Beschreibung and Beobachtung der osterreichischen arten der gattung chrysopa.
Wien: Versammlung von Freuden der Naturwissenschaften, [1850. Quarto, two chromolithographs, quarter cloth and marbled boards. Text in German. More
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La flore des insectophiles precedee d'un discours sue l'utilite des insectes et de l'etude de l'insectologie.
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
The birds of Australia, comprising three hundred full-page illustrations with a descriptive account of the life and characteristic habits of over seven hundred species.
Melbourne: Charles Stuart & Co., 1887-1891. Folio, Early binder's cloth; a neat set with a few scattered spots. Gracius Joseph Broinowski was born in Poland in 1837 and arrived in Australia in 1857. He was treated roughly on the voyage and jumped ship at Portland, Victoria. He became a naturalised..... More
The birds of Australia, comprising three hundred full-page illustrations with a descriptive account of the life and characteristic habits of over seven hundred species.
Melbourne: Charles Stuart & Co., 1890-1891. Folio, colour plates. Binder's blue cloth, all the faciscle wrappers retained, a few typical spots but a handsome crsip set. Gracius Joseph Broinowski (1837-1913) was born in Poland and arrived in Australia in 1857 where he jumped ship at Portland, Victoria. He became a...... More
Catalogue of the Madreporian corals in the British Museum (Natural History).
London: British Museum (Natural History). 1893. Large quarto, 240 uncoloured photographs. Publisher's cloth, some wear, the upper spine of volume seven repaired, the title pages with the stamp of the "Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales" plus a few stamps throughout, a sound set, scarce. Volume one: the genus..... More
The Herefordshire Pomona. Containing coloured figures of the most esteemed kinds of apples and pears.
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
Selecta Fungorum Carpologia of the brothers L. R. and C. Tulasne. Translated into English by W. B. Grove.
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
On the ornithology of New Zealand.
Wellington: Author, 1865. Octavo, with two other papers, very scarce. The other papers by Buller are Notes on the ornithology of New Zealand (extract from The Ibis 1869) and The story of Papaitonga; or a page of Maori history (Wellington Philosophical Society pp. 572-584). "There is an interesting history to..... More
Foreign finches in captivity.
London: L. Reeve & Co., 1894. Quarto, 59 (of 60) handcoloured lithographs by Frohawk, lacks the Painted Finch plate and the Chestnut-breasted Finch/ Three-coloured Mannikin plate is substantially trimmed but not affecting image. Publisher's blindstamped burgundy morocco grain cloth with handsome gilt finch design on upper board, top edge gilt..... More
Nests and eggs of Australian birds: embracing papers on "Oology of Australian birds" read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, supplemented by other notes and memoranda.
Melbourne: Author, 1883. Octavo, Publisher's printed pink wrappers, a few minor blemishes otherwise a very good copy, boxed, very scarce. Originally published as a series of papers in The Southern Science Record. The first separate publication on Australian oology and the forerunner to the author's major work on Nests and..... More
The Emu, volumes 1-100.
Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1900- 2000. Octavo, the first 97 volumes in a neat binder's cloth, later volumes unbound, a very good set. The single most important twentieth century reference work on Australian ornithology. The Australasian Ornithologists' Union (for most of its existence the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, and..... More
The Emu, volumes 1-92.
Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1900-1994. Octavo, The first three volumes are the Hyett/Cooper facsimile, volume six is unbound, volume eight part one only (lacks three parts) and volume nine is in a shabby "Emu" binding, all other volumes in a neat binder's cloth, a very good run. The single..... More
Kookaburra on branch.
. Octavo, Watercolour on paper, 60cm by 5 cm including mount and frame, signed Neville Cayley 1897. Some foxing. More
Maryland Geological Survey.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1897-1922. Quarto, 21 volumes. Publisher's cloth (except for two volumes), a fine set. A monumental work on the geology of North America. Freight will be charged at cost. More
A monograph of Australian land shells.
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
Phytologia; or the philosophy of agriculture and gardening. With the theory of draining morasses, and with an improved construction of the drill plough.
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
Sur les guepes.
Amsterdam: Pierre de Coup, 1723. six folding uncoloured engraved plates, early wrappers with ink title. More
Monographia Anoplurorum Britanniae: or an essay on the British species of parasitic insects.
London: Henry G Bohn, 1843. Octavo, 26 chromolithographic plates. Publisher's cloth, some damage to gutters of spine, otherwsie a neat copy. More
Monographia Pselaphidarum et Scydmaenidarum Britanniae: or an essay on the British species of the ...
Norwich: S. Wilkin, 1825. Octavo, 14 handcoloured engraved plates. Publisher's cloth, respined, a very good copy, scarce. More
Oeuvres du Comte de Lacepede, comprenant l'histoire naturelle des quarupedes ovipares, avec la synonymie des auteurs modernes les plus celebres.
Bruxelles: Lacrosse et cie, 1839. Octavo, Binders half morocco and cloth boards, printed wrappers retained. Text volumes only of mammals, reptiles and fish. Not in Wood or Ronsil. More
Travels in New Zealand: with contributions to the geography, geology, botany and natural history of that country.
London: John Murray, 1843. Octavo, five lithographed plates (four tinted.) Contemporary calf, spines fully gilt with red and green labels, all edges speckled, bookplate, some foxing but otherwise an attractive set. More
The life and habits of wild animals illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf, engraved by J.W. and Edward Whymper.
London: Alexander MacMillan, 1874. Folio, 20 wood-cut plates. Modern quarter cloth and marbled boards, a fine copy. More
Index alphabeticus in entomologiam systematicam.
Hafniae: Apud Proft et Storch, 1796. Octavo, Contemporary half morocco, neatly annotated. The index of Fabricius' 'Entomologia Systematica'. More
Epitome Entomologiae Fabricianae sive nomenclator entomologicus emendatus sistens Fabriciani systematis cum Linneano ...
Leipzig: Gottlieb Feind, 1797. Octavo, modern quarter calf and marbled boards. More
Economic Plants: an index to economic products of the vegetable kingdom in Jamaica.
Kingston, Jamaica: Government Printing Establishment, 1891. Octavo, printed title wrapper, title, preface. Early quarter calf, substantial wear particularly to top and bottom spine, signatures of 'Julie Adele Livingston, July 2nd 1904 Kingston, Jamaica' on title and top margin of page 5, some browning confined to text, lacking back wrapper. EXTRA..... More