Science
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![[BOTANY BAY BIRDS] Rackstrow's Museum, Pronounced to be of the First Importance in the World, Established upwards of Fifty Years ; lately Improved, Enlarged, and Enriched ... It consists of most Curious Objects ... Anatomical Collection ... Collection of Natural Productions ... Works of Art.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/06/2025_DSFB_3443-300x300.jpg)
# 47513
[RACKSTROW'S MUSEUM]
[BOTANY BAY BIRDS] Rackstrow’s Museum, Pronounced to be of the First Importance in the World, Established upwards of Fifty Years ; lately Improved, Enlarged, and Enriched … It consists of most Curious Objects … Anatomical Collection … Collection of Natural Productions … Works of Art.
At head of text: No. 197, between Temple-Bar and Chancery-Lane, Fleet-Street. [London : s.n., between 1790 and 1800]. Handbill, small quarto (230 x 185 mm), letterpress printed recto and verso on laid paper; light folds, in excellent condition. “BEAUTIFUL BIRDS from BOTANY-BAY…“ A rare handbill for Rackstrow’s Museum, London’s only commercially-run waxwork anatomical museum of …
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# 47285
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. Second edition (1860)
London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1860. Second edition, second state (fifth thousand). Octavo, original green cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, London retaining their ticket on lower pastedown, boards blocked in blind with rules enclosing foliate designs and central panel, spine gilt (recased with original spine laid down, repairs to …
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# 30579
HAHNEMANN, S. (Samuel) (1755-1843)
The Homoeopathic Medical Doctrine, or, “Organon of the Healing Art;”. A New System of Physic,
translated from the German of S. Hahnemann, By Charles H. Devrient, Esq. with Notes by Samuel Stratton, M.D. Dublin : W. F. Wakeman, 9, D’Olier-St. / London : Simpkin & Marshall & R. Groombridge / Edinburgh : Maclachlan & Stewart, 1833. First edition in English. Octavo (220 x 140 mm), contemporary half calf over marbled …
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![[VOLCANOES] Rede betreffende de ramp, veroorzaakt door de werking van den vulkaan Rakata (Krakataoe) [Krakatoa] in 1883,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/06/2025_DSFB_3266-300x300.jpg)
# 47391
GROOT, Cornelis de
[VOLCANOES] Rede betreffende de ramp, veroorzaakt door de werking van den vulkaan Rakata (Krakataoe) [Krakatoa] in 1883,
door Corns. de Groot, uitgesproken in de Indologische Vereeniging te Delft, den 18den Februari 1884. [‘s-Gravenhage : the author], 1884. Octavo (225 x 145 mm), in the publisher’s attractive binding of blind-tooled blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration at centre of the upper board; original pink endpapers, pp. 39; a fine copy. Scarce self-published …
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# 47506
TYNDALL, John (1820-1893)
Heat. A mode of motion.
London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. Eleventh 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 with the award Wigram Allen Prize, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt tooling …
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# 47505
TYNDALL, John (1820-1893)
Sound
London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. Seventh 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 with the award Wigram Allen Prize, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt tooling and …
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# 47355
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The origin of species (1891)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1891. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections (forty-first thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (edges slightly rubbed) original patterned endpapers (offsetting and a small bookplate with name scratched out to pastedown), pp xxi, [blank], …
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# 47370
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 (edges rubbed, chipped at head and foot of spine, spine dulled and a little wrinkled); original endpapers (hinges cracked), publisher’s …
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# 47356
OSBORN, Henry Fairfield
From the Greeks to Darwin. An outline of the development of the evolution idea
New York : Macmillan and Co., 1894. Octavo, gilt-lettered blue cloth (crease along the lower board), contemporary ownership name to half-title, pp. (10); 259, internally clean, a very good copy. Colombia University Biological Series No. 1. An uncommonly nice copy.
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# 40525
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The origin of species (1890)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1890. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (thirty-ninth thousand). Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (lightly flecked), pp xxi, [blank], 458, folding lithographed plate, light foxing to preliminaries. A very good, clean copy. A fine …
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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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# 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 …