Rare books from Book Merchant Jenkins, ANZAAB / ILAB

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. Hardcover (Half Leather) Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 41 Books bound in 15 Volumes (Not numbered, dated from 1852-1856). Uniform Half Leather. Gold tooling to spine. Raised bands. Blind ruled corners and edges. Marbled boards, full edges, and endpapers. Longman's Traveller's Library offered many reprints of Travel books. Some First Editions, or First in their form or translation, Some New Editions, some reprinted with additions from the Edinburgh Review. This set includes: Vol. 1: A Lady’s Voyage Round The World: A Selected Translation from the German of Ida Pfeiffer by Mrs. Percy Sinnet (1852); Eothen (1854). Vol. 2: Daniel De Foe and Charles Churchill by John Forster (1855); History Of My Youth by Francis Arago (1855); Printing: Its Antecedents, Origin, History, and Results by Adam Stark (1855). Vol. 3: Lord Bacon by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1852); Electricity and The Electric Telegraph: Together with the Chemistry of the Stars;… Read More

Kyoto: Shinshindo, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. 43cm x 31cm. 161 pages, 180 plates, index. Lettered wrappers, portfolio of plates mounted in folders, cloth clamshell with 2 bone clasps, papered box. Text is in Japanese. A beautifully presented collection of masks used in the classical Japanese dance-drama Noh. Each plate, photographed by Naomi Maki, is mounted in an individual folder with tissue guard, housed in a portfolio case, and includes an index sheet. An accompanying explanatory volume written by Yasuo Nakamura goes into detail on the subject, as well as containing black and white photographs of the reverse sides of the masks. The portfolio and accompanying volume are housed inside of another cloth clamshell with two bone clasps, which in turn is housed in another box. Yasuo Nakamura (1919-1996) was a Japanese high school teacher, junior college professor, and Noh scholar, producing numerous works on the subject from the 1960s until his death. His scholarship… Read More

Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1884. Australian Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 27cm x 22cm. [ii], v, 184 pages, 4 colour plates. Half leather, marbled papered boards, gilt lettering. The 1884 Australian reprint of one of the seminal works of medicine, Edward Jenner's pioneering work on the creation of the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. Published in the wake of Sydney's 1881 smallpox outbreak as part of a renewed push in what was a long and unsuccessful campaign by New South Wales medical practitioners for mandatory vaccination, when by 1860, Queensland and New South Wales were the only Australian colonies not to have enacted such legislation. Reprinted from Australian physician George Bennett's copy of the Second Edition published by Sampson Low in 1800 and containing the second and third parts, while stated in the preface (likely penned by John Creed) to be "a perfect fac simile", differs from the original edition in that it… Read More

London: John Murray, 1820. First Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Good Condition. 27cm x 22.5cm. Quarto. xvi, 408 pages, 3 folding maps/charts, 1 folding engraved plate, 5 aquatints (2 hand-coloured), 2 folding tables. Half leather, 5 raised bands, gilt lettering, and decoration, date panel, marbled papered boards, marbled endpapers. Oxley's account of his explorations of the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers: "the foundation work in the field of Australian inland exploration and the first detailed description of the interior of New South Wales." (Jonathan Wantrup, Australian Rare Books, 1788-1900) FERGUSON 796, WANTRUP 107. Bookplate of Robert Rowlands to front flyleaf. Stamp of Cowra High School Library to title page, no other library markings. Recently rebacked with an earlier spineback relaid. Marbled papered boards shelf worn and the board edges with some rubbing. The maps are foxed, moreso the first two, and those with minor stains and repaired along one fold, one with paper, the other… Read More

Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, John Spence, and Adam James Kent, Government Printers, 1903-1931. First Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 30cm x 23cm. 8 volumes. Blue cloth, gilt lettering. A complete set, being 75 parts in 8 volumes, containing over 3000 pages and 304 plates, 12 of which are in colour, and 4 of which are maps, of Joseph Henry Maiden’s masterpiece in the field of botanical research, and his major taxonomical work alongside his Forest Flora of New South Wales. The set is illustrated chiefly with lithographs by Margaret Flockton, together with several by Matilda Smith, a facsimile of L’Heritier, and 4 maps, as well as a photographic illustration by L. C. Webster, and a photographic portrait of Maiden in one of the posthumous volumes therein also published an obituary by Richard Hind Cambage. The project, which took 28 years to be published, the final parts prepared by Maiden before his death in 1925 and published posthumously edited by Cambage and William… Read More

Stockholm: Bokforlags Aktiebolaget Thule, 1936. First Thus. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 31cm x 24cm. 27 pages, 77 plates (24 coloured). Original cloth, new leather labels, gilt lettering. Tyra Kleen (1874-1951) was a Swedish artist, ethnographic researcher, keen theosophist, cosmopolitan woman of the world, and a founding member of Foreningen Svenska Konstnarinnor (The Association of Swedish Women Artists). Kleen studied painting in Germany and France, lived and socialised with the cultural elite in Rome at the turn of the 19th century, and travelled, exhibited, and socialised extensively around the world. A fiercely independent character, despite rampant misogyny, she managed to skilfully manoeuvre and at times manipulate to achieve her ambitious goals. She spent many years throughout the 1910s and 1920s in Indonesia, studying ceremonial dance, and produced a number of books on dance, theatre, and ritual in Java and Bali, and in 1938 was awarded the Johan August Wahlberg for her work… Read More

London: Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 22cm x 13.5cm. xvi, 350, [2] pages, 3 plates, 1 folding map. Full leather, gilt lettering. A description of the British Settlements of the Coasts of New Holland, more particularly Raffles Bay, Melville Island, Swan River, and King George's Sound; also, the manners and customs of the Aboriginal Tribes: with an appendix, containing remarks on transportation, the treatment of convicts during the voyage, and advice to persons intending to emigrate to the Australian Colonies. FERGUSON 2073. This copy without the 10 page catalogue of books and the plates bound in a different order. Rubbing to edges, aged reback and refurbish. Foxing to edges of endpapers and first and last pages. The plates tanned as usual. The maps with some foxing and a small tape repair to the verso at the tail of the hinge. King's Inn Library, Dublin stamp to verso of title page and colophon. Minor pencil notation to title… Read More

London: R. Baldwin and Thomas Underwood, 1813. Third Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Good Condition. Inscribed by Author. 21cm x 14cm. xvi, 215 pages. Contemporary papered boards. "In which some Suggestions are offered towards an improved Mode of treating Diseases of the Mind, and Some Rules proposed which it is hoped may lead to a more Humane and successful Method of Cure: to which are subjoined, Remarks on Medical Jurisprudence, as it relates to Diseased Intellect." The third and final revised edition of the major work by English physician Joseph Mason Cox (1763-1818). Cox was one of the first medical graduates to specialise in the treatment of the insane. Throughout his career he advocated for more humane treatment of lunatics and maniacs. In this work he introduces his swinging technique, based on a design by Erasmus Darwin, of spinning a patient's body round a vertical axis in a specially designed chair which would produce nausea, vomiting, and convulsions, but would ultimately lead… Read More

Milano: Franco Maria Ricci, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. Signed by Author. 35cm x 24cm. 2 volumes, colour illustrations. Black cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated onlay, 2 clamshell folders, original shipping cartons. The first edition of the ever mysterious Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini (1949-). Possibly an illustrated encyclopaedia of an alternate universe, Serafini has alluded that it is perhaps all just the thoughts of a cat passed through his hand. The Codex is written in an imaginary language and illustrated phantasmagorically throughout. This being the true first edition published in 2 volumes by Italian art publisher Franco Maria Ricci. This copy numbered 2295 and signed by Serafini to the colophon of volume 2, with the original trilingual letter from the editor laid in, together with a FMR catalogue, several photocopied Italian newspaper clippings related to the Codex, as well as the deluxe edition of the only published volume of… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1968. Deluxe Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. 31cm x 21cm. xiii, 381 pages, 24 plates, 3 maps, 1 chart, black and white illustrations in the text. Quarter leather, gilt lettering, top edge gilt, cloth slipcase. The deluxe edition of Wasson's famous work on Amanita muscaria as the divine mushroom. 680 numbered copies designed by Giovanni Mardersteig, in a larger paper format handmade by Fratelli Magnani and with two plates in pochoir by Daniel Jacomet. Ethno-mycological Studies No. 1. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. This is number 538. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper, very minor annotations to a few pages. Minor shelf wear and rubbing to slipcase. Shipped Weight: 2.5 kilos. BZDB407 Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia; Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia::Mushrooms; Unbranded R. Gordon Wasson Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality

London: John Murray, 1862. First Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 20.5cm x 14.5cm. vi, 366 pages, 32 advertisements, 1 folding plate, black and white illustrations in text. Aged reback with original spine laid down, original maroon cloth, gilt lettering with blind and gilt-stamped decoration. First edition, first issue, of Darwin's first published work after the Origin of Species, providing evidence supporting his theory of evolution through natural selection. Darwin believed this volume tackled the question of design in nature. He maintained that the complex internal arrangements and ornate ridges of orchids were not created for the sake of beauty, but for the functional purpose of facilitating reproduction. Includes a folding wood-engraved plate, 33 wood-engraved illustrations, as well as the gold-blocked orchid illustration on the cover. This copy with the advertisements dated December, 1861. Aged reback with the original spineback laid down with some loss. Minor foxing.… Read More

Paris: Pierre Bulliard, No date. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 25.5cm x 17.5cm. [x] leaves (printed recto only), 219 original water-colour plates. Quarter leather, marbled papered boards, gilt lettering, with gilt mushroom tool to spine. 219 manuscript watercolour plates by M. Walhein, a Member of French Mycological Society, from the originals by French physician and botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard (1752-1793). Bound in quarter leather with a typescript index to the plates. Some rubbing to leather. Very minor tanning. Shipped Weight: 1.5 kilos. BZDB407 Natural History & Resources; Art & Design. Unbranded Pierre Bulliard; M. Walhein Herbier de la France: Histoire des Champignons

London: John S. Barrington, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 31.5cm x 24cm. [64], [64] pages, black and white illustrations. Plain red boards, comb bound, plain jackets. John S. Barrington (1920-1991) was a prolific 20th century British physique photographer. Receiving a formal art training in Paris, he was also a visual artist and sculptor, and earlier in his career worked in theatre design. Barrington began picking up and photographing men at the pool, eventually going on to establish one of the most prolific physique studios of the 20th century, during which time he probably published and distributed more full male nudes than any of his contemporaries up until the changing censorship laws in the latter part of the century. Superb Youth in a Camera Life-Class is one of his scarcest works, unrecorded in public collections, and with a stated limited edition of 100 copies (though this could be Barrington's marketing at work). It combines his photography and visual… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Good Condition. 19.5cm x 12.5cm. xvi, 438 pages, 32 advertisements, black and white illustrations. Publisher's red cloth. The first UK edition published prior to the US edition with the first issue advertisements dated October 1884. BAL 3414. The stapled sequence. Recased with some cloth added at the head and tail of the slightly chipped spineback. Minor chipping to fore-edge of front free endpaper. Frontispiece tissue guard tanned. Minor foxing. Shipped Weight: .66 kilos. BZDB407 Fiction; Unbranded Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)

Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1543. Second Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Good Condition. 30cm x 20cm. [20], 230, [2] pages, 2 double page maps, 18 maps in the text. Full vellum, manuscript lettering, housed in a custom quarter leather clamshell. Text is in Latin. The Second Isingrin Edition with commentary and woodcut maps by Sebastian Munster. A significant work of geography containing "the earliest representation of the north-west coast of America on a printed map" (Burden), as well as one of the earliest printed works to with a map showing Asia as a whole. Some splitting to the upper joint though still firm. A small rub to the lower board. Early owner's marks to the title page and with minor occasional marginalia. Leaf O2 and O4 with a small repair to the tail margin. A light waterstain to the top edge from about half way through to the end. Leaf Dd4 and the final few leaves including the final device leaf more significantly stained though still light. Shipped Weight: 1.34 kilos.… Read More