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
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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
Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia.
London: John Van Voorst, 1860. Octavo, eight handcoloured lithographs by George French Angas. Publisher's blindstamped purple cloth, typically faded spine, a near fine copy. Bennett was particularly interested in the Platypus and his account of this extraordinary animal in Gatherings is a classic. "The drawings, with a few exceptions, are..... 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
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
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
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
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
A monograph of Australian land shells.
Sydney: William Maddock, 1868. Octavo, 20 handcoloured lithographs by Harriet Forde. Early binder's (publisher's?) cloth, the title wrapper retained, owner's signature on title page dated 1920, a few spots throughout but a very sound copy, scarce. Issued with coloured or uncoloured plates, Ferguson does not mention the existence of coloured..... 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
Bibliography of Australia.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1941-1969. first edition). Octavo, very good set in dustwrappers. 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
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
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
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
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