Natural History
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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 …
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# 44811
BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1828)
A general history of quadrupeds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick.
Newcastle upon Tyne : printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, & T. Bewick, Newcastle : sold by them, by G. G. J. & J. Robinson, and C. Dilly, London, 1790. First edition. Large octavo, contemporary full speckled calf, edges very lightly rubbed, flat panelled spine ruled in gilt, contrasting morocco title label lettered …
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# 44589
[RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY]
Flowers from many lands : a Christian companion for hours of recreation.
London : The Religious Tract Society, [c.1860]. “A New Edition”. Duodecimo (165 x 105 mm), original gilt-decorated morocco (slightly worn, lower board with some whitish discolouration); all edges gilt; pp. iv, 251, [1]; illustrated with 8 chromolithographic plates (including frontispiece); includes a small section on Australian flowers (pp. 115-6) which has one plate; occasional spotting, …
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# 44852
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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# 44764
De BRAY, Lys
The art of botanical illustration (from the library of Criss Canning)
London : Quantum Books, 2005. Quarto, boards in illustrated dust jacket (light handling marks), pp. 192, illustrated. From the library of noted Australian artist Criss Canning, signed in ink on the front free endpaper. Provenance: Criss Canning, acquired in 2023
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# 44324
THOMSON, J. P. (James Park) (1854-1941)
British New Guinea. (Association copy, inscribed for conchologist Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum)
London : George Philip & Son ; Brisbane : Alexr. Muir & Morcom, 1892. First edition. Large octavo (230 x 165 mm), publisher’s gilt-decorated maroon cloth over boards (lightly rubbed), spine lettered in gilt (sunned); a significant association copy, with a presentation inscription on the verso of the front free-endpaper by the author for conchologist Charles …
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# 42906
ZUCCHINI, Andrea (1745 - 1810)
Sulla coltura e usi dell’acacia, o robinia, Robinia Pseudo-Acacia…
Florence : Gaetano Cambiagi de l’imprimerie grand-ducale, 1800. Octavo, marbled paper wrappers, folding copperplate engraving, pp. 25, inscription to title page No. XII indicating it was extracted from a sammelband, a crisp and fine copy. First and only edition of this treatise on the Robinia pseudoacacia, a poisonous tree native to the Appalachian region of the …
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# 43974
POULTON, Edward Bagnall
The colours of animals their meaning and use. Especially in the case of insects.
London : Megan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co., 1890. Second edition. Octavo, in a fine prize binding for Sydney Grammar School, full polished calf, ruled in gilt with floral corner emblems, the school’s armorial crest with motto Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis on upper board, Wigram Allen Prize lettered below, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt …
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# 43975
POULTON, Edward Bagnall
Man and the Glacial Period
London : Megan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co., 1898. Second edition. Octavo, in a fine prize binding for Sydney Grammar School, full polished calf, ruled in gilt with floral corner emblems, the school’s armorial crest with motto Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis on upper board, Wigram Allen Prize lettered below, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt …
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# 40455
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The origin of species (1880)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1880. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (twenty-second thousand). Octavo, full calf prize binding by Bickers and Son, for the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, with their emblem in gilt to the front board, …
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# 44275
STILWELL, Jeffrey D.
The voyager’s companion; or shell collector’s pilot. The world’s first shell collecting guide by John Mawe.
Perth : Western Australian Museum, 2003. Quarto, paperback, pp. 80, illustrated in colour. Illustrated facsimile of John Mawe’s first shell collecting guide of 1804, together with his complete edition of 1821, The voyager’s companion; or shell collector’s pilot, with early references to Australian specimens.
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# 44495
OLSEN, Penny
Feather and Brush : three centuries of Australian bird art
Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, 2001. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (lightly foxed verso), pp. 228, light foxing to preliminaries, bookseller’s sticker to front pastedown, a good copy. This volume traces the 300-year history of bird art in Australia, from the crudely illustrated records of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available …
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# 42701
DAMPIER, William (1651-1715)
A collection of voyages. In four volumes.
I. Captain William Dampier’s voyages round the world : describing particularly, the coasts and Islands in the East and West-Indies. The South-Sea coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico. The countries of Tonquin, Achin and Malacca. The Cape of Good Hope, New-Holland, &c. II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer; giving an account of his being left …
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# 41535
SPARRMAN, Anders (1747-1820)
Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, södra pol-kretsen och omkring jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-landen, åren 1772-76.
Stockholm : Anders J. Nordström, 1783; Carl Deleen, 1802 – 1818. Octavo, three volumes, fine early nineteenth century Swedish half-calf over marbled boards, spines in compartments with contrasting red morocco title labels, the last two volumes bound in uniform, with the volume numbers I; II reversed by the binder, a fine set in early bindings …
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# 31523
PHILLIP, Arthur (1738-1814)
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (first edition, coloured)
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, contemporary …
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# 26694
WHITE, John (1756-1832)
Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (deluxe coloured edition)
/ with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions by John White Esqre., Surgeon General to the settlement. London : J. Debrett, 1790. Quarto, in an Italian binding of full white vellum, contrasting morocco title labels, decorated in gilt, engraved map from 1802 of the …