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
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
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
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, S.C. Griggs and Company, 1869. With the bookplate of Edward Charles Stirling and the later nameplate of Noel Lothian. 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, 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
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
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
London, John Murray, 1889 (twentieth thousand)/ 1845. With the contemporary ownership details of 'W.S. Johnson, July 23 / 1889, Adelaide'. Freeman 50. More
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
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
London, George Philip and Son, 1891. 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, The Society, 1891. The nine parts of Etheridge's article are divided into three sections, distributed through Part II of this volume; he also contributes a further two articles on geological subjects. Other important articles include MUELLER, Baron Ferdinand von: Descriptions of hitherto unrecorded Australian Plants, with additional Phyto-geographic notes..... 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, Thacker, 1904 (fourth edition)/ 1874. More
London, By Order of the Trustees [of the British Museum], 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
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
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer [for the AAAS], 1907. Inscribed in ink on the front cover 'With the author's compliments'. More
Maidstone, [The Author] ? 1907 (revised fifth edition)/ 1881. More
Colombo, Ferguson, 1908 (third edition). More
Melbourne, Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1909. More
Adelaide, R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer, for the Education Department of South Australia, 1911 (second edition, revised and enlarged)/ [circa 1909]. Provenance: Norman Lewis, former Head of the SA Woods and Forests Department, with his contemporary ink ownership and library details on the front free endpaper, and his ink annotation (on..... More
Hobart, John Vail, Government Printer, 1912. 'Read before the Royal Society of Tasmania ... October 14, 1912'. More
London, Lovell Reeve & Co., 1912 [revised re-issue]/ [1910]. With a new preface implying that Chapter XXI has been revised (and a short addendum to the introduction). A pioneering work, the outcome of more than fifteen months residence in Cocos-Keeling atoll in 1905-1907. More
[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
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
Sydney, Technological Museum, 1915. Provenance: Lesley Kilmeny Symon (1885-1969), with her initials on the front free endpaper. She was one of the daughters of Sir Josiah Symon (1846-1934), South Australian lawyer and politician. More
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
Sydney, W.A. Gullick, Government Printer, 1916. Offered together with G.I. Playfair: 'Supplement I: Fresh-water Algae' (Sydney, W.A. Gullick, Government Printer, 1917. Octavo; quarter cloth and flush-cut boards. [ii], 217-264 pages. Covers discoloured with signs of use and age; minor signs of handling; ownership signature on the front flyleaf; a presentable..... More