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, 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
Adelaide: Rigby, (1974. facsimile). Octavo, photographs, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Ashton: Eric Lundberg, (1963. facsimile). Octavo, illustrations. More
Southampton: Ashford Press, (1986. facsimile). Octavo, More
London: John Murray, 1843. Octavo, five lithographed plates (four tinted.) Contemporary calf, spines fully gilt with red and green labels, all edges speckled, bookplate, some foxing but otherwise an attractive set. More
Netley: South Australian Government Printer, [1992. facsimile). Large quarto, three volumes, 126 colour plates. Publisher's half grey calf, limited to five hundred numbered copies. The only facsimile of Diggles' The Ornithology of Australia ever published. It is taken from the original volume held by the family of Captain S. A...... 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: Lansdowne, (1972. facsimile). Octavo, a fine copy in publisher's vinyl. The complete text of Gould's folio eight volume Birds of Australia; first published in 1865 and still a useful reference for Australian birds. 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
Codicote: Wheldon and Wesley, 1970. Octavo, publisher's cloth, bookplate. with an introduction by F. A. Stafleau. 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
New York: Johnson Reprint, (1973. facsimile). Folio, 49 colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, limited edition of 1000 numbered copies, fine copy. First published 1838. More
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, (1965. facsimile). Octavo, illustrations, folding maps, a fine set. More
Hitchin: Wheldon and Wesley, 1986. Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
Bulawayo: Books of Zimbabwe, 1982. Octavo, photographs. Torn dustwrapper. 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