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
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Brisbane: Government Printer, [1910]. Octavo, coloured frontispeice, text illustrations, contemporary inscription, bookplate, fine copy in publisher's cloth, rare in this condition. 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
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
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
Sydney: George Stephen Chapman, 1891. Octavo, wrappers, folding plate. What a naughty beetle. More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1835. Octavo, Publisher's blindstamped cloth, fine copy, very scarce. 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: Reading and Wellbank, Printers, 1865. Octavo, Modern binder's cloth with gilt title, very scarce. The author's reprint with a separately published title page. Originally published in the Transactions of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales. Both Krefft papers are of great interest, the first paper particularly so as..... More
London: Henry J. Drane, [c1912]. Octavo, photographs by the author. Publisher's handsome decorated cloth, corner slightly damp stained, a very good copy. An early photographic account of the author's travels in southern Australia. He also published a companion account of his Queensland travels, Advetures in the big bush, 1928... More
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1887. Octavo, Early binder's cloth, title page lightly spotted, a very good copy, scarce. More
Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, [1919]. Octavo, illustrated from photographs by the authors. Publisher's decorated cloth, bookplate, chipped dustwrapper (scarce), a fine copy. The National Library's website has two separate entries and gives the publication dates respectively 1927 and 1920. However I have seen a copy with a contemporary inscription dated..... More
London: John Van Voorst, 1870. Quarto, nine partly handcoloured plates. Publisher's green cloth, a fine crisp copy. More
London: John Murray, 1894. Octavo, uncoloured frontispieces and plates. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, a very good copy, scarce. More
Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 1996. Octavo, photographs, mudmaps, softcover. More
London: Macmillan, 1899. Large octavo, four folding coloured maps and text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, slightly flecked, a very good copy. More
London: Macmillan, 1928. Octavo, 16 coloured plates, four folding maps, fine set in fine dustwrappers, very scarce in this condition. A condensed account of the four volume 'Horn Expedition'. More
London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848. Quarto, hand coloured frontispiece. Handsome publisher's blind-panelled cloth, front cover with gilt Dodo vignette, bookplate, tipped in a separately published lithographic portrait of Strickland, a fine copy,very scarce in this condition. Anker 486; Fine Bird Books (reprint) p. 145; Nissen IVB 900; Wood p...... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1926. Octavo, coloured plates, text illustrations, publisher's cloth, hinges cracked and some wear, otherwise a sound copy. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1914. Quarto, 38 monochrome and four coloured plates, text illustrations. Publisher's burgundy cloth, a fine copy. More