The hardwoods of Australia and their economics.
Sydney: Government Printer, 1919. Large quarto, 126 photographs, text illustrations. Publisher's paper covered boards with cloth spine, a fine copy. More
Australia
Banks' Florilegium: a publication in thirty-four parts of seven hundred and thirty-eight copperplate engravings of plants collected on Captain James Cook's first voyage round the world in H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768-1771, with five supplementary plates ...
London: Alecto Historical Editions in association with the British Museum (Natural History), 1980-1990. Folio, 738 copper-engraved plates in titled window mounts, colour printed a la poupee in up to 17 colours with additional watercolour touches from the original plates after Sydney Parkinson, Frederick Polydore Nodder, John Frederick Miller, James Miller..... More
Over Eenige Visschen van Van Diemensland.
Amsterdam: C. G. Van Der Post, 1855. Quarto, one folding plate. Publisher's printed wrappers, rare. Not in Ferguson. 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]- 1890-1891. Folio, 303 chromolithographic plates with accompanying text and tissue guards. Six volumes bound in three, contemporary full black morocco (the "deluxe Broinowski" binding) with gilt rule, some rubbing and wear, a handsome set with tissue guards, a few spots, very scarce in this..... 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 endemic flora of Tasmania.
London: Ariel Press, 1967-1978. Folio, colour plates by Margaret Stones, a fine set in dustwrappers. A landmark 20th century botanical work illustrated by one of the great botanical artists of the twentieth century. More
The reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago.
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1915-1917. Octavo, two volumes, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, volume one with some light staining to cloth but not affecting text, some slight paper oxidation, a library stamp on the title page of volume one, very scarce. One of the classics of Australian herpetological literature covering 624..... More
The ornithology of Australia.
Brisbane: Author, [1866-1870]. Folio, 120 hand-coloured lithographed plates finished with gum arabic, each with a single leaf of descriptive letterpress. Contemporary black morocco (almost certainly a Brisbane binding, either Sapsford or the Government binder), sides panelled within an ornamental gilt border, modern spine expertly bound to match, gilt edges. Foxed..... 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
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
Egg collecting and bird life of Australia: catalogue and date of the "Jacksonian Oological Collection," illustrated with numerous photographs depicting various incidents and items ...
Sydney: Author, 1907. Quarto, photographs. Modern full polished calf, spine with raised bands and two coloured labels, title page grubby. S. W. Jackson (1873-1946) is best known for Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. This is a handsome production liberally illustrated with his pioneering photographs and has always been..... More
The snakes of Australia; an illustrated and descriptive catalogue of all the known species.
Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1869. Quarto, twelve handcoloured lithographs. Modern half red morocco, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, publisher's stiff card wrappers retained, the title wrapper with a contemporary inscription dated 1889, small owner's stamp "R. Rendle" on title page, an excellent copy. Gerard Krefft (1830-1881) is rightly considered..... More
Two papers on the vertebrata of the Lower Murray and Darling; and on snakes observed in the neighbourhood of Sydney.
Sydney: Reading and Wellbank, Printers, 1865. Octavo, Modern binder's cloth with gilt title, very scarce. The author's reprint with a separately published title page. Originally published in the Transactions of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales. Both Krefft papers are of great interest, the first paper particularly so as..... More
Reconnoitering voyages and travels, with adventures in the new colonies of South Australia.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1839. Octavo, six uncoloured plates. Contemporary full marbled calf, some wear and hinges cracked, a few spots. More
A natural history of the lepidopterous insects of New South Wales [manuscript copy]
[c1840's]. Quarto, 42 leaves of Whatman paper, some leaves watermarked 'J Whatman 1794'. A single leaf for the title page and table of contents (the wording a direct copy of the Lewin 1822 title page), then follows 13 watercolours and 13 accompanying manuscript text leaves ( a copy of the..... More
Natural history of Victoria. Prodromus of the zoology of Victoria; or figures and descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian indigenous animals.
Melbourne: Government Printer, 1878-1890. Large octavo, 199 handsome lithographed plates (including 172 chromolithographs) of mammals, reptiles and fish. Handsome modern half green morocco by the Dove Bindery, a fine set. The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria is an underrated work of Australian natural history; the plates are handsome and..... More
Natural history of Victoria. Prodromus of the zoology of Victoria; or figures and descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian indigenous animals.
Melbourne: Government Printer, 1885-1890. Large octavo, 199 handsome lithographed plates (including 172 chromolithographs) of mammals, reptiles and fish. Later binder's blue cloth, a very good clean set. The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria is an underrated work of Australian natural history; the plates are handsome and the text scholarly..... More
Prodromus of the paleontology of Victoria; or, Figures and descriptions of Victorian organic remains
Melbourne: Government Printer, 1874-1882. Large octavo, 70 chromolithographs, publisher's printed stiff card wrappers (the front cover to decade two lacking), a very good set, all in a binder's box, scarce. A complete set. More
Descriptive catalogue of the nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania.
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1889. Octavo, 21 handcoloured egg plates. Contemporary full blue morocco, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, a few spots otherwise a superb copy. The 1889 edition of North is the precurser to his great four volume work on Nests and Eggs. A few copies were bound for..... More
Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania.
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914. Quarto, 25 handcoloured egg plates by Neville Henry Pennington Cayley (senior). Contemporary full blue morocco, all edges gilt, with inlaid gilt and title. THE ONLY COLOUR PLATE AUSTRALIAN BOOK, PRODUCED IN AUSTRALIA, OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY There are probably only two sets of coloured A. J...... More
Ichthyology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Ross.
London: E. W. Janson, 1844-1847. Quarto, 60 uncoloured lithographed plates. Modern half calf and marbled boards, wrappers retained, uncut, a fine copy, scarce. The complete fishes section from The Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus & Terror edited by John Richardson and John Edward Gray. British Museum..... More