Natural history & science
Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum…
Newcastle: T. and J. Hodgson, 1827.
Australian animals and Cook voyage artefacts on display in England
Octavo, with 13 engraved plates including a portrait of Tunstall; nineteenth century quarter calf, marbled boards. Rare and pioneering work, which describes the contents of one of the most significant collections of natural history...
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$6,500.00
Ref: #4504931
Ost- und West-Indischer wie auch Sinesischer Lust- und Stats-Garten.
Nürnberg: Johann Andreæ Endter, 1668.
The exotic East and West Indies: in monastic pigskin binding
Thick folio, engraved title, followed by title-page in red & black, envoi to German Emperor Leopold I with separate armorial frontispiece, 65 plates, with one textual illustration and the terminal Errata leaf; contemporary full pigskin.....
Price (AUD):
$19,850.00
Ref: #4012339
The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes.
London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1636.
With more than 2500 botanical woodcuts
Thick folio, with more than 2500 woodcut illustrations of plants, as well as numerous other woodcut decorations; contemporary sprinkled calf, spine ornately gilt in wide compartments, red morocco label. A splendid copy of one of...
Price (AUD):
$13,500.00
Ref: #3409277
The Great South Sea Caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath Butterfly.
London: J. Gillray, n.d., 1851.
From among the Weeds & Mud on the Banks of the South Sea
Original etching, 350 x 250 mm.; fine; mounted. (Two caricatures verso). Rare satirical cartoon of Sir Joseph Banks, ridiculed for using the Royal Order of the Bath for self-promotion. Portraits of Banks...
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$1,250.00
Ref: #4011321
Banded Honey-eater (Myzomela Pectoralis)
London: The Author 1840-, 1869. Hand-coloured lithograph (540 x 355 mm.), with letter-press text. The banded Honey-eater was bought to Gould's attention by Mr Benjamin Bynoe, Surgeon of the Beagle, who collected the specimen whilst on the northern coast. An interesting bird and further testament to Gould's statement that the...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4312696
Crested Penguin (Eudyptes Chrysocome)
London: The Author 1840-, 1869. Hand-coloured lithograph (365 x 540 mm.), with letter-press text; very good. The Crested penguin is occasionally found on the shores of Tasmania and the south coast of Australia. Gould borrows from Latham's description who calls it the Hopping Penguin and Jumping Jack due to its...
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$1,600.00
Ref: #4312695
Ewing's Acanthiza (Acanthiza Ewingii)
London: The Author 1840-, 1869. Hand-coloured lithograph (510 x 350 mm), with letter-press text. The Ewing's Acanthiza, Acanthiza Ewingii, is a native of Tasmania and was named after the Reverend Thomas James Ewing. This is an original hand coloured lithographic plate from Gould's most famous work, Birds of Australia. John...
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$650.00
Ref: #4007935
Orange-fronted Epthianura (Epthianura Aurifrons).
London: published by the Author, 1848.
The "Orange Chat" of inland Australia
Hand-coloured lithograph (510 x 350 mm), with letter-press text. Delicately hand coloured original lithographic plate from Gould's most famous work, Birds of Australia, one of the great natural history publications of all time. Known more commonly today as...
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$650.00
Ref: #4007933
Sombre Gallinule (Gallinula Tenebrosa)
London: The Author 1840-, 1869. Hand-coloured lithograph (360 x 540 mm.), with letter-press text. The Sombre Gallinule was encountered by Gould in the upper Hunter and also on the banks of the Murry in South Australia. An original hand coloured lithograph plate from Gould's most famous work, Birds of Australia...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4312694
Striated Pardalote (Pardalotus Striatus).
London: The Author 1840-, 1869. Hand-coloured lithograph (510 x 350 mm.), with letter-press text. The Striated Pardalote, Pardalotus Striatus is a busy little bird that feeds off insects and frequents the Eucalyptus tree. This is an original hand coloured lithographic plate from Gould's most famous work, Birds of Australia. Birds...
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #4007934
An Introduction to the Trochphyilidae…
London: printed for the author, 1861. Octavo; in the original crimson cloth. This octavo edition of Gould's Humming-Birds was prepared as part of the process of editing and checking the material for the folio edition. Gould described it as 'an introduction to, and a revision of, the general'. It was...
Price (AUD):
$1,185.00
Ref: #2001119
Suite of manuscript material relating to 'Birds of New Guinea'…
London & Maidstone: dated between 4 September 1879 & 23 December, 1880.
"with Mr Gould's compts. & thanks"
Four single sheets; including two printed receipts from Gould, 13.5 x 21 cm, both completed in manuscript, one with internal revenue stamp and signature of Gould, purchase order from Maidstone Museum, 12.5...
Price (AUD):
$3,600.00
Ref: #3905150
Collection of Papers and Offprints.
Australia and United States: 1907-, 1924. Collection of 11 papers and offprints, octavo, and two folding maps. A collection of eleven scientific papers, mostly by Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, relating to The Great Barrier Reef. The collection includes separately-issued scientific papers originally delivered at the Australasia Association for...
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #3302719
The Micrographic Dictionary; A guide to the examination and investigation of the structure and nature of microscopic objects.
London: John van Voorst, 1875.
Marvels of pond life in London tapwater
Large thick octavo, two volumes bound in handsome deep red half morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, the second volume with 48 engraved plates, some handcoloured. Splendidly bound copy of the third edition, a marvellous relic of Victorian popular...
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #3002988
The History of Creation...
London: Henry S. King, 1876.
Precursors to Darwin illuminated
Two volumes, octavo, with a total of 15 plates (including the folding frontispiece map), contemporary full polished calf, spine banded with green labels. Good summary of Darwinian evolutionary theory, and its historical precursors (namely Kant, Lamarck, Cuvier, Agassiz, Goethe, Oken and...
Price (AUD):
$300.00
Ref: #4504103
Albumen photograph of a butterfly, Hawkesbury River.
1896.
A Nineteenth Century Nature Study
Albumen silver photograph 84 x 69 mm. contemporary manuscript inscription on the obverse, very good. Original field-work photograph of the "Danaeia Erippus" (actually Danaus, the "Southern Monarch") taken at the Hawkesbury River in 1896. Compelling image of butterflies, caterpillars and a chrysalis perched on...
Price (AUD):
$225.00
Ref: #4001593
The warwoven from Chile.
London: 1785. Original watercolour on paper with faint outline of engraving, 250 x 360 mm., signed and dated lower right, mounted. An original watercolour by the highly regarded artist William Hayes (1727-1799) Despite a complete lack of training in any field, Hayes discovered a natural aptitude for painting birds. His...
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$1,500.00
Ref: #4202787
Paley's Natural Theology with Illustrative Notes.... With Dissertations on Subjects of Science connected with Natural Theology…
London: Charles Knight, 1836-1839.
Darwin's mentor and guide
Four volumes, octavo, half calf, marbled boards. William Paley (1743-1805), the Archdeacon of Carlisle was a leading Anglican voice in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain. Paley is renowned as the promoter of the 'blind watchmaker' argument, refuting the notion of evolutionary science...
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$350.00
Ref: #4504664
An Account of the Dissection of an Hermaphrodite Dog…
London: (W.Bulmer and Co), circa 1799.
Explaining the mystery of Bessborough's dog
Quarto, folding plate, 24 pp.; new wrappers. Explaining the mystery of Lord Bessborough's dog, Sir Everard Home discusses hermaphroditism in all manner of animals including man, referring to anatomists such as Hunter, Baron Haller, and Cheselden, and making...
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #4007888
Description of the anatomy of the ornithorhyncus hystrix... From the Philosophical Transactions.
London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1802.
The earliest scientific notice of the echidna, in a special author's pre-issue
Quarto, 19 pp. and four large folding plates; contemporary (? original) neat quarter red roan binding. The first scientific notice of the echidna: this important separately-issued pamphlet is very rare in this...
Price (AUD):
$14,500.00
Ref: #4504923
Portrait of Sir Joseph Hooker.
London: M. & N. Hanhart Imp. circa 1851.
A great botanist of his era
Lithograph portrait; 295 x 240 mm., wide margins, mounted. A fine portrait of the botanist Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911). Son of the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (whom he later succeeded in the...
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$3,600.00
Ref: #3111121
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British Moths and their transformations [with] British Butterflies…
London: Wm. S. Orr & Co and William Smith, 1841-1849.
A paen to the beauty of butterflies and the under-appreciated moth
Three volumes, quarto, profusely illustrated with full-page plates exquisitely hand-coloured; uniformly bound in half morocco richly gilt, all edges gilt, with the gilt arms of the Barons Sherborne. A...
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #4505034
Observations on the Orifices found in certain Poisonous Snakes…
London: W.Bulmer and Co, 1804.
Snakes preserved at the Hunterian Museum
Quarto offprint, title-page, 7 pp., engraved plate; recent wrappers. Detailed monograph on the venom glands of deadly serpents, with a detailed engraved plate, published as an offprint of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Sir Everard Home (1756-1832)...
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #4007879
D.D. Fauna Novae Hollandiae…
Uppsala: Royal Academy Press, 1822.
An Australian Fauna
Small quarto, [ii], 8 pp.; uncut and unbound, as issued. A scarce and significant academic paper, this was the first serious attempt at compiling a formal fauna of Australia, in the form of a dissertation presented by Huss before Carl Thunberg, Linnaeus's...
Price (AUD):
$3,600.00
Ref: #2901028