AFTER MAN, Dougal Dixon
Back on the website! A favourite from Dougal Dixon (Scottish geologist and paleontologist), wherein he imagines the shape of evolution after humankind's demise. A tidy hardcover copy (just a Book Club edition, but will do the job just fine)
Some sample pages here
02.09.22
Rollerderby ZINES
EDIT: sold (02.09.22)
Lots of punk and riot grrrl coverage, interviews, cool ad's, unhinged letters to the editor, comics, BDSM and transgressive stuff, basically all sorts of alternative undergound oddness
NZ$20.00 each
Universal language?
From the 1870's, a little book proposing a means of UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION...
Basically (see pic's of pages for examples), the most common words are assigned a number. Say, the word "ROCK" is assigned a number, said number staying constant for English, French, Hindi, etc.
Now, if you all have the same wee guide book, you can chat rudimentarily by writing down these numbers
The author adds a bunch of simple other symbols and modifications for conjugation, etc.
But that's not all... if you have these numbers, what if you were to assign sounds to each number? And then, you can reverse-engineer a SPOKEN universal language (!) (if I understand this right...)
Odd indeed
Not much on the internet about this one — see the New York times notice here: https://www.nytimes.com/1874/11/26/archives/new-publications-international-correspondence-by-means-of-numbers.html
... and the World Cat entry:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/international-correspondence-by-means-of-numbers-an-easy-method-whereby-people-of-different-nations-may-readily-communicate-with-each-other-by-charles-stewart/oclc/559603351
Yours for NZ$25.00
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Traditional Chinese Medicine
Over the coming weeks we will be uploading the depicted titles and more to the website
Our Auckland shop has also a small collection of these titles
23.03.22
Franco-German War
5 volumes, with an additional 5 volumes of maps
A scarce set, NZ$4500.00
First Complete English edition of GOGOL's "Dead Souls"
Interestingly, from the Library of the General Assembly of New Zealand ie. NZ Parliament
NZ$2200
James Stuart & Nicholas Revett's Classic Work on Classical Antiquity
The Antiquities of Athens, Measured and Delineated by... [4 volume set] NZ$1800
