The hardwoods of Australia and their economics.
Sydney: Government Printer, 1919. Large quarto, 126 photographs, text illustrations. Publisher's paper covered boards with cloth spine, a fine copy. More
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Sydney: Government Printer, 1919. Large quarto, 126 photographs, text illustrations. Publisher's paper covered boards with cloth spine, a fine copy. More
London: Alecto Historical Editions in association with the British Museum (Natural History), 1980-1990. Folio, 738 copper-engraved plates in titled window mounts, colour printed a la poupee in up to 17 colours with additional watercolour touches from the original plates after Sydney Parkinson, Frederick Polydore Nodder, John Frederick Miller, James Miller..... More
Utrecht: Chez B. Wild et J. Altherr, 1791. Octavo, Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, red label, early strengthening of inner hinge, a very good copy. More
London: The Folio Society, (1914. facsimile). Folio, 77 fine coloured plates and text illustrations; the plate volume in quarter morocco, top edge gilt, the text in cloth, the front boards of both volumes pictorially gilt: together in folding cloth box, gilt-decorated. With, as issued, 4 duplicate plates in paper sleeve..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. Folio, 61 uncoloured plates. A fine set in slightly chipped dustwrappers. "The Carpologia at the time of its publication (1861-1865) was an epoch-making work and [is] one of the great mycological classics. Its primary purpose was to demonstrate the pleomorphism of the Ascomycetes which had been..... 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
London: Ariel Press, 1967-1978. Folio, colour plates by Margaret Stones, a fine set in dustwrappers. A landmark 20th century botanical work illustrated by one of the great botanical artists of the twentieth century. 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
Kingston, Jamaica: Government Printing Establishment, 1891. Octavo, printed title wrapper, title, preface. Red half calf and black cloth, house in a red solander box with label; signatures of 'Julie Adele Livingston, July 2nd 1904 Kingston, Jamaica' on title and top margin of page 5, some browning confined to text, lacking..... More
Wellington: Bock & Cousins, 1889. Large quarto, 40 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's embossed green cloth, gilt edges, a fine copy. One of the finest of all works on New Zealand botany. A further two volumes were planned but never published. It was available in the publisher's cloth for 10 shillings or..... More
London: Henry G Bohn, 1859. Octavo, 80 handcoloured plates. Publisher's handsome blindstamped and decorated cloth, all edges gilt, a few occasional spots and signature on front endpaper, a fine copy. BM(NH) p. 1984; Plesch; p. 414; Pritzel 8793. More
London: Dulau and Co., 1896. Quarto, uncoloured plates. Publisher's green cloth, a fine copy. The Horn Expedition was the most comprehensive record of a scientific expedition undertaken in Australia in the nineteenth century. Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer was the leader of the expedition and the principal editor of the official..... More
London: B. and J. White, 1794. Quarto, engraved frontispiece. Quarter calf and speckled boards, a fine copy. More
London: James Ridgway, [1827-1838]. Octavo, 56 handcoloured engraved plates with accompanying leaves and interleaving. Modern half morocco with gilt spine and cloth covered boards, a handsome crisp copy. One of the most attractive of all Australian botanical books and the first to use live specimens for illustration instead of dried..... More
London: J. Debrett, 1790. Quarto, [iv] 65 handcoloured engraved plates, without advertisements. Later nineteenth century half calf and marbled boards, top edge gilt but other edges uncut, apart from some paper browning and a few spots all the plates well coloured, a handsome exceptionally large copy. White was chief surgeon..... More
London: Editions Renard, (2002. facsimile). Folio, 65 plates in two states, coloured and uncoloured, and vignette view from the original title-page; handsome green morocco (in a trial binding, similar to that ultimately adopted but the green morocco a darker shade), gilt edges, enlarged format, with bibliographical notes by Julien Renard..... More