Natural History
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 50083
HUNT, Susa and CARTER, Paul
Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 150, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia. ‘Includes many exquisite watercolours from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle Le Havre and explores the story behind the Baudin expedition which produced …
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# 50008
PIGOTT, Louis J.
The bird man of Brisbane : Silvester Diggles and his ornithology of Australia
Brisbane. : Boolarong Press, 2010. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xii; 214, illustrated. ‘When Silvester Diggles arrived in 1855 there was little artistic or scientific talent in the small frontier town of Brisbane. By the time of his death in 1880, his paramount legacy was a large book on Australian birds, profusely illustrated with hand-coloured lithographs. …
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# 49786
GRANT, James (1772-1833)
The narrative of a voyage of discovery performed in His Majesty’s vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen, with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales.
Including Remarks on the Cape de Verd Islands, Cape of Good Hope, the hitherto Unknown Parts of New Holland, discovered by him in his Passage (the first ever attempted from Europe) through the Streight separating that Island from the Land discovered by Van Dieman: Together with Various Details of his Interviews with the Natives of …
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# 49790
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 …