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. Ferguson 2525 (not noting the four-page insert or the small map); McLaren 10400 (basically copying Ferguson). 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..... 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. 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, 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

Chicago, Griggs, 1869. With the bookplate of Edward Charles Stirling and the later nameplate of Noel Lothian. 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 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

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

Médaille, Société Nationale d'Horticulture de France, 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