Natural History
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# 46334
B. W. KILBURN (publisher)
Coral divers with their wealth, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
[Title from printed caption on mount]. Littleton, New Hampshire : B. W. Kilburn, 1904. Stereoscopic silver gelatin print photograph, each individual image 77 x 77 mm, on pink board mount 88 x 179 mm, with the publisher’s serial number and caption ‘15945. Coral divers with their wealth, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia’, along with …
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# 46417
DI TOMMASO, Lisa
The art of the First Fleet
Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books, 2012. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, light handling wear, pp. 112, extensively illustrated. Ethnographical and topographical art, zoology and botanical painting from the Natural History Museum, London.
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# 46001
BEDDOME, Captain R. H. (1830 - 1911)
The ferns of southern India. Being descriptions and plates of the ferns of the Madras Presidency
Madras : printed by Gantz Brothers, 1863. First edition. Quarto, half crushed morocco over cloth, edges scuffed, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt, rebacked, marbled endpapers, title page, notice to subscribers, pp. [I – creased]; xv; [blank]; 88; vii (index), extensively illustrated with 271 lithographed line illustrations of ferns, a few contemporary …
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# 46350
SMITH, Bernard and WHEELER, Alwyne (eds.)
The art of the First Fleet & other early Australian drawings
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1988. Folio, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 256, illustrated. A significant survey of Australia’s earliest colonial art, including ethnographical studies, natural history drawings, early views of Sydney and New South Wales as well as early maps.
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# 46295
NEVILLE, Richard
Mr J W Lewin : painter & naturalist
Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light handling wear, spine sunned), pp. 272, illustrated; internally very clean, a good copy. Author, illustrator, printmaker and natural historian, John William Lewin created the first illustrated book ever published in Australia – Birds of New South Wales, in 1813. Featuring more than 150 exquisite artworks, Mr …
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# 45981
BULLER, Walter Lawry, 1838-1906; KEULEMANS, John Gerrard, 1842-1912
Manual of the birds of New Zealand
Wellington : George Didsbury, Government Printer, 1882. Octavo, gilt-lettered binder’s cloth (corners bumped, wear to head and foot of spine), pp. xii; 107; [blank]; iii (list of publications); [blank], illustrated with 39 black and white lithographs on tinted blocks, previous owner’s name to endpaper, a couple of occasional spots of foxing, internally clean. Sir Walter …
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# 44309
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of H.M.S. ‘Beagle’ under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.
London : John Murray; 1889. Octavo, gilt-decorated green cloth (canted, edges rubbed), with 3/6 on spine, patterned endpapers, engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, pp. x; 520 (last blank), 4 (advertisements), text vignettes, internally clean, a very good copy. Freeman 49, but he makes no mention of the portrait (new to this edition?).
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# 46000
MARSHALL, Captain G. F. L.
Birds’ nesting in India. A calendar of the breeding seasons, and a popular guide to the habits and haunts of birds.
Illustrated. By Captain G. F. L. Marshall, R.E., F.Z.S., and member of the British & Indian Ornithological Unions. Calcutta : Calcutta Central Press Co., 1877. Octavo, cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine (rubbed at head and foot), corners bumped, pp. [vi]; ii; 184; thirteen finely lithographed plates by Marshall (some with a marginal water …
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# 46273
MACGILLIVRAY, P.H.
Inaugural address, delivered to the Bendigo School of Mines Science Society, June 20, 1881.
Sandhurst, [Vic.] : G. Young, [1881]. Octavo (210 mm), original printed green wrappers, stitched, 8 pp; includes rules and list of office bearers of the Bendigo School of Mines Science Society for 1881/82; a very good copy. Copies are recorded in six Australian collections (NLA; SLNSW; SLV; SLSA; Monash University Library; Royal Australasian College of …
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# 46083
OLSEN, Penny
Cayley & Son. The life and art of Neville Henry Hayley & Neville William Cayley
Canberra : NLA Publishing, 2013. Quarto, illustrated boards in dustjacket (light handling marks), pp. [viii]; 227, extensively illustrated.
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# 45901
LEWIN, John William (1770-1819)
A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, collected, engraved and faithfully painted after nature. (The Bradley Martin copy)
By John William Lewin, A.L.S., late of Paramatta, New South Wales. New and improved edition, to which is added a list of the synonymes of each species, incorporating the labours of T. Gould, Esq., N. A. Vigors, Esq., T. Horsfield, M.D., and W. Swainson, Esq. A fine example, in original condition, of one of the …
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# 45907
BULLER, Walter Lawry, 1838-1906; KEULEMANS, John Gerrard, 1842-1912
A history of the birds of New Zealand. (Second edition, with supplement)
A magnificent example of the scarce large format second edition (with supplement) of an acclaimed ornithological work, illustrated by J.G. Keulemans. London : the author, 1888 – 1905. Second edition. The History (1888) : thirteen parts, bound in two volumes, quarto, publisher’s gilt-illustrated green cloth, top edges gilt, vol. I pp. lxxxiv; 250; [vi]; vol. …
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# 45912
MUELLER, Ferdinand von, Baron (1825-1896)
Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, botanist : autograph letter, signed, to a lady plant collector, re. an intriguing specimen she has sent him. Melbourne, October 1889.
Manuscript in ink, [3] pp., octavo (200 x 125 mm); dated 7 October 1889; although von Mueller addresses his correspondent only as ‘dear Madam’, she is Melbourne philanthropist Jane Emma Murphy (see note on provenance below); von Mueller discusses a plant specimen Murphy has sent him (almost certainly from the Mornington area, where she resided), …
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# 44863
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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# 45525
The Tower Menagerie : comprising the Natural History of the Animals contained in that Establishment; with Anecdotes of their Characters and History.
Illustrated by portraits of each, taken from life, by William Harvey; and engraved on wood by Branston and Wright. London : Robert Jennings, 1829. First edition. Octavo (230 x 150 mm), original quarter green morocco (a little scuffed) over plain boards (darkened and marked), spine with gilt lettering; original red endpapers, first blank with early …
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# 44322
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of H.M.S. ‘Beagle’ under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.
London : T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row. Edinburgh; and New York. 1896. Fifth Nelson edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered blue cloth (edges rubbed, short tears to head and foot of spine), pp. 615; [blank]; 6 double-page & 16 full-page plates, several text illustrations, index, a very good copy. An account of the account of the five …