Natural History
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# 51201
[Unknown collector]
Album of pressed ferns collected in New South Wales and Fiji, c.1880.
Quarto (295 x 230 mm), original leather over boards with gilt-embossed decoration (rubbed); all edges gilt, watered silk pastedowns and endpapers; containing a chromolithographed title-leaf worded ‘Album’ and a further 25 leaves of thick card with lithographed borders in red, each with a pressed native fern specimen skilfully mounted on the recto; every specimen is accompanied by …
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# 51367
MADDOCK, James (1718 - 1786)
The florist’s directory; or a treatise on the culture of flowers;
to which is added a supplementary dissertation on soil, manures, &c. London : B. White & Sons; G. G. J. & J. Robinson, and T. & J. Egerton, 1792. First edition. Octavo, contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated edges, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, speckled edges, engraved title page with …
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# 49528
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, publisher’s green cloth, title …
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# 51189
LOWE, E. J.
Ferns : British and exotic
London : George Bell & Sons, 1872. Second edition. Eight volumes, octavo, publisher’s blind embossed maroon cloth (a few marks), gilt-lettered spines (slightly sunned), fern illustrations to upper panels, armorial bookplates for B. Jones-Bateman to upper pastedowns, line illustrations, 479 chromolithographed plates, The second edition of Lowe’s expansive work on ferns, which was first published …
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# 51143
MEYER, A. B. and WIGLESWORTH, L. W.
The birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands.
Berlin : R. Friedlander, 1898. Two volumes, quarto, fine modern binding of quarter green goatskin over cloth bound boards, ruled in blind, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, tooled in gilt, vellum tips, pp. xxxii; 392; 393 – 962, 7 coloured maps and 45 lithographed plates, of which 42 are hand-coloured; internally clean, …
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# 51030
LUBACH, D. & LOGEMAN, W. M.
Panorama der bewoonde aarde. Eene afbeelding en beschrijving van de merkwaardigste voortbrengselen der aarde en hare bewoners, naar de verschillende aardgordels.
/ door D. Lubach en W. M. Logeman. Schoonhove : S. E. van Nooten, 1851. First edition. Quarto (295 x 225 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked green cloth (boards rubbed and with scattered marks), spine lettered in gilt (sunned, ends frayed, outer hinge split near head); both inner hinges split; pp. i-xxviii, 1-180; illustrated with 10 folding …
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# 51418
THUNBERG, Carl Peter (1743-1828)
Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia, förrättad åren 1770-1779.
Upsala : J. Edman & J. Edmans enka, 1788-1793. Four volumes octavo, original uniform binding of marbled papered boards (an expected amount of rubbing), spines with leather title labels in gilt; Vol. 1: pp. [26], 390 + [2] engraved plates; Vol. 2: pp. [32], 384 + [4] plates; Vol. 3: pp. [14], 286, 289-389, 400-414; …
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# 51313
[Warringah Printmakers Studio]; ANSON, Jennifer
Natural Collection
Sydney : Warringah Printmakers Studio, 2017. Elephant folio with printed wrappers, housed in buckram clamshell case with matching printed lining, in printed calico bag. A publication of twenty-nine prints of varying method, showing flora and fauna of Northern Sydney, accompanied by artists’ statements and scientific descriptions. Limited to an edition of 10 copies, with signatures …
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# 51153
LACK, Hans Walter
The Bauers : Joseph, Franz & Ferdinand, masters of botanical illustration. An illustrated biography
Munich : Prestel, 2015. First edition. Thick quarto, boards in dust jacket, pp. 496, extensively illustrated, a fine copy. ‘Filled with stunning 18th- and 19th-century illustrations of plants and other living creatures, this book is the first to bring together the life and art of the three Bauer Brothers, who came to be some of …
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# 50697
DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Second edition (1860)
London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1860. Second edition, second state (fifth thousand). Octavo, original green cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, London retaining their ticket on lower pastedown, boards blocked in blind with rules enclosing foliate designs and central panel, spine gilt, expertly recased, restoration to head and foot of …
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# 50698
DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (Third edition) 1861
London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1861. Third edition. Octavo, original green cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, London retaining their ticket on lower pastedown, boards blocked in blind with rules enclosing foliate designs and central panel, spine lettered in gilt (corners slightly bumped, light bumping to head and foot of …
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# 51188
DAWKINS, Richard (1941 - )
The selfish gene
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1976. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (very light handling marks), pp. xii; 224, internally clean with no inscriptions, marks or foxing, not price clipped, a fine copy. First edition of the groundbreaking work by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins which posits a gene-centred basis for evolution, in essence the …
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# 51102
PHILLIP, Arthur (1738-1814)
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay
with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments, to which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries. London : John Stockdale, 1789. Quarto, full …
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# 51024
JONES, Phillip
Illustrating the Antipodes. George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2021. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 380. illustrated. A very good copy. George French Angas (1822-1886) spent 18 months sketching and observing in Australia and New Zealand between 1844 and 1845. It was a period of decisive and irreversible cultural change. The young Angas excelled at capturing the minute …
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# 49868
BRODTMANN, Carl Joseph
Naturhistorische Bilder-Gallerie aus dem Thierreiche
/ gezeichnet von Carl Joseph Brodtmann. [Lindau? : Brodtmann, 1816]. Heften 1-33, plus the three Supplement-Heften, bound in one volume, large folio (450 x 360 mm), contemporary half black morocco over marbled papered boards, gilt-lettered spine (a little worn at head and foot); with lithographed title-leaf, pp. [2 Systematisches Verzeichnis], 1-36 (explanatory text for Heften …
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# 46736
MATHEWS, Gregory Macalister
The Birds of Australia [with Supplements]
With hand-coloured plates. London : Witherby & Co. [later H. F. & G. Witherby], 1910-1936. Seventy-five Parts and five Supplements (published between 1910 and 1925) bound in thirteen uniform volumes, thick quartos (360 mm tall), half crushed morocco over buckram by Walter Haydon of Norwich (his original signed binder’s receipt pasted on to the front …