Natural History
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# 47000
FORNASIERO, Jean et al.
The Art of Science : Nicolas Baudin’s voyagers 1800-1804
Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2016 (2017 reprint). Quarto, 265 x 218 mm, illustrated wrappers, pp. 176, illustrated. It was one of the most lavishly equipped scientific expeditions ever to leave Europe. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, French navigator Nicolas Baudin led two ships carrying 22 scientists and more than 230 officers and crew …
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# 40453
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The origin of species (1889)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1889. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (thirty-seventh thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (edges and corners rubbed, slightly bruised with short tear at head and foot of spine) original endpapers (lightly …
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# 41941
DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)
The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex (1882, Sir Charles James Martin’s copy)
London : John Murray, 1882. Second edition, revised and augmented. Fifteenth thousand. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (edges slightly rubbed, upper hinge tender), pale foxing to endpapers, slight marginal stain to lower portion of text block, pp. xvi; 693; blank, 78 text illustrations, ownership inscription of C. J. Martin 1883 to preliminary blank, annotated below ‘fr. …
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# 46683
BRIGHTWELL, L[eonard] R[obert] F.Z.S. (1889 - 1983)
Wild Friends at Home (original cover art)
Gouache on paper, measures 430 x 310mm, being the original painting illustrating the cover of E. Chivers Davies’ ‘Wild Friends at Home’ (London : 1920). In this volume a little boy enters the imaginary worlds of the wild animals whose pictures decorate the walls of his nursery. The fifteen short tales include his adventure with …
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# 46593
ATTENBOROUGH, David (1926 - )
The private life of plants. A natural history of plant behaviour (signed copy)
London : BBC Books, 1995. First edition. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 320, extensively illustrated. Signed by David Attenborough in blue pen on the half-title ‘David Attenborough’. A fine copy. The second work in the ‘Life’ series by popular naturalist and television broadcaster David Attenborough.
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# 46726
SINGER, Peter (1946 - )
Animal liberation
A new ethics for our treatment of animals. London : Jonathan Cape, 1976. First English edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered boards in illustrated dustjacket (lightly marked and edge wear, fore edge foxed), pp. xvii; [1]; 301, illustrated. First British edition of Australian ethicist and philosopher Peter Singer’s landmark work on the treatment of animals.
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# 46695
BAGLIONE, Gabrielle et al.
Charles-Alexandre Lesueur. Painter and naturalist : a forgotten treasure
[Paris] : MKF Editions, [2016]. Quarto, pictorial laminated boards, pp. 392, illustrated. New copy. Text by Gabrielle Baglione, Cédric Crémière ; translated from French into English by Jean Fornasiero & John West-Sooby. On 19 October 1800, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur set sail on a voyage of discovery to the Southern Lands led by Nicolas Baudin. He soon demonstrated …
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# 46489
BROWN, Robert (1773 - 1858)
General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the botany of Terra Australis
[Appendix to Matthew Flinders A Voyage to Terra Australis; undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803]. London : [s.n.], [Printed by W. Bulmer and Co.] : [1814 – reissued circa 1840]. First separate issue, originally published as an Appendix to Flinders’ …
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# 46404
MAWE, John (1764-1829)
The voyager’s companion, or shell collector’s pilot;
with instructions and directions where to find the finest shells; also for preserving the skins of animals; and the best methods of catching and preserving insects &c. &c. &c. London : printed for and sold by the author, and by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Fourth edition. Duodecimo, full polished calf (corners …
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# 46518
SWAINSON, William (1789-1855)
On the natural history and classification of birds
London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1836 – 37. Two volumes, octavo, full polished calf, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt tooling, contrasting Morocco title labels lettered in gilt, engraved title pages, pp. viii; 365; viii; 398, text vignettes, with descriptions of avian life found worldwide, including New …
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# 46582
Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre Giral, 1716-1795; Antonio de and Jorge Juan y Santacilla, 1713-1773
Observaciones astronómicas, y phisicas hechas de orden de S. Mag. en los reynos del Perù
Por D. Jorge Juan … y D. Antonio de Ulloa … de las quales se deduce la figura, y magnitud de la tierra, y se aplica a la navegacion. En Madrid : Impresso de orden del rey nuestro señor, por Juan de Zuñiga, Año M.D.CC.XL.VIII. [1748]. First edition. Folio, contemporary full speckled calf with ornamental …
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# 46347
MEINERS, C. (Christoph) (1747-1810)
[BIOLOGICAL RACISM] Betrachtungen über die Fruchtbarkeit, oder Unfruchtbarkeit, über den vormahligen und gegenwärtigen Zustand der vornehmsten Länder in Asien,
von C. Meiners…. [=Observations on fertility and sterility in the ancient and present states of the main regions of Asia]. Lübeck und Leipzig : im Verlage bey Bohn und Compagnie, 1795-96. Two volumes, octavo (195 x 125 mm), matching contemporary bindings of marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, first volume with small paper loss, otherwise very …
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# 41187
WOLF, Josef (1820-1899)
[NATURAL HISTORY] Josef Wolf, animal painter : autograph letter signed, discussing the overpainting of an ornithological photograph. London, June 1870.
Manuscript in ink, 4 pp., octavo bifolium (175 x 110 mm); headed ’59 Berners Street, London, 17 June 1870′, and signed ‘J. Wolf’, the letter is addressed to an anonymous recipient (‘Dear Sir’), informing him that ‘The Photograph of the Great Bustard is in the hands of Mr. Smit’, and promising to let him know …
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# 40452
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The origin of species (1880)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1880. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (twenty-second thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (corners a little rubbed, slightly bruised with short tear at head and foot of spine) original endpapers (lightly …
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# 46469
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
On the origin of species (First ‘Australian’ edition)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. With a new preface by Charles G. Darwin. Illustrated with wood engravings by Paul Landcare. [New York] : Limited Editions Club, 1963. Printed for The Limited Editions Club at The Griffin Press, Adelaide, South Australia. Quarto, quarter wallaby over …
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# 41942
DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)
The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex (1885)
London : John Murray, 1885. Second edition, revised and augmented. Nineteenth thousand. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (edges slightly rubbed), light foxing to endpapers, pp. xvi; 693; blank, 32 (advertisements, dated January, 1885), 78 text illustrations, a very good copy. The second edition, eighth issue, of Darwin’s important work on natural selection. As Freeman notes: the …