Natural History
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# 40025
ELLIOTT, W.
Cole’s Australasian gardening and domestic floriculture.
Melbourne : E. W. Cole Book Arcade, [1915]. Octavo (180 x 125 mm), original pictorial wrappers (scattered stains), pp. 361, [5 publisher’s advertisements]; title leaf with small marginal tears at fore-edge, top corners of first few leaves a little-dog-eared, otherwise internally clean and sound; a very good, all-original copy. Although the format is identical to …
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# 19088
BOULTER, Daniel (1740-1802); BOULTER, Joseph (1743-1819); BOULTER, John (1745-1816)
Copper halfpenny token for Daniel Boulter’s ‘Exhibition of natural and artificial curiosities’, Yarmouth, Norfolk, 1796.
Yarmouth : Joseph, Daniel and John Boulter, 1796. Æ halfpenny, diameter 29.8 mm. Obverse: A female seated holding a scroll inscribed BOULTER’S EXHIBITION OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL CURIOSITIES. In ex. YARMOUTH in a straight line. Reverse: Three figures symbolising Asia, Africa and America presenting various curiosities to Britannia, who is recording them in a book. …
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# 39425
BROWN, BARNES & BELL
Jumbo II. The Largest Animal on the Face of the Earth. From Wm. Cross’s Zoological Establishment, Liverpool.
[1882 or 1883]. Woodburytpe photograph, carte de visite format, 66 x 102 mm (mount); recto with printed caption and the imprint of Brown, Barnes & Bell (Liverpool); verso with printed statistical information about Jumbo II, written by the elephant’s owner, the animal dealer and entrepreneur William Cross, headed ‘The Talk of England, The Rage of …
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# 39194
HAYGARTH, Henry William.
Recollections of bush life in Australia, during a residence of eight years in the interior.
London : John Murray, 1861. New edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered purple pebbled cloth (spine faded), previous owner’s name to endpaper, lower hinge cracked, pp. vi; 162. Includes chapters on sheep and cattle farming, natural history, Aborigines and the white population. The first edition was published in 1848 (Ferguson 4789). Ferguson 10312
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# 38609
TEAGUE, Violet; REDE, Geraldine; GREGORY, Ina; ASHLEY, Alf (illustrators)
Birds of the sunny south, with Australian flowers / produced entirely by Australians
At the head of title: Greetings from Australia. Melbourne : Pater’s Printery, [c.1911]. Square duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers with yapp edges (edges worn, a couple of small chips), original string tie, printed title page, [11] eleven chromolithographic plates of Australian birds in natural settings; a good copy. Muir 704. A rare publication – both a …
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# 39423
MITCHELL, Peter Chalmers
[THYLACINE] Official Guide to the Gardens and Aquarium of the Zoological Society of London
Cover title: The Zoological Society of London. Guide to the Gardens and Aquarium, Regents Park. London : The Zoological Society, 1930. 27th edition. Royal octavo, original pictorial stiff wrappers, light edge wear, pp i-xvi, 1-121, [3], with 67 photographic illustrations, folding map; a very good copy. On page 105 of this guide is a photograph …
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# 33343
BUFFON, Georges Louis Le Clerc (1707 - 1788)
A natural history, general and particular : containing the history and theory of the earth, a general history of man, the brute creation, vegetables, minerals, etc. etc.
By George Louis le Clerc, Count of Buffon ; translated from the French by W. Smellie. A new edition corrected and enlarged. To which is added a history of birds, fishes, reptiles and insects, embracing the recent discoveries of eminent naturalists, together with an account of the most curious foreign plants, by Henry Augustus Chambers, …
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# 32313
LEWIN, John William (1770-1819)
Scarlet Creeper
Etching, 290 x 210 mm, hand coloured in gouache, a fine example, in mount. A fine etching of the Australian Scarlet Creeper from John William Lewin’s A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, London : Henry H. Bohn, 1838. The naturalist and natural history artist John William Lewin arrived in New South Wales …
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# 32314
LEWIN, John William (1770-1819)
Reed Warbler
Etching, 290 x 210 mm, hand coloured in gouache, a fine example, in mount. A fine etching of the Australian Reed Warbler from John William Lewin’s A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, London : Henry H. Bohn, 1838. The naturalist and natural history artist John William Lewin arrived in New South Wales …
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# 38607
BARRETT, Charles
The Sun puppy book
Melbourne : Lawrence Kay for Pictorial Newspapers, [1936?]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light edge wear, pp. 40, illustrated. A book full of photographs of puppies.
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# 38539
BARKLY, Henry Sir (1815-1898)
Royal Society of Victoria. President’s anniversary address for 1864
[Cover title]. Also titled: President’s anniversary address for 1864 / delivered by Professor McCoy, President, to the members of the Royal Society of Victoria at the anniversary dinner held on the 25th April, 1864. [Melbourne : The Society, 1864]. Octavo pamphlet, string bound, 31 pp; a fine copy, essentially mint. Geological information with some references …
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# 38533
SPENCER, Baldwin
Handbook of Melbourne : for the use of members of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
Melbourne meeting, 1890. Edited by Professor Baldwin Spencer M.A. Melbourne : Spectator Publishing Company, 1890. Octavo, gilt-lettered flushcut cloth, pp. 137, folding map. Includes chapters on the Aborigines of Victoria, bird life, molluscs, botany, climate, commerce, geology, etc. Includes a map of Aboriginal language groups. Ferguson 6200.
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# 38505
RIENITS, Rex and Thea
Early artists of Australia
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1963. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear), patterned endpapers,, pp. x; 246, illustrated. A good copy. A valuable survey of the first European artworks of the Australian continent, including chapters on Cook’s artists, the First Fleet, Thomas Watling, William Westall, John William Lewin, George William Evans, early Tasmanian …
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# 37094
Photographer unknown.
Giant ant hill or termite nest, Western Australia. Late 1890s.
Printing-out-paper gelatin silver print, 108 x 114 mm; inscribed in pencil on the verso ‘An Ant-hill, West. Aus.’; in fine condition, unmounted. This photograph was probably taken by an amateur photographer, and is therefore quite possibly a unique image. A NOTE ON THE PRINTING-OUT-PAPER PROCESS ‘A process common from 1860 to 1940, printing-out-paper (POP) uses …
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# 37412
WHITE, Capt. S.A.
The cruise of the Avocet : in search of skuas and other things (presentation copy)
Reprinted from ‘The Register’. Adelaide : W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, [1917]. Duodecimo, lettered wrappers (chips to spine), photographic frontispiece, presentation inscription from the author to the title page, dated 1917, pp. 68, photographic plates, a very good copy. An account of a bird-watching expedition at the entrance to the St Vincent and Spencer’s Gulfs in …
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# 36222
GEORGE ROSE (MELBOURNE)
The Dragon’s Mouth Geyser, Wairakei, New Zealand.
Melbourne : George Rose, [between 1900 and 1910]. Rose’s Stereoscopic Views. Sold only by George Rose, Publisher, Melbourne. Stereoscopic silver albumen print photograph, each individual image 90 x 75 mm, on board mount 102 x 177 mm, with the publisher’s imprint to recto; printed caption beneath both images The Dragon’s Mouth Geyser, Wairakei, New Zealand. It plays …