Science
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# 46544
DARWIN, Charles
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (fourth edition)
London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1866. Fourth edition, second state (eighth thousand). Octavo, original green cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine gilt (light bumping to corners, very minor stains), green endpapers (previous owner’s name to front pastedown), pp. xxi; [blank], 593; [blank], folding lithographic plate by William West after …
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# 41593
DARWIN, Charles
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 rubbed, a few light marks, small splits to head and foot of spine), hinges unobtrusively strengthened, binding variant A, with full point (period) after “MURRAY” in spine imprint, tan endpapers …
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# 46823
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
On the origin of species (fifth edition)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1869. Fifth edition, with additions and corrections (tenth thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (lightly rubbed, light wear and short split at head and foot of spine); binder’s ticket of Edmonds and Remnants to …
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# 46819
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The origin of species (sixth edition, first impression)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1872. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections (eleventh thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (lightly rubbed, small scratch and indent to spine below Species); original endpapers, pp xxi, [blank], 458, folding lithographed plate; internally …
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# 46905
Royal Society (Great Britain). Southern Telescope Committee.
Correspondence concerning the great Melbourne telescope. In three parts: 1852 -1870.
London : Taylor and Francis, 1871. Octavo, lettered flush cut papered boards, cloth spine (a few minor marks), presentation label to upper pastedown ‘Presented to W. H. Miller by the Royal Society’, pp. viii]; 45; [blank]; 3; [blank]; 40; [ii]; 59; [blank]; five lithographed plates (two folding), occasional light foxing, pale water stain to contents …
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![[ASTRONOMY] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXXIX. Part III. Containing astronomical observations made at the Observatory at Parramatta ; by Charles Rumker, Esq.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_DSFB_2916-300x300.jpg)
# 42877
RÜMKER, Charles (1788-1862)
[ASTRONOMY] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXXIX. Part III. Containing astronomical observations made at the Observatory at Parramatta ; by Charles Rumker, Esq.
London : Printed by Richard Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, 1829. Quarto (275 x 220 mm), period-style modern binding of half black calf over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp. v, [1 Contents], 152; astronomical tables throughout; a fine copy, with discreet stamps of the Dublin Library Society to a couple of …
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# 30697
FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814)
Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803.
Contained within: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCVI. Part II. London : printed by W. Bulmer, 1806. Quarto, original plain blue wrappers, pp. iv; 239 – 473; [8]; 12 engraved plates (some folding), the plates foxed but the text clean, all edges uncut and a little dusty, a fine …
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# 40453
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The origin of species (1889)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1889. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (thirty-seventh thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (edges and corners rubbed, slightly bruised with short tear at head and foot of spine) original endpapers (lightly …
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# 46820
BESLEY, Richard Bradfield (1912-1990)
Photograph album documenting experiences at a hydroelectric plant on the Swat River in Malakand District, Northwest Frontier Province, India, 1937-38.
Small oblong quarto album (200 x 270 mm), original brown cloth over boards with string ties, containing 116 b/w photographs in corner mounts, 113 being in 60 x 60 mm format, with 3 in larger 115 x 160 mm format; the majority are captioned in ink below the image; very good condition throughout. This album …
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# 46750
THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
Studio portrait of Robert Moffatt, LMS missionary in Southern Africa. London, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with printed signature of Robert Moffatt to lower margin; verso with the back mark of the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. ‘Robert Moffatt (Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland, December 21, 1795-Leigh, …
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# 46582
Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre Giral, 1716-1795; Antonio de and Jorge Juan y Santacilla, 1713-1773
Observaciones astronómicas, y phisicas hechas de orden de S. Mag. en los reynos del Perù
Por D. Jorge Juan … y D. Antonio de Ulloa … de las quales se deduce la figura, y magnitud de la tierra, y se aplica a la navegacion. En Madrid : Impresso de orden del rey nuestro señor, por Juan de Zuñiga, Año M.D.CC.XL.VIII. [1748]. First edition. Folio, contemporary full speckled calf with ornamental …
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![[BIOLOGICAL RACISM] Betrachtungen über die Fruchtbarkeit, oder Unfruchtbarkeit, über den vormahligen und gegenwärtigen Zustand der vornehmsten Länder in Asien,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_DSFB_0756-300x300.jpg)
# 46347
MEINERS, C. (Christoph) (1747-1810)
[BIOLOGICAL RACISM] Betrachtungen über die Fruchtbarkeit, oder Unfruchtbarkeit, über den vormahligen und gegenwärtigen Zustand der vornehmsten Länder in Asien,
von C. Meiners…. [=Observations on fertility and sterility in the ancient and present states of the main regions of Asia]. Lübeck und Leipzig : im Verlage bey Bohn und Compagnie, 1795-96. Two volumes, octavo (195 x 125 mm), matching contemporary bindings of marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, first volume with small paper loss, otherwise very …
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# 46130
[Photographer unknown] A. PUMPHREY (publisher)
A Peep down the Melbourne Telescope.
[Title from printed caption in negative]. Circa 1870. Stereoscopic silver albumen print photographs, each individual image 68 x 72 mm, on yellow board mount 83 x 166 mm, with the publisher’s serial number and caption in the negative at far right edge ‘685. A Peep down the Melbourne Telescope’, along with the publisher’s imprint ‘A. Pumphrey, …
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# 40452
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, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (corners a little rubbed, slightly bruised with short tear at head and foot of spine) original endpapers (lightly …
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# 46469
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
On the origin of species (First ‘Australian’ edition)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. With a new preface by Charles G. Darwin. Illustrated with wood engravings by Paul Landcare. [New York] : Limited Editions Club, 1963. Printed for The Limited Editions Club at The Griffin Press, Adelaide, South Australia. Quarto, quarter wallaby over …
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# 44309
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.
London : John Murray; 1889. Octavo, gilt-decorated green cloth (canted, edges rubbed), with 3/6 on spine, patterned endpapers, engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, pp. x; 520 (last blank), 4 (advertisements), text vignettes, internally clean, a very good copy. Freeman 49, but he makes no mention of the portrait (new to this edition?).