Epitome Entomologiae Fabricianae sive nomenclator entomologicus emendatus sistens Fabriciani systematis cum Linneano ...
Leipzig: Gottlieb Feind, 1797. Octavo, modern quarter calf and marbled boards. More
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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. Red half calf and black cloth, house in a red solander box with label; signatures of 'Julie Adele Livingston, July 2nd 1904 Kingston, Jamaica' on title and top margin of page 5, some browning confined to text, lacking..... More
The art album of New Zealand flora: being a systematic and popular description of the native flowering plants of New Zealand and adjacent islands, volume one (all published).
Wellington: Bock & Cousins, 1889. Large quarto, 40 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's embossed green cloth, gilt edges, a fine copy. One of the finest of all works on New Zealand botany. A further two volumes were planned but never published. It was available in the publisher's cloth for 10 shillings or..... More
Bibliography of Australia.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1941-1969. first edition). Octavo, very good set in dustwrappers. More
Beitrag zur Fauna Centralpolynesians. Ornithologie der Viti, Samoa-und Tonga-Inseln.
Leiden: E J Brill, 1867-1868. Tall octavo, 14 handcoloured lithographed bird plates; uncut in later boards mounting the front printed wrapper. More
The Coleoptera of the British Islands. A descriptive account of the families, genera, and species indeigenous to Great Britain and ireland. with notes as to localities, habitates etc. Volume one [only]: Adephaga- Hydrophilidae.
London: L Reeve and Co, 1887. Octavo, very good copy in publisher's cloth. the first volumes of a five volume set. More
Hereditary genius: an inquiry into its laws and consequences.
London: Macmillan, (1869. first edition). Octavo, folding table. Modern binder's cloth and endpapers, early photograph of Galton pasted on free front endpaper, small library stamp on title page. More
Histoire abrégée des insectes, dans laquelle ces animaux sont rangés suivant un ordre méthodique. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée, & augmentée d'un supplément considérable
Paris: Calixte-Volland and Rémont, 1799. Quarto, one folding table, 22 uncoloured engraved plates. Modern half calf, all edges marbled. More
Animaux nouveaux ou rares recueillis pendant l'expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud: de Rio de Janeiro a Lima, et de Lima au Para ... sous la direction du Comte Francis de Castelnau [mammals].
Paris: P. Bertrand, 1855. Quarto, 20 lithographic (twelve coloured) plates. Contemporary half morocco, printed green wrappers retained, a very good copy. The mammal volumes with six handcoloured primate plates, eight plates of bats (two handcoloured), two handcoloured rodent plates, a handcoloured plate of the Armidillo, a coloured plate of River..... More
A monograph of the petrels (Order Tubinares).
London: Witherby & Co., 1907-1910. Quarto, [five parts in] a single volume, 106 handcoloured lithographs by Keulemans. Contemporary full brown linen cloth with two labels, inner hinges stregthened, some slight external wear, top edge trimmed, other edges uncut, text a little browned otherwise a clean copy free of foxing. Limited..... More
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Birds of Australia, [complete set]
Melbourne: Hill House, 1989-1996. Folio, colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, a fine set. A complete set of the Hill House facsimile of John Gould's Birds of Australia (1840-1868), and way superior to the Lansdowne facsimile published 1972-1975. Some of the Hill House facsimile volumes were produced in very small numbers..... More
Handbook to the birds of Australia.
London: Author, 1865. Octavo, Handsome publisher's blindstamped cloth with a gilt Lyrebird on upper boards and a decorative gilt design of a Bowerbird at its bower on the spines, a fine copy, very scarce in this condition. The Handbook is a significant elaboration of the text of Birds of Australia..... More
Handbook to the birds of Australia.
London: Author, 1865. Octavo, Publisher's handsome decorated cloth, front endpaper of volume one marked, otherwise a near fine copy. The Handbook is a significant elaboration of the text of Birds of Australia and Gould's final contribution to Australian ornithology. It is still a useful book in any working collection of..... More
A synopsis of the birds of Australia, and the adjacent islands.
London: Author, 1837-1838. Large octavo, 73 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after Elizabeth Gould, with accompanying letterpress. A single leaf printed prospectus for this work and a single leaf printed prospectus for the 'Birds of Europe' at the front of part one. 8pp. appendix 'Description of New Species of Australian..... More
A synopsis of the birds of Australia, and the adjacent islands.
London: Author, 1837-1838. Large octavo, 73 finely coloured lithographed plates by Elizabeth Gould. Contemporary publisher's half green morocco and morocco-grained cloth, elaborate gilt-decorated spine, all edges gilt, the contents clean and crisp and the plates beautifully coloured, a fine copy. THE SECOND AND STANDARD ISSUE, in a 'Gould' binding with..... More
Descriptions and figures of some new Lepidopterous insects, currently from Nepal.
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846. Octavo, 16 handcoloured engraved plates. Early quarter morocco and marbled boards, a fine copy, very scarce. More
The entomology of Australia, in a series of monographs. Part I. Containing the monograph of the genus Phasma.
London: Author, 1833. Quarto, eight handcoloured engraved plates. Publisher's patterned cloth with printed label, a few spots, rare. All published. The beautiful plates of The Entomology of Australia make it one of the finest of all Australian books. There were 24 subscribers; a second part was intended but never appeared..... More
Catalogue of shield reptiles in the collection of the British Museum, part one: Testudinata (tortoises).
London: British Museum, 1855. Quarto, 42 uncoloured lithographs. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, some blemishes, top edge gilt, a presentation copy dated 1885 from P. L. Sclater to the Rev. G. R. Fisk, small neat library stamps on title page and plates, a fine copy. John Edward Gray (1800-1875)..... More
The lizards of Australia and New Zealand in the collection of the British Museum.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1867. Quarto, 18 uncoloured lithographed plate by George Henry Ford. Original publisher's wrappers with papered title on cover, the bookplates of David McPhee, the plates with typical oxidation and some spotting, mostly confined to the margins, rare. The rarest of all Australian reptile books and the first..... More
Parrots in captivity.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1884-1887. Tall octavo, 81 colour-printed wood-engraved plates (chromoxylographs) by Benjamin Fawcett drawn by A. F. Lydon. Publisher's turquoise green blindstamped cloth, bookplate, a very good crisp set. The first book devoted exclusively to parrots in captivity and with much of Australian interest. Occasional contributions were..... More
F. Donovan's natur-geschichte der Chinesischen insketen.
Leipzig: [1850]. Quarto, six handcoloured engraved plates, quarter cloth and marbled boards. Text in German. More
The reptiles of British India.
London: Ray Society, 1864. Folio, 26 uncoloured lithographic plates. Publisher's boards with label, rebacked to match with later maroon quarter cloth, some cracking and minor fraying of corners, a few minor spots, all contained in a modern maroon solander box. German born British herpetologist and ichthyologist Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf..... More
The reptiles of British India.
London: Ray Society, 1864. Folio, 26 uncoloured lithographic plates. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, top edge gilt, upper corner very slightly bumped and a few spots, otherwise a handsome copy. German-born British herpetologist Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1830- 1914) was, along with his near contemporary Alfred George Boulenger..... More
Catalogue of the fishes in the collection of the British Museum.
London: British Museum, 1859-1870. Octavo, Binder's quarter morocco and cloth boards, a few library stamps, otherwise a handsome set. With Australian descriptions. More
The Dodo and kindred birds, or the extinct birds of the Mascarene Islands.
London: Witherby, 1953. Quarto, colour plates and text illustration, limited to 485 numbered copies, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. More