Natural History
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# 45767
HOGG, Robert & BULL, Henry Graves (editors)
The Herefordshire Pomona
London : The Folio Society, 2014 (facsimile edition). Two volumes, folio, gilt-illustrated buckram, the plate volume in quarter morocco with gilt top edge, pp. xvi; 157, 77 colour plates, with four plate in duplicate in paper sleeve as issued, in a gilt-lettered folding clamshell box, morocco title label lettered in gilt. Limited to 980 numbered …
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# 45758
BARKER, Nicolas
Hortus Eystettensis. The Bishop’s Garden and Besler’s magnificent book.
London : The British Library, 1995 (reprint). Folio, boards in dustjacket, illustrated endpapers, pp. viii; 80; 80 plates, a fine copy. Documents Besler’s magnificent illustrated plate book documenting the plants found in the gardens of the Prince-Bishop of Eichstaff.
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# 45113
McCOY, Frederick (1817 - 1899)
Natural History of Victoria. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria; or, figures and descriptions of the living classes of the Victorian indigenous animals
Melbourne : Robert S. Brain, 1885 – 1890. Two volumes octavo, in two non-matching fine bindings, complete with all 20 Decades, 199 lithographic plates (including one double folding plate), mostly chromolithographed, some with additional hand colouring; Volume 1 (the first ten Decades) in elaborately gilt-decorated full crushed red morocco, gauffered gilt edges, gilt dentelles, silk …
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# 45339
SMITH, Thomas
Le Cabinet du jeune naturaliste, ou Tableaux intéressants de l’histoire des animaux … …
Paris : chez Maradan, libraire, rue des Grands Augustins, no. 9, 1810. Six volumes, octavo, uniform contemporary bindings of green straight-grain morocco, boards with double-gilt rule, spines with titles, volume numbers and animal vignettes in gilt; pastedowns all with the beautiful illustrated ex libris of Jean-Marie-Philippe Sauzey, avocat, pastedown of first volume also with ticket …
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# 45527
WALTER, Charles (Carl) (1831-1907)
Whaling scene at Twofold Bay, Eden, New South Wales, 1870.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 82 x 82 mm (square format), signed and numbered by the photographer at lower right of the right-hand image ‘C. Walter 166’; on original black card mount, 87 x 177 mm, verso blank; slight loss of contrast in the upper part of each image, otherwise the prints are …
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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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# 44864
SONNERAT, Pierre (1748 – 1814)
Voyage à la Nouvelle Guinée, dans lequel on trouve la description des lieux, des observations physiques & morales, & des détails relatifs à l’Histoire Naturelle dans le Règne Animal & le Règne Végétal
Paris : Chez Ruault, 1776. Quarto, full speckled calf, corners subbed and bumped, rebacked with new head and tail caps, preserving original spine, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, bookplate for Henry White to front pastedown with bookseller’s label of A. H. Spencer, half-title, engraved frontispiece, …
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# 45101
BOSCHI, Giovanni
[NATURAL HISTORY] Atlante zoologico popolare. Opera compilata sui più recenti lavori di zoologia italiani e stranieri
Napoli : Raimondo Petraroja, 1863-1879. First edition. Eight parts in four volumes, folio (390 x 280 mm), uniform contemporary half red calf over marbled papered boards, spines lettered and ruled in gilt; a total of 553 lithographic plates, all but 20 coloured by hand, with publisher’s blind stamp at foot of plates; each part with …
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# 45076
DU RIETZ, Rolf
[ULIMAROA] Daniel Djurbergs namn på Australien.
/ av Rolf Du Rietz. Stockholm : Bortzells, 1961. “Särtryck ur Ymer 1961, h. 2.” [=Reprinted from: Ymer, vol.2 (1961)]. Octavo (230 x 150 mm), printed wrappers (a little sunned), the upper wrapper with a presentation inscription by Du Rietz for Swedish academic and collector Teddy Brunius; pp. 81-100; text in Swedish, with a summary …
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# 44313
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.; 1890. Seventh 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], …
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# 44312
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
Cole’s Library of Notable Books. 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. Melbourne; E. W. Cole, Book Arcade; [c. 1890?]. First Australian edition (?). Octavo original black cloth (silverfished), edges stained red, yellow endpapers, pp. pp. xx, 381; [blank]; 16 plates, text vignettes, maps, internally clean, a very good copy. An account of the five …
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# 45078
BYNUM, William and Helen
Botanical Sketchbooks
London : Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2023. Second edition. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 296, illustrated. New copy. A visual compendium of botanical sketches, many specially photographed, providing a revealing insight into the immediate responses of artists encountering the glories of the plant world. Artists with Australian connections included in the book include William Swainson, …
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# 45120
MEEUWS, Bas et al.
Bas Meeuws : flower pieces : a photographic journey around the world (from the library of Criss Canning)
Belgium : Lannoo, 2019. Quarto, flushcut illustrated boards, edges stained black, pp. 351, illustrated. ‘Bas Meeuws’ photographs are of an old-fashioned beauty and at the same time radically contemporary. Flower by flower he composes his still lifes, but digitally: the basis for Meeuws’ monumental works are digital photographs of individual flowers. They nod to the …
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# 45119
McDONALD, Katherine
Gathered in their prime : home grown flowers for inside (from the library of Criss Canning)
[Hamilton : Crathie, c. 2020]. Oblong quarto, boards in dustjacket, unpaginated (approx. 100 pp. ) extensively illustrated. Documents the gardens of the historic house ‘Crathie’ in Hamilton, Victoria. No copies traced on Trove. Signed by Australian artist Criss Canning in ink on the half-title page. Provenance: Criss Canning, acquired in 2023
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# 45027
HITCHMOUGH, James
Plant. Exploring the botanical world (from the library of Criss Canning)
London : Phaeton, 2016. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 352, illustrated. Artists include Ferdinand Bauer, Celia Rosser, Marianne North, James Sowerby, Sydney Parkinson, Charles Darwin and others. ‘This fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of plants. It combines photographs and cutting-edge micrograph scans with watercolours, drawings, and prints to bring …
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# 43016
DuVERNOY, Georges Louis (1777-1855)
Fragment d’anatomie comparée sur les organes de la génération de l’ornithorynque et de l’échidné.
[Strasbourg : Société des Sciences Naturelles, 1832?]. Quarto (260 x 200 mm), disbound from a sammelband but preserving the original plain wrappers (resultant paper loss to spine), upper wrapper with early manuscript title in ink; pp. 10, with an engraved plate at rear; the first page has a stamp, dated 1832, which indicates proceeds from …