Natural history & science
Rudiments of Conchology…
London: Harvery and Darton, 1826. Duodecimo, with ten handcoloured plates;, original marbled boards, morocco. First edition of this charming conchological guide for children which takes the form of an instructive dialogue between a father and his two children. The plates are exquisitely engraved and coloured by hand. There are several...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #3402078
Description des plantes… dans le jardin de J.M. Cels…
Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Crapelet, [Revolutionary Year VIII], 1800-1803.
With Australian plants gathered on the d'Entrecasteaux voyage
Folio, 100 engraved plates each with descriptive letterpress sheet; complete with the half-title; a large copy, edges uncut, in contemporary green quarter morocco gilt. One of the most elegant botanical books, this study...
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$38,500.00
Ref: #4305444
An Arabian Stallion.
c, 1825. Lithograph on brown washed paper with white heightening, 290 x 370 mm., mounted. Carle Vernet (1758-1836) was trained by his father, Claude-Joseph. He won the Prix de Rome in 1782 and the Legion of Honor in 1808 with one of his battle scenes. Vernet was a horseman, riding...
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #4007893
Känguru Jagd.
Stuttgart: E. Hochdanz, engraver, 1869.
A hunt in an odd landscape
Coloured print, 260 x 190 mm. (sheet size), mounted. A vivid, if somewhat idealised, scene of a kangaroo hunt in a landscape reminiscent of the Alps.
Price (AUD):
$150.00
Ref: #2904307
Hortus Spaarn-Bergensis. Enumeratio stirpium quas, in villa Spaarn-Berg prope Harlemum, alit Adr. van der Hoop…
Amsterdam: Johannes Müller, 1839.
Almost 200 Australian plants in the Netherlands in the 1830s
Octavo, two hand-coloured lithographic plates, manuscript presentation inscription to "Lys" (for Cornelius?) van der Hoop in Salzburg; a fine copy in the original printed green glazed-paper boards. Rare: a superb copy in the original boards with...
Price (AUD):
$11,500.00
Ref: #4504891
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne & A Garden Kalendar.
London: S.T. Freemantle, 1900. Two volumes, thick quarto, many plates, illustrations, and textual vignettes, untrimmed, original lettered tissue-guards badly foxed and some spotting; a handsome set in the original stiff vellum boards, gilt-embossed hand-coloured coat-of-arms to front boards of both volumes, spines lettered in gilt, bookplates. A handsome set of...
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #3710378
ALS concerning sale of fruit and wine from Cape Town to Hovil & Sons in London.
Sydney: 19 June, 1852.
Buying wines and fruit from Cape Town
Bifolium ALS, 280 x 220 mm., address panel with stamps and postal marks, crimson wax seal largely intact, Unusual autograph letter, recording the sale of "wines and fruit" brought in from Cape Town on the Cremona in 1852. As...
Price (AUD):
$600.00
Ref: #4211216
The Illustrated Natural History: Mammalia: Birds: Reptiles Etc: The Natural History of Man. Africa.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1868-, 1876. Four volumes, quarto, each with numerous wood engraving; handsome contemporary half calf, marbled boards, endpapers and edges, gilt spines. John George Wood (1827-1889) was an ordained priest, but from the 1850's he was developing a career as a natural historian; The Illustrated Natural...
Price (AUD):
$3,000.00
Ref: #4205929
Index Testaceologicus; or A Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign…
London: for W. Wood, 1828.
Comprehensive Linnaean Conchology
Octavo, with 38 handcoloured engraved plates; contemporary cloth with paper label. Wood's two manuals, this and his General Conchology, were the best-known conchological works to be arranged according to the Linnaean system. The exquisitely drawn and handcoloured plates depict some two thousand...
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #2903159
Interesting ALS to F. Watkins Esq., United Insurance Company…
Richmond: 14 January, 1878.
Ferns of the Blue Mountains
Eight-page letter on blank-embossed note paper, 176 x 115 mm., neatly written; very good. An interesting and detailed letter on the ferns of the Cumberland and Blue Mountains, sent by the Australian botanist and writer William Woolls. Woolls advises his friend...
Price (AUD):
$850.00
Ref: #4107638