Science
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# 46273
MACGILLIVRAY, P.H.
Inaugural address, delivered to the Bendigo School of Mines Science Society, June 20, 1881.
Sandhurst, [Vic.] : G. Young, [1881]. Octavo (210 mm), original printed green wrappers, stitched, 8 pp; includes rules and list of office bearers of the Bendigo School of Mines Science Society for 1881/82; a very good copy. Copies are recorded in six Australian collections (NLA; SLNSW; SLV; SLSA; Monash University Library; Royal Australasian College of …
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# 45531
[Compiler unknown]
[SPACE TRACKING / RADIO ASTRONOMY] Dedication of Tidbinbilla 64 metre antenna 13th April, 1973.
[s.l. : s.n., 1973]. Small oblong quarto photograph album (205 x 260 mm), spiral-bound navy blue pebbled cloth over boards, upper board lettered in gilt ‘Dedication of Tidbinbilla 64 metre antenna 13th April, 1973’; [12] b/w photographs and [1] colour photograph in uniform 150 x 170 mm format mounted recto only, with printed captions below …
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# 44321
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.
(From the Corrected and Enlarged Edition of 1845). With a Biographical Introduction. London, New York, and Melbourne : Ward, Lock and Co.; 1889. Fifth edition. The Minerva Library of Famous Books. Edited by G. T. Bettany, M.A., B.Sc. Octavo, lettered cloth, patterned endpapers (contemporary owner’s name to endpaper), pp. xx; 381; [blank], [2 – advertisements], …
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# 44311
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
A Naturalist’s Voyage. 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. Twentieth thousand. Octavo, gilt-decorated green cloth (scuffed and flecked, edges worn, hinges cracked and reglued), patterned endpapers, engraved portrait frontispiece, pp. [ii], xii, [13] – 615; [blank]; text vignettes, a small defect to preliminary blank before frontispiece; name of original owner in ink on back of frontispiece), internally clean, some …
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# 45457
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 (light wear at head and foot of spine), pp xxi, [blank], 458, folding lithographed plate, light foxing to edges and …
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# 43448
POMIS, David ben Isaac de (1524 - ca.1594)
De Medico Hebraeo Enarratio Apologica … …
Venice : Apud Ioannem Variscum [Giovanni Varisco], 1588. First (and only) edition. Octavo (190 x 140 mm), modern brown cloth over boards; original first blank with early ownership signature to verso (browned, clipped at upper corner), title-page with vignette woodcut printer’s device, and with coat of arms to verso; pp. [7] (Dedication to Francesco Maria II …
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# 13453
BAER, Karl Ernst von (1792-1876)
Types principaux des différentes races humaines dans les cinq parties du monde,
modelés sous la direction du Pr. Baer de St. Petersbourg. St. Petersburg : s.n., [1862]. Portfolio, 500 x 330 mm, original embossed boards with title to front, original silk ties, inner front board with early collection inscription of the Königliche Präparanden-Anstalt (Royal Preparatory Institute), Herborn; containing [12] albumen print photographs, [7] in format 225 x …
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# 44313
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.
(From the Corrected and Enlarged Edition of 1845). With a Biographical Introduction. London, New York, and Melbourne : Ward, Lock and Co.; 1890. Seventh edition. The Minerva Library of Famous Books. Edited by G. T. Bettany, M.A., B.Sc. Octavo, lettered cloth, patterned endpapers (contemporary owner’s name to endpaper), pp. xx; 381; [blank], [2 – advertisements], …
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# 44312
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
Cole’s Library of Notable Books. 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.
(From the Corrected and Enlarged Edition of 1845). With a Biographical Introduction. Melbourne; E. W. Cole, Book Arcade; [c. 1890?]. First Australian edition (?). Octavo original black cloth (silverfished), edges stained red, yellow endpapers, pp. pp. xx, 381; [blank]; 16 plates, text vignettes, maps, internally clean, a very good copy. An account of the five …
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# 44811
BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1828)
A general history of quadrupeds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick.
Newcastle upon Tyne : printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, & T. Bewick, Newcastle : sold by them, by G. G. J. & J. Robinson, and C. Dilly, London, 1790. First edition. Large octavo, contemporary full speckled calf, edges very lightly rubbed, flat panelled spine ruled in gilt, contrasting morocco title label lettered …
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# 44066
DUKE, J. S.
[MELBOURNE] Manuscript notebooks (mostly devoted to literature and astronomy) compiled by J. S. Duke, of Elwood and Elsternwick, 1918-1927.
Melbourne : J. S. Duke, 1918-27 [unpublished]. Two small quarto-size notebooks, each 235 x 185 mm, original linen and black oilskin bindings, owner’s name and address to pastedown of one ‘J. S. Duke, Elwood’ with printed label beneath ‘456 New Street, Elsternwick’; in total both notebooks comprise approx. 250 pages filled with neat manuscript entries, …
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# 43974
POULTON, Edward Bagnall
The colours of animals their meaning and use. Especially in the case of insects.
London : Megan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co., 1890. Second 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, Wigram Allen Prize lettered below, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt …
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# 43975
POULTON, Edward Bagnall
Man and the Glacial Period
London : Megan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co., 1898. Second 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, Wigram Allen Prize lettered below, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt …
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# 40455
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, full calf prize binding by Bickers and Son, for the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, with their emblem in gilt to the front board, …
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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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# 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 …