Preliminary list of works and papers relating to the Mammalian orders Cete and Sirenia (1495-1840) [facsimile].
London: A. D. Lilly, (1977. facsimile). Octavo, softcover. First published 1881. More
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Bird books and bird art. An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology [facsimile].
Amsterdam: Junk, 1973. Quarto, uncoloured illustrations. More
Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia.
Sydney: 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
A general history of quadrupeds: the figures engraved on wood.
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
![Stock ID 10636 A general history of the quadrupeds [facsimile]. Thomas Bewick](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10636.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758437540)
A general history of the quadrupeds [facsimile].
London: Windward, (1980. reprint). Octavo, illustrations, owner's signature, spine-sunned 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 animals which were..... More
The Skottowe manuscript: select specimens from nature of the birds, animals etc etc. of New South Wales.
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
The Batrachia of North America.
New York: Eric Lundberg, (1963. facsimile). Octavo, illustrations. More
![Stock ID 11412 Neue classification der reptilien [facsimile]. Leopold Fitzinger](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11412.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758205428)
Neue classification der reptilien [facsimile].
Sydney: SSAR Publications, 1997. Quarto, cloth, folding table. Introduction by Robert Mertens. More
Thomas Johnson: botanical journeys in Kent and Hampstead. A facsimile reprint with introduction and translation of his Iter Plantarum 1629, Descriptio Itineris Plantarum 1632.
London: Hunt Botanical Library, 1972. Quarto, text illustrations, folding map, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
![Stock ID 8968 The birds of Australia and the adjacent islands [facsimile]. John Gould](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8968.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776230117)
The birds of Australia and the adjacent islands [facsimile].
Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1979. Folio, 20 colour plates. Publisher's decorated cloth, limited edition of 500 copies numbered and signed by Alan McEvey, a fine copy. An excellent facsimile of Gould's rarest folio, with commentaries by Allan McEvey. More
![Stock ID 13996 A monograph of the Macropodidae, or family of kangaroos [facsimile]. John Gould](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13996.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773366322)
A monograph of the Macropodidae, or family of kangaroos [facsimile].
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 fine copy. This is a facsimile edition of the two-part work, A Monograph of the Macropodidae of Family of Kangaroos, published by John Gould..... More
A synopsis of the birds of Australia, and the adjacent islands.
Sydney: Queensberry Hill Press, (1979. facsimile). Large octavo, 73 coloured plates by Elizabeth Gould, each plate accompanied by a single text leaf. Publisher's half morocco in slip case, a mint copy. Limited to 387 copies. Queensberry Hill Press was established by Peter Marsh with the aim of producing high quality..... More
![Stock ID 2414 Natural history of parrots [facsimile]. Francois Le Vaillant](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2414.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758439517)
Natural history of parrots [facsimile].
Paris: Imprimé, 1989. Quarto, colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, limited to 1000 numbered copies, slight stain to top edge otherwise a fine copy. This reduced facsimile has a full English translation from the French of the original text. More
A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, collected, engraved, and faithfully painted after nature [facsimile]. Introduction and bibliographical descriptions by Allan McEvey.
Sydney: 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
A bibliography of British ornithology.
Codicote: Wheldon and Wesley, (1986. facsimile). Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
Scopoli's ornithological papers from the delicae florae et faunae insubricae (Ticini: 1786-1788).
Sydney: The Willughby Society, (1882. facsimile). Small quarto, publisher's printed red wrappers, some wear, partly unopened. Originally published in 1786. More
The biology of the amphibia.
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
New Zealand birds.
Wellington: A H & A W Reed, (1955. second edition), Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. First published in 1930. More
Perry's Arcana: a facsimile edition with a collation and systematic review.
Sydney: Temple University Press, 2009. Large octavo, colour illustrations, dustwrapper. From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. The Arcana or Museum of Nature ran to 22 monthly parts, with 84 extraordinary hand-coloured plates and over 300 text..... More
The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island.
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, (1968. facsimile). Quarto, uncoloured plates and maps. Publisher's quarter cloth and papered boards, a fine copy. More
A natural history of the ducks.
New York: Dover Publications, (1986. facsimile). Quarto, erratically paginated, colour and uncoloured plates, maps, fine set in dustwrappers. Volumes one and two: Plectropterinae, Dendrocygninae, Anatinae (in part). Volumes three and four: Anatinae (continued), Fuligulinae, Oxyurinae, Merganettinae and Merginae. More
Les crabes d'eau douce (Potamonidae).
Amsterdam: A. Asher & Co., [1965. facsimile). Large quarto, monochrome plates, text illustrations. Text in French. Originally published in Paris by Masson et Cie, Editeurs, 1904-1906. More
Joseph Knight's cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order Proteaceae, London 1809.
Sydney: Tablecloth Press, 1987. Quarto, colour frontispiece, Publisher's green cloth and slipcase, limited to 300 numbered and signed copies; a fine copy. More
![Stock ID 8881 Syainika Sastra: or, A book on hawking [facsimile]. Raja Rudradeva, of Kumaon](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8881.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758223571)
Syainika Sastra: or, A book on hawking [facsimile]
Sydney: St. Ann's Books, 1991. Octavo, Quarter calf, marbled boards. Edited, with an English translation by Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasada Shastri. A facsimile reproduction taken from J. E. Harting's copy. More
Sir Andrew Smith's miscellaneous ornithological papers.
Johannesburg: The Willughby Society, (1880. facsimile). Octavo, publisher's printed red wrappers, some wear, partly unopened. Originally published circa 1830. More