Natural History

ACOSTA, Christoval.
Tractado de las drogas, y medicanas de las Indias Orientales, con sus Plantas debuxadas al bivo.
Burgos, Martin de Victoria, 1578.

Small quarto, title in architectural woodcut border incorporating the coat-of-arms of the city of Burgos, woodcut...

Drugs, herbs and spices of the East Indies: first edition of this influential herbal, important for disseminating...

Durling, 1064; Garrison & Morton, 1819; Hunt, 130; Lach, I, pp. 194-5; Palau, 1962; Pritzel, 13; Sabin , 113; Stafleu & Cowan, 23.

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AITON, William.
Hortus Kewensis; or, a Catalogue of the Plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew. By William Aiton, gardener to His Majesty.
London, George Nicol, 1789.

Three volumes, octavo, 13 plates (7 folding), small tears to two of the larger folding plates; a very good set in...

First edition: the highly important handbook to the Royal Botanic Garden in Kew, nominally compiled by William Aiton,...

Carter, Sir Joseph Banks 1743-1820, p. 66.

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BAKER, Richard T. and H.G. SMITH.
Woodfibres of some Australian Timbers...
Sydney, Alfred James Kent, 1924.

Oblong octavo, colour plates, a fine copy in original blue cloth.

Baker's series of books on Australia's natural resources were produced at the pinnacle of government printing in...

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[BANKS] DRYANDER, Jonas.
Catalogus Bibliothecae Historico-Naturalis Josephi Banks...
London, W. Bulmer, 1796- 1800.

Five volumes bound in four, octavo, extra-illustrated with two portraits of Banks, manuscript dedication to Baron...

Rare: the complete private library catalogue of Sir Joseph Banks, with a fascinating provenance. Only 250 copies were...

Besterman, 4151; Carter, p. 223; Petzholdt, p. 546; Taylor, p. 231.

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BANKS, Sir Joseph & Daniel SOLANDER.
Captain Cook’s Florilegium...
London, Lion and Unicorn Press [Royal College of Art], 1973.

Large folio, with 30 engravings; a fine copy, specially bound by Zaehnsdorf in black Nigerian goatskin and Japanese...

The botany of the Endeavour voyage: this magnificent printing by the Royal College of Art in London from...

Hill, 52.

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BANKS, Sir Joseph & Daniel SOLANDER.
Captain Cook's Florilegium...
London, Royal College, 1973.

Large folio, with 30 engravings; a fine copy, in the original black Nigerian goatskin and Japanese silk, housed in a...

The botany of the Endeavour voyage: this magnificent printing by the Royal College of Art in London from...

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BENNETT, Edward Turner.
The Tower Menagerie...
London, Robert Jennings, 1829.

Octavo, with 102 wood-engravings and vignettes; some slight wear but a good copy in green cloth.

First edition. The menagerie in the Tower of London had been established in the mid-thirteenth century at which time it...

Not in Ferguson; Wood, 239.

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[CASSOWARY] ROTHSCHILD, Lionel Walter.
A Monograph of the Genus Casuarius.
London, Printed for the Society, 1900.

Folio, original blue printed front wrapper for Transactions of the Zoological Society bound in, pp. 109-290 (complete);...

Rothschild's monograph on the cassowary, the first detailed scientific study of the birds, published in December 1900....

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CHARSLEY, Fanny Anne.
The Wild Flowers around Melbourne.
London, Day & Son, 1867.

Folio, uncoloured lithograph title-page and 13 handcoloured lithograph plates; original blue cloth, upper cover titled...

A scarce and attractive book. This is an example of the first issue, with the title-page uncoloured. Charsley arrived...

Ferguson, 8106a; Nissen, BBI 347.

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[COOK: FIRST VOYAGE] BROWN, Peter.
New Illustrations of Zoology...
London, B. White, 1776.

Quarto, with 50 handcoloured engraved plates with text in English and French; an excellent and very well-coloured copy,...

A superb colour-plate bird book, which includes the earliest published illustration of an Australian bird, the...

Anker, p. 72; Mengel, 388; Nissen, IVB 151; Nissen, SVB 73; Whittell, p. 81; Wood, p. 264; Zimmer, p. 101.

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