Ferdinand Bauer: the Australian natural history drawings.
Melbourne: Lothian, 1989. Quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. More
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Melbourne: Lothian, 1989. Quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. More
London: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, (1986. reprint). Octavo, colour illustrations, inscription, very good copy in dustwrapper. Marianne North set off in 1871 on her first expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants of the world. The results of her wanderings were her astonishing collection of..... More
Sydney: Cassell, 1979. Oblong format, colour plates by Gladys O'Grady, inscription, very good copy in dustwrapper. An attractive publication and not without its charm. More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, lavishly illustrated, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first and only proper biography of both Cayleys. This skillfully researched and handsomely produced book charts the lives and works of this Australian father-and-son pair of bird artists. Neville Henry, peripatetic, often impecunious and with a...... More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Octavo, colour illustrations, inscribed by the author for William and Wendy Cooper, softcover. Around 1870, Ferdinand von Mueller, the greatest Australian botanist of the nineteenth century, began to advertise in several newspapers across Australia for ‘lady’ plant collectors. Of Mueller’s astounding 3,000-strong network of..... More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2010. Quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Eurocentric perceptions of natural history led to the flora and fauna of the new colony of New South Wales being viewed as deficient and inferior. The swans of the colony were black and eagles white..... More
New York: Harrison House, 1988. Oblong format, colour and black and white plates, upper hinge starting, otherwise very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1895. Octavo, frontispiece, uncoloured plates. Publisher's cloth, small tear to top of spine, owner's inscription, bookplates, scarce. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1895. Octavo, frontispiece, uncoloured plates. contemporary full tree calf, raised bands and label, marbled edges, a handsome copy. More
Finland: Finnish Zoological PUblishing Board, 1998. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, laminated boards. Acta Zoological Fennica. More
Drummoyne: Angus and Robertson, 1989. Quarto, colour illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Peterborough: Langford Press, 2012. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The world's great oceans are largely beyond most people's experience and imagination. But for the last three decades or more, a tragedy has been unfolding out of sight on the open ocean. Hundreds of thousands of seabirds, albatrosses especially..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1982. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Baton Rouge: Freinds of the LSU Library, 1987. Quarto, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, the bookplate of Margaret Stones, signed by Perrauly, Kathryn Morgon (Preface) and David Lank (Introductory essay). More
Paris: Flammarion, 1991. Quarto, colour plates, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1975 -1976. Quarto, colour and black and white plates, good set in paper covered boards with light wear, top edge very lightly foxed. Auction catalogue. More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945. Quarto, 20 colour plates by Philip Rickman, dustwrapper. More
Auckland: Collins, 1973. Quarto, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co, 1949. Octavo, colour plates, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper. More
London: Pion, 1978. Quarto, text illustrations, softcover. More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1951. Octavo, photographs, stamp, signature. More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1938. Quarto, coloured frontispiece, text illustrations. Publisher's linen boards with paper label, a few grubby marks, front hinge slightly tender. More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1977. Small folio, 41 colour plates by J. Fenwick Lansdowne, fine copy in dustwrapper. One of the better modern bird monograph. More
London: Blandford, (1967. first edition). Quarto, colour plates, bookplate, stamp, fine copy in dustwrapper. Edward Wilson was the scientist and medical officer of Scott's two Antarctic expeditions. He was a talented artist and this book is a tribute. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More