English Botany, or, Coloured Figures of British Plants ... Volume IV
London, J. Davis, 1795. Sold as a collection of plates. More
London, J. Davis, 1795. Sold as a collection of plates. More
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1805 and 1806 [first Dutch edition]/ 1802. A translation by J.F. Serrurier of the 'Pomologisches theoretisch-praktisches Handwörterbuch' by Johann Ludwig Christ (the title page here incorrectly giving his initials as 'J.C.'); it incorporates additional material from 'A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees' (1802) by..... More
London, printed for J. Harding, J. White and J. Mawman, 1810 [third edition]. The author was 'Planter and Forest Pruner to the Late and Present Duke of Bedford'. More
London, James Ridgway, 1826 (third edition). 'Illustrated with numerous figures of the plants and seeds upon which these experiments have been made, and practical observations on their natural habits and the soils best adapted to their growth; pointing out the kinds most profitable for permanent pasture, irrigated meadows, dry or..... More
London, T. & W. Boone, 1835. The front flyleaf is inscribed in ink 'To The Honble Mrs Byng from her old and very sincere friend The Author. Portsmouth 19 June 1835'. A Byng family armorial bookplate ('Tuebor', I Will Defend) is mounted on the pastedown (offsetting a little onto the..... More
London, J. Cross, 1838. The unnumbered four-page postscript after page 208 provides a summary of Adelaide newspapers 'received up to the 14th July'; in it, mention is made of Eyre's overlanding expedition from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1838, during which he discovered and named Lake Hindmarsh. In the lengthy..... More
London, Wm. S. Orr and Co., 1848 to 1849. More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1859. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 1 of 1859. The report contains a detailed list of all species of plants collected, although it included only three new genera and seventeen new species: the complete index 'would convey a more comprehensive idea of the vegetation which clothes the barren..... More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1861. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 42 of 1861; the report covers the calendar year 1860. Contents include a densely-printed two-page 'Report by the Judges of the Vineyards' (E.B. Heyne, Alwin Seidel and J.W. Dardel), and an eight-page report by the Director of the Experimental Farm (Thomas Skilling)..... More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1861. The essays are 'Collection and Storage of Water in Victoria' by Frederick Acheson (49 pages); 'Agriculture in Victoria' by William Story (pages 163 pages plus a plan); 'Origin and Distribution of Gold in Quartz Veins' by Henry Rosales (31 pages) and 'Development of the Resources of..... More
Adelaide, W.C. Rigby and Melbourne, Geo. Robertson, 1864. Sir Samuel Davenport (1818-1906) was an ardent promoter of agriculture and new industries in South Australia and served as president of both the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society and the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia ('Australian Dictionary..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 55 of 1866. Mainly routine matters, but there is a page of information and 'Instructions to Botanical Collector' prepared by Dr Richard Schomburgk, Director of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. More
Montauban, Forestie Neveu, 1868, 1869 and 1870. The first two years contain all 12 monthly issues; the third volume ends with #7, the July issue (clearly not the last one published). The text is in French; there are some excellent articles on wine (for example, 'Cuvé à étages pour la..... More
Chicago, S.C. Griggs and Company, 1869. With the bookplate of Edward Charles Stirling and the later nameplate of Noel Lothian. More
London, Houlston and Sons, 1873/ [circa 1860s]. More
Melbourne, E. & D. Syme, 'The Leader' Office, and Adelaide, Frearson & Bro. [1874]. 'The following Papers are reprinted from "The Farm" section of the Melbourne "Leader".... The writer left Melbourne on 1st September, 1874, and returned on the 30th November. The early Papers were written during September, in which..... More
Melbourne, E. & D. Syme, 'The Leader' Office, and Adelaide, Frearson & Bro. [1874]. 'The following Papers are reprinted from "The Farm" section of the Melbourne "Leader".... The writer left Melbourne on 1st September, 1874, and returned on the 30th November. The early Papers were written during September, in which..... More
Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1875. Dr Moritz Richard Schomburgk (1811-1891) was the director of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens at the time; in '1872 he was offered, but refused, the directorship of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). The 'Handbook of South Australia' mentioned on the title page..... More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1877 (second edition). A rarity: we have handled only four copies in over 46 years, and this is a parochial publication. Ernst Bernhard Heyne (1825-1881), botanist and horticulturist, 'was a prodigious writer. Though overshadowed by von Mueller, his botanical and horticultural work greatly contributed to..... More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1877 (second edition). A rarity: we have handled only four copies in over 46 years, and this is a parochial publication. Ernst Bernhard Heyne (1825-1881), botanist and horticulturist, 'was a prodigious writer. Though overshadowed by von Mueller, his botanical and horticultural work greatly contributed to..... More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1877 (second edition). This is only the fourth copy we have seen in over 45 years, and Trove records only five institutional holdings. We have noted two different bindings: papered boards, as here, in two instances, and quarter contrasting (red and green) cloth, lettered in..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1878. Primarily accounts from Mauritius newspapers commenting on the Minister Controlling the Northern Territory of South Australia's communication 'relative to the land you wish to bring under cultivation'. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 43 of 1878. More
London, Groombridge and Sons, tenth edition [1880s]/ [1869]. More
Adelaide, H.F. Leader, Government Printer, [1880s]. An original large-format chromolithograph from John Ednie Brown's 'Forest Flora of South Australia' (1882-1890), numbered 45 in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet. From soon after publication Harcourt Barrett was confronted with a popular conception that Rosa Fiveash was wholly or principally responsible..... More
Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, [1880s]. An original large-format chromolithograph from John Ednie Brown's 'Forest Flora of South Australia' (1882-1890), numbered 17 in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet, and initialled in the image 'R.C.F.' (Rosa Catherine Fiveash). From soon after publication Harcourt Barrett was confronted with a popular..... More
Adelaide, H.F. Leader, Government Printer, [1880s]. An original large-format chromolithograph from John Ednie Brown's 'Forest Flora of South Australia' (1882-1890), numbered 44 in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet. From soon after publication Harcourt Barrett was confronted with a popular conception that Rosa Fiveash was wholly or principally responsible..... More
Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, [1880s]. An original large-format chromolithograph from John Ednie Brown's 'Forest Flora of South Australia' (1882-1890), initialled in the image 'R.C.F.' (Rosa Catherine Fiveash). From soon after publication Harcourt Barrett was confronted with a popular conception that Rosa Fiveash was wholly or principally responsible for the..... More
Adelaide, H.F. Leader, Government Printer, [1880s]. An original large-format chromolithograph from John Ednie Brown's 'Forest Flora of South Australia' (1882-1890), numbered 43 in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet. From soon after publication Harcourt Barrett was confronted with a popular conception that Rosa Fiveash was wholly or principally responsible..... More
Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, [1880s]. An original large-format chromolithograph from John Ednie Brown's 'Forest Flora of South Australia' (1882-1890). From soon after publication Harcourt Barrett was confronted with a popular conception that Rosa Fiveash was wholly or principally responsible for the plates as published. Eventually, enough became too much..... More
Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, [1880s]. An original large-format chromolithograph from John Ednie Brown's 'Forest Flora of South Australia' (1882-1890), numbered 26 in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet. From soon after publication Harcourt Barrett was confronted with a popular conception that Rosa Fiveash was wholly or principally responsible..... More
London, Henry G. Bohn, 1880 ('third issue with additions')/ 1875/ 1858. This 'considerably enlarged' edition includes: 'An Alphabetical Reference-List of all the coloured plates of the Genus Pinus published in the Great Works of Lambert, Lawson, and Forbes' by Henry G. Bohn. The four nursery catalogues bound in at the..... More
Wellington, Printed at the Office of James Hughes, Lambton Quay (for the Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department), 1880. 'To insure accuracy of form, the specimens of the various grasses were lightly inked, and faintly impressed on the prepared surface of the lithographic stone, but the details were filled in..... More
[Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales, 1881]. An extract from the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Volume VI: a list of some plants 'which are not known to science as existing in South Queensland'. More
Perth, Richard Pether, Government Printer, 1882, and London, L. Reeve & Co., 1879. The balance of the first title is 'with some remarks and suggestions on future conservation and management of the timber areas, from various authorities. With a reprint of the regulations and laws in force for the renting..... More
Wellington, Government Printer, 1884. 'With a view to encouraging the more extensive culture of Citrus fruits in the northern portion of New Zealand, and of aiding planters with reliable information on the subject, the author of this book was empowered by the New Zealand Government to visit New South Wales..... More
London, Chapman and Hall Limited, 1884. An account by an Englishman of twenty months in America in 1882-83; 'my journey took me through Wyoming, about Montana, across to Washington territory, then back from California, through Nevada into Idaho. Cattle, cow-boys, round-ups, sheep-driving, herders, and life on the prairie, these are..... More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1886. This issue also contains WINNECKE, Charles: Plants collected in Central Australia (4 pages); it is a revised and corrected version of the list published in his official report of his 1883 expedition (see SA Parliamentary Paper Number 39 of 1884). More
Brisbane, James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1887. More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1889. Treating of the country 'following the Overland Telegraph Line northward from the Flinders to the Macdonnell Ranges [and traversing] the Lake Eyre basin'. This issue also contains TATE, Professor R.: A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants of Extra-Tropical South Australia (61 pages) and A Revision of..... More
Wellington, George Didsbury, Goverment Printer, 1891. A presentation copy, inscribed on the half title 'A. Morton Esq., F.L.S., with kind remembrances from the author. Dunedin, Feb 8th/92'. More
Sydney, Government Printer, 1892. Technical Education Series, No. 10. In categories, such as Food (6 pages), Drugs (7 pages) and Timbers (7 pages). More
Wellington, George Didsbury, Government Printer, May 1892. With many significant articles on Maori history and culture, and the geology, botany and zoology of New Zealand. More
London, R.H. Porter, 1892. William Lucas Distant (1845-1922) was a British entomologist; this is an account of his first visit to southern Africa, 'a twelve months' business sojourn ... [when] he employed the whole of his leisure time in ... zoological recreation'. His later four-year expedition resulted in the publication..... More
Sydney, Government Printer (Charles Potter, Parts I to V, and William Applegate Gullick, Parts VI and VII), for the Department of Mines and Agriculture (Forestry Branch), New South Wales, 1895 to 1898. The 'Introductory' in the first part consists of only one page, but it is most informative. 'The part..... More
Sydney, The Association, 1895. 'Section F, Ethnology and Anthropology' also contains other important articles, including LAUTERER, Joseph: Outlines of a Grammar of the Yaggara Dialect (6 pages); ENRIGHT, W.J. and R.H. MATHEWS: Rock Paintings and Carvings of the Aborigines of New South Wales [in the Wollombi Caves] (13 pages plus..... More
Wellington, John Mackay, Government Printer, June 1896. With many significant articles on Maori history and culture, and the exploration, geology, botany and zoology of New Zealand. More
Wellington, John Mackay, Government Printer, June 1900. With many significant articles on Maori history and culture, and the geology, botany, zoology, and early printing of New Zealand. More
London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1901. Provenance: Edward Charles Stirling, with his pictorial bookplate ('Gang forward') on the front pastedown, and his namestamp ('E.G. Stirling | Mt. Lofty, | South Australia') on the first title page. Sir Edward Charles Stirling (1848-1919), eminent SA surgeon, scientist and politician, created a famous..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1905. More
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1905. More