Natural History

# 44044

LEWIN, Thomas (1774-1840)

A Gang-gang Cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum).

[London, 1829]. Body colour, watercolour with touches of gum arabic, and pen and grey ink on paper watermarked J. Watman, measuring 440 x 330 mm; signed, inscribed and dated I.r. D & P by Thos. Lewin 1829; verso inscribed in a contemporary hand in pen and brown ink: Species from New Holland (very scarce) Lewin. …

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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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# 44373

HAMMOND, Camilla

Wild flowers of Australia, as painted from nature by Miss Camilla Hammond

Melbourne : Robert Jolley, [1904]. Oblong octavo, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, ribbon ties, [23] pp, short tears along spine where ribbon tie is, colour plates facing text descriptions. A good copy. The following biographical notes are found on the website of the Australian National Herbarium (https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/hammond-camilla.html): Hammond, Camilla (fl. 1880s – 1903) Adelaide. Botanical artist. Contributed …

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# 44349

ANEMAAT, Louise

Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet)

Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2014. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, light handling marks, pp. 256, illustrated. A fine copy. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in 18th-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds, and plants—and striking watercolor illustrations. The sudden …

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# 44202

NEVILLE, Richard (curator)

Lewin : wild art

Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly rubbed, pp. 12, catalogue of 159 works, no illustrations.

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# 44121

SMITH, Bernard

European vision and the South Pacific 1768-1850 (Russell Drysdale’s copy, signed by artist and author)

A study in the history of art and ideas. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1960. First edition. Quarto, publisher’s navy cloth over boards, in dust jacket (chipped, sunned and worn), 287 pp, with 171 b/w plates; internally very clean and sound, a good copy of the scarce first edition. Signed on the title page by …

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# 44120

RIENITS, Rex and Thea

Early artists of Australia (presentation copy for Russell Drysdale)

Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1963. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear, chips to head and foot of spine, a little more than evident in the photo), patterned endpapers,, pp. x; 246, illustrated. A good copy. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed from the authors ‘Maisie and Tass with lots of love from Rex …

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# 43311

LECOMTE, Jules

[WHALING] Pratique de la pèche de la baleine dans les mers du sud.

Paris : Lecointe et Pougin, 1833. First edition. Octavo (225 x 145 mm), original yellow wrappers lettered in black, the upper wrapper with a presentation inscription from the author to his friend: ‘offert par l’auteur a son ami Edouard Launet(?)’; title-page with vignette engraving of a a whaling scene, pp. xvi, 280; text in French; …

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# 41975

DARWIN, Horace (1851-1928)

[DARWIN] Horace Darwin to Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker : autograph letter signed, expressing his thanks to Hooker, as his “father’s best friend”, for congratulating him on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Cambridge, 5 May 1903.

2 pp. manuscript in ink, written on the first two sides of an octavo-size bifolium of notepaper, 180 x 115 mm, with Horace Darwin’s letterhead ‘The Orchard, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge’; dated 5 May 1903, the letter is addressed ‘Dear Sir Joseph’ (i.e. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker) and is signed in full at the foot of …

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# 41900

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

The origin of species (c. 1900)

by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. Reprinted from the Sixth London Edition, with all Additions and Corrections. New York; Hurst and Company, Publishers; N.D. [c. 1900]. Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered brown cloth (light corner wear, lightly bruised at head and foot of spine), patterned endpapers; …

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# 43683

MALM, August Wilhelm (1821-1882)

[WHALES] Några blad om hvaldjur i allmänhet och Balænoptera Carolinæ i synnerhet.

Göteborg : Handelstidningens bolags tryckeri (the author’s own company), 1866. Cover: MALMSKA HVALEN. Från Göteborgs Zool. Zoot. Museum. Octavo (200 x 130 mm), publisher’s illustrated yellow wrappers, pp. 20; text in Swedish; a very good copy. On October 29 1865 a 16-meter-long and 25-ton blue whale (Balænoptera Sibbaldii Gray) beached at Backa in Askimsfjärden, near …

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# 41440

BEILBY, Walter

The dog in Australasia

Melbourne : George Robertson and Company, 1897. Octavo, gilt-illustrated maroon patterned cloth (light edge wear), expertly rebacked, endpapers replaced, pp. [xii, of xiv – advertisements – one leaf removed]; xvi; 475; (21 – advertisements), photographic plates, folding tables (one neatly detached), a couple of small stains and marginal edge tears, a couple of miscreases, one …

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# 42654

MEYER, A. B. and WIGLESWORTH, L. W.

The birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands.

Berlin : R. Friedlander, 1898. Two volumes, quarto, black library buckram spines lettered in gilt, bump to upper corner of the first volume, original printed wrappers bound in, pp. xxxii; 392; 393 – 962, 7 coloured maps and 45 lithographed plates, of which 42 are hand-coloured; internally clean, a fine set. A rare scholarly work …

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# 42916

[Società Geografica Italiana]

Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 – Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].

Roma : Stabilimento Giuseppe Civelli, June-December 1873. Six parts in five volumes (as issued), octavo, original printed blue wrappers (some light staining and foxing, early ownership inscription to two of the upper wrappers); pp. 1-120 (with folding colour map showing telegraph communication linking Europe and Asia); 1-92; 1-94; 1-117; 1-74 (with folding lithographed plate of …

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# 42847

WILDERNESS SOCIETY

[ENVIRONMENTALISM] Anti-woodchipping postcard petitioning the Federal Government to grant parts of East Gippsland National Park protection.

[Melbourne] : Wilderness Society, [ca. 1990?]. Colour photographic postcard with image of a dead ringtail possum accompanied by main text ‘East Gippsland : wood chip licences available NOW!’, 103 x 110 mm; verso with printed text of petition and space for subscriber’s details; not mailed, in fine condition.

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