Natural History

  • # 46004

    HUNT, Susan et al.

    Lure of the southern seas : the voyages of Dumont D’Urville, 1826-1840

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2002. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 141, illustrated.

  • # 45918

    RUSSELL, Roslyn

    The business of nature. John Gould and Australia

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2011. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards, pp. vi; 224, illustrated. Previous owner’s bookplate and name stamp to endpaper.

  • # 45022

    CABOURET, Mark R.

    Out from the shadows. John Mitchell Cantle 1849 – 1919 : Australia’s first native-born ornithological draughtsman

    Sydney : The Australiana Society Inc., 2023. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 176, illustrated. New copy. ‘An illustrated work documenting the Australian John Mitchell Cantle and his bird illustrations. He was an architectural draughtsman and railway surveyor, but is best known as an ornithological painter, illustrator, cartoonist and postcard designer.’ – Trove ‘Mark Cabouret is a …

  • # 41593

    DARWIN, Charles

    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 rubbed, a few light marks, small splits to head and foot of spine), hinges unobtrusively strengthened, binding variant A, with full point (period) after “MURRAY” in spine imprint, tan endpapers …

  • # 45627

    [BANKS, Joseph].

    Captain Cook’s Florilegium

    A selection of engravings from the drawings of plants collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook’s first voyage to the islands of the Pacific, with accounts of the voyage by Wilfrid Blunt and of the botanical explorations and prints by W.T. Stearn. London : Lion and Unicorn Press, 1973. Elephant folio (615 …

  • # 45456

    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. Volume one : Second edition; volume two : first edition. A mixed set. Two volumes, octavo, gilt-decorated green cloth (edges a little rubbed, short tears to head and foot of spines, hinges cracked), pp. xx; 312; iv; 524; engravings …

  • # 44051

    SWAINSON, William (1789-1855)

    Mount Keera [sic] from Wollongong Rocks, N. S. Wales. 4 June 1852.

    [Title from artist’s caption]. Graphite on paper, 140 x 210 mm, initialed in pencil l.r. ‘W. S.’, with caption in ink beneath ‘Mount Keera [sic] from Wollongong Rocks, N. S. Wales’; dated l.l. in pencil ‘4 June’ and in ink beneath ‘1852’; laid down on card and tipped onto a fully contemporary backing sheet, 275 …

  • # 44055

    SWAINSON, William (1789-1855)

    Nettle Tree, ab[out] 15 f. high. Dapto Bridge, Illawarra, NSW. 29 May 1852.

    [Title from artist’s caption]. Graphite on paper, 155 x 120 mm, captioned by the artist in pencil l.r. ‘Nettle Tree, ab[out] 15 f. high. Dapto Bridge’, and with date and general location l.l. ’29 May 1852 / Illawarra, NSW’; laid down on card and tipped onto a fully contemporary backing sheet, 300 x 240 mm; …

  • # 44057

    SWAINSON, William (1789-1855)

    Cabbage tree palms, [American] Creek, Illawarra. [ca. 1852].

    [Title from artist’s captions]. Graphite on paper, 180 x 130 mm, initialed in ink l.l. ‘W. S.’, and with the artist’s pencilled captions u.l. and u.r. ‘Cabbage’ [i.e. Cabbage tree palm]; laid down on card with the artist’s additional captions in pencil l.l. ‘Illawarra’ and l.r. ‘American Creek’ (the first word is very faint, but …

  • # 44056

    SWAINSON, William (1789-1855)

    Morton [sic] Bay Figtree. Illawarra, 3 June 1852.

    [Title from artist’s caption]. Graphite on paper, 220 x 155 mm, captioned by the artist in pencil l.r. ‘Morton [sic] Bay Figtree’, and with date and general location l.l. ‘3 June 1852 / Illawarra’; laid down on card and tipped onto a fully contemporary backing sheet, 300 x 240 mm; the work has a vertical …

  • # 44054

    SWAINSON, William (1789-1855)

    Silver Bank Gum Tree, ab[out] 300 f. high. (a study). Kangaroo Hollow, Tasmania. 1 February 1854.

    [Title from artist’s caption]. Graphite on paper, 200 x 140 mm, initialed in pencil l.l. ‘W. S.’, with general location and date below ‘Tasmania 1 Feb 1854’; captioned in pencil l.r. ‘Silver Bank Gum Tree ab[out] 300 f. high. Kangaroo Hollow. (A study)’; artist’s numbering in pencil ‘209’; laid down on card and tipped onto …

  • # 45808

    NISSEN, Claus (1901 - 1975)

    Bestiaries of Five Centuries.

    Description and Introduction by the late Claus Nissen. Edited and Revised by Sandra Raphael. With an Introductory by S. Peter Dance. Amsterdam : Antiquariaat Junk B. V. and Antiquariaat Schierenberg, 2024. Folio (29.8 x 21.3 cm). With sixty-one original prints, many hand-coloured, from famous zoological books published between 1491 and 1878; each mounted, matted, and …

  • # 44321

    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.

    (From the Corrected and Enlarged Edition of 1845). With a Biographical Introduction. London, New York, and Melbourne : Ward, Lock and Co.; 1889. Fifth edition. The Minerva Library of Famous Books. Edited by G. T. Bettany, M.A., B.Sc. Octavo, lettered cloth, patterned endpapers (contemporary owner’s name to endpaper), pp. xx; 381; [blank], [2 – advertisements], …

  • # 44311

    DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

    A Naturalist’s Voyage. 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. Twentieth thousand. Octavo, gilt-decorated green cloth (scuffed and flecked, edges worn, hinges cracked and reglued), patterned endpapers, engraved portrait frontispiece, pp. [ii], xii, [13] – 615; [blank]; text vignettes, a small defect to preliminary blank before frontispiece; name of original owner in ink on back of frontispiece), internally clean, some …

  • # 45457

    DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

    The origin of species (1890)

    by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1890. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (thirty-ninth thousand). Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (light wear at head and foot of spine), pp xxi, [blank], 458, folding lithographed plate, light foxing to edges and …

  • # 41947

    DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)

    The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex (1896)

    London : John Murray, 1896. Second edition, revised and augmented. Thirty-third thousand. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (corners and edges rubbed), light foxing to patterned endpapers, pp. xvi; 693; blank, 78 text illustrations, a very good copy. The second edition, reprinted, of Darwin’s important work on natural selection. As Freeman notes: the word ‘evolution’ occurs, for …