English Botany, or, Coloured Figures of British Plants ... Volume IV
London, J. Davis, 1795. With 71 hand-coloured botanical plates. More
London, J. Davis, 1795. With 71 hand-coloured botanical plates. 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
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
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
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
London, Lovell Reeve, 1866. With the armorial bookplate of Roger Angove. More
Chicago, Griggs, 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, 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, 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
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, 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
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
London, Seeley and Co, 1898. 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, 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
Colombo, Ferguson, 1908 (third 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
London, Edward Arnold, 1910. More
Hobart, John Vail, Government Printer, 1912. 'Read before the Royal Society of Tasmania ... October 14, 1912'. More
Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1913 and 1914 [first editions]. With the ownership stamp and armorial bookplate of James Howard Johnson. 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
Melbourne, George Robertson, [1914]. Two copies, each with a variant dustwrapper. 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
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
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
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
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
Melbourne, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 1923. Vernacular names as adopted by the Plant Names Committee of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. More
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
London, Heath Cranton, 1924. More
Hobart, Oldham, Beddome & Meredith, 1924. More
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
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
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
New York, Macmillan, 1930/ 1930. With the bookplate of Neil Lothian on the pastedown. More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1931. Commonwealth of Australia, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pamphlet Number 53. More
Adelaide, Thornquest, 1931. More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1933. Detailed notes on Aboriginal plant usage. This issue also contains TINDALE, Norman B.: Geological Notes on the Cockatoo Creek and Mount Liebig Country, Central Australia (12 pages with 2 maps plus 3 plates) and a bibliography of the works of Walter Howchin (8 pages). More