London: John Murray, 1825. Octavo, uncoloured frontispiece, two folding botanical plates and four folding maps. Contemporary full diced Russia, sides with ornate gilt borders, spine fully gilt in compartments with two green/black lettered labels, undetectably rebacked, the bookplate of the Marquis Conyngham, a fine copy. A valuable account of the..... More
Sydney: William Maddock, 1868. Octavo, 20 handcoloured lithographs by Harriet Forde. Contemporary full calf with gilt title, marbled endpapers and coloured edges, expertly rebacked, some wear; a very good copy with the plates in good contemporary colouring, in a cloth box with title, very scarce. Issued with coloured or uncoloured..... More
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914. Quarto, four volumes, 25 egg plates. Handsome binder's green half green morocco and cloth; an excellent set. A. J. North was one of the greatest of all Australian ornithologists. He was appointed Assistant Curator of Birds at the Australian Museum, under E. P. Ramsay, in 1891..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1834. Octavo, aquatint frontispieces. Contemporary half calf, bookplates of the original owner with his signature on both title pages, the bookplate of F. G. Coles; a very good copy. Dr George Bennett (1804-1893) settled permanently in Sydney in 1836 and died in 1893. He established a successful..... More