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Sarasota: Allyn Museum of Entomology, 1888. Quarto, 93 colour plates with text tissue guards. Publisher's full blue morocco and gilt spine, a fine copy. More
Sydney: Thomas Shine, 1898. Small octavo, 16 chromolithograph plates. Publisher's blindstamped cloth, owner's inscription, one page heavily restored, otherwsie an excellent copy. More
London: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 1872. Quarto, coloured map and ten handcoloured plates. Contemporary brown half morocco and marbled boards, upper corner of drop title restored without affecting text, a very good copy. Transactions of the Zoological Society, volume eight part two. 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
Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, (1855. second edition]. Duodecimo, handcoloured half title, 34 handcoloured plates. Publisher's cloth with new endpapers. The naturalist's library, volume 24. Most Australian species are covered with an accompanying handcoloured plate. More
![Journal of a voyage to New South Wales [reptile plates only]. John White](/pictures/thumb/19223.jpg?v=1561194037)
London: J. Debrett, 1790. Quarto, ten handcoloured engraved plates of reptiles. Modern blue half calf with the bookplates of David McPhee. John White was chief surgeon of the First Fleet. He was also an interested amateur naturalist and after arriving at Port Jackson found time to accompany Governor Phillip on..... More
London: J. Debrett, 1790. Quarto, [iv] advertisements, 65 handcoloured engraved plates by Sarah Stone. Contemporary full speckled calf, expertly rebacked with new spine, some occasional light foxing, otherwise a fine, clean copy. White was chief surgeon of the First Fleet, and distinguished himself by overcoming serious medical problems in appalling..... More
Adelaide: Reprinted from The Register, [1917]. Sextodecimo, photographs. Publisher's printed wrappers, very good copy, scarce. More
London: Methuen, (1913. first edition). Octavo, photographs, folding map. Publisher's red cloth, minor blemish on lower corner of volume two, a fine crisp set. Signed E. H. Wilson 13.12. 20" on the title page of both volumes, the bookplate of Harold Alston. More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1833. Quarto, 16 engraved plates. Contemporary full calf, expertly rebacked, a "prize" binding with a contemporary written inscription pasted in. Henry Witham (1779- 1844) was the first English person to investigate the internal structure of fossil plants by sectioning the specimens and was a founder..... More
London: Alexander MacMillan, 1874. Folio, 20 wood-cut plates. Handsome contemporary (publisher's?) full blue morocco with gilt design, all edges gilt, some minor wear, a very good copy. More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1874. Tall octavo, 108 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's blue blindstamped and gilt decorated cloth, some flecking otherwise a bright crisp set. More
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., (1873. first edition). Quarto, 50 chromolithograph plates, including frontispiece (dated 1870). Publisher's handsome decorated green cloth, inner hinge strengthened, a fine copy and very scarce in this condition. The best (and best known) of all nineteenth century poultry books. "Originally issued in parts from..... More