. -
The Hermes Paradigm: Book Two: The First Work
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First Edition.
21cm x 14cm. 164 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated french fold wrappers.
Salfluere conducts an examination of Western Hermetic laboratory alchemy, elucidating the role of motives, discipline, and methodology, and describing processes in detail.
Very minor foxing. Near Fine Condition. -
The Great Alchemical Work of Eirenaeus Philalethes, Nicholas Flamel and Basil Valentine
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First Edition in English.
21cm x 14cm. 122 pages, [6] pages of illustrations, black and white illustrations in the text. Illustrated french fold wrappers.
“The Great Alchemical Work is an important contribution to the study of alchemy. In the first English language edition of this ‘little work,’ Portuguese alchemist Rubellus Petrinus presents a sincere and invaluable guide to the operative laboratory tradition that gave birth to the Art of Hermes and its vast literature. Taking as his starting point the classic works of three well-known Adepts – Eirenaeus Philalethes, Nicholas Flamel and Basil Valentine – Rubellus offers aspirants a clear explanation of these highly cryptic, often deliberately misleading, texts. According to Frater Parush (A.H.S.), in his preface, “… the interested student will find herein one of the best publications now available of the accurate and proper understanding of some important pieces of classic alchemical cypher. Rubellus removes a good portion of the veil from over the works of Flamel, Valentine and Philalethes concerning the Great Work, and thereby opens the door to a wider understanding of other related literature.” Drawing upon his more than thirty years of discipline and experience, Rubellus generously shares his knowledge that has had “all that is superficial removed from it,” and daringly exposes the facts of the secret processes of the Art. The Great Alchemical Work features full colour plates with photographs of alchemical processes, products and equipment, along with rare reproductions of early woodcut versions of Basil Valentine’s famous Keys.” (publisher’s blurb)
Very minor bump to crown fore-edge corner. Near Fine Condition. -
Listen, Little Man! A Document from the Archive of the Orgone Institute
$400.00 Add to cartWilhelm Reich; William Steig
New York: Orgone Institute Press, 1948.
First edition in the English language of Reich’s antiauthoritarian classic calling for direct action by the working class. Translated by Theodore P. Wolfe. Illustrated by William Stieg. Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) was an Austro-Hungraian-American doctor and psychoanalys, and is one of psychiatry’s most radical figures. In the late 1950s many of his books were burned by order of the court in one of the largest cases of modern censorship making early editions of his work scarce. -
No More Secondhand God and Other Writings
$20.00 Add to cartR. Buckminster Fuller
New York: Anchor Books, 1971. -
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations (3 Volumes)
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First Folio Printing.
28cm x 18cm. 3 volumes. Grey decorative cloth in gilt and brown, slipcase.
With an introduction by John Kenneth Galbraith. FORD-SMITH 1483.
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody
$500.00 Add to cartFriedrich Nietzsche
London: The Folio Society, 2012.
Translated and edited by Graham Parkes, introduced by Jonathan Ree, illustrated by Peter Suart. FORD-SMITH 1773. -
Futur*Fall: Excursions into Post-Modernity
$40.00 Add to cartE. A. Grosz; Terry Threadgold; David Kelly; Alan Cholodenko; Edward Colless
Sydney: Power Institute of Fine Arts, 1986.
A selection of papers presented to the Futur*Fall: Excursions into Postmodernity Conference, 26-29 July 1984, University of Sydney. -
Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought
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First Edition.
19cm x 12.5cm. xxi, 150 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
“The clitoris was absent in anatomy books, in paintings and sculptures, absent in spirit and even body; it has long been the organ of erased pleasure. We assume that this oversight has been repaired in our times: today, the clitoris is not forgotten but honoured. Conferences, books, manifestos, works of art are all devoted to it. The autonomy of clitoral jouissance is recognized. The boundaries of feminism have also moved: queer, intersex and trans approaches claim that the clitoris is perhaps no longer the exclusive preserve of the woman. And yet, there remains a wounded space. Because genital mutilation is still common practice. Because millions of women are still denied pleasure. The clitoris continues to mark the enigmatic space of the feminine. Constrained by the extreme difficulty and the extreme urgency of returning to this scorched earth, it is time to give voice to an organ of pleasure which has still not become an organ of thought.” (publisher’s blurb) Translated from the French by Carolyn Shread.
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De Officiis M.T. Ciceronis libri tres / M. T. Ciceronis Fragmenta
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17cm x 11cm. 288, 141, [15] pages. Full leather, gilt decoration.
Ciceros’ treatise on how to live, behave, and observe moral obligations with a separately titled and paginated Fragments collected by Andrea Patricio. Includes index. Scarce Lyon imprint of d’Antoine Gryphius, the illegitimate son of German bookseller-printer Sebastian Gryphius.
Leather rubbed and chipped, the lower board soiled. 17th century motif design scribblings of Andreas Barques to the endpapers, the free of which are almost loose. Small stain to the top edge of the first and last 10 to 20 leaves. Minor marks elsewhere. Good Condition. -
The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience
$35.00 Add to cartRalph Metzner
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2022.
Psychotherapist and researcher Ralph Metzner employs academic and spiritual knowledge to investigate human growth and transformation. -
Alchemy Journal (Volume 11, Number 1) Alchemies of Asia
$55.00 Add to cartPaul Hardacre
Brisbane and Chiang Mai: Salamander and Sons for the International Alchemy Guild, 2010.
An eclectic presentation of textual and art pieces coalescing around the ancient art of transformation. -
Alchemy Journal (Volume 10, Number 2)
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First Edition.
25cm x 17.5cm. 90 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
September 2009. An eclectic presentation of textual and art pieces coalescing around the ancient art of transformation.
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Alchemy Journal (Volume 10, Number 1): Alchemical Feminine
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First Edition.
25cm x 17.5cm. 96 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
March 2009. An eclectic presentation of textual and art pieces coalescing around the ancient art of transformation.
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Alchemy Journal (Volume 9, Number 1)
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First Edition.
25cm x 17.5cm. 84 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
An eclectic presentation of textual and art pieces coalescing around the ancient art of transformation.
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In Pursuit of Gold: Alchemy Today in Theory and Practice
$200.00 Add to cartLapidus (David Curwen)
Brisbane and Chiang Mai: Salamander and Sons, 2011.
Revised and expanded second edition of English laboratory alchemist Lapidus’s observations and conclusions based on his work in the mid to late 20th century. This copy with a limited edition presentation bookplate signed by Tony Matthews, grandson of Lapidus, laid in. -
The Great Alchemical Work of Eirenaeus Philalethes, Nicholas Flamel and Basil Valentine
$100.00 Add to cartRubellus Petrinus
Brisbane and Chiang Mai: Salamander and Sons, 2007.
“The Great Alchemical Work is an important contribution to the study of alchemy. In the first English language edition of this ‘little work,’ Portuguese alchemist Rubellus Petrinus presents a sincere and invaluable guide to the operative laboratory tradition that gave birth to the Art of Hermes and its vast literature. Taking as his starting point the classic works of three well-known Adepts – Eirenaeus Philalethes, Nicholas Flamel and Basil Valentine – Rubellus offers aspirants a clear explanation of these highly cryptic, often deliberately misleading, texts. According to Frater Parush (A.H.S.), in his preface, “… the interested student will find herein one of the best publications now available of the accurate and proper understanding of some important pieces of classic alchemical cypher. Rubellus removes a good portion of the veil from over the works of Flamel, Valentine and Philalethes concerning the Great Work, and thereby opens the door to a wider understanding of other related literature.” Drawing upon his more than thirty years of discipline and experience, Rubellus generously shares his knowledge that has had “all that is superficial removed from it,” and daringly exposes the facts of the secret processes of the Art. The Great Alchemical Work features full colour plates with photographs of alchemical processes, products and equipment, along with rare reproductions of early woodcut versions of Basil Valentine’s famous Keys.” (publisher’s blurb) -
Alchemical Essays
$100.00 Add to cartRoss Mack
Brisbane and Chiang Mai: Salamander and Sons, 2008.
Mack explores the interplay between branches of Hermetic wisdom and their subsequent convergence with recent findings in contemporary sciences, including knowledge about DNA, dark energy, dark matter, and superconductors. -
Letters from Ludwig Wittgenstein with a Memoir
$65.00 Add to cartPaul Engelmann; L. Furtmuller; Ludwig Wittgenstein
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967. -
Cassirer and Langer on Myth: an Introduction
$100.00 Add to cartWilliam Schultz
New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.
A detailed overview of the significance of myth in the context of civilization and cultures, conducted by way of two leading twentieth century philosophers on myth, Ernst Cassirer and Susanne Langer. -
Impressions of Mahayana Buddhism
$200.00 Add to cartBeatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki; Daisetz Teitaro Suzuk
Kyoto and London: The Eastern Buddhist Society and Luzac and Company, 1940.
Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki (1878-1939) was an American Theosophist and Buddhist scholar. In 1911 she married Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (D. T. Suzuki), the well known philosopher and Buddhist Scholar who popularized Zen in the west. She wrote extensively on Buddhism and Japanese culture, and following her death her husband compiled this book from her articles in various magazines in Japan, India, England and America. -
A Philosopher’s Note Book: Excerpts from Philosophical Writers and from the Sacred Scriptures on a Variety of Philosophical Subjects; Together With Some Reflections, and Sundry Notes and Memoranda
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Reprint.
22cm x 14cm. xxiii, 548 pages, black and white illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, no jacket.
Translated from the Latin and Edited by Alfred Acton. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 – 1772) was a Swedish mystic, theologian, philosopher, and scientist. After a successful career as a scientist and inventor, at the age of 53 he had a revelation that Jesus had chosen him to write ‘The Heavenly Doctrine’ to reform Christianity. He published 18 theological works before his death which he predicted. His writings have been very influential around the world, with The New Church or Swedenborgism being founded in 1787. It is still present around Australia.
Price sticker ghost to lower board. Foxing to top edge, minor to other edges, endpapers, and first and last few pages. Bookseller’s sticker, The Swedenborg Centre, North Ryde. Very Good Condition. -
Vimalaji on National Problems, 1978 to 1988
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First Edition.
21cm x 14cm. [vi], 175 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Very minor creasing and soiling to wrappers. Very minor foxing to edges. Very Good Condition. -
The Revolution We Expected: Cultivating a New Politics of Consciousness
$25.00 Add to cartClaudio Naranjo
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2020.
“The Revolution We Expected presents a call for individual and societal transformation in order to rebuild and humanize our institutions and our communities to realize a post-patriarchal world and elevated consciousness as a global community. In his last work as an author, celebrated doctor and psychotherapist Claudio Naranjo uses The Revolution We Expected to make a final call to humanity to awaken to our collective potential and work to transcend our patriarchal past and present. The book presents a map that argues not only for collective individual awakening but a concerted effort to transform our institutions so that our educational and cultural lessons are in service to a better world. The author targets traditional education and our global economic system that increasingly neglect human development and must transform to meet the needs of future social evolution. He stresses the need for education to teach wisdom over knowledge and he suggests meditation and contemplative practices can help us realize new ways to learn. Ultimately, we need to embark on a collective process of re-humanizing our systems and establishing self-awareness as individuals to create the necessary global consciousness to realize a new way forward.” (publisher’s blurb) -
Principia Discordia
$15.00 Add to cartMalaclypse The Younger; Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst
Olympia: Last Word Press, 2015.
or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malacylpse the Younger wherein is explained absolutely everything worth knowing about absolutely anything. This edition containing a new introduction by Robert Anton Wilson. Comes in 4 different colours, add a note to your order if you have a preference.