The Faber book of exploration: an anthology of worlds revealed by explorers through the ages.
London: Faber and Faber, 2002. Octavo, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
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Plant exploration for Longwood Gardens.
Portland OR: Timber Press, 2006. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Longwood Gardens of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, enjoys a long and distinguished tradition of plant exploration and introduction, dating back to the foundation of its arboretum in 1798. Since the 1950s, 50 such plant-hunting expeditions have taken place... More
The magnificent foragers.
Washington D C: Smithsonian Exposition Books, 1978. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. Various accounts of scientific field work of the Smithsonian Institution. More
Australia in pictures
Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1943. Octavo, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. More
The Australian bush.
Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1943. Quarto, photographs, softcover. More
Pacific wonderland: a book of Australia.
London: Cassell, 1942. Octavo, photographs, slightly worn dustwrapper. More
The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks 1768-1771.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1962. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, black and white illustrations, ex-library with blemishes and priced accordingly, dustwrappers. More
Ocean: reflections on a century of exploration.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Large octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, line drawings. The past one hundred years of ocean science have been distinguished by dramatic milestones, remarkable discoveries, and major revelations. This book is a clear and lively survey of many of these amazing findings. Beginning... More
Visual voyages: images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. An unprecedented visual exploration of the intertwined histories of art and science, of the old world and the new. From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world... More
Great voyages of exploration: the golden age of discovery in the Pacific.
Lane Cove: Doubleday, 1983. Large quarto, illustrations and maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Charles Darwin: Voyaging: Volume one of a biography.
London: Pimlico, 1996. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
Starvation in a land of plenty: Wills' diary of the fateful Burke and Wills Expedition.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations, maps. Between 23 April and 28 June 1861, Wills documented the torments and disappointments that led to his and Burke’s destruction. Surprising to many, Wills was not the second-in-command but, rather, the party’s ‘surveyor, astronomical and meteorological observer’..... More
Endeavouring Banks: exploring collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771.
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2016. Quarto, publisher's boards, colour illustrations. When English naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his historic mission into the Pacific, he took with him a team of collectors and illustrators who returned with unprecedented collections of artefacts, specimens and drawings, opening up a whole world of... More
Strange new world: the adventures of John Gilbert and Ludwig Leichhardt.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1955. second edition). Octavo, endpaper maps, bookplate, lacks dustwrapper. "To this, the revised edition ... Chisholm has added the results of further enquiries in to his subject; there is a new introduction, much interpolated material, and a summary of the numerous attempts made to solve the... More
The Aboriginal story of Burke and Wills: forgotten narratives.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2013. Octavo, laminated boards, colour and black and white photographs and illustrations, maps. The first major study of Aboriginal involvement with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860-61. It is the result of an Australian Research Council project and provides a detailed account of Aboriginal cross-cultural exchanges... More
Frank Kingdon Ward's riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges: retracing the epic journey of 1924-25 in South-East Tibet.
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, (2008. second edition). Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, black and white photographs. Little explored and virtually inaccessible, the Tsangpo Gorge in south-east Tibet is the world's deepest gorge. Through it twists the Yarlong Tsangpo, Tibet's great river, emerging from below on the plains of India. This is... More
Kangaroo Island 1800-1836.
Canberra: Roebuck Society, (1974. second edition]. Octavo, illustrations, maps very good copy in dustwrapper. More
A naturalist's voyage round the world: the voyage of the Beagle.
New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. When On the Origin of Species came out in 1859, it changed the understanding of life and presented the foundation for evolutionary biology. All the material that he collected for this book was from the famous expeditions he took... More
The Voyage of the Beagle.
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white line drawings. In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on an expedition that, in his own words, determined my whole career. "The Voyage of the Beagle" chronicles his five-year journey around the world and especially the coastal waters of South America... More
The voyage of HMS Herald to Australia and the South-West Pacific 1852-1861 under the command of Captain Henry Mangles Denham.
Carlton: The Miegunyah Press, 1995. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The history of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, (2007. second edition). Small quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, black and white photographs, maps. This new edition is the definitive history of the world's greatest botanic gardens. Comprehensively revised, this stunning, richly illustrated reference takes in every aspect of Kew's history over two centuries - from its... More
Tropical visions in an age of empire.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white photographs. Explores images of the tropical world - maps, paintings, botanical drawings, photographs, diagrams, and texts - produced by European and American travelers over the past three centuries. Bringing together a group of distinguished contributors from disciplines... More
From Venus to Antarctica: the life of Dumont d'Urville.
Titirangi: Exisle Publishing, 2007. text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Citizen Labillardiere: a naturalists life in revolution and exploration 1755-1834.
Carlton South: Miegunyah Press, 2003. Quarto, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first comprehensive study of eighteenth century naturalist, Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière- a story of science, survival and a grand adventure. More
Francois Péron: an impetuous life.
Carlton South: Miegunyah Press, 2006. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. In 1800 François Péron, an ambitious young medical student not long released from the French revolutionary army, gained a place as an assistant zoologist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australian waters. As his colleagues either deserted or died, he..... More