Natural History

BACON, Sir Francis, Viscount of St. Albans.
Histoire Naturelle...
Paris, Antoine de Sommaville…, 1631.

Octavo, woodcut device on title and woodcut initials throughout, with some contemporary ms. annotations; slight...

First French edition of Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum (first published in English in 1626), and thus of Bacon's...

Gibson, 'St. Thomas More... with a Bibliography of Utopiana', 614.

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[COOK: SECOND VOYAGE] FORSTER, Johann Reinhold and Georg.
Beschreibungen der Gattungen von Planzen auf einer Reise nach den Inseln der Süd-See...
Stuttgart, Christoph Mantler, 1779.

Small quarto, with 18 etched plates, the plates each tipped to the fore-edge of the appropriate facing page; in fine...

First German edition of the Characteres Generum Plantarum (see catalogue number 79), detailing the Forsters'...

Beddie, 1386; Hunt, 649; Nissen, B645; O'Reilly-Reitman, 2471; Stafleu & Cowan, 1826.

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[ELDER EXPEDITION] LINDSAY, David.
Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891.
Adelaide, House of Assembly, 1893.

Folio, with two large colour folding maps; a very good copy, uncut in recent cloth.

One of only 750 copies published: this rare printing is not recorded by Ferguson.

Sir Thomas Elder, who had...

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[GREAT BARRIER REEF] HEDLEY, Charles et al.
Collection of Papers and Offprints.
Australia and United States, 1907- 1924.

Collection of 11 papers and offprints, octavo, and two folding maps; all in very good condition.

A collection of eleven scientific papers, mostly by Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, relating to The Great...

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HALE, Thomas.
A Compleat Body of Husbandry.
Osborne & Shipton, London, 1756.

Folio, coloured frontispiece and engravings throughout; an excellent uncut copy in recent half calf.

The first edition of a classic treatise on husbandry. The title-page states that the work encompasses 'Rules for...

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JAMES, H.A.
Hand-book of Australian Horticulture.
Sydney, Turner and Henderson, 1892.

Quarto, 12 chromolithographic plates, wood-engraved illustrations throughout; a good copy in original dark green cloth.

An ambitious colonial production 'intended for climates different from our own'. This work includes chapters on Bush...

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MATHEWS, Gregory M.
The Birds of Australia...
London, H.F. & G. Witherby, 1925.

Two volumes, large quarto; a fine set, uncut in the original printed wrappers.

This two-part supplement to the Birds of Australia was issued separately and intended as a monograph in its own...

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MEREDITH, Louisa Anne.
Our Island Home, A Tasmanian Sketch Book.
Hobart, J. Walch, London, Ward, 1879.

Folio, full-page lithographic plates; a few leaves lightly spotted and marked, the title-page strengthened but a good...

First edition and characteristic of her best illustrated work, this was Meredith's first major literary and artistic...

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SITWELL, S. and W. BLUNT.
Great Flower Books 1700-1900...
London, Collins, 1956.

Folio, with numerous illustrations; publisher's half green cloth with papered boards, with dustjacket.

One of the standard bibliographies of botanical books.

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SITWELL, S., H. BUCHANAN and J. FISHER.
Fine Bird Books 1700-1900.
London, Collins & Van Nostrand, 1953.

Folio, with many illustrations; a very good copy in original half cloth, dustjacket torn.

One of 2000 copies of this attractive book, a standard reference for ornithological collectors.

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