Natural History

  • Australian animals : a book for all nature lovers

    # 41395

    BARRETT, Charles

    Australian animals : a book for all nature lovers

    Melbourne : Sun News-Pictorial, [c. 1932]. Quarto, colour wrappers (lightly marked, staples rusted), pp. 43. gift inscription to first leaf, illustrated in black and white with centre colour illustrations detached. A very good copy. Sun nature book ; no. 2

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  • Australian birds & butterflies : a book for all nature lovers

    # 41396

    BARRETT, Charles

    Australian birds & butterflies : a book for all nature lovers

    Melbourne : Sun News-Pictorial, [c. 1932]. Quarto, colour wrappers (lightly marked), pp. 43, illustrated in black and white with centre colour illustrations after Neville Cayley. A very good copy. Sun nature book ; no. 3.

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  • Australian birds : the wonders of Birdland in picture and story

    # 41397

    BARRETT, Charles

    Australian birds : the wonders of Birdland in picture and story

    Melbourne : Sun News-Pictorial, [c. 1932]. Quarto, colour wrappers (staples rusted), pp. 43, illustrated in black and white with centre colour illustrations after Neville Cayley. A very good copy. Sun nature book ; no. 10.

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  • The Sun Zoo Book

    # 41400

    BARRETT, Charles

    The Sun Zoo Book

    Melbourne : Sun News-Pictorial, [c. 1937]. Quarto, colour wrappers (staples rusted), pp. 43, illustrated in black and white with centre colour illustrations after M. C. Tindall. A very good copy. Sun nature book ; no. 9.

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  • Australian birds & blossoms

    # 41401

    BARRETT, Charles

    Australian birds & blossoms

    Australian birds & blossoms, [c. 1932]. Quarto, colour wrappers (staples rusted), pp. 43, illustrated in black and white with centre colour illustrations possibly after Neville Cayley. A very good copy. A Sun book.

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  • The Weekly Times wild nature book

    # 41402

    BARRETT, Charles

    The Weekly Times wild nature book

    Melbourne : Herald and Weekly Times, 1931. Octavo, colour wrappers (staples rusted), pp. 96, illustrated in black and white with some colour illustrations. A very good copy.

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  • Australia's wonder animals

    # 41403

    BARRETT, Charles

    Australia’s wonder animals

    Australian birds & blossoms, [c. 1935]. Quarto, colour wrappers (staples rusted), pp. 43, illustrated in black and white. A very good copy. Sun nature book no. 6.

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  • [WESTERN DISTRICT; BOTANY] Dr. Daniel Curdie, pioneer colonist and naturalist : original signature on British Association for the Advancement of Science membership form, giving his address as Port Phillip, New Holland, dated 2 July 1851.

    # 41185

    CURDIE, Daniel (1810-1884)

    [WESTERN DISTRICT; BOTANY] Dr. Daniel Curdie, pioneer colonist and naturalist : original signature on British Association for the Advancement of Science membership form, giving his address as Port Phillip, New Holland, dated 2 July 1851.

    Manuscript in ink on section cut from printed British Association for the Advancement of Science form, 60 x 182 mm, with original full signature of ‘Daniel Curdie MD’, who also gives ‘Port Phillip, New Holland’ as his ‘usual residence’; in good condition. The following biography of Curdie was published in the Camperdown Chronicle (Vic.), 27 …

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  • [NATURAL HISTORY] Alexander Macleay, New South Wales public servant and entomologist : autograph letter signed, re. the Linnean Society. London, October 1801.

    # 41186

    McLEAY, Alexander (1767-1848)

    [NATURAL HISTORY] Alexander Macleay, New South Wales public servant and entomologist : autograph letter signed, re. the Linnean Society. London, October 1801.

    Manuscript in ink, [2] pp., single quarto sheet (250 x 185 mm); headed ‘Transport Office, 10th October 1801’, signed ‘Your most obed. Serv. Alex McLeay’, the letter is addressed to D. Turner [Dawson Turner], and is a response to a request about the whereabouts of Professor Espir’s Diploma from the Linnean Society, which Macleay says …

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  • The mammals of China and Mongolia

    # 21338

    ALLEN, Glover M.

    The mammals of China and Mongolia

    New York : The American Museum of Natural History, 1938 – 1940. Two volumes, quarto, black lettered yellow cloth, dustjackets (a couple of small chips), the first volume pp. xxv; 629; 9 plates, 22 distribution maps; the second volume pp. xxvi; 621- 1350; 11 plates, 11 text illustrations, 41 distribution maps, a very good set. …

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  • Zoological sketches. (First and second series, complete)

    # 40484

    WOLF, Joseph (1820-1899) (illustrator)

    Zoological sketches. (First and second series, complete)

    Made for the Zoological society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent’s park. Edited, with notes, by Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., F.L.S., &c. &c., Secretary to the Society. London : Henry Graves and Company, Printsellers to Her Majesty, 1861 [actually 1856] – 67. Two volumes, folio, 584 x 435 mm, drop-side clamshell …

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  • Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. (Twelve individual parts)

    # 40117

    MJÖBERG, Eric (1882-1938) et al.

    Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg’s Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. (Twelve individual parts)

    Series: Kungliga Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar. Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, 1918-22. Twelve disbound individual issues, comprising Volume 58 nos. 6, 7, 9; Volume 59 nos. 1, 4; Volume 60 no. 4; Volume 61 nos. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10; Volume 63 no. 6. Uniform large quarto (310 x 250 mm), disbound, illustrated, partially unopened, …

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  • My family and other animals (rare proof copy of the first edition)

    # 40221

    DURRELL, Gerald (1926-1995)

    My family and other animals (rare proof copy of the first edition)

    London : Rupert Hart-Davis. 1956. Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition, first printing. Octavo, publisher’s pale blue card wrappers, light fading to spin, original title label pasted on upper wrapper (Probably publication date October 1956, Probably price 18/-), pale foxing and a couple of light creases, pp. 256; mild toning, the binding firm; a …

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  • The cruise of Her Majesty's ship "Challenger" : voyages over many seas, scenes in many lands.

    # 40262

    SPRY, W. J. J. (William James Joseph)

    The cruise of Her Majesty’s ship “Challenger” : voyages over many seas, scenes in many lands.

    / By W. J. J. Spry, R.N. With map and illustrations. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. Second edition. Octavo (220 x 150 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked and gilt-decorated green cloth over boards with bevelled edges (lightly rubbed, spine-ends softened); frontispiece plate, title with vignette portrait of Captain Nares; pp. xviii, 388, [24 …

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  • The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms, with observations on their habits.

    # 40224

    DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)

    The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms, with observations on their habits.

    London : John Murray, 1904. Thirteenth Thousand. Octavo, papered boards, lettered and decorated in black, light fading to upper edge, in the rare original printed dustjacket (publisher’s repriced labels to inner flap and spine, tiny nicks to head of spine), pp. viii; 298; 2 (adverts.), 10 black and white plates, a very fine copy in …

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  • Zonen-Bilder. Nach Aquarellen von Heinrich Leutemann.

    # 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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