Preliminary list of works and papers relating to the Mammalian orders Cete and Sirenia (1495-1840) [facsimile].
Hythe: A. D. Lilly, (1977. facsimile). Octavo, softcover. First published 1881. More
Hythe: A. D. Lilly, (1977. facsimile). Octavo, softcover. First published 1881. More
Amsterdam: Junk, 1973. Quarto, uncoloured illustrations. More
Milson's Point: Currawong Press, (1982. facsimile). Octavo, colour plates, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. First published 1860. An important early work on the Platypus. Bennett sent specimens, plus his own observations, to Richard Owen and the mystery was finally solved. More
London: Ward Lock Reprints, (1970. facsimile). Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. First published in 1790. "Such animals as I knew, I drew from memory on the wood; others which I did not know were copied from 'Dr Smellie's Abridgement of Buffon,' and other naturalists, and also from the..... More
Sydney: David Ell Press, 1988. Octavo, 27 full-page watercolours. Publisher's cloth and slipcase, limited to 550 copies, a fine copy. The manuscript, now held in the Mitchell Library, was created in 1813 by the colonial official Thomas Skottowe, using the illustrations of the convict artist Robert Browne. More
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Small folio, 13 plates and accompanying text leaves, two appendices (one by Keith Hindwood). Black full morocco, limited edition of 500 copies, signed and numbered by a Broinowski descendant, a fine copy. With two useful appendices. Apendix A: Table of nomenclature. Appendix B: Gracius Joseph Broinowski;..... More
Ashton: Eric Lundberg, (1963. facsimile). Octavo, illustrations. More
Southampton: Ashford Press, (1986. facsimile). Octavo, More
Codicote: Wheldon & Wesley, (1970. third edition). Octavo, 63 black and white plates, fine copy. More
London: Wheldon & Wesley, (1954. third edition). Octavo, uncoloured plates. Publisher's cloth, some wear and owner's inscriptions. More
Ithaca: SSAR Publications, 1997. Quarto, cloth, folding table. Introduction by Robert Mertens. More
Pittsburgh: Hunt Botanical Library, 1972. Quarto, text illustrations, folding map, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Hill House, (1989. facsimile). Folio, 92 colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, fine copy. More
Melbourne: Hill House, 1989-1996. Folio, colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, a fine set. A complete set of the Hill House facsimile of John Gould's Birds of Australia (1840-1868), and way superior to the Lansdowne facsimile published 1972-1975. Some of the Hill House facsimile volumes were produced in very small numbers..... More
Melbourne: Hill House, 1988. Folio, 56 colour plates. Publisher's red cloth, a fine copy. The Bird of Paradise volume. More
Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1972. Octavo, Quarter morocco and cloth, with labels, a fine set. PROVENANCE: The specially bound set of Terry Greenwood, the publisher of Lansdowne Press and the originator of this facsimile. More
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Folio, 30 colour plates. Publisher's cloth with locket portrait, limited edition of 750 copies numbered and signed by Joan M. Dixon, a very good copy. This is a facsimile edition of the two-part work, A Monograph of the Macropodidae of Family of Kangaroos, published by John..... More
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1975. Octavo, text illustrations, folding map, signature. More
Codicote: Wheldon and Wesley, 1970. Octavo, publisher's cloth, bookplate. with an introduction by F. A. Stafleau. More
Sydney: Doubleday, 1847. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, very good copy in slightly torn dustwrapper. First published in 1847. More
Melbourne: Queensberry Hill Press, 1978. Folio, 26 colour plates with single text leaf, followed by an Index of synonymes, the original list of subscribers and a final leaf for the Queensberry Hill Press subscribers. Publisher's handsome brown full calf in a Solander Box (some splitting and bumping), limited to 500..... More
Hitchin: Wheldon and Wesley, (1986. facsimile). Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
London: The Willughby Society, (1882. facsimile). Small quarto, publisher's printed red wrappers, some wear, partly unopened. Originally published in 1786. More
New York: Dover Publications, (1954. facsimile). Octavo, paperback, text figures. Some shelf wear, otherwise a good copy. Reprint of the standard work on the natural history and biology of frogs, toads and salamanders. More
Wellington: A H & A W Reed, (1974. second edition), Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. First published in 1930. More