English Botany, or, Coloured Figures of British Plants .. Volume IV
London, J. Davis, 1795. With 71 hand-coloured botanical plates. More
Natural History
Practical Observations on the British Grasses, especially such as are best adapted to the laying down or improving of meadows and pastures: likewise an enumeration of the British grasses .. Sixth edition, with considerable additions by John Lawrence .. To which is subjoined, a Short Account of the Causes of the Diseases in Corn, called by Farmers the Blight, the Mildew, and the Rust; by Sir Joseph Banks
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
Report on the Plants collected during Mr Babbage's Expedition into the North-Western Interior of South Australia in 1858
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
Contributions to Natural History, chiefly in Relation to the Food of the People. By a Rural D.D
Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1865. Not least, fish and fishing. 'The alimentary virtues of Horse-Flesh and Fungi are discussed with a half-earnest levity ... but with the sea as our fish-pond, and pisciculture capable of endless developement alike in salt-water and fish, it is marvellous that multitudes should be pining with hunger..... More
Northern Territory Correspondence.. Copies of all despatches with a list of stores .. and number and names of men forwarded to the Northern Territory since December last
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
British Spiders. An Introduction to the Study of the Araneidae of Great Britain and Ireland
London, Lovell Reeve, 1866. With the armorial bookplate of Roger Angove. More
The Mississipi Valley. Its Physical Geography, including Sketches of the Topography, Botany, Climate, Geology, and Mineral Resources; and of the Progress of Development in Population and Material Wealth
Chicago, Griggs, 1869. With the bookplate of Edward Charles Stirling and the later nameplate of Noel Lothian. More
A Year in the New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, and New Caledonia.. With an Account of the Early History of the New Hebrides Missions, by A.J. Campbell, Geelong; A Narrative of the Voyages of the 'Dayspring', by D. McDonald DD; and an Appendix, containing a Contribution to the Phytography of the New Hebrides, by Baron von Mueller CMG MD PhD FRS
Geelong, George Mercer, Malop Street, and Melbourne, George Robertson, [1873]. The separately paginated section at the rear has its own title page: 'Contributions to the Phytography of the New Hebrides and Loyalty Islands, from Mr F.A. Campbell's Collections. By Baron Ferd. von Mueller'. The half-title is inscribed and signed 'To..... More
The Flora of South Australia.. From the Handbook of South Australia
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
Natural History
London, George Routledge, 1877. With a Christmas Examination Prize plate from the North Adelaide Grammar School on the front pastedown. More
Rabbit Nuisance in New South Wales and Tasmania
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1885. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 103 of 1885; only 570 copies printed. The paper reprints three letters to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald from 1883, as well as an 1884 report from the NSW Government Veterinarian on rabbit and cattle disease in Tasmania. More
Remarks on some Indigenous Shrubs of South Australia suitable for Cultivation as Fodder. [Contained in] Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 8, 1886
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
On the Geological Structure and Physical Features of Central Australia. [Contained in] Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 12, 1889
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
Annual Report of the Agricultural Department, Privy Council Office, on the Contagious Diseases Inspection and Transit of Animals for the Year 1888, with an Appendix
London, HMSO, 1889. British Parliamentary Paper C. 5679 of 1889. The highly detailed and impressive plates illustrate the sections on swine fever, anthrax, tubercular mammitis and actinomycosis bovis ('lumpy jaw'). Reading these reports suggests the rise of vegetarianism in Victorian England was not without good cause. This paper is contained..... More
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton
London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1891 (fourth edition)/ 1875. 'The Standard Edition by E.T. Bennet. Thoroughly revised, with additional Notes, by James Edmund Harting.... Stereotyped Edition. With 10 letters not included in any other edition of the work. Illustrated with engravings by Thomas Bewick and others'. With a tipped-in note on Publisher's..... More
Home Life on the Ostrich Farm. Second Edition
London, George Philip and Son, 1891. More
A Bibliography of Australian Economic Botany. Part I
Sydney, Government Printer, 1892. Technical Education Series, No. 10. In categories, such as Food (6 pages), Drugs (7 pages) and Timbers (7 pages). More
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1891. Vol. XXIV (Seventh of New Series)
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
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Lloyd's Natural History. [Sixteen volumes, the complete set]
London, Edward Lloyd, 1896 and 1897. The set comprises BOWDLER SHARPE, R.: British Birds (four volumes with 124 colour plates); OGILVIE-GRANT, W.R.: Handbook to the Game Birds (two volumes with 42 colour plates); KIRBY, W.F.: Handbook to the Order Lepidoptera (five volumes with 159 colour plates); FORBES, H.O.: Handbook to..... More
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1895. Vol. XXVIII (Eleventh of New Series)
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
Animals of Today. Their Live and Conversation
London, Seeley and Co, 1898. More
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1899. Vol. XXXII (Fifteenth of New Series)
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
Game, Shore and Water Birds of India. With Additional References to their Allied Species in other Parts of the World
London, Thacker, 1904 (fourth edition)/ 1874. More
Guide to the Gallery of Birds in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History)
London, By Order of the Trustees [of the British Museum], 1905. More
The Place of the Australian Aboriginal in Recent Anthropological Research. [Contained in the] Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
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
Rabbit Destruction - Dr Danysz's Experiments. Second Progress Report on Experiments made with the Danysz Virus for the Destruction of Rabbits, by Dr E. Angas Johnson and W.J.P. Giddings, Honorary Commissioners for the South Australian Government
Melbourne, J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer for the State of Victoria (for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia), 1907. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 1 of 1907; one of 950 copies. Jean Danysz (1860-1928), microbiologist, 'spent much of his working life at the Institut Pasteur in France and isolated a...... More
The Place of the Australian Aboriginal in Recent Anthropological Research. Read before the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, at Adelaide, January, 1907
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer [for the AAAS], 1907. Inscribed in ink on the front cover 'With the author's compliments'. More
Hevea Brasiliensis or Para Rubber. Its Botany, Cultivation, Chemistry and Diseases
Colombo, Ferguson, 1908 (third edition). More
Sir Joseph Banks. The 'Father of Australia'
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
Unexplored Spain
London, Edward Arnold, 1910. More
A Research on the Eucalypts of Tasmania and their Essential Oils
Hobart, John Vail, Government Printer, 1912. 'Read before the Royal Society of Tasmania ... October 14, 1912'. More
Wild Life in Central Africa
London, The Field and Queen (Horace Cox), [circa 1913]. More
A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales. Volume I. [Together with:] .. Volume II
Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1913 and 1914 [first editions]. With the ownership stamp and armorial bookplate of James Howard Johnson. More
The Avifauna of Melville Island, Northern Territory
[Adelaide, South Australian Ornithologist, 1914]. A separately-issued offprint; no publishing details are given, but the article first appeared in the first issue of the South Australian Ornithologist (pages 11-18). A list of 97 birds known to occur on Melville Island, with short descriptions of nine new sub-species 'recently collected by'..... More
The Native Flowers of Victoria
Melbourne, George Robertson, [1914]. Two copies, each with a variant dustwrapper. More
Some Desert Flowers collected near Cairo
Cairo, F. Diemer (printed by John Swain & Son, Ltd., London), [1914]. Provenance: 'Chas. Barrett. Cairo, 24/5/18' is written in ink on the inside front cover. Charles Leslie Barrett (1879-1959), naturalist and journalist, enlisted in June 1916 'in the Australian Imperial Force and joined the Camel Brigade Field Ambulance which..... More
Report of the Eighty-Fourth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Australia: 1914
London, John Murray, 1915. Major articles of interest include those by Sir Everard Im Thurn: "A Study of Primitive Character" (10 pages) and by Professor F.O. Bower on Australian botany (13 pages). More
The Cruise of the Avocet. In Search of Skuas and other things. Reprinted from 'The Register'
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas and Co., Printers, [1916?]. McLaren 16761: 'Visit to the islands at the entrance to the St Vincent and Spencer's Gulfs in January 1916' on board the Rymills' motor yacht. More
In the Far North-East. A Scientific Expedition.. Reprinted from The Register
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, [1917]. Inscribed, dated (10 November 1917) and signed by the author at the head of the title page to T.G. Souter (an amateur ornithologist from Maitland in country South Australia), with the latter's ownership signature on the flyleaf. In September and October 1916, White..... More
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The External Characters of Pouch Embryos of Marsupials. [A series of nine articles contained in] Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volumes 44 to 48 (1920 to 1924)
Adelaide, Royal Society of South Australia, 1920 to 1924. Although not identified as such, the illustrations in every instance are by the author. These five volumes are offered with a matching copy of Volume 49 (1925), completing the important 18-part series, 'Flora and Fauna of Nuyts Archipelago and the Investigator..... More
A Census of the Plants of Victoria. With their Regional Distribution and the Vernacular Names..
Melbourne, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 1923. Vernacular names as adopted by the Plant Names Committee of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. More
Report on Causes of Heavy Mortality in Stock after travelling between Wycliffe and Taylor
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1924. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 117 of 1923-24; only 820 copies printed. A detailed report on poisonous plants (and more interesting than you might think!). More
A Bush Calendar
Sydney, Cornstalk, 1924. More
A Synopsis of the Vertebrate Animals of Tasmania
Hobart, Oldham, Beddome & Meredith, 1924. More
Jungle Days
New York, Putnam, 1925 (fourth impression)/ 1925. With a contemporary presentation inscription on an early blank: 'Hedley R. Marston / With regards & best wishes / from T. Brailsford Robertson 1926'. To Dr Hedley Ralph Marston FRS from his mentor Professor Robertson - both men were eminent Australian biochemists in..... More
The Kosciusko Plateau. [Contained in] Journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales for 1925 .. Volume 59
Sydney, Royal Society of New South Wales, 1925. This issue also contains numerous articles on botany; not least being several by A.R. Penfold on a variety of Essential Oils. More
Rhododendrons for Everyone
London, The Gardeners' Chronicle Limited, 1926. One of the Gardeners' Chronicle Handbooks series. 'The first three chapters are the result of seven years' experience in the field, where I have been collecting ... in China, Tibet, Burma, and Assam. No originality is claimed for Chapter IV. Chapters V and VI..... More
Brown Rot of Fruits, and Associated Diseases, in Australia. Part 1. History of the Disease and Determination of the Causal Organism. [Contained in] Journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales for 1928 ..Volume 62
Sydney, Royal Society of New South Wales, 1928. This issue also contains numerous articles on botany; eucalyptus oil, sandalwood oil and several essential oils. More