The world's wonder animal: the Platypus.
Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, (1941. first edition). Octavo, photographs, bookplate, owner's stamp, softcover. More
Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, (1941. first edition). Octavo, photographs, bookplate, owner's stamp, softcover. More
Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens, 1944. Small octavo, photographs, softcover. 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: John Van Voorst, 1860. Octavo, eight handcoloured lithographs by George French Angas. Publisher's blindstamped purple cloth, typically faded spine, a near fine copy. Bennett was particularly interested in the Platypus and his account of this extraordinary animal in Gatherings is a classic. "The drawings, with a few exceptions, are..... More
Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, (1944. second edition). Octavo, photographs. Binders cloth, with tipped in cuttings and wrappers retained. David Fleay achieved international fame for being the first person to breed the platypus in captivity at the Sir Colin McKenzie Sanctuary at Healsville Victoria. More
London: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 1933]. Large quarto, ten photographic plates. Modern half calf and marbled boards, wrappers retained, a fine copy. Part one: The histology of the oviduct during gestation Part two: The structure of the egg-shell. Extracted from the Transactions of the Zoological Society of..... More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2001. Small octavo, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. This is the enigmatic story of a biological riddle that confounded scientists for nearly ninety years, challenging theories of creationism, evolution and the classification of species along the way. More
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, (2009. reprint). Small octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This is the enigmatic story of a biological riddle that confounded scientists for nearly ninety years, challenging theories of creationism, evolution and the classification of species along the way. Also available in paperback [stock..... More