London, printed for T. Payne and Son, 1777 [fourth edition]/ 1770. 'Gardening, in the perfection to which it has been lately brought in England, is entitled to a place of considerable rank among the liberal arts. It is as superior to landskip [sic] painting, as a reality to a representation..... 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 Sherwood, Jones and Co., 1824. The Sir Joseph Banks contribution (pages 151-166 plus the folding plate, based on drawings by Francis Bauer) first appeared in the fourth edition of this book in 1805. There is a five-line reference in it to "Specimens received from the colony of..... 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

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

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

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

London, Bell and Daldy, 1871. 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, E.S. Wigg and Sons, 1877 (second edition). A rarity: this is only the second copy we have seen in over 40 years, and Trove records only five institutional holdings. Ernst Bernhard Heyne (1825-1881), botanist and horticulturist, 'was a prodigious writer. Though overshadowed by von Mueller, his botanical and horticultural..... 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

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

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

Sydney, Government Printer, 1892. Technical Education Series, No. 10. In categories, such as Food (6 pages), Drugs (7 pages) and Timbers (7 pages). More

Adelaide, H. Hampson, Advertising Agent, 1894. 'This work has been in course of preparation during several years, and is a selection of articles, chiefly, which have appeared from time to time in the columns of the "Garden and Field".... The author hopes that this work, which he regrets is very..... More

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1896. Francis Hobart Herrick (1858-1940) was for many decades Professor of Biology at Western Reserve University, Ohio. His 'scholarly publishing career spanned over 50 years, 1883-1937. His early research focused on the American lobster in New England. His work revealed that over-harvesting egg-producing adult lobsters was..... More

Edinburgh, Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1897. Science Talks to Young Thinkers series. More

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1901. Parsons (17 pages), Holtze (5 pages) plus two appendices: Extracts from the Report of the Curator of the Botanic Gardens, Palmerston for 1888 (4 pages) and 1898 (2 pages). More

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1902. Reprinted from 'The Register', 'The Adelaide Observer' and 'The Evening Journal'. More

Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1905. More

Adelaide, AAAS, 1907. This issue also contains HOWITT, A.W.: Personal Reminiscences of Central Australia and the Burke and Wills Expedition (43 pages); KLAATSCH, Hermann: Some Notes on Scientific Travel amongst the Black Population of Tropical Australia in 1904, 1905, 1906 (16 pages plus 17 plates and a folding map) and..... More

London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907. One of the Handbooks of Practical Gardening series; with the armorial bookplate of Sir Josiah Symon. More

Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer [for the AAAS], 1907. Inscribed in ink on the front cover 'With the author's compliments'. More

Colombo, Ferguson, 1908 (third edition). More

Mannum, David Shearer Limited, [1910s]. More