Comprehensive catalogue of Queensland plants.
Brisbane: Government Printer, [1910]. Octavo, coloured frontispeice, text illustrations, contemporary inscription, bookplate, fine copy in publisher's cloth, rare in this condition. More
Brisbane: Government Printer, [1910]. Octavo, coloured frontispeice, text illustrations, contemporary inscription, bookplate, fine copy in publisher's cloth, rare in this condition. More
Sydney: Government Printer, 1919. Large quarto, 126 photographs, text illustrations. Publisher's paper covered boards with cloth spine, a fine copy. More
London: Cassell & Company, 1950. Octavo, illustrations, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce (especially with a good dustwrapper). More
London: Robert Jennings, 1831. Octavo, wood-engraved illustrations; finely bound by Ramage in plum morocco, spines elaborately gilt, sides with ornamental corner-pieces within rules, top edges gilt (spines faded), a superb set bound by John Ramage. A history of the strange and exotic collection of wild animals kept in the Tower..... More
New Plymouth: Thomas Avery and Sons, 1936. Octavo, photographs, a fine copy with slightly chipped dustwrapper; scarce and made more so by the condition of the dustwrapper. The story of the discovery of the fossil Moa. One critic has said: "It reads like an Edgar Wallace novel" More
London: John Van Voorst, 1873. Large quarto, tinted lithograph frontispiece, 35 handcoloured plates by Keulemans. Early twentieth century English black half calf and green cloth, raised bands with gilt titles and decorative gilt birds between the bands, a few spots otherwise a handsome copy. First edition, limited to 500 copies..... More
Wellington: Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 1909. Quarto, two volumes, text illustrations, coloured folded map in rear paste-down pocket of volume two. Publisher's handsome gilt cloth, a few spots otherwise a near fine copy. More
Sydney: William Maddock, 1868. Octavo, 20 handcoloured lithographs by Harriet Forde. Early binder's (publisher's?) cloth, the title wrapper retained, owner's signature on title page dated 1920, a few spots throughout but a very sound copy, scarce. Issued with coloured or uncoloured plates, Ferguson does not mention the existence of coloured..... More
Norwalk: The Eastern Press, 1976. Quarto, handsome text illustrations. Publisher's full gilt morocco, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, a fine copy. The text for this production was taken from the 1872 sixth edition. More
London: J. Johnson, 1800. Quarto, twelve engraved plates (two folding, nine with an accompanying non-paginated text leaf), the signature of William Cowper on the title page. Original boards (worn) with modern spine, some waterstaing and heavy oxidation. An outstanding Australian provenance. The copy of William Macquarie Cowper (1810-1902), with a...... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1915-1917. Octavo, two volumes, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, volume one with some light staining to cloth but not affecting text, some slight paper oxidation, a library stamp on the title page of volume one, very scarce. One of the classics of Australian herpetological literature covering 624..... More
Sydney: Cater's Printing Works, 1922. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's printed boards, fine copy. The author writes under the nom de plume "Te Whare" More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, (2010. third edition, revised). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. A completely revised and updated edition of this classic handbook of the native plants found from Newcastle to Nowra. With 1400 colour photographs and its authoritative text, this is a magnificent reference for anyone who loves the..... More
Sydney: George Stephen Chapman, 1891. Octavo, wrappers, folding plate. What a naughty beetle. More
London: Macmillan, (1869. first edition). Octavo, folding table. Modern binder's cloth and endpapers, early photograph of Galton pasted on free front endpaper, small library stamp on title page. More
London: Author, 1865. Octavo, Handsome publisher's blindstamped cloth with a gilt Lyrebird on upper boards and a decorative gilt design of a Bowerbird at its bower on the spines, a fine copy, very scarce in this condition. The Handbook is a significant elaboration of the text of Birds of Australia..... More
London: Author, 1848. Octavo, two wood-engraved illustrations, very good copy in publisher's cloth, inscribed "Nelson Matcham with the author's compliments Dec 14th 1869". "The Preface and Introduction to my Birds of Australia having been set up in small type for facility of correction, I have had a limited number of..... More
London: Author, 1837-1838. Large octavo, 73 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after Elizabeth Gould, with accompanying letterpress. A single leaf printed prospectus for this work and a single leaf printed prospectus for the 'Birds of Europe' at the front of part one. 8pp. appendix 'Description of New Species of Australian..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846. Octavo, 16 handcoloured engraved plates. Early quarter morocco and marbled boards, a fine copy, very scarce. More
London: Author, 1833. Quarto, eight handcoloured engraved plates. Publisher's patterned cloth with printed label, a few spots, rare. All published. The beautiful plates of The Entomology of Australia make it one of the finest of all Australian books. There were 24 subscribers; a second part was intended but never appeared..... More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1835. Octavo, Publisher's blindstamped cloth, fine copy, very scarce. More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1884-1887. Tall octavo, 81 colour-printed wood-engraved plates (chromoxylographs) by Benjamin Fawcett drawn by A. F. Lydon. Publisher's turquoise green blindstamped cloth, bookplate, a very good crisp set. The first book devoted exclusively to parrots in captivity and with much of Australian interest. Occasional contributions were..... More
London: Witherby, 1953. Quarto, colour plates and text illustration, limited to 485 numbered copies, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: [Author], 1940. Octavo, uncoloured photographs. Publisher's green cloth, limited to 250 copies, a fine copy. First published in The Emu (volume 40, Part one). More
Sydney: Author, 1907. Quarto, photographs. Modern full polished calf, spine with raised bands and two coloured labels, title page grubby. S. W. Jackson (1873-1946) is best known for Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. This is a handsome production liberally illustrated with his pioneering photographs and has always been..... More