Natural History

  • The Bauers : Joseph, Franz & Ferdinand, masters of botanical illustration. An illustrated biography

    # 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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  • On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Second edition (1860)

    # 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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  • On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (Third edition) 1861

    # 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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  • The Skottowe Manuscript.

    # 51082

    BONYHADY, Tim et al.

    The Skottowe Manuscript.

    Thomas Skottowe’s select specimens from nature of the birds, animals, &c. &c. of New South Wales. Published for the first time from the original manuscript in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Edited, with an introductory essay, by Tim Bonyhady. Natural history consultant: John Calaby. Foreword by Sir David Attenborough, C.B.E., F.R.S. …

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  • The selfish gene

    # 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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  • Illustrating the Antipodes. George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845

    # 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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  • Naturhistorische Bilder-Gallerie aus dem Thierreiche

    # 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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  • The Birds of Australia [with Supplements]

    # 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 …

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  • Commonplace book compiled by a young Melbourne woman (1867-78) with later entries by her daughter (1889-1890).

    # 49803

    EMBLING, Sabina Howitt [&] SINGLETON, Violet Etta

    Commonplace book compiled by a young Melbourne woman (1867-78) with later entries by her daughter (1889-1890).

    An astonishing artefact of Melbourne social history, in which the intimate voices of two young women – a mother and daughter from one of the city’s most elite families of the second half of the nineteenth century – cry, whisper and sing from the pages, after having been lost to history for over 130 years. …

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  • The birds of Australia, comprising three hundred full-page illustrations with a descriptive account of the life and characteristic habits of over seven hundred species.

    # 49358

    BROINOWSKI, Gracius (1837-1913)

    The birds of Australia, comprising three hundred full-page illustrations with a descriptive account of the life and characteristic habits of over seven hundred species.

    Melbourne : Charles Stuart & Co., 1890-1891. Six volumes, bound in three, folio, full roan lettered and ruled in gilt, edges rubbed and joints a little cracked, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, contemporary owner’s wet stamp to title page of first volume, unpaginated, 303 chromolithographed plates, text sheets, tissue guards; occasional spots of foxing but …

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  • Tropical nature, and other essays

    # 50571

    WALLACE, Alfred Russell (1823 - 1913)

    Tropical nature, and other essays

    London : Macmillan and Co., 1878. Second edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (lightly marked, bruised at head and foot of spine), armorial bookplate of Thomas Merthyr Guest (1838-1904) to front pastedown, hinges slightly cracked, pp. xiii; [iii]; 356; (1 – catalogue); (blank), occasional light foxing, a very good copy of a book difficult to find …

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  • My feathered friends

    # 50570

    WOOD, Rev. J. G.

    My feathered friends

    With illustrations by Harrison Weir. London : G. Routledge, 1858. Octavo, gilt pictorial cloth by Leighton, lightly rubbed, armorial bookplate to front pastedown, owner’s name to title page, pp. xii; 396, wood engraved illustrations, a fine copy. Includes the cassowary, emu, falcon, kestrel, kite, ostrich, parakeet, etc.  A charming work.

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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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