Science

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

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    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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  • [NEW GUINEA; GOLD MINING] Ok Tedi : the pot of gold

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    JACKSON, Richard

    [NEW GUINEA; GOLD MINING] Ok Tedi : the pot of gold

    Boroko, PNG : The University of Papua New Guinea, [c.1980]. Octavo (210 mm), pictorial card covers, 200 pp, illustrated with 16 pp of colour and b/w photos, maps, index; a very good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper. ‘The dramatic story of the Ok Tedi gold/copper …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Recent prehistory in Southeast Papua

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    EGLOFF, Brian

    [NEW GUINEA] Recent prehistory in Southeast Papua

    Canberra : Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1979. Series: Terra Australis 4. Foolscap folio (290 x 210 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, pp xvi, 164; photographic and line-drawn illustrations, maps; a very good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front endpaper. ‘Terra Australis …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Black, white and gold : gold mining in Papua New Guinea, 1878-1930

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    NELSON, Hank (1937-2012)

    [NEW GUINEA] Black, white and gold : gold mining in Papua New Guinea, 1878-1930

    Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 1976. First edition. Octavo (240 x 155 mm), black cloth over boards with gilt-lettered spine, in publisher’s dust jacket; pp xx, 298, with line-drawn and photographic illustrations, maps; tiny nick at top edge of half title page, else a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his …

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

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

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    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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  • The Linnaean system of conchology, describing the orders, genera, and species of shells,

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    MAWE, John (1764-1829)

    The Linnaean system of conchology, describing the orders, genera, and species of shells,

    arranged into divisions and families: with a view to facilitate the student’s attainment of the science. London : Printed for and sold by the author, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. First edition. Octavo, contemporary brown-papered boards, spine with original printed title label (worn), pastedowns and endpapers foxed, front free-endpaper with early ownership …

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  • Space Fantasies 1:1

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    FEHLBAUM, Rolf and STRICKER, Fifo (editors)

    Space Fantasies 1:1

    Edited by Rolf Fehlbaum and Fifo Stricker. Weil am Rhein (Germany) : Vitra Design Museum, 2021. Oversized quarto (34 x 45 cm), weight 4.9 kgs, illustrated boards, pp. 296, illustrated throughout. New copy, in shrinkwrap. Limited to 1000 signed copies. This limited-edition collection of space exploration toys-from shuttles to space dogs-taps into the nostalgia and …

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  • The search for oil in New Guinea.

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    WADE, Arthur

    The search for oil in New Guinea.

    Reprinted for private circulation from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Vol. 11, No. 2, February 1927. [U.S.A.] : [s.n.], [1927?]. Large octavo (240 x 170 mm), printed olive wrappers (sunned at edges, front with old stamp of the Library of the Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Company, New York, stapled; pp 157-176, b/w …

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  • The origin of species

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    DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

    The origin of species

    by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1886. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (thirtieth thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth, armorial stamps of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge to upper and lower board and spine; original endpapers, …

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  • Barometer Diagram taken at Messrs. Chas. J. Gaupp & Co.'s premises in Chater Road, Hongkong, for Monday July 27th & Tuesday July 28th 1908.

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    SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST (HONG KONG)

    Barometer Diagram taken at Messrs. Chas. J. Gaupp & Co.’s premises in Chater Road, Hongkong, for Monday July 27th & Tuesday July 28th 1908.

    At the head of sheet: Supplement to the South China Morning Post. Hong Kong : South China Morning Post, 1908. Single sheet, 145 x 310 mm, printed recto only; with contemporary marginalia in pencil noting that the barometer fell from normal barometric pressure in the early hours of Monday morning down to 28.71 (inches of mercury) …

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  • A selection of facts from the best authorities : arranged so as to form an outline of the geology of England and Wales

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    PHILLIPS, William (1775 - 1828)

    A selection of facts from the best authorities : arranged so as to form an outline of the geology of England and Wales

    London : Printed and sold by W. Phillips, 1818. Octavo, half-calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title label, contemporary ownership inscription to title page, pp. 20; folding map; 240; folding plate; folding table; (10). A very good copy. An early geological survey of England and Wales.

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  • Astronomy for young Australians

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    BONWICK, James (1817 - 1906)

    Astronomy for young Australians

    Melbourne : W. B. Stephens, 1866. Second edition. Duodecimo, original flush-cut pebbled cloth, pp. 70; (2), a very good copy by the noted early educator and author. Ferguson 7229; Pescott 55; Muir 772. Provenance : E. Pescott, author of the 1938 bibliography on Bonwick, signed by him on the front pastedown.

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  • Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, 1888. New South Wales Mineral Court. Descriptive catalogue of exhibits of metals, minerals, fossils, and timbers (Government and private), prepared and arranged on behalf of the New South Wales Commission,

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    ABIGAIL, Francis; CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION (NEW SOUTH WALES COMMISSION)

    Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, 1888. New South Wales Mineral Court. Descriptive catalogue of exhibits of metals, minerals, fossils, and timbers (Government and private), prepared and arranged on behalf of the New South Wales Commission,

    by direction of the Honorable Francis Abigail, Minister for Mines, Sydney. Sydney : Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1888. Octavo (245 x 155 mm), publisher’s printed salmon-coloured wrappers (upper wrapper with edge and corner wear and annotations in pencil at top corner; spine ends with paper loss), pp 115; internally very clean, a good all-original copy.

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  • Relativity, thermodynamics and cosmology

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    TOLMAN, Richard C.

    Relativity, thermodynamics and cosmology

    Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1934 (1950 reprint). Octavo, gilt-lettered blue cloth in price-clipped dustjacket (edge wear with loss at corners and head and foot of spine), pp. xvi; 502, internally clean. With the ownership signature of Australian mathematical physicist Charles Johnson to front free-endpaper, with some of his notes on loose paper.

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  • Vectorial Mechanics

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    SILBERSTEIN, L. (1872 - 1948)

    Vectorial Mechanics

    London : Macmillan, 1926. Second edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered plum cloth in dustjacket (price clipped, edge wear and short tears with loss to head and foot of spine), ownership signature of Australian mathematical physicist Charles Johnson to front free-endpaper, pp. x; 205; (2), internally clean. Second edition in dustjacket of one of the mathematician’s major works. …

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