Melbourne: Charles Stuart & Co., 1890-1891. Folio, 303 chromolithographic plates with accompanying text and tissue guards. Six volumes bound in three, contemporary half calf and gilt lettered cloth, expertly re-spined, all edges coloured and tissue guards present, a sound clean set. Gracius Joseph Broinowski was born in Poland in 1837..... More

Sheffield: Author, 1900. Octavo, 28 (27 of eggs) chromolithographs by Brittlebank, photographs. Publisher's brown decorated cloth [single volume], a superb bright crisp copy, scarce in this condition. A. J. Campbell, a foundation member of both the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union and the Bird Observers' Club, was a prolific contributor to..... More

London: Bernard Quaritch, [1875]. Folio, 26 hand-coloured engraved plates with accompanying text leaves. Contemporary half morocco, slight wear, lacks rear marbled endpaper, a few spots but the plates scarcely affected. The Quaritch reissue, from the original copperplates. In a catalogue of 1877 Quaritch described it as "a new issue, in..... More

Melbourne: Government Printer, 1878-1890. Large octavo, 199 handsome lithographed plates (including 172 chromolithographs) of mammals, reptiles and fish. Handsome modern half green morocco, small ink stamp on both title pages, a fine set The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria is an underrated work of Australian natural history; the plates..... More

London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Quarto, five handcoloured engraved plates. Publisher's printed wrappers, a fine copy, all contained in a quarter calf box with marbled boards, very scarce. The first monograph on Australian fish and the only monograph with handcoloured plates of Australian fish. This is also the..... More

Sydney: Author, 1887. Small folio, 10 handcoloured plates by the author, with accompanying text leaves. Publisher's red maroon cloth boards with gilt title and medallions, pencil inscription from the author, very scarce. One of the rarest of Australian locally published botanical books. Ferguson 18054. More