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# 47522

REIMERS, J. W.

[TASMANIAN ABORIGINES; MAORI] Handbill advertising J. W. Reimers’s Anatomical and Ethnological Museum in Saville House, Leicester Square, London. September, 1853.

Never Before Exhibited in London. Saville House, Leicester Square. Open every day. Reimers’s Anatomical & Ethnological Museum, consisting of upwards of Several Hundred Magnificent Preparations in Wax, &c. … Anatomical Figures … Human Brain and Five Sense … Gallery of All Nations … Great Human Family … For Gentlemen Only…. London : J. W. Peel, …

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# 48968

BAKER, George

The role of Australites in Aboriginal customs.

Melbourne : National Museum of Victoria, 1957. Series: Memoirs, no. 22, Part 8, 8 November 1957. Mineralogy series, no. 1. Small quarto (240 x 185 mm), original staple-bound printed yellow wrappers; pp. 26, with 3 b/w/ photographic plates illustrating 27 objects, plus a full-page frontispiece map; an excellent copy. ‘The Australian textites [i.e. tektites], formerly …

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# 47708

JOHNSTON, Robert M. (1844 - 1918)

Systematic account of the geology of Tasmania

Hobart : William Thomas Strutt, Government Printer, 1888. Thick quarto, polished half-calf over patterned cloth (scuffed and worn), morocco title label to spine lettered in gilt, previous owner’s names to endpaper, pp. xxii (dedication and preface leaves trimmed short along lower margin); [ii]; 408; [2 – blank]; folding map of Tasmania printed in colour (with …

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# 47601

HUXLEY, Leonard

Life and letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

By his son Leonard Huxley. London : Macmillan and Co., 1900 (First printed October 1900, this the November 1900 reprint). Two volumes, octavo, in fine prize bindings 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 …

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# 47600

SUTTON, Francis

A systematic handbook of volumetric analysis; or, the quantitative estimation of chemical substances by measure, applied to liquids, solids, and gases

London : J. & A. Churchill, 1900. Eighth edition, enlarged and improved. 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, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt tooling and contrasting morocco …

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# 47652

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

The origin of species (1885)

by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1885. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections (ternty-eighth thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (boards a little flecked, slightly bruised at head and foot of spine) original brown endpapers, pp xxi, [blank], 458, folding …

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# 47590

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

The origin of species

by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1888. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections (thirty-fifth thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (edges rubbed, corners bumped, a couple of small dabs of black paint to lower board, a little bruised) original endpapers …

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# 47738

JOHNSTON, Robert M. (1844 - 1918)

Guide to the rocks and minerals of Tasmania

Hobart : William Thomas Strutt, Government Printer, 1888. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (one corner creased on lower board), pp. 51, three plates, Addenda and corrigenda slip inserted at p. 11. Separately published extract from Systematic account of the geology of Tasmania (1888) by the author. From the Glover collection (sold Theodore Bruce, 1970) with bookplate to …

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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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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