Milson's Point: Currawong Press, (1982. facsimile). Octavo, colour plates, 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
Sydney: David Ell Press, 1988. Octavo, 27 full-page watercolours. Publisher's cloth and slipcase, limited to 550 copies, a fine copy. The manuscript, now held in the Mitchell Library, was created in 1813 by the colonial official Thomas Skottowe, using the illustrations of the convict artist Robert Browne. More
![Stock ID 5493 The Cockatoos and Nestors of Australia and New Zealand [facsimile]. Gracius J....](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5493.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1667264444)
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Small folio, 13 plates and accompanying text leaves, two appendices (one by Keith Hindwood). Black full morocco, limited edition of 500 copies, signed and numbered by a Broinowski descendant, a fine copy. With two useful appendices. Apendix A: Table of nomenclature. Appendix B: Gracius Joseph Broinowski;..... More
Adelaide: Rigby, (1974. facsimile). Octavo, photographs, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
![Stock ID 3952 The birds of Australia [volume five, the parrot and pigeon volume]. John Gould](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3952.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1637815542)
Melbourne: Hill House, (1989. facsimile). Folio, 92 colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, fine copy. More
![Stock ID 13996 A monograph of the Macropodidae, or family of kangaroos [facsimile]. John Gould](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13996.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1670029241)
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Folio, 30 colour plates. Publisher's cloth with locket portrait, limited edition of 750 copies numbered and signed by Joan M. Dixon, a very good copy. This is a facsimile edition of the two-part work, A Monograph of the Macropodidae of Family of Kangaroos, published by John..... More
Codicote: Wheldon and Wesley, 1970. Octavo, publisher's cloth, bookplate. with an introduction by F. A. Stafleau. More
Melbourne: Queensberry Hill Press, 1978. Folio, 26 colour plates with single text leaf, followed by an Index of synonymes, the original list of subscribers and a final leaf for the Queensberry Hill Press subscribers. Publisher's handsome brown full calf in a Solander Box (some splitting and bumping), limited to 500..... More
![Stock ID 19787 The birds of Australia [a selection of plates]. Gregory M. Mathews](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/19787.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1678771832)
Netley: South Australian Government Printer, (1990. facsimile). Large quarto, 105 colour plates. Publisher's half grey calf, limited to five hundred numbered copies. One of the great Australian scientific achievements of the twentieth century was the publication of Gregory M. Mathews' monumental fifteen volume work on Australian birds. First published in..... More
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, (1984. facsimile). Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. A. J. North's classic work on Australian ornithology was published from 1904-1914. This high quality facsimile was unfortunately never completed but it is still a useful addition to any Australian bird book collection. Walter Boles..... More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. Large octavo, colour illustrations, dustwrapper. From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. The Arcana or Museum of Nature ran to 22 monthly parts, with 84 extraordinary hand-coloured plates and over 300 text..... More
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, (1968. facsimile). Quarto, uncoloured plates and maps. Publisher's quarter cloth and papered boards, a fine copy. More
Melbourne: Edition Renard, (2005. facsimile). Quarto, 16 coloured plates. Publisher's full calf, all edges coloured, dimensions 43 cm by 31 cm. The DELUXE edition on large paper (limited to 80 numbered copies), the plates enlarged by 25%, the text reset with some colour. This only facsimile of Smith's Botany, an..... More