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Banks' Florilegium.
London: Editions Alecto, in association with the British Museum, 1980-1990.
A supreme example of eighteenth-century European civilisation
743 engravings of plants collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr Daniel Solander. Printed in colours à la poupée from the original 18th century copper plates with five supplementary plates engraved between 1986.....
Price (AUD):
$94,500.00
Ref: #4505102
A Short Account of the Cause of the Disease in Corn…
London: Printed for H.D. Symonds and Curtis, 1805.
Banks on disease in corn
Octavo, six engraved plates in the first work, and one folding engraved plate by Bauer in the second work; contemporary half calf (restored). One of remarkably few works by Joseph Banks to have appeared in print. Despite.....
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
Ref: #2308889
A Short Account of the Cause of the Disease in Corn…
London: printed for J. Harding, 1805.
Sir Joseph Banks in print
Octavo, 32 pp. including the half-title, with a folding plate; with the half-title in "Mackaness" morocco, with the Mackaness bookplate. One of remarkably few works published by Banks, but an apt demonstration of his wide range of scientific interest.....
Price (AUD):
$1,750.00
Ref: #3004121
Elogio Historico de Jose Banks…
Lisboa: na Typografia da Mesma Academia, 1848.
A celebration of Sir Joseph Banks
Quarto, 11 pages, laid paper watermarked 1843, original plain paper wrappers. Attractive copy of a very unusual work, a paper presented in Portuguese in 1843 on the life of Sir Joseph Banks. Manoel Maria José da Costa.....
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #4201745
The Great South Sea Caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath Butterfly.
London: H. Humphrey, 4 July 1795.
Making fun of Sir Joseph Banks, who metamorphoses into a splendid butterfly
Hand coloured engraving, 350 x 250 mm.; fine; mounted and framed. The rare 1795 first issue of this splendid satirical cartoon of Sir Joseph Banks, ridiculed for using the Royal Order of.....
Price (AUD):
$21,000.00
Ref: #4504783
Joseph Banks Esq.
London: W. Dickinson, 30 January 1774.
The classic portrait of Banks as a young man
Mezzotint portrait, 510 x 370 mm.; a very good impression, mounted and framed. In this fine mezzotint Joseph Banks " the father of Australia" is shown sitting confidently at his desk, surrounded by the accoutrements.....
Price (AUD):
$14,500.00
Ref: #4504653
Illustrated Travels: A Record of Discovery, Geography and Adventure.
London: Cassell, circa 1890. Quarto, engravings; original cloth. Includes a chapter on Queensland.
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #3002991
Voyage pittoresque à l'Ile-de-France, au cap de Bonne-Espérance, et à l'île de Ténériffe…
Paris: A. Nepveu, 1812.
The Indian Ocean by a Baudin veteran
Two volumes octavo of text, with small folio atlas of 45 plates and charts (5 folding); the text volumes in contemporary quarter calf bindings, spines gilt with double labels, the atlas completely unbound and the loose plates contained in.....
Price (AUD):
$9,500.00
Ref: #4504933
Mon Voyage aux Terres Australes. Journal personnel du commandant Baudin.
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 2000.
Baudin's personal record of the voyage
Large octavo, includes many colour and black & white plates; original illustrated wrappers. French language edition of the personal journal of Nicolas Baudin, carefully edited and prepared for publication with special appendices and numerous colour plates of original scientific and.....
Price (AUD):
$145.00
Ref: #3101963
Casoar de la Nouvelle Hollande
Paris: 1807.
The cassowary
Handcoloured engraving, 160 x 230mm. A fine rendering of the Cassowary from the account of the Baudin voyage to Australia and the Pacific. The expedition's artist was Charles-Alexandre Lesueur who set out on Baudin's expedition as an assistant gunner, and it wasn't until mass desertions, including.....
Price (AUD):
$350.00
Ref: #3503646
The Tower Menagerie: Comprising the Natural History of the Animals Contained in that Establishment; with Anecdotes of their Characters and History…
London: Robert Jennings, 1829.
Kangaroos in the Tower of London
Octavo, with 107 wood-engravings; finely bound in contemporary red morocco gilt decorated, edges fully gilt, early inked manuscript note on endpaper. First edition. The menagerie in the Tower of London had been established in the mid-thirteenth century at which time.....
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #4504295
Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia; being observations principally on the animal and vegetable productions of New South Wales, New Zealand, and some of the Austral Islands.
London: John Van Voorst, 1860. Octavo, with eight chromolithographic plates (including the frontispiece), in the publisher's blind blocked purple cloth. The best general account of Australian natural history at the time of its publication, and still a useful work. Bennett was particularly interested in the Platypus and his account of.....
Price (AUD):
$1,785.00
Ref: #4103480
Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia…
London: John Van Voorst, 1860.
With coloured lithographs after Angas
Octavo, with eight handcoloured lithograph plates by George French Angas; in green half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. First edition: a handsome copy of this popular book by the well-travelled naturalist. "The drawings, with a few exceptions, are from the.....
Price (AUD):
$2,100.00
Ref: #4106484
Two fascinating broadsheets for his travelling zoo.
Germany? circa 1851.
Travelling menagerie including an Australian dingo
Two broadsheets (400 x 243 mm.; 218 x 380 mm.). Two wonderful German broadsheets, advertising a travelling zoo. Among the fascinating animals listed as being exhibited, the Australian dingo makes a rather surprising inclusion. The 1840s and 1850s had witnessed a......
Price (AUD):
$3,200.00
Ref: #3706061
Sorrows. Sacred to the Memory of Penelope.
London: W.Bulmer and Co., 1796.
From the library of Frances Mary Currer
Folio, stipple engraved frontispiece and engravings in text; a charming copy in half dark green morocco, marbled boards, armorial bookplates for Frances Mary Richardson Currer and Mathew Wilson, contemporary ink ownership signature of 'M R Currer' on half.....
Price (AUD):
$1,400.00
Ref: #4102406
Sur l'identité des deux espèces nominales d'Ornithorhynque…
Paris: Annales des Sciences Naturelles, December 1826.
Separately printed and important work on the platypus
12 pp., caption-title; tipped into a modern binding of quarter linen and boards. The renowned French zoologist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on the platypus: an important study, read to the Académie des Sciences and set up.....
Price (AUD):
$3,200.00
Ref: #4102423
HMS "Rattlesnake" Commanded by Captain Owen Stanley R.N.
London: Day and Son, 1852. Coloured lithograph measuring 250 x 350 mm., mounted and framed. Dramatic and finely executed coloured lithograph of the survey vessel HMS Rattlesnake by eminent marine artist Sir Oswald Brierly (1817 - 1894). Under the command of Captain Stanley Owen the Rattlesnake undertook an extensive marine.....
Price (AUD):
$4,500.00
Ref: #4005793
The voyage of the "Scotia"…
Offprint: Transactions of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science, Vol. IV, Part II, 1905.
Presentation copy of a rare offprint
Octavo, pp. 63-70, with four photographic plates (numbered 7 to 10); modern quarter calf. Rare: not recorded by Rosove or Renard, this is an offprint of an account of the.....
Price (AUD):
$365.00
Ref: #4504329
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of New Zealand.
London: E.W. Janson, 1874. Quarto, with three lithograph plates; in original cloth-backed printed green boards. This study of the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, made as part of the scientific surveys during the voyage of the Erebus and Terror, was issued separately, but also formed part of the general.....
Price (AUD):
$785.00
Ref: #2903134
Les Buffon des Enfans ou Histoire des Animaux…
Paris: Martial Ardant freres, 1851. Small octavo, woodcuts throughout; original embossed boards. French natural history primer with two pages dedicated to the kangaroo.
Price (AUD):
$575.00
Ref: #2909748
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales…
London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1798 & 1802.
The complete First Fleet account of David Collins, thick paper issue, in an unrecorded state with extra foldout engravings
Two volumes, quarto, [1798]: 2 charts, 18 plates and four textual vignettes, the vignettes most unusually repeated on additional folding plates.....
Price (AUD):
$32,750.00
Ref: #4503961
The Oval Oxylobe. Flowering plant.
London: 1845. Handcoloured zincograph print, mounted. Handcoloured print of the Australian species Oxylobium Ovalifoloium, from Swan River, Western Australia. Species closely related to another legumious plant of Australia; Oxylobium retusum, "a handsome greenhouse shrub, native of King George's Sound in New Holland, whence seeds were brought by Mr. J. Richardson.....
Price (AUD):
$170.00
Ref: #1600281
Various-Leaved Labichea. Flowering plant.
circa 1845. Handcoloured zincograph, with accompanying page of text attached; mounted, approx 270 x 210mm. The Labichea is an Australian plant found on the Western Coast and also parts of Sydney. From The Floral Cabinet or Magazine of Exotic Botany by Knowles & Westcott.
Price (AUD):
$150.00
Ref: #1600282
Veronica Formosa. Flowering plant.
London: circa 1840. Handcoloured zincograph; mounted, picture approx 200 x 260 mm. A handcoloured print taken from The Floral Cabinet by Knowles & Westcott of the Australian Veronica Formosa. Accompanying text attached.
Price (AUD):
$150.00
Ref: #1600280