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

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 and Sons, 1877 (second edition). A rarity: this is only the third 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, 1881. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 179 of 1881. 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, 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, Government Printer, May 1892. With many significant articles on Maori history and culture, and the geology, botany and zoology of New Zealand. 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

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1897. 'The following treatise is based upon observations gathered during two different visits to the Commander Islands, off the coast of Kamchatka, the first undertaken in 1882-83, during the palmiest days of the fur-seal industry, the latter being last year (1895) ... to study the recent..... More

Wellington, John McKay, 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, John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1901. With the pencilled inscription (dated 4 September 1936) of a member of the Reynell family. Volume V. in the Handbooks of Practical Gardening. More

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1905. More

Melbourne, Government Printer, 1907. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 12 of 1907 (Second Session); only 900 copies printed. The items under discussion are primarily of a tropical nature: cotton fibres, mohair, vegetable oils, rice, rubber, coffee beans, tobacco leaf, dates (and fish). More

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1907. Reprinted from 'The Register', 'The Adelaide Observer' and 'The Evening Journal'. 'With the Compliments of the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the State of South Australia' is printed at the head of the front cover. More

London, The Studio, 1907-1911. 'The Studio': Special Winter Number, 1907-08; Special Winter Number, 1908-09 and Special Spring Number, 1911. More

Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1908 [first edition]. More

Sydney, Government Printer, 1909. With the later ownership details rewritten into a presentation inscription, and the later ownership signature of W.J. Mayo, and two related newspaper clippings loosely inserted. More

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas, 1911 [a new work - see footnote]. Reprinted from The Register and The Observer; a selection of some of the most educative and interesting articles from the 'Man on the Land' column. A pamphlet with the same title but containing a different selection of material was published..... More