Natural history & science
The Botanist's Repository, comprising colour'd engravings of new and rare plants only, with botanical descriptions… [engraved title].
London: T. Bensley, for the author, 1797-1815.
With magnificent hand-coloured plates depicting Australian plants
A fine set of 10 volumes quarto, with in total 10 engraved titles and 664 exquisite hand-coloured plates (many folding), bound in original half green morocco with marbled boards, lettered in gilt. A fine set of.....
Price (AUD):
$65,000.00
Ref: #4505239
The Horse. Its treatment in health and disease...
London: Gresham Publishing Company, 1907.
For equine connoisseurs
Nine volumes, quarto, colour frontispieces and plates, folding tables; bright original decorated cloth with the bookplate of Henry White. A most attractive set in original art nouveau bindings of this complete guide to equine veterinary care, husbandry and pedigrees; profusely illustrated throughout.....
Price (AUD):
$2,500.00
Ref: #4403214
University of London Certificate of Honour
London: 1834-, 1835.
Charles Babbage's son at university before moving to Australia
Engraved Certificate, 265 x 366mm, fine. Decorative document certifying that Babbage diligently attended the lectures in the Senior Mathematical Class during the session of 1834-35, and was presented with the First Certificate.
Price (AUD):
$250.00
Ref: #4108217
University of London Certificate of Honour
London: 1833-, 1834.
Charles Babbage's son at university before moving to Australia
Engraved Certificate, 265 x 366mm. Decorative document certifying that Benjamin Herschel Babbage (1815-1878; Charles Babbage's son) diligently attended the lectures in the Second Class of Mathematics (1st Division) during the session of 1833-34; as well as a First.....
Price (AUD):
$275.00
Ref: #4108218
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
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
Catalogus Bibliothecæ
London: William Bulmer, 1796-1800.
The centre of intellectual London
Five volumes, octavo; volumes I-IV in contemporary half russia, volume V in contemporary calf. The complete catalogue of the private library of Sir Joseph Banks. Only 250 copies were printed, and complete sets are distinctly rare since the fifth volume, present.....
Price (AUD):
$17,850.00
Ref: #4505242
Observations on a Bill…
London? 1787.
Wool in England; preface probably by Joseph Banks
12mo, uncut, recent marbled wrappers. Rare: an intriguing pamphlet on the vexed question of the importation of wool into England, with a preface thought to have been contributed by Sir Joseph Banks. The West Countryman John Anstie had first mooted.....
Price (AUD):
$925.00
Ref: #4010210
"Portrait of Sr. Joseph Banks. President of the Royal Society" (early caption)…
England: circa 1795-1800.
An unrecorded version of Banks's favourite portrait, by the daughter of a friend
Pastel on paper backed onto linen 62 x 50cm; in the original gilt frame and glass. A compelling lifetime portrait of Sir Joseph Banks at the height of his powers, recently rediscovered in England.....
Price (AUD):
$65,000.00
Ref: #4504922
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
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
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
The Works of Robert Burns...
London: Cadell and Davies, 1813.
Scotland's greatest lyric poet
Five volumes, with an arresting portrait frontispiece; uniformly bound in contemporary full green polished calf with gilt ornament including a lyre in gilt on front and back covers; a most endearing set. A beautifully bound set of the complete works. The.....
Price (AUD):
$1,650.00
Ref: #4504101
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
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
William Jackson Hooker.
London: Fisher Son & Co, 1834. Engraving, 230 x 145mm (plate size). Fine portrait of the great botanist as a young man. Hooker was born at Norwich in 1785. Following his father's fascination with exotic plants, he showed a precocious interest in botany and in 1809, through the encouragement of.....
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #4109665
Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son Organisation…
Paris: Deterville, 1817.
Cuvier's great zoology, including Australian insects from the Baudin voyage
Four volumes, octavo, 15 engraved plates by C.-L. Laurillard a handsome set, with all four half-titles, in contemporary quarter calf over mottled papered boards, gilt, double spine labels in red & green. First edition of this germinal.....
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #3707077
An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite… [with] An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China… [and] An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India…
London: for the Author, by Bensley [or] Rivington, 1798-1800-1805.
"New Holland: it bursts upon our view at the first glance like a new creation"
Three volumes, quarto, with a total of 149 superior hand coloured engravings by the author; contemporary full calf, gilt with morocco labels. A striking and complete.....
Price (AUD):
$98,500.00
Ref: #4505249
Il Botanico coltivatore. Opera di G.L.M. du Mont de Courset recata in Italiano dall'ab Girlamo Romano.
Padova: Tipografia e Fonderia, 1819-, 1820.
The continuing influence of French gardens and Malmaison
12 volumes, octavo, a fresh fine set in the original printed blue paper wrappers, some wear at spines and evidence of earlier tape repairs, early Milanese bookseller's advertisement to front, very good. A most appealing set.....
Price (AUD):
$1,500.00
Ref: #4308559
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Voyage autour du monde… [A series of Botanique plates].
Paris: Arthus Bertrand, circa 1826.
Original plates from the Duperrey voyage
Three original parts, folio, containing a total of 29 plates, 6 of which are in original colouring; completely unbound as issued, original printed wrappers. A substantial series of botanical plates from the finely-illustrated Duperrey voyage, published in Paris between.....
Price (AUD):
$8,500.00
Ref: #2011786
Ostéographie des Monotrèmes vivants et fossiles…
Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1877-, 1878.
Monotremes by the great French scientific publisher
Four lithographed plates measuring 552 x 362 mm., one coloured; with accompanying text comprising two unopened quarto gatherings, both plates and text separately preserved in the publishers blue printed titling wrappers. Beautifully preserved monograph on the New Guinea.....
Price (AUD):
$7,500.00
Ref: #4504877
Great Brown King Fisher.
London: John Stockdale, 1789.
Fine depiction of the kookaburra
Original engraving, 260 x 190 mm. very good condition, mounted. Fine impression of the so-called "Great Brown Kings Fisher" or Laughing Kookaburra. This engraving is taken from Governor Phillip's Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay published by Stockdale in late.....
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #2908539