Natural History

  • Nature's investigator : the diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805

    # 50563

    VALLANCE, T. G. et al.

    Nature’s investigator : the diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805

    Compiled by T.G. Vallance, D.T. Moore & E.W. Groves. Canberra, ACT : Australian Biological Resources Study (Flora), [2001]. Octavo, laminated pictorial boards, maps to endpapers, previous owner’s name to front free endpaper, pp. xii; 666, illustrations, a fine copy. Scarce. The diary of Robert Brown, naturalist on the ‘Investigator’ voyage of Matthew Flinders, with much …

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  • Ferdinand Bauer : the Australian natural history drawings

    # 50549

    NORST, Marlene J.

    Ferdinand Bauer : the Australian natural history drawings

    Melbourne : Lothian, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, some light edge wear, pp. 120, illustrated.

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  • The guinea pig, or domestic cavy for food, fur, and fancy. Illustrated. (With a gift inscription and pen sketches by H. G. Wells)

    # 50135

    CUMBERLAND, C. (Charles) [WELLS, H. G., 1866-1946]

    The guinea pig, or domestic cavy for food, fur, and fancy. Illustrated. (With a gift inscription and pen sketches by H. G. Wells)

    London : L. Upcott Gill, [1886]. First edition. Octavo (190 x 130 mm), publisher’s decorated green cloth over boards, the upper board with gilt lettering and guinea pig device (both boards rubbed and lightly marked, corners a little worn), spine with gilt lettering and device (very heavily faded and frayed at ends); front pastedown with …

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  • Tree Fern, Botanical Gardens, Sydney (1856-1860)

    # 50397

    MORESBY, Matthew Fortescue (1828-1918)

    Tree Fern, Botanical Gardens, Sydney (1856-1860)

    Wet plate collodion print, 200 x 155 mm, signed in the negative lower left ‘M. F. Moresby’; on section cut from a mid-19th-century album leaf, with the photographer’s pencilled caption on the mount below the image: ‘Tree Fern, Botanical Gardens, Sydney’; the print has excellent clarity and tonal range, and is in very good condition; …

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  • Norfolk Id. Pine, Bot: Garden, Sydney (1856-1860)

    # 50449

    MORESBY, Matthew Fortescue (1828-1918)

    Norfolk Id. Pine, Bot: Garden, Sydney (1856-1860)

    Wet plate collodion print, 220 x 265 mm, signed in the negative lower left ‘M. F. Moresby’; mounted on a section cut from a mid-19th-century album leaf (glued at top right and bottom right corners only), with the photographer’s caption in ink across the bottom of the image: ‘Norfolk Id. Pine, Bot: Garden, Sydney’; the …

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  • Three views in the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales, c.1890.

    # 50372

    [NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE]

    Three views in the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales, c.1890.

    Three large format albumen print photographs, each 230 x 280 mm, with captions in the negative; one print with a couple of nicks to top edge, otherwise all in fine condition, unmounted.

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  • "New Zealand ferns collected for Miss Grahame by her friends at Hazelbank, Auckland, 1860".

    # 49927

    [CIRCLE OF THE GRAHAME FAMILY]

    “New Zealand ferns collected for Miss Grahame by her friends at Hazelbank, Auckland, 1860”.

    [Auckland, New Zealand : s.n., 1860]. Handmade album. Octavo (190 x 120 mm), the covers taken from a copy of The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh : A. & C. Black, 1857), of limp tan cloth with decoration in blind and gilt device to front and rear; the book’s original pastedowns and endpapers …

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  • [THYLACINE; GOLD RUSH] Display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition, London, 1862

    # 40072

    LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY

    [THYLACINE; GOLD RUSH] Display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition, London, 1862

    London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 1862. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 80 x 80 mm each image (arched format), on yellow mount 84 x 173 mm; recto with printed title: The International Exhibition of 1862: No. 141 – N. E. Transcept, and Australian Gold Case; under magnification, the sign on the case reads: The Stamping Machine / Victoria …

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  • The History of Japan : giving an Account of the Antient and Present State of Government of that Empire; ... together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam.

    # 48351

    KAEMPFER, Engelbert (1651-1716)

    The History of Japan : giving an Account of the Antient and Present State of Government of that Empire; … together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam.

    London : for the Publisher, and sold by T. Woodward and C. Davis, 1728. First edition in English, second issue (with the ‘Second Appendix’). Two volumes, folio, contemporary full speckled calf with double gilt rule (boards a little scuffed), expertly rebacked with new spines in period style, spines in compartments with raised bands, contrasting leather …

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  • The origin of species (1892)

    # 49891

    DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

    The origin of species (1892)

    by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1892. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections (forty-third thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (corners a little rubbed, slightly bruised at head and foot of spine, small stain to lower board) original endpapers (lightly …

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  • The origin of species (1891)

    # 49890

    DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

    The origin of species (1891)

    by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1891. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections (forty-first thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (edges slightly rubbed, small stain to lower board), small nicks to head and foot of spine, original patterned endpapers (foxed, …

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  • Discoveries in Australia : with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43, by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, also, a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.

    # 50100

    STOKES, John Lort (1811-1885)

    Discoveries in Australia : with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43, by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, also, a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley’s visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.

    London : T. and W. Boone, 1846. Three volumes, octavo, later uniform half green calf over green cloth (boards with some flecking), spines in compartments with gilt decoration and with contrasting leather title labels lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; pp. xv, 521; x, 543, with 26 plates (15 engraved, 11 lithographed) depicting events and scenes …

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  • The Malay Archipelago : the land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise.

    # 49893

    WALLACE, Alfred Russell (1823 - 1913)

    The Malay Archipelago : the land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise.

    A narrative of travel with studies of man and nature. London : Macmillan and Co., 1869. Second edition. Two volumes, octavo, gilt-decorated green cloth (rebacked, preserving the spines, corners bumped, edges rubbed), new endpapers, name to half-titles, tear to title leaf with residue from old tape repair, pp. xx; 312; 341; engraving and folding maps, …

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  • Rambles in search of shells, land and freshwater

    # 50001

    HARTING, James Edmund

    Rambles in search of shells, land and freshwater

    London : John van Coorst, 1875. Octavo, publisher’s maroon cloth, lettered in blind on upper board, lettered in gilt on spine, previous owner’s name to endpaper, coloured frontispiece, pp. viii; 110; (2 – advertise.), nine further handcoloured plates. A fine copy of this work on British conchology.

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  • A collection of voyages. In four volumes.

    # 42701

    DAMPIER, William (1651-1715)

    A collection of voyages. In four volumes.

    I.  Captain William Dampier’s voyages round the world : describing particularly, the coasts and Islands in the East and West-Indies. The South-Sea coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico. The countries of Tonquin, Achin and Malacca. The Cape of Good Hope, New-Holland, &c. II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer; giving an account of his being left …

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  • "Shanghae Flowers" (painted 1845 - 1847)

    # 49132

    WHITE, Mary

    “Shanghae Flowers” (painted 1845 – 1847)

    Album, 295 x 240 x 75 mm, thick embossed morocco bound boards, brass clasp, small bookseller’s label from Kensington, London to pastedown, later family inscriptions to endpaper, calligraphic title leaf in red and blue, heightened in gold ‘Shanghae Flowers. Presented to James White by his wife on his Birthday April X 1868’, two page manuscript …

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