Natural History

# 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 …

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# 49794

JOHNS, Rev. C. A. (Charles Alexander)

[CORNWALL] A week at the Lizard.

/ by the Rev. C. A. Johns, B.A., F.L.S., author of “Botanical Rambles,” “Flowers of the Field,” “British Birds in their Haunts,” &c. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1874]. Small octavo (165 x 110 mm), publisher’s brown cloth with black decoration to upper board, spine with gilt-lettered title and black decoration; pp. xvi, …

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# 47834

BLEEKER, Pieter (1819-1878)

[FISHES] Nieuwe nalezingen op de ichthyologie van Japan.

[Batavia : Lange?, 1854 or 1855]. Large quarto (280 x 230 mm), recent half morocco over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands decorated and lettered in gilt; pp. 132 + [8] leaves of lithographed plates; the text is dated January-February 1854 at the foot of the last page; occasional spotting and browning, a couple …

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# 37099

RAY, John (1627-1705)

[NATURAL HISTORY; PALESTINE; ASIA MINOR; ARABIA; ETHIOPIA etc.] A collection of curious travels and voyages,

in two parts; the first containing Leonhart Rauwolff’s Itinerary into the Eastern countries; as Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c. Translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst. The second taking in many parts of Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, and Petraea, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea, &c. From the observations of …

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# 12490

Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre Giral, 1716-1795; Antonio de and Jorge Juan y Santacilla, 1713-1773

Observaciones astronómicas, y phisicas hechas de orden de S. Mag. en los reynos del Perù

Por D. Jorge Juan … y D. Antonio de Ulloa … de las quales se deduce la figura, y magnitud de la tierra, y se aplica a la navegacion. En Madrid : Impresso de orden del rey nuestro señor, por Juan de Zuñiga, Año M.D.CC.XL.VIII. [1748]. First edition. Folio, contemporary full speckled calf with ornamental …

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# 46747

SMITH, James Edward (1759-1828)

An introduction to physiological and systematical botany.

London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. Second edition. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), finely bound in half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and ornamented in gilt and with contrasting morocco title table lettered in gilt; pp. xxiii; [blank]; 533; [1 – advertisements]; illustrated with …

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# 46404

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, full polished calf (corners …

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# 41919

LEMAIRE, Charles

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux exotiques

/ ouvrage orné de figures peintes d’après nature par Pauquet. Et gravées sur acier. Paris : Pauquet Éditeur : Debure Libraire, 1836. First edition. Octavo, contemporary quarter morocco over blue marbled papered boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; ex-libris label to front pastedown; additional hand-coloured half-title; pp. 156; eighty finely engraved plates of exotic …

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# 41958

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)

London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1861. Third edition. Octavo, original green cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine gilt (corners slightly bumped, light bumping to head and foot of spine, small damp mark to upper panel, small 10 mm mark recoloured to spine), binding variant B (no preference), without full …

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# 40135

WAGNER, Hermann; LEUTEMANN, Heinrich (1824-1905) (illustrator)

Zonen-Bilder. Nach Aquarellen von Heinrich Leutemann.

Mit erklärenden Schilderungen für die Jugend von Hermann Wagner. Stuttgart : K. Thienemann’s Verlag (Jul. Hoffmann), [1867]. First edition. Oblong quarto (230 x 290 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial papered boards (superb), pp. [4], 40 (text in German in Fraktur), plus [20] magnificent chromolithographic plates of animals from different regions around the globe; pristine throughout. An …

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# 42926

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

The expression of the emotions in man and animals

/ by Charles Darwin ; with photographic and other illustrations. London : John Murray, 1872. First edition, second impression. Octavo, modern binding of quarter crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, vellum tips to corners, spine in compartments with two contrasting Morocco title labels, lettered and ruled in gilt, contemporary owner’s name to title page, pp. …

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# 41458

DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)

En naturforskares Resa omkring jorden af Charles Darwin.

Med författarens tillåtelse öfversatt från tionde originalupplagan af G. Lindström. Landskrona : J. L. Törnqvists, 1872. Octavo, contemporary gilt-lettered qurter-calf over pebbled cloth (edges rubbed and worn), hinges slightly cracked, pp. vii; 452; 18 (advertisements), ii, text illustrations, internally clean, a very good copy. The first Swedish edition of Charles Darwin’s Journal of researches into …

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# 41902

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms; with observations on their habits (1881, fourth thousand)

London : John Murray, 1881. First edition. Fourth thousand. Octavo, publisher’s blind blocked dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; previous owner’s name to endpaper, dated 1940, pp. [ii], viii, 326, [2] (adv.); 15 text illustrations, Errata slip, index; uncut; pale foxing to preliminaries, a very nice, clean & fresh copy; very scarce. Darwin’s last …

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