Fredrick Accum

Chemical Amusement, Comprising a Series of Curious and Instructive Experiments in Chemistry,

Thomas Boys, London, 1817. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 19cm x 11.5cm. [ii], xxvi, 191, [1], 60 pages. Signed Zaehnsdorf half leather, marbled papered boards, marbled endpapers. Which are Easily Performed, and Unattended by Danger. 103 chemistry experiments with magical application for the conjuring chemist. The rare first edition with the 60 page, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Apparatus & Instruments Employed in Experimental and Operative Chemistry, in Analytical Mineralogy, and in the Pursuits of the Recent Discoveries of Voltaic Electricity, Manufactured and Sold by the author, at the rear, the separate title on the verso of pp. 191. Friedrich Accum (1769-1838) was a German chemist who lived in London from 1793 to 1821. He played a key role in the establishment of gas lighting in London and wrote a number of popular chemistry works, most notably campaigning against the unscrupulous use of chemical additives in food in his 1820 A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons. HALL 1, TOOLE STOTT 1. This copy in a Zaehnsdorf half leather binding with the author's calling card laid in and the bookplates of magicians Roland Winder and Ricky Jay. Joints rubbed, papered boards a little shelf worn. Interior clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science & Technology; Antiquarian & Rare; Stage Magic & Mentalism; Fine Bindings. Inventory No: 0035957.

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Union Carbide Australia

The Inside Story of Dry Batteries: A Guide for Students

Union Carbide Australia, Sydney, 1964. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 21.5cm x 14cm. 30 pages, black and white illustrations. Saddle-stapled self wrappers. Minor creasing and tanning to wrappers. 0.5cm closed tear to tail of wrappers front panel. Shipped Weight: .03 kilos.

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John Badcock

Philosophical Recreations, or Winter Amusements

T. Hughes, London, No date. Early Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 15cm x 9cm. xv, 200 pages, colour folding frontispiece. Quarter cloth, papered boards, paper label. A Collection of Entertaining & Surprising Experiments in Mechanics, Arithmetic, Optics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Electricity, Chemistry, Magnetisism, & Pyrotechny, Or Art of Making, Fire Works, together with the wonders of the Air Pump, Magic Lanthorn, Camera Obscura, &c. &c. &c. and a variety of Tricks with Cards. (circa 1828). TOOLE STOTT 77. Aged rebacked quarter cloth. Creasing to front free endpaper Frontispiece with a few very marginal creases to fore-edge, a very small chip to top edge, and some very minor soiling. Occasional minor foxing and corner crease. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science & Technology; Antiquarian & Rare; Stage Magic & Mentalism. Inventory No: 0035958.

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Thomas Berger

Regiment of Women

Popular Library, Toronto, 1973. First Paperback Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. 17.5cm x 10.5cm. 317, [3] pages. Pictorial wrappers. Gender role-reversal dystopian novel. 2047: When Women Rule the World. "Women rule supreme. Dressed in business suits and stick-on beards, they attack the weaker sex with dildos. To propagate the species, men are drafted into State controlled sperm farms. And rebels of the underground Men's Liberation face the penalty of castration." Minor shelf and handling wear. Minor tanning. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Gender Studies. Inventory No: 0035775.

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J. V. Possingham; R. Wren Smith; A.M. Brennan

Bibliography of Viticultural Research

CSIRO Australia, Melbourne, 1990. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 9780643051683 25cm x 16cm. 116 pages. Illustrated glossy papered boards. Conducted at the Merbein and Adelaide Laboratories of the CSIRO Division of Horticulture, 1919-1990. Minor shelf wear, foxing, and tanning. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science & Technology; Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia; Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia::Alcohol; ISBN: 0643051686. ISBN/EAN: 9780643051683. Inventory No: 0004179.

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J. Dawson

The Enigmatical Repository; or Museum of Entertainment,

J. Dawson, Norwich, No date. Second Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Inscribed by person(s) connected with book. 15.5cm x 10cm. 232, 12 pages. Original purple cloth, gilt lettering. Containing Enigmas, Charades, Rebuses, Anagrams, Transpositions, Queries, Logogriphs, Acrostics, &c. Including A Selection of Harmless and Pleasing Experiments in Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Magnetism, &c. Also a variety of Miscellaneous Receipts In the various Departments of Art and Science. A collection of word puzzles and simple chemistry experiments designed for youth amusement. Not in Toole Stott. This copy inscribed by the publisher J. Dawson and from the collection of magician Ricky Jay. Spine sunned. Stickers of Norwich Castle Museum. Minor wear to edges. Very minor foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science & Technology; Stage Magic & Mentalism. Inscribed by person(s) connected with book. Inventory No: 0035959.

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Philip K. Dick

A Scanner Darkly

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2012. Reprint, Softcover. New Book. 9781780220420 20cm x 13cm. [iv], 220 pages. Illustrated wrappers. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 3. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN/EAN: 9781780220420. Inventory No: 0015066.

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Philip K. Dick

Ubik

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2017. Reprint, Softcover. New Book. 9781474607438 20cm x 13cm. xiv, 208 pages. Illustrated wrappers. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN/EAN: 9781474607438. Inventory No: 0015065.

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Douglas R. Hofstadter

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Basic Books, New York, 1999. Later Edition, Softcover. New Book. 9780465026562 23cm x 16cm. 777 pages. Illustrated wrappers. A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll. Shipped Weight: 1.07 kilos. ISBN: 0465026567. ISBN/EAN: 9780465026562.

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James F. W. Johnston

The Chemistry of Common Life (2 Volumes)

William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1855. Early Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition. 18cm x 11.5cm. viii, 352; vi, 466 pages, 2 volumes, black and white illustrations. Half leather, gilt lettering, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. "The first work in English to treat the entire psychoactive plant kingdom." (Phantastica, 114) Thorough chapters devoted to opium, cannabis, coca, betel nut, Amanita muscaria, as well as tea, coffee, beer, wine, and liquors. Joints thinned and with small splits at the crown of the upper joints, boards are still firmly attached. Previous owner's name. Very minor foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 500 grams-1 kilos. Category: Science & Technology; Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia. Inventory No: 0035956.

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S. T. Butler; H. Messel

Time

Shakespeare Head Press, Sydney, 1965. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. 22cm x 14.5cm. 328 pages, black and white illustrations. Burgundy cloth, gilt lettering, pictorial jacket. Selected Lectures on Time and Relativity, the Arrow of Time, and the Relation of Geological and Biological Time and on Men of Science. A course of lectures contributed in the Nuclear Research Foundation Summer Science School for fourth-year high school students at the University of Sydney, January 4015, 1965. Very Good Condition in Good Jacket. Minor tanning. Previous owner's name and address. Jacket somewhat shelf worn with small chips and tears to edges. Shipped Weight: .58 kilos.

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