Natural History

  • Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 - 1804

    # 34659

    HUNT, Susan and CARTER, Paul

    Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. 150, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia. A fine copy.

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  • Tiger-Wolf & wombat

    # 25162

    Anon.

    Tiger-Wolf & wombat

    Also titled lower centre : Australia (Van Diemen’s Land). Lithograph printed in colour, 173 x 260 mm (image), plate number XXIV upper right, very pale foxing, else fine. Originally published in: Wilde Thiere aller Zonen. Ihre Gewohnheiten und Lebensweise, ihr Nutzen und Schaden in 60 nach der Natur gezeichneten und gemalten Tafeln zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für Schulen und …

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  • A broadside tribute to Charles Darwin's dog

    # 22606

    SPRING, Jessica

    A broadside tribute to Charles Darwin’s dog

    Tacoma [WA] : Springtide Press, 2009. Screenprinted broadside with hand colouring, 145 x 215 mm (image); 355 x 460 mm (sheet), with the printed quote from CHarles Darwin’s On the Origin if Species (1859) ‘I feel most deeply that this whole question of Creation is too profound for human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on …

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  • Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet.

    # 34645

    ANEMAAT, Louise

    Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet.

    Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2014. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, pp. 256, illustrated. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in 18th-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds, and plants—and striking watercolor illustrations. The sudden emergence, in 2011, of a large …

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  • Days and nights of salmon fishing in the River Tweed

    # 34411

    SCROPE, William

    Days and nights of salmon fishing in the River Tweed

    Illustrated by Sir David Wilkie, Sir Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, William Simson and Edward Cooke. London : Hamilton, Adams & Co., and Glasgow : Thomas D. Morison, 1885. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth, edges rubbed, old sticker to head of spine, light stains to endpapers, bookplate from the Library of Parliament, Tasmania to front pastedown, lithographed …

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  • Life in the forests of the Far East; or travels in Northern Borneo.

    # 34285

    ST. JOHN, Spenser

    Life in the forests of the Far East; or travels in Northern Borneo.

    London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1863. Second edition. Two volumes, octavo, pebbled blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt with illustrations of palm trees, edges and corners rubbed, bookplates of W. H. Cresswell to verso of front free endpapers, pp. xvi; 406; (2, adverts); xii; 424, sixteen tinted lithographs and three folding maps (one with …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] The 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington, Papua.

    # 33980

    TAYLOR, G. A.

    [NEW GUINEA] The 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington, Papua.

    Canberra : Government Printer, 1958. “Bulletin Number 38 of the Department of National Development, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics”. Quarto (250 x 180 mm), printed green wrappers (spine and edges sunned), pp [iv], 115, plus 157 illustrations and plates (including 9 folding data charts and maps), errata slip tipped-in on inside front wrapper; …

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  • Guide to the orchids of New South Wales

    # 33822

    RUPP, H. M. R.

    Guide to the orchids of New South Wales

    With foreword by Edwin Cheel, President Linnean Society of N. S. W. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1930. Small square octavo, illustrated cloth in dustjacket (edges rubbed, small chip to head of spine), light offsetting to endpapers, pp. viii; 157, illustrated. A dried specimen of what appears to be Diuris sulphurea is preserved between pp. 70 …

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  • An elementary manual of New Zealand entomology.

    # 32899

    HUDSON, G. V. (George Vincent)

    An elementary manual of New Zealand entomology.

    / Being an introduction to the study of our native insects. With 21 coloured plates. London : West, Newman, & Co., 1892. First edition. Octavo (225 mm), publisher’s navy cloth over boards (rubbed and with a few light marks), spine lettered in gilt; offsetting to endpapers, front free-endpaper with early ownership signature; 128 pp, illustrated …

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  • [NEW GUINEA; CONCHOLOGY] Notes on some shells recently received by the British Museum.

    # 34148

    SMITH, Edgar A. (Albert) (1847-1916)

    [NEW GUINEA; CONCHOLOGY] Notes on some shells recently received by the British Museum.

    At head of title: From the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for January 1891. [London : R. and J. E. Taylor?], 1891. Octavo (220 mm), original stitched plain wrappers, upper wrapper with manuscript title label (lightly foxed) and printed label of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, with an inscription noting that …

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  • [NEW GUINEA; VULCANOLOGY] The volcano’s wife : the great untold story

    # 34149

    COWLEY, Amalia and Pamela VIRTUE

    [NEW GUINEA; VULCANOLOGY] The volcano’s wife : the great untold story

    Calwell, ACT : Inspiring Publishers, 2015. Octavo (230 x 150 mm), pictorial wrappers; pp 208, with numerous b/w photographic illustrations, maps; a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the inside of the front wrapper. This memoir of New Guinea, written by the wife of a District Commissioner from …

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  • Mr J W Lewin : painter & naturalist

    # 34494

    NEVILLE, Richard

    Mr J W Lewin : painter & naturalist

    Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 272, illustrated. Author, illustrator, printmaker and natural historian, John William Lewin created the first illustrated book ever published in Australia – Birds of New South Wales, in 1813. Featuring more than 150 exquisite artworks, Mr JW Lewin takes a fascinating look at Lewin’s life and work, …

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  • The premier bird painter of the colonies : the early career of Neville Henry Cayley in Victoria (signed copy)

    # 29828

    CABOURET, Mark R.

    The premier bird painter of the colonies : the early career of Neville Henry Cayley in Victoria (signed copy)

    Dissertatio inauguralis. Hawksburn, Vic. : Naturalistes et Chasseurs (Dr Mark Cabouret), December 2014. Edition limited to 200 copies. Quarto, pictorial laminated covers, pp x, 52, colour illustrations, with numerous folding plates, a new copy, signed by the author. Meticulously researched and handsome in its design, Cabouret’s splendidly illustrated monograph on Cayley makes an important contribution …

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  • Bulletin of the Territory of Papua. No. 4, 1918. Report on the geology of the Hohoro District, Papuan oilfield.

    # 34384

    LANGFORD, W. G. (Walter Gilbert)

    Bulletin of the Territory of Papua. No. 4, 1918. Report on the geology of the Hohoro District, Papuan oilfield.

    Melbourne : Dept. of Home and Territories, 1918. Quarto (275 x 220 mm), original printed grey wrappers (old collection stamp to front), pp 16, with a folding colour cross-sectional plan of the Vailala goldfields, and folding topographical and geological map of same, 2 leaves of photographic plates plus several photographic illustrations in the text; title page …

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  • [CHILDREN'S GAME] Histoire naturelle

    # 34046

    Maker unknown.

    [CHILDREN’S GAME] Histoire naturelle

    [France : s.n., circa 1900]. Wooden box with hinged lid, 400 x 350 x 60 mm, original decorative paper covering with chromolithographed onlay to lid, with the title ‘Histoire naturelle‘ lettered in gold on red; the box contains 72 wooden puzzle cubes with chromolithographed paper surfaces, from which the child can potentially create a total …

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  • The Universe : or, the infinitely great and the infinitely little. (Presentation binding of Auckland College, New Zealand).

    # 33869

    POUCHET, F. A. (1800-1872)

    The Universe : or, the infinitely great and the infinitely little. (Presentation binding of Auckland College, New Zealand).

    Illustrated by 343 engravings on wood and four coloured plates. From drawings by A. Faguet, Mesnel, Emile Bayard, and J. Stewart. London : Blackie & Son, 1875. New edition, embodying the author’s latest improvements. Thick octavo, presentation binding from Auckland College & Grammar School, New Zealand, gilt stamp on upper board, full polished calf, ruled …

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