Science
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# 38777
THOMSON, G. P. and COCHRANE, W.
Theory and Practice of Electron Diffraction
London : Macmillan, 1939. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (lightly marked), previous owner’s names to endpapers, pp. xii, 334; (4), black and white plates, diagrams, a very good copy.
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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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# 36425
MOFFAT, John (1819-1894)
James Miller, surgeon and theologian : stereoscopic portrait. Edinburgh, 1856-57.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 75 x 65 mm (arched-top format), on yellow card mount 83 x 173 mm, with blind stamp of ‘Edinburgh Stereographic Company’ (probably a publishing imprint of John Lennie); verso with facsimile signature of the sitter ‘Jas. Miller’, and with the original Scots-Australian owner’s name in pencil ‘McMillan’; the albumen prints are both …
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# 36035
MOFFAT, John (1819-1894)
Sir Robert Christison, toxicologist and physician : stereoscopic portrait. Edinburgh, 1856-57.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 75 x 63 mm (arched-top format), on yellow card mount 83 x 173 mm, with blind stamp of ‘Lennie / 46 Princes St. / Edinburgh’; verso with facsimile signature of the sitter ‘R. Christison’, and with the original Scots-Australian owner’s name in pencil ‘McMillan’; the albumen prints are both crisp images with …
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# 35348
OTTÉ, Joachim
Landscape photography; or, A complete and easy description of the manipulations and apparatus necessary for the production of landscape pictures,
geological sections, etc. by the calotype, wet collodion, collodion-albumen, albumen, gelatine, and wax-paper processes. By the assistance of which an amateur may at once commence the practice of the art. By Joachim Otté, F.G.S., author of “A Short cut to photography.” London : Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly, 1858. First edition. Small octavo (167 x 110 …
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![[AUTOMOBILES] The whys and wherefores of car lubrication.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/10/19115619/2020_DSFB_7479-300x300.jpg)
# 35611
SHELL (AUSTRALIA) LTD.
[AUTOMOBILES] The whys and wherefores of car lubrication.
[Sydney, NSW] : Shell Company of Australia Ltd., [1935?]. Oblong quarto (210 x 245 mm), original pictorial card covers (light creasing), pp 28, with numerous monochrome line-drawn illustrations and several superb colour fold-outs showing cross-sections of car engines, and an additional colour fold-out of a Lucas cut-out and voltage regulator at rear; title page with …
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![[GOLD RUSH] Report of the Royal Commission, appointed to enquire into the best method of removing the sludge from the gold fields; together with proceedings of the Commission, minutes of evidence, and appendices.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/09/02140102/2022_DSFB_5362.jpg)
# 33996
COLONY OF VICTORIA.
[GOLD RUSH] Report of the Royal Commission, appointed to enquire into the best method of removing the sludge from the gold fields; together with proceedings of the Commission, minutes of evidence, and appendices.
Melbourne : Government printer, 1859. Foolscap folio (340 mm), string bound, 80 pp, including a splendid large folding colour plan of the valley of Bendigo and numerous other folding tables and plans; a fine example.
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# 35015
Oil exploration in Papua and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea
Melbourne : Australian Petroleum Company Pty. Ltd., and Island Exploration Company Pty. Ltd., 1940. Large octavo (228 x 153 mm), original printed wrappers (lightly foxed), staple bound, 31 pp, b/w photographic illustrations throughout; internally clean and sound.
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![[NEW GUINEA] The 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington, Papua.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/04101025/2022_DSFB_0574-300x300.jpg)
# 33980
TAYLOR, G. A.
[NEW GUINEA] The 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington, Papua.
Canberra : Government Printer, 1958. “Bulletin Number 38 of the Department of National Development, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics”. Quarto (250 x 180 mm), printed green wrappers (spine and edges sunned), pp [iv], 115, plus 157 illustrations and plates (including 9 folding data charts and maps), errata slip tipped-in on inside front wrapper; …
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# 34384
LANGFORD, W. G. (Walter Gilbert)
Bulletin of the Territory of Papua. No. 4, 1918. Report on the geology of the Hohoro District, Papuan oilfield.
Melbourne : Dept. of Home and Territories, 1918. Quarto (275 x 220 mm), original printed grey wrappers (old collection stamp to front), pp 16, with a folding colour cross-sectional plan of the Vailala goldfields, and folding topographical and geological map of same, 2 leaves of photographic plates plus several photographic illustrations in the text; title page …
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# 33636
FEHLBAUM, Rolf and STRICKER, Fifo (editors)
Space Fantasies 1:1
Edited by Rolf Fehlbaum and Fifo Stricker. Weil am Rhein (Germany) : Vitra Design Museum, 2021. Oversized quarto (34 x 45 cm), weight 4.9 kgs, illustrated boards, pp. 296, illustrated throughout. New copy, in shrinkwrap. Limited to 1000 signed copies. This limited-edition collection of space exploration toys-from shuttles to space dogs-taps into the nostalgia and …
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# 32958
ABIGAIL, Francis; CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION (NEW SOUTH WALES COMMISSION)
Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, 1888. New South Wales Mineral Court. Descriptive catalogue of exhibits of metals, minerals, fossils, and timbers (Government and private), prepared and arranged on behalf of the New South Wales Commission,
by direction of the Honorable Francis Abigail, Minister for Mines, Sydney. Sydney : Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1888. Octavo (245 x 155 mm), publisher’s printed salmon-coloured wrappers (upper wrapper with edge and corner wear and annotations in pencil at top corner; spine ends with paper loss), pp 115; internally very clean, a good all-original copy.
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# 30868
WALTER, Charles (Carl) (1831-1907)
A group of twenty-four stereoscopic views of rock formations and other topographical features along the coastline of southwest Victoria, circa 1865.
[Melbourne : Age Office, circa 1865]. Twenty-four stereoscopic albumen print photographs, each image approximately 80 x 80 mm (arched format), on original yellow card mounts, 90 x 170 mm, versos with original paper labels printed with the series title ‘AUSTRALIAN SCENERY’ and the photographer’s information ‘Chas. Walter. Photographic Artist to The Illustrated Australian News, The …
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# 28163
Maker unknown.
Australian Gold Dust.
[Title from manuscript label on mount]. [U.K.? : s.n., probably before 1860]. Microscope slide, 76 x 26 mm, maker’s manuscript label to mount; sealed underneath the circular glass (diameter 13 mm) at the centre of the mount is a quantity of specimens of gold dust (unspecified nett weight); the glass has a hairline crack but …
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# 30282
ZEEMAN, P. (Pieter) (1865-1943)
Researches in magneto-optics, with special reference to the magnetic resolution of spectrum lines
/ by P. Zeeman … Nobel Laureate, Professor of Experimental Physics, The University of Amsterdam. London : Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1913. Series: Macmillan’s Science Monographs. First edition in English. Octavo (225 mm), publisher’s blue cloth over boards, upper board lettered in blind, spine lettered in gilt, in the dust jacket (chipped at edges and …
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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 …