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Prospectus of the Australian Gas-Light Company.
Sydney: Printed by H. Bull, Colonist Office, Sydney, September 1, 1836.
"Pipes &c to be conveyed by convict ship free of charge"
Four foolscap folded leaves, some wear, as usual, at folds. Scarce early prospectus, printed in Sydney, for "the lighting of this large, increasing, and opulent metropolis with Gas.".....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3611672
Six issues of 'The Sydney Magazine of Science and Art'.
Sydney: James Waugh 1857-, 1858. Six issues, octavo, all but one in original printed wrappers. The Sydney Magazine published the proceedings of the Australian Horticultural and Agricultural Society, and the Philosophical Society of New South Wales. These six issues include a variety of articles; including viticulture, horticultural exhibitions and prizes.....
Price (AUD):
$525.00
Ref: #4401870
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.
London: Charles Knight, 1832.
Babbage's most successful work
Small octavo, engraved title-page, original maroon cloth. Second edition of Charles Babbage's most successful work: there were four editions between 1832 and 1835 and the book was translated into at least six European languages. Babbage wrote this at the time he was.....
Price (AUD):
$1,750.00
Ref: #4107488
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
Carte Générale de la Terre Napoléon.
Paris: Gravé par Tardieu, 1808.
French designs for South Australia.
Engraved chart; 580 x 850 mm. Impressive early chart of the South Australian coastline revealing French colonial ambitions for Australia, a result of the survey undertaken during the Baudin expedition in Australian waters during 1802. As the title "Terre Napoleon".....
Price (AUD):
$8,500.00
Ref: #3912509
Essais cosmographico-poëtiques ou choix de lectures…
La Haye and Paris: Pierre Aillaud, 1786.
Science in the wake of Pacific exploration
Octavo, [ii], 236 pp., uncut copy in original buntpapier wrappers. Curious and eclectic collection of essays on geography, astronomy, and recent voyage discoveries. The geographical sections are informed by the discoveries of Cook, la Pérouse and.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4202837
The Atmotic Ship…
Sydney: David Mason, printer, circa 1866.
Atmotic: pioneering steam driven airship in 1860s Sydney
Single printed sheet measuring 570 x 445 mm. in good condition, mounted. Rare Sydney broadside and a milestone in aviation history. This ephemeral large single sheet promotes the 'Atmotic Ship' – an early steam driven airship.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #4403227
Journal of the Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1896-7…
Perth: Wm. Alfred Watson, Government Printer, 1902.
Incomprehensible suffering and despair
Folio, 62 pp., with a large folding lithographic map measuring 890 x 648 mm., fine in handsome quarter green polished calf with gilt lettering. Official account of the scientific expedition financed by the wealthy English traveller Albert Calvert, dispatched.....
Price (AUD):
$1,200.00
Ref: #4106162
A Discourse upon… the Means for Preserving the Health of Mariners…
London: Royal Society, 1776.
Captain Cook's measures against scurvy
Small quarto, [iv], 44 pp. with the half-title, woodcut title device and headpiece, leaf C4 a cancel as usual; modern green quarter morocco. Published after the second voyage, this is one of the most significant and one of the rarest of.....
Price (AUD):
$44,500.00
Ref: #3003060
Nouvel Atlas des Enfans et des Commerçans…
Paris: Chez Saintin, 1811.
Children's atlas
Octavo, two hand-coloured plates and seven hand-coloured maps (four double-page, three folding), a handsome copy. A charming children's atlas, with delightful depictions of Tahiti, New Zealand and Hawaii. Although much reprinted and very popular, this work is now rare in any edition. Two exquisite.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3702899
Portrait of Charles Darwin.
London: published by William Mackenzie, circa 1885.
Portrait of the great scientist as an old man
Steel engraving, 107 x 134 mm. within larger sheet, An engraved portrait of the legendary naturalist Charles Darwin. The engraving is taken from an image by the famous studio of Elliott & Fry, specialists.....
Price (AUD):
$585.00
Ref: #3111119
Defences of the Colony.
Sydney: Thomas Richards, 1859. Foolscap folio, 37 pp.; printed on blue paper; protected in recent brown buckram. A scarce Government paper on the "Defence of the Town and Harbour of Sydney". Motivated chiefly by the memory of the Crimean War, the paper was a telling contribution to the then current.....
Price (AUD):
$445.00
Ref: #3301687
Notes on the Management of Chronometers and the Measurement of Meridian Distances.
London: J.D. Potter, 1861.
The chronometers of HMS Fly, by an officer on board
Octavo, xvi, 228 pp., including appendices and tables. New edition, revised and considerably expanded. The work includes important statistical tables from the north Australian survey conducted by HMS Fly under the command of Francis Blackwood between.....
Price (AUD):
$925.00
Ref: #4402900
The Adventures of a Griffin on a Voyage of Discovery. Written by Himself.
London: Bell and Daldy, 1867. Octavo, wood-engraved illustrations including frontispiece; original tan gilt-decorated cloth. A scarce and attractive work based on the experiences of the artist Harden Sidney Melville on a surveying voyage of coastal Australia. The HMS Fly surveyed Torres Strait, the Great Barrier Reef as well as various.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3709358
The History of Physick; from the time of Galen…
London: J. Walthoe, 1726.
First history of medicine written by an Englishman
Two volumes, octavo, contemporary panelled calf. Attractive early mixed set of this first history of medicine written by an Englishman, comprising the third edition of the first volume and first edition of the second. Regarding nautical medicine, Friend.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3511197
Collection of Seven Pamphlets on Gold…
London: various publishers, 1840-, 1855.
Pamphlets on Gold
Thick octavo, a contemporary collection of thirteen rare pamphlets, seven on the subject of gold, with in total five folding maps, each with original title-pages (one with drop-title only), several with owner's signature, and one with authorial inscription; a handsome volume in.....
Price (AUD):
$3,650.00
Ref: #3806721
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
A Description of Ventilators…
London: W. Innys, R. Manby, T. Woodward, 1763.
From men-of-war to the Drury Lane Theatre
Two volumes, octavo, five folding plates, contemporary speckled calf. First edition: Hales' ventilators became known as "ship's lungs", and were so appreciated by eighteenth-century sailors, and contributed so significantly to an improvement in seaboard conditions.....
Price (AUD):
$7,500.00
Ref: #3706038
Article on John Hutchinson's longitude clock...
London: D. Henry, November, 1775.
Experimental marine chronometer
Octavo, 48 pp., disbound. Complete issue of the Gentleman's Magazine for November 1775 containing an interesting biographical article on John Hutchinson (1674-1737), a natural scientist who, in 1712, invented and built a novel chronometer for ascertaining longitude. The article reads 'Some time.....
Price (AUD):
$375.00
Ref: #3707085
Giphantie.
Babylone (Paris): n.p., 1760. Octavo, with four engraved plates by Cochin after Desfriches illustrating the second work "Mon Odyssée ou le Journal de Mon Retour de Saintonge"; contemporary mottled calf,spine gilt with red label. First edition: a marvellous utopian community in Africa, prefiguring the uses of photography, television and the.....
Price (AUD):
$7,250.00
Ref: #3006485
Address in Surgery.
Melbourne: Stillwell & Co., 1889.
"accurate knowledge, infinite painstaking, and sacred reverence for human life"
Octavo, 23 pp., some foxing, old fold, and manuscript postal address and postmarks (1889), where the pamphlet has been mailed from South Australia to New South Wales; in the original printed wrappers, rather spotted and.....
Price (AUD):
$1,050.00
Ref: #3806686
The International Exhibition of 1862. The illustrated catalogue…
London: Printed for Her Majesty's Commisioners, 1862.
Australian products on the world stage.
Three volumes, quarto, folding plan and steel engraved illustrations throughout; in original gilt decorated cloth. Official catalogue of the 1862 International Exhibition, a spectacle of vast proportions promoting the products and manufacturing of Britain and her colonies.....
Price (AUD):
$1,600.00
Ref: #4403232