[BOTANY; KANGAROO; NEW HOLLAND] The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Volume VIII. [1807]

London : Richard Taylor & Co., 1807. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), later green cloth with gilt-lettered spine, front pastedown with bookplate of distinguished German-born Australian botanist Sophie Ducker (1909-2004); pp. viii, 364, [3]; illustrated with 20 engraved plates (some folding, and including a number of hand-coloured conchological plates); a few of the plates with offsetting, occasional light foxing, otherwise internally excellent.

Includes a significant contribution on flora from New South Wales by Rudge, and another by Bourke Lambert which provides a description of a new species of kangaroo, recently arrived at Pidcock’s menagerie at the Exeter ‘Change in London:

Rudge, Edward, Description of seven new species of plants from New Holland (pp. 291-99) (with 7 plates)

Bourke Lambert, Aylmer, Description of a new species of Macropus from New Holland (pp. 318-19) (with a large folding plate).