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Abbie, A. A.
THE ORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS. First Edition; pp. 288; 16 plates, 12 text figures, bibliography & sources, addenda, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper; scarce. Wellington; A. H. & A. W. Reed; N.D. [c. 1969]. For full description and picture please click here. #22733 | A$75.00 | 2 Click HERE to order |
Abraham, James Johnston.
LETTSOM: His Life, Times, Friends and Descendants. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. xx, 498; 145 illustrations, including many full-page plates, folding pedigree, etc., 2 appendices, index; original buckram; a nice copy in rare dustwrapper (taped & slightly defective). London; William Heinemann Medical Books Ltd; 1933. ***John Coakley Lettsom, 1746-1815, was one of the leading physicians of the Eighteenth century and was at the forefront of many of the medical advances of the day. The dustwrapper (seldom found) is the second issue one stating "Cheap Edition" issued to stimulate sales, but the book is the first edition, identical in all respects. From the library of Ralph Pilkington, with his bookplate. For full description and picture please click here. #19550 | A$95.00 | 3 Click HERE to order |
Adams, W. Davenport.
DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. Being a Comprehensive Guide to English Authors and Their Works. New and Revised Edition. Pp. [iv], 708, [4](adv.); original cloth, rebacked in calf, gilt; (joints a little worn; some foxing); a very good copy. London; Cassell Petter & Galpin; N.D. [c. 1885]. For full description and picture please click here. #41800 | A$45.00 | 4 Click HERE to order |
Adam Smith, Patsy.
PRISONERS OF WAR. From Gallipoli to Korea. Impl. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [viii], 600(last blank); several illustrations, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Ringwood, Victoria); Viking; (1992). For full description and picture please click here. #31113 | A$60.00 | 5 Click HERE to order |
Admiralty Chart: Australia - South Coast. Victoria.
PORT PHILLIP. Large folding chart, in 2 sheets, each 780 x 650 mm. approx., dissected and mounted on linen and enclosed in cloth folding cases (the cases a little worn); drawn by R. C. Carrington, minor corrections to April 1887, large corrections to December 1875; in very good condition; scarce. London; Published at the Admiralty; 1865 [1887]. For full description and picture please click here. #59666 | A$250.00 | 6 Click HERE to order |
Africa:
AFRICA AND THE ARABIAN PENINSULA. Compiled and Drawn in the Cartographic Section of the National Geographic Society for National Geographic Magazine. Gilbert Grosvenor, Editor. Chamberlin Trimetric Projection. Scale 1:12,000,000 or 189.4 miles to the inch. Large folded coloured map, 680 by 750 mm; a very good copy. Washington; National Geographic Society; March, 1950. For full description and picture please click here. #17694 | A$20.00 | 7 Click HERE to order |
Africa:
NORTHERN AFRICA. Compiled and Drawn in the Cartographic Section of the National Geographic Society for National Geographic Magazine. John Oliver LaGorce, Editor. Oblique Mercator Projection. Scale 1:7,500,000 or 118.4 miles to the inch. Large folded coloured map, 1000 by 665 mm; (some slight silverfishing); a very good copy. Washington; National Geographic Society; December, 1954. For full description and picture please click here. #17680 | A$20.00 | 8 Click HERE to order |
Agee, Philip.
ON THE RUN. Med. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. 400; 8 plates, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Bloomsbury; (1987). ***An interesting account of Agee's life after leaving the CIA and his campaigns against its excesses. For full description and picture please click here. #27713 | A$40.00 | 9 Click HERE to order |
Agriculture:
New South Wales. Department of Agriculture. Library and Publications Division. Bulletin, No. 1. [Revised.]. LIST OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT. March, 1913. 8vo; pp. 41+[15](full-page adverts. for books such as Maiden's Forest Flora, Sussmilch's Geology, etc.); original wrappers; scarce. Sydney; William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer; 1913. For full description and picture please click here. #68474 | A$35.00 | 10 Click HERE to order |
Agriculture:
THE JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE [OF] VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. A collection of Indices to Volume 43 to Volume 55. Cr. 4to; Vols. 43-52 each pp. viii; Vols. 53-55 each pp. xii; stapled, as issued; fine copies. [Melbourne; Government Printer; 1945-57. ***Useful alphabetical indices to the thirteen volumes. For full description and picture please click here. #68469 | A$20.00 | 11 Click HERE to order |
Akhurst, Adrian.
HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN CLUB, MELBOURNE. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [viii], 128; 8 plates; original cloth; a fine copy. [Melbourne; The Australian Club; 1971]. For full description and picture please click here. #67525 | A$50.00 | 12 Click HERE to order |
Aldis, Harry G.:
THE PRINTED BOOK. The Original Manual by Harry G. Aldis revised & brought up to date by John Carter and Brooke Crutchley. Third Edition. F'cap 8vo, Third Edition; pp. [xii], 142, [2](blank); 14 b/w. plates, 3 reproductions of the printer's devices of Caxton, John Siberch and Cambridge University Press in the 18th century, bibliography, index; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly defective dustwrapper. Cambridge; at the University Press; 1951. ***First published in 1916. For full description and picture please click here. #30414 | A$65.00 | 13 Click HERE to order |
Aleksander, Igor and Burnett, Piers.
REINVENTING MAN. The Robot Becomes Reality. Med. 8vo, First U.S. Edition; pp. 304(last 3 blank); numerous diagrams, 2 appendices, further reading, index; original quarter cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. New York; Holt, Rinehart and Winston; (1984). For full description and picture please click here. #67155 | A$40.00 | 14 Click HERE to order |
Allibone, S. Austin & Kirk, John.
A CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND BRITISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS, Together, 5 vols., thick impl. 8vo, First Editions; Vol. I, pp. [iv], 1154; Vol. II, pp. [vi], 1155-2326; Vol. III, pp. [vi], 2327-3140 (pp. 2911-3140 comprising indices); Supplement, Vol. I, pp. x, 734; Vol., II, pp. [ii], 735-1562; all volumes in original cloth (neatly rebacked & recornered, with original backstrips preserved); a very good set. Philadelphia; J. B. Lippincott & Co.; 1877 & 1891 (Supplement). ***A comprehensive biographical dictionary of British and American Authors, Kirk's Supplement providing much useful additional information. For full description and picture please click here. #34348 | A$350.00 | 15 Click HERE to order |
Allied Geographical Section, Southwest Pacific Area:
AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AND ADJACENT AREAS. With an introduction by General Douglas MacArthur United States Army. Volume 4: Supplement to Volumes 1, 2 and 3. 4to, Second Edition; pp. xii, 230 (plus section titles); 3 folding maps of areas covered by the bibliography; typeset to match volumes 1 to 3 from the original 693-page duplicated typescript; original cloth-backed printed boards; (a few light pencil marks). Broadbeach Waters, Queensland; Pacific Press; 1990. ***The original duplicated typescript edition of volume 4 is very rare and it is known only a few copies exist in Australia mainly held by University Libraries. For full description and picture please click here. #26834 | A$85.00 | 16 Click HERE to order |
Allison, A. F. and Goldsmith, V. F.
TITLES OF ENGLISH BOOKS (And of Foreign Books Printed in England). An alphabetical Finding-List by Title of Books Published under the Author's Name, Pseudonym or Initials. Volume I 1475-1640 [Volume II 1641-1700]. 2 vols., cr. 4to, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [iv], 176; Vol. II, pp. [iv], 318, [2](blank); original cloth (slightly faded); a fine set. (Folkestone, Kent); Dawson; (1976). ***A valuable adjunct to Pollard and Redgrave's A Short title Catalogue of Books printed in England, Scotland and Ireland and of English Books printed abroad, 1475-1640, and Wing's similar work covering 1641-1700. For full description and picture please click here. #51865 | A$100.00 | 17 Click HERE to order |
Amadio, Nadine and Kimber, Richard.
WILDBIRD DREAMING. Aboriginal Art from the Central Deserts of Australia. Photography by Barry Skipsey. Demy 4to, First Edition; pp. 144; full-page map, 34 full-page coloured & 6 b/w. illustrations, notes, bibliography; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Melbourne; Greenhouse Publications; (1988). For full description and picture please click here. #21734 | A$75.00 | 18 Click HERE to order |
America:
NORTH AMERICA. Prepared especially for the National Geographic Magazine. Gilbert Grosvenor, Editor. Scale 1:10,000,000 or 157.82 miles to the inch. Azimuthal Equidistant Projection. Large folded coloured map, 690 by 920 mm; (some folds just starting to split); a very good copy. Washington; National Geographic Society; 1924. For full description and picture please click here. #17825 | A$20.00 | 19 Click HERE to order |
Amundsen, Roald.
THE SOUTH POLE: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram", 1910-1912. Translated from the Norwegian by A. G. Chater. New York; Lee Keedick; 1913. ***Spence 18; Renard 20; Rosove A9.B2. This edition consists of the sheets of the First London Edition (first impression), with the title-leaf and last leaf in each volume replaced by cancel leaves with the U.S. details, and is identical in content to the First London Edition. For full description and picture please click here. #62491 | A$275.00 | 20 Click HERE to order |
Amundsen, Roald.
THE SOUTH POLE: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram", 1910-1912. Translated from the Norwegian by A. G. Chater. New York; Lee Keedick; 1913. ***Spence 18; Rosove 9.B2; Renard 20 (variant, see below). This first U.S. edition consists of the sheets of the first London Edition (first impression), with the title-leaf and last leaf in each volume amended. In most copies, these four leaves are replaced by cancel leaves with the U.S. details, but in a few copies (as this one) the last leaves are the original English ones, with the English imprints neatly erased (as issued). It is identical in content to the First London Edition. The details of neither of these two variants of the U.S. edition is explicitly noted by Rosove. For full description and picture please click here. #62497 | A$1500.00 | 21 Click HERE to order |
Amundsen, Roald.
THE SOUTH POLE. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram", 1910-1912. Translated from the Norwegian by A. G. Chater. 2 vols. in 1, Facsimile Edition; pp. [iv], xxxvi, 392; x, 458(last 9 blank); 6 maps (including 1 folding), 100 plates, folding diagram of the "Fram", several text figures; appendices, index; original blue papered boards, spine gilt; endpapers foxed; otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper. St. Lucia; University of Queensland Press; (1976). ***A facsimile of the First Edition by John Murray, see Spence 28 - variant imprint; Renard 22; Rosove 9.D2. For full description and picture please click here. #3945 | A$220.00 | 22 Click HERE to order |
Anderson, Edward F.
PLANTS AND PEOPLE OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE. Ethnobotany of the Hill Tribes of Northern Thailand. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 280(last blank); full-page map, 200 illustrations on 76 fine coloured plates, a few text illustrations, 4 appendices, bibliography, general index, index to scientific plant names, index to common plant names; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Portland, Oregon; Dioscorides Press; (1993). For full description and picture please click here. #36614 | A$85.00 | 23 Click HERE to order |
Anderson, Captain Lindsay.
A CRUISE IN AN OPIUM CLIPPER. Cr. 8vo, Facsimile Edition; pp. [3]-224, [2](blank); 8 full-page illustrations; original vinyl; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Melbourne; Published by Ibex; (1989). ***First published in 1891. For full description and picture please click here. #35788 | A$30.00 | 24 Click HERE to order |
Anderson, R. C.
THE RIGGING OF SHIPS. In the Days of the Spritsail Topmast 1600-1720. Med. 8vo; pp. xiv, 278; 24 plates (some with extensive keys), several text figures, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Greenwich; Conway Maritime Press; 1982. ***First published 1927. For full description and picture please click here. #24152 | A$60.00 | 25 Click HERE to order |
Andrew, Christopher and Gordievsky, Oleg.
KGB. The Inside Story of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxxii, 704; endpaper map, 24 plates, 22 appendices, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Hodder & Stoughton; (1990). ***A comprehensive history of the KGB and its forerunners, including the information that the "fifth man" was John Cairncross rather than Roger Hollis as stated by Chapman Pincher (#27714), Peter Wright (#41457), and others. For full description and picture please click here. #27526 | A$50.00 | 26 Click HERE to order |
Andrews, Lorrin.
A DICTIONARY OF THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE. To which is appended an English-Hawaiian Vocabulary and a Chronological Table of Remarkable Events. With an introduction to the new edition by Terence Barrow, Ph.D. Facsimile Edition, Second Impression; pp. x, 566(last 7 blank); chronological table; original cloth; (name on title-page); a nice copy in dustwrapper. Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan; Charles E. Tuttle Company; (1977). ***First published Honolulu, Henry M. Whitney, 1865. For full description and picture please click here. #37185 | A$45.00 | 27 Click HERE to order |
Angas, George French.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA ILLUSTRATED. London; Thomas M'Lean; 1846-47. For full description and picture please click here. #14526 | A$45,000.00 | 28 Click HERE to order |
Angel, J. R.
THE AUSTRALIAN CLUB 1838-1988. The First 150 Years. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [vi], iv-x(recto), 1-403(verso); numerous illustrations (several coloured), notes, 4 appendices, bibliography, index; original vinyl; a fine copy in dustwrapper (spine a little faded). Sydney; John Ferguson, in association with The Australian Club; (1988). For full description and picture please click here. #67526 | A$30.00 | 29 Click HERE to order |
Angus & Robertson:
THE ANGUS & ROBERTSON CONCISE AUSTRALIAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA. Impl. 8vo, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. [vi], 506(last blank); numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney); Angus & Robertson Publishers; (1984). ***First published in 1983. For full description and picture please click here. #45617 | A$30.00 | 30 Click HERE to order |
Anker, Jean.
BIRD BOOKS AND BIRD ART. Roy. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [iv], xviii, 252(last blank); 14 plates, catalogue of the collection of books on birds in the University Library at Copenhagen, bibliography, indices; original cloth (corners slightly bumped); a fine copy. The Hague; Dr. W. Junk B.V., Publishers; 1973. ***Originally published at Copenhagen in 1938 by Levin & Munksgaard. For full description and picture please click here. #19885 | A$220.00 | 31 Click HERE to order |
[Appleton, Richard; General Editor].
THE AUSTRALIAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA. 6 vols., cr. 4to, "3rd Edition", revised; Vol. I, pp. xxii, 506; Vol. II, pp. [iv], 460; Vol. III, pp. [iv], 524; Vol. IV, pp. [iv], 524; Vol. V, pp. [iv], 476; Vol. VI, pp. [iv], 520, [4](blank); several full-page coloured illustrations (including maps), very numerous b/w. maps (some full-page), over 300 b/w. illustrations, list of contributors; original imitation leather, gilt; (slight smudging of type to a couple of leaves in Vol. 2, otherwise a very good, clean & sound set). Sydney; The Grolier Society of Australia; (1979, Vols. III-VI reprinted 1981). ***The Australian Encyclopaedia was first published in 1925 in two volumes; a second edition in ten volumes was published in 1958 and was reprinted with minor alterations five times up to 1972. This third edition was first printed in 1977, revised in 1979 under the general editorship of Richard Appleton. For full description and picture please click here. #47200 | A$85.00 | 32 Click HERE to order |
Arago, Jacques.
NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, 2 Parts in 1 vol., 4to, Facsimile Edition; Part I, pp. viii, xxxii, 286(last blank); Part II, pp. [ii], 302(last 3 blank); folding map, 25 plates, appendices; original imitation vellum; a fine copy. [Amsterdam; N. Israel; 1971]. ***Bibliotheca Australiana No. 45. Facsimile of the First and Best Edition in English - see Ferguson 885. For full description and picture please click here. #2138 | A$220.00 | 33 Click HERE to order |
Archer, Mildred.
NATURAL HISTORY DRAWINGS IN THE INDIA OFFICE LIBRARY. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. x, 116, [2](blank); 26 plates (2 coloured), catalogue, bibliography, index; original cloth, gilt; a fine copy in slightly silverfished dustwrapper. London; Published for the Commonwealth Relations Office by Her Majesty's Stationery Office; 1962. ***An attractive book, including botanical and zoological drawings and notes of biographical and historical interest. For full description and picture please click here. #6077 | A$95.00 | 34 Click HERE to order |
Archer, Michael; Hand, Suzanne J.; and Godthelp, Henk.
RIVERSLEIGH. [The Story of Animals in Ancient Rainforests of Inland Australia. Foreword by Sir David Attenborough]. 4to, First Edition; pp. 264; very numerous coloured illustrations (including panoramic fold-out plate), 2 appendices, bibliography, glossary, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. [Balgowlah; Reed Books Pty Ltd; 1991]. For full description and picture please click here. #45699 | A$45.00 | 35 Click HERE to order |
Archibald, E. H. H.
THE FIGHTING SHIP IN THE ROYAL NAVY AD 897-1984. Illustrated by Ray Woodward. Roy. 4to, Revised Edition, Second Impression (with minor revisions); pp. [viii], 416; numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, 8 appendices, glossary, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Poole, Dorset; Blandford Press; (1987). ***Originally published in two separate volumes in 1968 and 1971. For full description and picture please click here. #27724 | A$60.00 | 36 Click HERE to order |
Armitage, Christopher M.; Compiled by.
SIR WALTER RALEGH, An Annotated Bibliography. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], xiv, [ii], 238(last blank); index of authors and selected topics; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Chapel Hill; published for America's Four Hundredth Anniversary Committee by The University of North Carolina Press; (1987). For full description and picture please click here. #63288 | A$85.00 | 37 Click HERE to order |
Artlink:
CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART. Vol 10 Nos 1 & 2 Autumn/Winter 1990. Special Double Issue. 4to; pp. [iv], 120; numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, bibliography; original pictorial stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (Henley Beach, South Australia); Artlink; 1990. For full description and picture please click here. #67732 | A$20.00 | 38 Click HERE to order |
Asia:
INDIA AND BURMA. Compiled and Drawn in the Cartographic Section of the National Geographic Society for National Geographic Magazine. Gilbert Grosvenor, Editor. Albers Conical Equal-Area Projection. Scale 1:6,000,000 or 94.7 miles to the inch. Large folded coloured map, 725 by 600 mm; a very good copy. Washington; National Geographic Society; April, 1946. ***With political subdivisions "shown in a special map on the reverse side of this sheet". For full description and picture please click here. #17819 | A$30.00 | 39 Click HERE to order |
Asimov, Isaac and Frenkel, Karen A.
ROBOTS. Machines in Man's Image. F'cap 4to, First Edition; pp. [x], 246; 36 coloured plates, very numerous b/w. illustrations, glossary, source notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards (edges bumped); a very good copy in torn dustwrapper. New York; Harmony Books; (1985). For full description and picture please click here. #40689 | A$25.00 | 40 Click HERE to order |
Atlantic:
ATLANTIC OCEAN. Compiled and Drawn in the Cartographic Section of the National Geographic Society for National Geographic Magazine. John Oliver LaGorce, Editor. Mercator Projection. Scale 1:20,000,000 or 316 miles to the inch at the Equator. Large folded coloured map, 670 by 960 mm; a very good copy. Washington; National Geographic Society; December, 1955. For full description and picture please click here. #17821 | A$25.00 | 41 Click HERE to order |
Attenborough, David.
THE FIRST EDEN. The Mediterranean World and Man. Cr. 4to, First U.S. Edition; pp. 240; coloured endpaper map, numerous coloured illustrations, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Boston; Little, Brown and Company; (1987). For full description and picture please click here. #48648 | A$30.00 | 42 Click HERE to order |
Augarde, Tony; Editor.
THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF MODERN QUOTATIONS. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 372(last blank); original buckram; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Oxford; Oxford University Press; 1991. For full description and picture please click here. #43528 | A$35.00 | 43 Click HERE to order |
Austin, K. A.
THE VOYAGE OF THE INVESTIGATOR 1801-1803: Commander Matthew Flinders, R.N. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 224(last blank); 1 double-page, 3 full-page & 7 other maps, coloured portrait frontispiece, 16 b/w. plates, bibliography, index; original cloth (slightly flecked); a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper; scarce. Adelaide; Rigby Limited; (1954). For full description and picture please click here. #11296 | A$135.00 | 44 Click HERE to order |
Australian Book Publishers' Association.
BOOKS OF THE YEAR. Sixth Annual Exhibition of Australian Book Production, 1957/8. 8vo; pp. 32(last blank); numerous illustrations; original stiff wrappers; a nice copy. [Melbourne]; Australian Book Publishers' Association; 1958. For full description and picture please click here. #68512 | A$20.00 | 45 Click HERE to order |
Australian Book Publishers' Association.
1962 AUSTRALIAN BOOKS. An illustrated Selection. 4to; pp. 32(last blank); numerous illustrations; original wrappers; (bookseller's stamp on front & rear wrapper); a nice copy. [Sydney]; Australian Book Publishers' Association; 1962. ***Loosely inserted is a 4-page Supplement, this with a few marks. For full description and picture please click here. #68513 | A$20.00 | 46 Click HERE to order |
Australian Book Publishers' Association.
AUSTRALIAN BOOKS 1963. An Illustrated Selection. 4to; pp. 32; numerous illustrations; original wrappers; a nice copy. [Sydney]; Australian Book Publishers' Association; 1963. For full description and picture please click here. #68514 | A$20.00 | 47 Click HERE to order |
Australian Book Publishers' Association.
KNOW AUSTRALIA SHOW AUSTRALIA through books. A select list of quality books. Books make the best gifts. 4to; pp. [32]; numerous illustrations; original wrappers; (a few pencil marks). [Sydney]; Australian Book Publishers' Association; 1964. For full description and picture please click here. #68515 | A$20.00 | 48 Click HERE to order |
Australian Style Manual:
STYLE MANUAL. For Authors, Editors and Printers. Fourth Edition. Fourth Edition; pp. xii, 412(last 3 blank); 8 plates (5 coloured), numerous figures, 4 appendices, glossary, bibliography, index; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. Canberra; An AGPS Press Publication, Australian Government Publishing Service; (1988). ***First published in 1966. For full description and picture please click here. #36160 | A$30.00 | 49 Click HERE to order |
Australian Style Manual:
STYLE MANUAL. For authors, editors and printers. Sixth Edition. Revised by Snooks & Co. Sixth Edition; pp. x, 550; 8 coloured plates, very numerous figures, bibliography, 3 appendices, index; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. [Canberra]; John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd [for Australian Government]; (2002). ***First published in 1966, this is the latest (and final?) printed edition. For full description and picture please click here. #52441 | A$50.00 | 50 Click HERE to order |
Auty, John.
REANIMATING THE DEAD HEART. The goal for 2001. First Edition; pp. [ii], 14; original wrappers; a fine copy. (Abbotsford; John Auty; 1994). ***A radical but persuasive proposal for restoring the arid and semi-arid ecosystems and the removal of feral animals. For full description and picture please click here. #67853 | A$25.00 | 51 Click HERE to order |
Aylett, Ruth.
ROBOTS. Bringing Intelligent Machines to Life? Square 4to, First Edition; pp. 144; numerous coloured illustrations, glossary, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in very slightly torn dustwrapper. (Sydney); ABC Books; (2002). For full description and picture please click here. #60080 | A$25.00 | 52 Click HERE to order |
Bacon, Admiral Sir R. H.
THE LIFE OF JOHN RUSHWORTH, EARL OF JELLICOE. With Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna. Thick roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 568(last 3 blank); portrait frontispiece, 6 folding maps, 40 plates (including 1 coloured), numerous illustrations, several tables, 4 appendices including glossary, index, protractor bookmark; original gilt-decorated cloth; (front board bumped, with slight damage to lower edge; some discolouration of front endpaper); a very good copy; scarce. London; Cassell and Company, Ltd.; (1936). For full description and picture please click here. #46602 | A$75.00 | 53 Click HERE to order |
Badger, G. M.; Editor.
CAPTAIN COOK: NAVIGATOR AND SCIENTIST. Papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 1 May, 1969. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 144; endpaper maps, 2 full-page & 6 text maps, coloured mounted portrait frontispiece & 4 other coloured full-page illustrations, several b/w. illusts, references; original cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Canberra; Australian National University Press; 1970. ***With substantial sections on the Great Barrier Reef, South Pacific botany and astronomical observations. For full description and picture please click here. #17908 | A$45.00 | 54 Click HERE to order |
Baglin, Douglas and Mullins, Barbara.
A Mulavon publication. ABORIGINAL ART OF AUSTRALIA. 4to; Ninth Impression; pp. [32]; 85 coloured photos (several full-page); original stiff wrappers. Hornsby, NSW; Shepp Books; 1986. ***First published in 1970. For full description and picture please click here. #67706 | A$20.00 | 55 Click HERE to order |
Baillie, P. J.
PORT LINCOLN AND DISTRICT. A Pictorial History. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 168; numerous illustrations, chronology; original cloth, gilt; (neat inscription on endpaper); a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Blackwood); Lynton Publications Pty. Limited; (1978). For full description and picture please click here. #27560 | A$35.00 | 56 Click HERE to order |
Bain, Alexander.
EDUCATION AS A SCIENCE. Fourth Edition. Cr. 8vo, Fourth Edition; pp. [4](adv.), xxviii, 456(last 3 blank), 40(adv.); original red cloth, decorated in gilt & black (very worn; some internal marking and a few small rubber stamps). London; Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.; 1883. ***The International Scientific Series, Vol. XXV. For full description and picture please click here. #42085 | A$25.00 | 57 Click HERE to order |
Ball, Desmond.
A SUITABLE PIECE OF REAL ESTATE. American Installations in Australia. Super roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 180; several maps, numerous b/w. illustrations, a few diagrams & figures, several tables, numerous marginal references, appendix comprising 5 official documents, glossary of generally used abbreviations, index; original illustrated stiff wrappers; a very good copy. Sydney; Hale & Iremonger; (1980). ***A very thoroughly documented argument for some change in the Australian - U.S. defence relationship, especially in the terms governing the maintenance of U.S. tracking stations in Australia. For full description and picture please click here. #27494 | A$50.00 | 58 Click HERE to order |
Ball, Ian M.
PITCAIRN. Children of Mutiny. First Edition; pp. [ii], xvi, 382(last 2 blank); endpaper & 1 double-page map, 33 illustrations (2 double-page & several full-page), index; original papered boards; a nice copy in torn dustwrapper. Boston; Little, Brown & Co.; (1973). ***A study of the island and a new look at the Bounty Mutiny. For full description and picture please click here. #33136 | A$85.00 | 59 Click HERE to order |
Ball, Johnson.
WILLIAM CASLON 1693-1766. The ancestry, life and connections of England's foremost letter-engraver and type-founder. Thick med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxviii, 494, [2](blank); coloured portrait frontispiece, 2 folding plates (type specimens), 68 full-page plates, 11 pedigrees (mostly double-page), 14 text figures, 3 appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; (about a dozen leaves at start a little creased); a very good copy in repaired dustwrapper. Kineton; The Roundwood Press; 1973. For full description and picture please click here. #11454 | A$110.00 | 60 Click HERE to order |
Ballarat:
A SUITE OF REPRODUCTIONS As issued, in very limited numbers, without title, in original cardboard mailing folder; in fine condition. [Melbourne; Queensberry Hill Press]; N.D. [1980]. ***The images are all taken from Queensberry Hill's facsimile edition of the second edition of Withers' account, but are here printed on larger paper. For full description and picture please click here. #68394 | A$100.00 | 61 Click HERE to order |
Ballard, Robert D.; with Rick Archbold.
THE LOST SHIPS OF GUADALCANAL. Contemporary photographs by Michael McCoy Underwater paintings by Ken Marschall. Technical and Historical consultation by Richard B. Frank and Charles Haberlein, Jr. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. 228; several coloured maps, numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations including foldout, appendix, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. New York; A Warner / Madison Press Book; (1993). For full description and picture please click here. #16560 | A$65.00 | 62 Click HERE to order |
Banks, Sir Joseph:
THE ENDEAVOUR JOURNAL OF JOSEPH BANKS 1768-1771. Edited by J. C. Beaglehole. 2 vols., med. 8vo, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. xxviii, 476; 5 sketch maps, 10 coloured plates, 6 b/w. plates to Introduction, 40 b/w. plates at end; Vol. II, pp. xvi, [ii], 406; folding map & 3 sketch maps, 6 coloured plates & 40 b/w. plates at end, 5 appendices, index; original cloth; (name of former owner on endpapers); a fine set in slightly worn dustwrappers. (Sydney); The Public Library of New South Wales in association with Angus and Robertson; (1962). ***Beddie 705. Published from the original manuscript in the Mitchell Library, this is the first publication of BANKS' Complete Journal of COOK's First Voyage. Most of the illustrations are from paintings and drawings by SYDNEY PARKINSON, who accompanied BANKS as his draughtsman. For full description and picture please click here. #21897 | A$650.00 | 63 Click HERE to order |
Banks, Sir Joseph:
THE ENDEAVOUR JOURNAL OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS 1768-1771. Edited by J. C. Beaglehole. 2 vols., med. 8vo, Second Edition; Vol. I, pp. xviii, 476; Vol. II, pp. xvi, [ii], 406; folding map & 8 sketch maps, 16 coloured plates (including portrait) & 86 b/w. plates, appendices, index; original cloth; a fine set in dustwrappers. Sydney; The Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales in association with Angus and Robertson; (1963). ***Beddie 705. Published from the original manuscript in the Mitchell Library. First published the previous year, this was the the first publication of BANKS' Complete Journal of COOK's First Voyage. This second edition incorporates some corrections and additional material. Most of the illustrations are from paintings and drawings by SYDNEY PARKINSON, who accompanied BANKS as his draughtsman. For full description and picture please click here. #17941 | A$475.00 | 64 Click HERE to order |
PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COPPER-PLATES Banks, Joseph & Solander, Daniel:
CAPTAIN COOK'S FLORILEGIUM. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 32; 3 mounted plates (2 coloured), 9 small specimens of printing experiments for the plates, 5 other illustrations, lists of subscribers to both standard and special editions; original quarter morocco; a fine copy. (London); Lion and Unicorn Press; 1976. ***Edition limited to 175 numbered copies of which this is number 94, to match the main work above. The entire project was under the supervision of Joy Law from 1963 until completion. For full description and picture please click here. #21812 | A$14,500.00 | 65 Click HERE to order |
Barbier, A.-E.
DICTIONNAIRE DES OUVRAGES ANONYMES. 4 vols., Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. [iv], xlvi, [568]; portrait frontispiece; Vol. II, pp. [iv, 680]; Vol. III, pp. [iv, 584]; Vol.IV, pp. [iv, 708]; original cloth; a fine set. Paris; G.-P. Maisonneuve & Larose, Editeurs; [1964]. ***Printed in double-column. Reprinted from the Third Edition, edited by Olivier Barbier & R. & P. Billard; Paris, Daffis & Jannet, 1872-79. Still an important and invaluable resource for identifying books by anonymous authors. For full description and picture please click here. #19898 | A$350.00 | 66 Click HERE to order |
Barker, Nicolas.
STANLEY MORISON. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 566, [2](blank); 16 plates, a few text illustrations, 3 appendices, notes, index; original cloth; top edge dyed; a fine copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. (London); Macmillan; (1972). ***A comprehensive biography of the great typographer and designer of Times New Roman. For full description and picture please click here. #37303 | A$135.00 | 67 Click HERE to order |
Barrett, Charles; Editor.
ACROSS THE YEARS. The Lure of Early Australian Books. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [x], 150; coloured frontispiece, 30 plates; full-page facsimile of James Cook letter; original buckram, with original acetate dustwrapper; a fine copy. Melbourne; N. H. Seward Pty. Ltd.; (1948). ***Limited Edition of 650 copies. McLaren 118; Greenway 630. Includes valuable contributions by notable librarians and collectors of the past including Phyllis Mander Jones, E. Morris Miller, Clive Turnbull, Edward E. Pescott, Malcolm Uren, Gilbert P. Whitley, James R. Tyrrell, R. H. Croll and of course Barrett himself. For full description and picture please click here. #43574 | A$200.00 | 68 Click HERE to order |
Barrow, Sir John.
THE MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY. Edited by Gavin Kennedy. Roy. 8vo, Illustrated Edition; pp. 208; 7 coloured plates (1 double-page), about 80 b/w. illustrations (many full-page), & including several maps, 3-page reading list, index; original cloth; (name stamp on half-title); a very good copy in worn dustwrapper. Boston; David R. Godine; (1980). ***A useful edition with facsimiles of interesting documents, paintings and contemporary title-pages. For full description and picture please click here. #9269 | A$95.00 | 69 Click HERE to order |
Barrow, John D.
IMPOSSIBILITY. The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 282(last 3 blank); several illustrations, notes, index; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Oxford); Oxford University Press; (1998). For full description and picture please click here. #9149 | A$45.00 | 70 Click HERE to order |
Barry, The Honourable Mr Justice John Vincent.
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JOHN PRICE. A Study of the Exercise of Naked Power. First Edition; pp. xiv, 204, [2](blank); 9 plates, notes, 3 appendices, bibliography, index, Errata slip; original cloth; a very good copy in dustwrapper; scarce. Melbourne; Melbourne University Press; (1964). ***Price was Civil Commandant of the Norfolk Island penal colony and subsequently Inspector-General of Penal Establishments in Victoria. For full description and picture please click here. #16366 | A$110.00 | 71 Click HERE to order |
Bartlett, Captain Robert A.
THE SEALING SAGA OF NEWFOUNDLAND. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 91-130; 44 illustrations; contained in the National Geographic Magazine, July, 1929; original wrappers. Washington; National Geographic Society; 1929. ***Containing also two extensive articles on insects. For full description and picture please click here. #22648 | A$45.00 | 72 Click HERE to order |
Basedow, Herbert.
THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL. Thick demy 8vo, First Edition; pp. xx, 422, [2](blank); full-page map, coloured frontispiece by the Author, 55 b/w. plates, 56 text figures, index; original cloth (a slight mark to front board; occasional light foxing); a very good copy; very scarce. Adelaide; F. W. Preece; 1925. ***Including a substantial section on Aboriginal art. For full description and picture please click here. #8413 | A$650.00 | 73 Click HERE to order |
Basedow, Herbert.
THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL. Thick demy 8vo, Second Impression; pp. xx, 422, [2](blank); full-page map, coloured frontispiece by the Author, 55 b/w. plates, 56 text figures, index; original cloth; (a little foxing of edges); a fine copy; very scarce. Adelaide; F. W. Preece & Sons; (1929). ***First published 1925. Includes a substantial section on Aboriginal art. For full description and picture please click here. #51192 | A$500.00 | 74 Click HERE to order |
Basedow, Herbert.
KNIGHTS OF THE BOOMERANG. Episodes from a Life Spent Among the Native Tribes of Australia. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition; pp. 240; 17 plates; original cloth (spine very slightly faded; some foxing as usual); a very good copy; very scarce. Sydney; Endeavour Press; 1935. ***First edition July, 1935, this second edition, September. For full description and picture please click here. #51191 | A$145.00 | 75 Click HERE to order |
(Basford, Leslie; Chief Editor).
UNDERSTANDING SCIENCE. 12 vols., 4to; pp. in total 2168, each volume numbered consecutively, and each with 8 pages of preliminaries including Contents and Index, Volume 12 with 16-page Classified Contents and Consolidated Index for the whole work; very numerous coloured illustrations; original buckram (some vols. slightly marked); a fine set in dustwrappers. (London); Sampson Low; (1962-65). ***Also issued in weekly parts, this is the superior issue in publisher's binding with index to each volume. A very comprehensive guide to pure and applied science, technology and mathematics for younger people. For full description and picture please click here. #59475 | A$165.00 | 76 Click HERE to order |
Bassett, Marnie.
REALMS AND ISLANDS. The World Voyage of Rose de Freycinet in the Corvette Uranie 1817-1820. From her Journal and Letters and the Report of Louis de Saulces de Freycinet, Capitaine de Corvette. First Edition; pp. xii, 276(last blank); endpaper & 2 other maps, 24 plates (including map), appendices; bibliography, index; original cloth; (slight foxing of edges); a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. London; Oxford University Press; 1962. For full description and picture please click here. #2140 | A$85.00 | 77 Click HERE to order |
Bateson, F. W.; Editor.
THE CAMBRIDGE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 5 vols., thick med. 8vo, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. xl, 912; Vol. II, pp. xx, 1004(last blank); Vol. III, pp. [ii], xxii, 1100(last 2 blank); Vol. IV, pp. [iv], 288; Vol. V (Supplement), pp. [ii], xiv, 712(last 2 blank); original buckram; a very good set in foxed & torn dustwrappers. Cambridge; The University Press; 1940-57. ***Volume I, 600-1660; Volume II, 1660-1800; Volume III, 1800-1900; Volume IV, Index [to Vols. I-III]; Volume V, Supplement A.D. 600-1900, edited by George Watson. The Supplement contains a section at the end on the Literature of the Dominions (including Australia and New Zealand). For full description and picture please click here. #34316 | A$250.00 | 78 Click HERE to order |
Baudin, Nicolas.
THE JOURNAL OF POST CAPTAIN NICOLAS BAUDIN, Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes Geographe and Naturaliste. Assigned by Order of the Government to a Voyage of Discovery. Translated from the French by Christine Cornell, B.A. (Hons.). Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. xxii, 610(last blank); 2 maps, frontispiece, 8 appendices, index; original cloth; a fine, clean copy. Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1974. ***The first publication in any language of Baudin's Journal. For full description and picture please click here. #723 | A$145.00 | 79 Click HERE to order |
Beaglehole, J. C.
THE EXPLORATION OF THE PACIFIC. Second Edition; pp. xvi, 412(last blank); 4 folding maps with explorers' routes in colour, bibliography, index; original cloth (slightly marked; new endpapers); a very good copy; scarce. London; Adam & Charles Black; 1947. ***The Pioneer Histories, Edited by V. T. Harlow, D.Litt., and J. A. Williamson, D.Lit. See Holmes 146 (First Edition of 1934); Beddie 444. For full description and picture please click here. #1847 | A$120.00 | 80 Click HERE to order |
Beaglehole, Professor J. C.
The Annual Lecture. The Eva G. R. Taylor Memorial Lecture. SOME PROBLEMS OF COOK'S BIOGRAPHER [drop title]. Roy. 8vo (approx.); pp. 365-382; notes; original wrappers. [London]; Reprinted from The Mariner's Mirror, Vol. 55, No. 4; 1969. For full description and picture please click here. #8755 | A$35.00 | 81 Click HERE to order |
Beaglehole, J. C.; Editor.
COOK AND THE RUSSIANS. An addendum to the Hakluyt Society's edition of The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780 [Cover title]. Pp. 12(last 2 blank); original wrappers; a fine copy. London; Published by the Hakluyt Society; 1973. For full description and picture please click here. #8757 | A$45.00 | 82 Click HERE to order |
Beaglehole, J. C.
THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. Thick med 8vo, First Edition (but see below); pp. xii, 760; 1 folding & 4 full-page maps, 4 coloured & 40 b/w. plates, bibliography, index; original buckram, gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; The Hakluyt Society/Adam & Charles Black; 1974. ***A curious hybrid issue, with The Hakluyt Society imprint on title-page, bound in the blue cloth of The Hakluyt Society issue, but with the imprint A. & C. Black in gilt at foot of spine and The Hakluyt Society title, author and volume details on upper spine covered by a black cloth label lettered in gilt with the appropriate Adam & Charles Black title and author details. The dustwrapper is the regular Adam & Charles Black one, complete with price (£7.00) at foot of front flap. For full description and picture please click here. #19358 | A$195.00 | 83 Click HERE to order |
Beale, Edgar.
KENNEDY OF CAPE YORK. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [xii], 284(last 3 blank); endpaper maps, 2 double-page, 1 full-page & 3 text maps, 20 plates, bibliography including MS., newspaper & Registries sections, notes, sources, etc., index; original papered boards; (some minor internal soiling); a very good copy in dustwrapper. (Adelaide); Rigby; (1970). For full description and picture please click here. #5009 | A$75.00 | 84 Click HERE to order |
Beamish, Richard.
THE PSYCHONOMY OF THE HAND; or, The Hand an Index of Mental Development, according to MM. D'Arpentigny and Desbarrolles, With Illustrative Tracings from Living Hands. 4to, First Edition; pp. x, 94; 31 plates, index; original cloth, gilt; (neatly rebacked, with new endpapers; slight browning of title-page); a nice copy; scarce. London; Frederick Pitman; 1865. ***The binder has usefully placed the index (Pp. 93/4) at the end of the preliminaries. For full description and picture please click here. #66113 | A$75.00 | 85 Click HERE to order |
Beard, William.
"VALIANT MARTINET" or, The Adventures on Sea and Land of Captain William Bligh. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 92(last blank); portrait frontispiece, 2 illustrations (1 double-page); original stiff wrappers; a very nice copy; very scarce. [Sydney; The Author; 1956]. ***"Of this edition, one hundred copies for sale and twenty-five for presentation have been privately printed for the author." Telling the story of Bligh's life in verse form. For full description and picture please click here. #16735 | A$65.00 | 86 Click HERE to order |
Beattie, William.
SWITZERLAND. Illustrated in a Series of Views taken expressly for this Work by W. H. Bartlett, Esq. 2 vols., 4to, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [iv], iv, 188; engraved (additional) title-page with vignette & 56 very fine steel-engraved plates; Vol. II, pp. [iv], 152; folding map, engraved (additional) title-page with vignette & 50 very fine steel-engraved plates; contemporary full dark blue calf, elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, spines in gilt panels with raised bands and red title- and volume-labels (some light scuffing of boards - not obtrusive); a very attractive, clean and crisp set; scarce. London; George Virtue; MDCCCXXXVI [1836]. For full description and picture please click here. #16137 | A$650.00 | 87 Click HERE to order |
[Bechervaise, John; & 38 other Authors].
ANTARCTICA: Great Stories from the Frozen Continent. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. 320; 1 double-page & 2 full-page maps & numerous smaller ones throughout (mainly coloured), hundreds of coloured & b/w. photos, gazetteer to the maps, general index; original slick, colour-illustrated boards; (a very slight bump to lower board); a nice copy in dustwrapper. Sydney, London, [etc.]; Published by Reader's Digest; (1985). ***As with so many other Reader's Digest reference books (as opposed to the condensed variety) a very useful and informative reference, well illustrated, and now out of print and much sought after. Renard 104. For full description and picture please click here. #12799 | A$135.00 | 88 Click HERE to order |
Beckford, William.
RECOLLECTIONS OF AN EXCURSION TO THE MONASTERIES OF ALCOBACA AND BATALHA. By the author of "Vathek." First Edition; pp. xii, 228; portrait frontispiece, notes; original quarter cloth, with papered sides (skilfully rebacked, preserving original spine & printed label; entirely uncut; a fine copy, housed in a custom folding box. London; Richard Bentley; 1835. ***William Beckford (1760-1844) recorded this idealised account of his travels in Portugal in his journal of 1794, but they are here published for the first time. Batalha, which he visited several times (but ironically not in 1794) intrigued Beckford and is thought to have had an important impact on various aspects of the design of Fonthill Abbey. For full description and picture please click here. #12594 | A$300.00 | 89 Click HERE to order |
Beddie, M. K.; Editor.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, R.N., F.R.S., Circumnavigator. [By] The Library of New South Wales. Thick med. 8vo, Second Edition; pp. xvi, 896(last 2 blank); bibliography, errata, addenda, index; original cloth; a very good copy in dustwrapper. Sydney; The Library of New South Wales; 1970. ***A revised and greatly expanded edition of the 1928 bibliography. For full description and picture please click here. #696 | A$75.00 | 90 Click HERE to order |
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF PITCAIRN AND ITS INHABITANTS - THE "ADMIRALTY" EDITION Beechey, Captain Frederick William:
NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC AND BEERING'S STRAIT, London; Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley; MDCCCXXXI [1831]. ***This edition not in Du Rietz (but see his 68); Ferguson 1418; Forbes 772. This, the so-called "Admiralty Edition", was published earlier in the same year as the octavo edition (see Ferguson 1419) which according to Du Rietz is partly rewritten. This preferred edition also has more extensive appendices, all but two of the numbered appendices being omitted from the later octavo edition. The work includes an account of Pitcairn Island and its inhabitants (including 3 plates), also Tahiti and other Pacific islands, Kotzebue Sound, San Francisco and an account of China. The expedition made two visits to Hawaii at an important time when a treaty was signed with the United States government, and there is commentary on this and other political matters. For full description and picture please click here. #67076 | A$4500.00 | 91 Click HERE to order |
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF PITCAIRN AND ITS INHABITANTS Beechey, Captain Frederick William:
NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC AND BEERING'S STRAIT, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the Command of Captain F. W. Beechey, R.N. F.R.S. &c. in the Years, 1825, 26, 27, 28. Published by Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. 2 vols., First 8vo Edition; Vol. I, pp. [iii]-xxviii, 472; 3 charts (2 folding), 13 plates, 1 text illust.; Vol. II, pp. iv, 330, [ii](title to appendix), 331-452; 10 plates (4 folding), 6 appendices (including Esquimaux vocabulary); bound without half-titles in full contemporary calf (rebacked; some foxing & browning of plates, but a very good set); very scarce. London; Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley; 1831. ***Du Rietz 68; Ferguson 1419. This octavo edition was preceded by a quarto edition (the so-called "Admiralty Edition") of the same year (see Ferguson 1418). The work includes an account of Pitcairn Island and its inhabitants (including 3 plates), also Tahiti and other Pacific islands, Kotzebue Sound, San Francisco and an account of China. For full description and picture please click here. #34918 | A$2500.00 | 92 Click HERE to order |
Beecroft, Herbert.
PASTEL PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN WOMAN captioned R.M.S. Ortona, Feb. 10 1905. A very fine original pastel portrait on olive-green laid paper, 140 by 240 mm approx., plus margins to 235 by 305 mm approx. (margins slightly frayed); in fine condition, signed by the artist lower right. Aboard R.M.S. Ortona; The Artist; 1905. ***Herbert Beecroft was a widely printed early twentieth-century Sydney painter, miniaturist, postcard artist and theatrical lightning sketch artist and lecturer. His postcards include Australian Characters, six types of Australian women, published in the NSW Bookstall Company's 'Art Series'. Beecroft was born in England and migrated to Sydney arriving in 1905 in the 'Ortona'. This fine picture was drawn on board ship shortly before his arrival. For full description and picture please click here. #68148 | A$250.00 | 93 Click HERE to order |
(Beesley, Pamela L.; Ross, Graham J. B.; Glasby, Christopher J.; Volume Editors).
Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. POLYCHAETES & ALLIES. The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Volume 4A Polychaeta, Myzostomida, Pogonophora, Echiura, Sipuncula. F'cap folio (approx.), First Edition; pp. xii, 468(last 3 blank); 12 coloured plates, very numerous illustrations, figures & diags, references, bibliogs., glossary, index; original slick pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. (Melbourne); CSIRO Publishing; (2000). ***Fauna of Australia, Volume 4A. The series was never completed, but this authoritative volume is complete in itself. For full description and picture please click here. #64234 | A$75.00 | 94 Click HERE to order |
Begg, A. Charles & Begg, Neil C.
DUSKY BAY. [In the Steps of Captain Cook]. Foreword by the Right Hon. The Viscount Cobham. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 240(last blank); 18 maps & figures, 12 coloured & 16 b/w. plates, 3 appendices, bibliography, index; a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper; scarce. Christchurch; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd; (1966). For full description and picture please click here. #50617 | A$65.00 | 95 Click HERE to order |
Bekker, Cajus.
THE LUFTWAFFE WAR DIARIES. Translated from the German and edited by Frank Ziegler. Med. 8vo, First Edition in English; pp. 400(last blank); 20 text maps, 48 plates, 19 appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; (name on endpaper); a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. London; Macdonald; (1966). For full description and picture please click here. #55198 | A$70.00 | 96 Click HERE to order |
Bell, Charles.
ESSAYS ON THE ANATOMY OF EXPRESSION IN PAINTING. Roy. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], xii, 186, [2](Colophon, verso blank); 6 plates, several fine sketch illustrations in text; original full leather, gilt; gilt edges & marker ribbon; a fine copy. [Birmingham, Alabama; The Classics of Medicine Library; 1984]. ***Facsimile of the first edition, published London; Longman, Hurst Rees, and Orme; 1806. A most interesting work: a forerunner to Darwin's "Expression of the Emotions [etc.]", and referred to by Darwin in that work, although he disagreed with some of the conclusions. For full description and picture please click here. #45612 | A$95.00 | 97 Click HERE to order |
[Bell, Edward].
THE PRIMROSE AND DARWINISM. By a Field Naturalist, M.A. Camb. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 236(last 3 blank); 23 figures, index, glossary; original cloth, gilt; (slightly marked); a very good copy; scarce. London; Grant Richards; 1902. For full description and picture please click here. #66734 | A$65.00 | 98 Click HERE to order |
Benesch, Otto.
ARTISTIC AND INTELLECTUAL TRENDS FROM RUBENS TO DAUMIER as shown in book illustration. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], xvi, 94(last blank), [2]; 66 illustrations on 50 plates, notes, index; original quarter cloth; a fine copy. New York; Walker and Company in association with The Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library; 1969. For full description and picture please click here. #56233 | A$35.00 | 99 Click HERE to order |
Bennett, Isobel.
SHORES OF MACQUARIE ISLAND. Photography by the Author. First Edition; pp. 70, [6](bibliography & index); endpaper maps, full-page map, 16 coloured & 32 b/w. plates, bibliography, index; original blue cloth-grained papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (Adelaide); Rigby Limited; (1971). ***Not in Spence; Renard 109. For full description and picture please click here. #3954 | A$75.00 | 100 Click HERE to order |
Bennett, J. H.; Edited, with an introduction by.
NATURAL SELECTION, HEREDITY, AND EUGENICS. Including selected correspondence of R. A. Fisher with Leonard Darwin and others. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 306, [4](blank); 4 appendices, references, name index, subject index; original buckram, gilt; a nice copy. Oxford; Clarendon Press; 1983. ***Oxford Science Publications. The Editor was Professor of Genetics at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. For full description and picture please click here. #66744 | A$45.00 | 101 Click HERE to order |
Benson, Sir Irving.
THE MAN WITH THE DONKEY. John Simpson Kirkpatrick, the Good Samaritan of Gallipoli. First Edition; pp. 96; map, 10 illustrations on 7 plates, glossary, bibliography; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. (London); Hodder and Stoughton; (1965). For full description and picture please click here. #3126 | A$40.00 | 102 Click HERE to order |
Bentley, Peter J.
DIGITAL BIOLOGY. How nature is transforming our technology. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [x], 278(last blank); 8 coloured plates, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. (London); Headline; (2001). For full description and picture please click here. #34167 | A$25.00 | 103 Click HERE to order |
Berndt, Catherine H [and] Berndt, Ronald M.
PIONEERS & SETTLERS. the Aboriginal Australians. First Edition; pp. xvi, 152(last 2 blank); endpaper map, 24 plates, references, index; original stiff pictorial wrappers; a fine copy. (Carlton, Victoria); Pitman Australia; (1978). For full description and picture please click here. #67816 | A$20.00 | 104 Click HERE to order |
Berndt, Catherine; Meeks, Arone Raymond.
PHEASANT AND KINGFISHER. Originally told by Nganalgindja in the Gunwinggu Language. Oblong small 4to, Second Edition(?); pp. 16; illustrated throughout; original stiff pictorial wrappers; a fine copy. Sydney; Scholastic; [1998]. ***First published in 1987. For full description and picture please click here. #67734 | A$20.00 | 105 Click HERE to order |
Berndt, Ronald M.
AN ADJUSTMENT MOVEMENT IN ARNHEM LAND Northern Territory of Australia. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 112; double-page map, 8 plates, 6 diagrams, folding genealogical table, 2 appendices, references, index; original printed wrappers (very slightly faded); a fine copy; scarce. Paris; Mouton & Co.; MCMLXII (1962). ***Cahiers de l'Homme, Ethnologie - Geographie - Linguistique, Nouvelle Serie II. Text in English. For full description and picture please click here. #67813 | A$125.00 | 106 Click HERE to order |
Berndt, Ronald M. and Berndt, Catherine H.
THE FIRST AUSTRALIANS. Third Edition (revised & enlarged); pp. 152; map, 36 coloured & 8 b/w. plates containing 85 illustrations, a few text illustrations; notes, bibliography; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Sydney; Ure Smith; (1974). For full description and picture please click here. #67818 | A$35.00 | 107 Click HERE to order |
Berndt, Ronald M. [and] Berndt, Catherine H.
THE SPEAKING LAND. Myth and Story in Aboriginal Australia. Pp. xxx, 438, [8](adv.), [2](blank); 3 full-page maps, 28 illustrations on 16 plates, 2 full-page figures, bibliography, index; original stiff wrappers (rear wrapper a little creased); a very good copy. (Ringwood; Victoria), Penguin Books assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council; (1989). For full description and picture please click here. #51237 | A$35.00 | 108 Click HERE to order |
Berry, Adrian.
THE SUPER-INTELLIGENT MACHINE. An Electronic Odyssey. First Edition; pp. x, 182; glossary, bibliography, notes & references, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in slightly stained dustwrapper. London; Jonathan Cape; (1983). For full description and picture please click here. #57090 | A$40.00 | 109 Click HERE to order |
Bettany, G. T.
LIFE OF CHARLES DARWIN. F'cap 8vo, First Edition; pp. 176(last blank), xxxii(bibliography, last blank), [4](adv.); index; original lime-green cloth; a nice copy; scarce. London; Walter Scott; 1887. ***A volume in the series "Great Writers," Edited by Professor Eric. S. Robertson. This is the true first edition, followed later in the same year by the "Library Edition" (advertised as forthcoming in the leaves at end of this volume) identical in content, but of larger format (demy 8vo) than this volume, printed from the same type but with additional leading. The extensive Bibliography is by John P. Anderson, British Museum and is in four parts comprising Darwin's Works; Miscellaneous Writings; Appendix--Biography, Criticism, etc., Magazine Articles; and Chronological List of Works. For full description and picture please click here. #65595 | A$100.00 | 110 Click HERE to order |
Bickel, Lennard.
SHACKLETON'S FORGOTTEN ARGONAUTS. [Foreword by Rt. Hon. Lord Shackleton, K.C., P.C., O.B.E.]. First Edition; pp. xiv, 230; 2 endpaper & 1 full-page maps, 16 plates (including 2 double-page), index; original red-brown papered boards, spine lettered in white; a nice copy in dustwrapper; scarce. (Melbourne); Macmillan; (1982). ***Renard 131. For full description and picture please click here. #3949 | A$195.00 | 111 Click HERE to order |
[Bigge, John Thomas].
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INQUIRY on the State of Agriculture and Trade in the Colony of New South Wales. F'cap folio, Facsimile Edition, Second Impression; pp. [iv], 8, 112, [18](modern index, last blank); original cloth; a fine copy. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1971]. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 70. First published 1823. The modern index is a valuable addition to this edition. For full description and picture please click here. #57521 | A$135.00 | 112 Click HERE to order |
Billing, Graham.
SOUTH. Man and Nature in Antarctica. A New Zealand View. Illustrations Editor: Guy Mannering. Demy 4to, Second Edition, Third Impression; pp. 208; 2 endpaper maps, 207 illusts (155 coloured & many full-page); original blue-white canvas, lettered in blue on spine and front board; a fine copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. Wellington; A. H. & A. W. Reed; (1973). ***Not in Spence. Renard 137. For full description and picture please click here. #42892 | A$70.00 | 113 Click HERE to order |
Binns, Norman E.
AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged. Second Edition; pp. [viii], 388; 53 text illustrations, suggested reading lists, appendix, index; original cloth; boards a trifle canted; worn dustwrapper. London; Association of Assistant Librarians (Section of the Library Association); 1962. ***First published 1953. An excellent reference with much on the history of printing and publishing processes. For full description and picture please click here. #56478 | A$75.00 | 114 Click HERE to order |
Bird, Christopher.
THE DIVINING HAND. The art of searching for water, oil, minerals, and other natural resources or anything lost, missing or badly needed. With hand-drawn illustrations by Thomas Heston. 4to, First Edition; pp. xii, 340; very numerous illustrations & figures, bibliography, index, Errata slip; original quarter cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. New York; E. P. Dutton; (1979). ***A comprehensive history of dowsing. With the publisher's press release and two papers on the subject (one in facsimile) loosely inserted. For full description and picture please click here. #3542 | A$70.00 | 115 Click HERE to order |
Blackmer, Henry Myron, II:
THE LIBRARY OF HENRY MYRON BLACKMER II. Sold by Order of the Executor. 4to; pp. [xviii], 636, [18]; very numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, bibliography, index; original cloth, with mounted illustration; a fine copy. London; Sotheby's; 1989. ***A fine catalogue of a magnificent collection of Greek, Turkish, Levantine and Egyptian material, comprising 1515 lots. For full description and picture please click here. #19238 | A$50.00 | 116 Click HERE to order |
Blainey, Geoffrey.
MINES IN THE SPINIFEX. The Story of Mount Isa Mines, First Edition; pp. [vi], 242 + [24](plates); endpaper maps, coloured frontispiece & 23 b/w. plates, appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; a very good copy with front panel of dustwrapper tipped in before the plates at end and with text panels from the dustwrapper tipped to rear endpaper; scarce. (Sydney); Angus and Robertson; (1960). ***Geoffrey Ingleton's copy with his bookplate on front endpaper verso. For full description and picture please click here. #17381 | A$50.00 | 117 Click HERE to order |
Blainey, Geoffrey.
A HISTORY OF CAMBERWELL. First Edition; pp. [viii], 104; illust. endpapers, 2 maps, 24 plates, appendices, notes & bibliography, index; original pictorial papered boards; a very good copy. Melbourne; The Jacaranda Press (Pty. Ltd. in association with Camberwell City Council; 1964). ***Geoffrey Ingleton's copy with his bookplate on front endpaper. For full description and picture please click here. #38458 | A$30.00 | 118 Click HERE to order |
Blainey, Geoffrey.
A LAND HALF WON. First Edition; pp. vi, 390(last 2 blank); 2 text maps, 12 plates, sources, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (Melbourne); Macmillan; (1980). For full description and picture please click here. #11739 | A$70.00 | 119 Click HERE to order |
Blainey, Geoffrey.
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Med. 8vo, First Edition, Third Impression; pp. x, 670(last blank); 11 maps, sources, index; original papered boards; (short inscription on endpaper); a nice copy in dustwrapper. (Ringwood, Victoria); Viking an imprint of Penguin Books; (2000). For full description and picture please click here. #18495 | A$35.00 | 120 Click HERE to order |
Blakey, Dorothy; Ph.D.
THE MINERVA PRESS 1790-1820. IV. A Minerva prospectus of 1798), index of titles, index of authors; original quarter cloth; uncut; a very good copy. London; Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the University Press, Oxford; 1939 (for 1935). ***Containing approximately 750 entries. For full description and picture please click here. #11906 | A$75.00 | 121 Click HERE to order |
Blanck, Jacob.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. Compiled by Jacob Blanck for the Bibliographical Society of America. [Edited and Completed by Michael Winship]. New Haven; Yale University Press; 1976-91 [Volumes 1-9] and Golden, Colorado; North American Press, a division of Fulcrum Publishing; 1995 [Index]. ***The pre-eminent bibliographical reference to American literature containing a wealth of information, fully collated and complete. For full description and picture please click here. #67898 | A$475.00 | 122 Click HERE to order |
Bland, David.
THE ILLUSTRATION OF BOOKS. Second Edition, revised; pp. 164; coloured frontispiece, 48 illustrations, including 10 b/w. plates (one, No. 37a, unlisted), title-page vignette, glossary, bibliography, index; original pictorial cloth; a very good copy in partly discoloured dustwrapper. London; Faber and Faber; 1953. ***First published in 1951, this new edition has been thoroughly revised and a glossary of technical terms and two illustrations added. For full description and picture please click here. #27773 | A$65.00 | 123 Click HERE to order |
Blaschka, Leopold and Rudolph:
THE WARE COLLECTION OF BLASCHKA GLASS-MODELS OF PLANTS IN FLOWER. Published by the Botanical Museum for Gratuitous Distribution. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], 10; original wrappers (a couple of tiny holes in front wrapper). Cambridge, Mass.; [Harvard University]; 1916. For full description and picture please click here. #68468 | A$25.00 | 124 Click HERE to order |
Bledowska, Celina and Bloch, Jonathan.
KGB / CIA. Roy. 4to, First Edition; pp. 192; very numerous illustrations (several coloured), index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Bison Books; (1987). ***A summary account of the development of the CIA and KGB and the interaction between them. For full description and picture please click here. #41461 | A$30.00 | 125 Click HERE to order |
Blewitt, Mary.
CELESTIAL NAVIGATION FOR YACHTSMEN. Fifth Edition; pp. xii, 66, [2](blank); 38 figures, 8 appendices, index; original slick illustrated boards; a fine copy. London; Edward Stanford; (1971). ***First published in 1950. For full description and picture please click here. #38550 | A$25.00 | 126 Click HERE to order |
Blewitt, Mary.
NAVIGATION FOR YACHTSMEN. Third Edition. Third Edition, Revised; pp. [x], 102(last blank); several figures, appendix, index; original slick illustrated boards; a fine copy. London; Stanford Maritime; (1974). ***First published in 1964. For full description and picture please click here. #15253 | A$25.00 | 127 Click HERE to order |
THE RARE SPECIAL ISSUE Bligh, Lieutenant William:
A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEA, London; George Nicol; 1792 [and 1790]. For full description and picture please click here. #68268 | A$50,000.00 | 128 Click HERE to order |
Bligh, William, & Christian, Edward:
BLIGH'S NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY ON BOARD H.M. SHIP BOUNTY, Demy 4to, exact Facsimile Edition of the above four items (in 1 vol); pp. [iv], iv, 88, [2](blank); folding plan of the Bounty's launch & 3 charts (2 folding); pp. [iv], 80, [2](blank); pp. [ii], 32, [2](blank); pp. 12(last blank); original full navy blue morocco of the primary issue, gilt-decorated spine, top edge gilt; a nice copy; scarce. Melbourne; Georgian House, for The Australiana Society; [1952]. ***The second and last facsimile under the Australiana Society imprint. The edition was limited to 1000 numbered copies, and is a reproduction of the highest quality. The last three items in this collection are exceedingly rare in the original, and very seldom occur for sale. [Refer Ferguson 71, 175, 176, and 218]. Du Rietz 124. For full description and picture please click here. #34609 | A$600.00 | 129 Click HERE to order |
Bligh, Lieutenant William:
A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEA, Demy 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], [x], 264; portrait of Bligh, folding plan & section of the Bounty, folding copy of draught from which the Bounty was Built, 3 folding & 1 full-page charts, 1 plate; original cloth (front board very slightly marked); a fine copy. Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1969. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 121 (1244 copies printed including a 1970 reprint). Facsimile of the First Edition, London, George Nicol, M.DCC.XCII [1792] - see Ferguson 125. For full description and picture please click here. #97 | A$275.00 | 130 Click HERE to order |
Bligh, William:
A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEA, Demy 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [iv], [x], 264; 6 charts & plans (5 folding), 2 plates; original papered boards; (spine slightly faded; a little marginal foxing); a very good copy in faded dustwrapper. (Melbourne; Hutchinson; 1979). ***Facsimile of the First Edition, London, George Nicol, M.DCC.XCII [1792] - see Ferguson 125. Although probably best known for the Bounty mutiny, Bligh was a superb seaman and made many discoveries and observations of value, both in the voyage of the Bounty's launch subsequent to the mutiny and in his second voyage with the ships Providence and Assistant. For full description and picture please click here. #98 | A$65.00 | 131 Click HERE to order |
Bligh, William.
THE MUTINY ON BOARD H.M.S. BOUNTY 1789. [The Log in Facsimile. Edited by Stephen Walters]. F'cap Folio, First Edition; pp. xiv, [190](last 2 blank); 9 illustrations by Roy Williams; original plasticised papered boards; a nice copy in pictorial dustwrapper. (Guildford, Surrey); Pageminster Press in association with Argot Press (Melbourne) & Mitchell Beazley; 1981. ***Consisting of a Foreword by Stephen Walters, a list of The Bounty's Crew, and a facsimile of the portion of the handwritten log covering the events of the mutiny. Written by Bligh's clerk, John Samuel, whose hand is unusually legible, the log is easy to read. For full description and picture please click here. #33114 | A$95.00 | 132 Click HERE to order |
Blum, Deborah.
LOVE AT GOON PARK. Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection. Med. 8vo, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. xvi, 336; 8 plates, notes, index; original pictorial papered boards; a fine copy in slightly defective dustwrapper. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Perseus Publishing, A Member of the Perseus Books Group; (2002). For full description and picture please click here. #51332 | A$25.00 | 133 Click HERE to order |
Blumenthal, Joseph.
THE ART OF THE PRINTED BOOK 1455-1955. Masterpieces of Typography through Five Centuries from the Collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library New York. [With an Essay by Joseph Blumenthal]. Med. 4to, First U.K. Edition; pp. [ii], xiv, 196(last 3 blank); 125 plates (1 folding), bibliography, index, Errata sheet; original cloth; a fine copy in laminated dustwrapper. London; The Bodley head Ltd, in association with The Pierpont Morgan Library New York; (1974). ***A finely produced volume with attractive reproductions of beautifully designed title-pages. For full description and picture please click here. #66239 | A$45.00 | 134 Click HERE to order |
Blumenthal, Joseph.
THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA. Impl. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. xvi, 252(last blank); 70 plates (29 printed in black & coloured, 1 double-page), bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. London; Scolar Press, in association with The Dartmouth College Library; (1977). ***Printed in U.S.A. A finely produced volume with attractive reproductions of beautifully designed title-pages. For full description and picture please click here. #67954 | A$50.00 | 135 Click HERE to order |
Blunt, William.
FLOWER BOOKS and their Illustrators. An Exhibition arranged for the National Book League by William Blunt. The Catalogue published by Cambridge University Press. First Edition; pp. 58, xiv(adv., last 2 blank); coloured frontispiece, index; original wrappers. [London]; Cambridge University Press [for National Book League; 1950]. ***An informative catalogue on some magnificent and some little-known botanical works. For full description and picture please click here. #20131 | A$40.00 | 136 Click HERE to order |
Blunt, Wilfrid; with the assistance of William T. Stearn.
THE COMPLEAT NATURALIST. A Life of Linnaeus. Cr 4to, First Edition; pp. 256; 32 coloured plates (3 double-page) & 170 b/w. illustrations (including a few sketch maps), bibliography, appendix, index; original cloth; a nice copy in worn dustwrapper. London; Collins; 1971. For full description and picture please click here. #8979 | A$100.00 | 137 Click HERE to order |
Boase, Frederic.
MODERN ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died during the years 1851-1900, with an index of the most interesting matter. Volume I - A to H [to Volume VI (Supplement Volume III). L-Z]. 6 vols., cr. 4to, Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. [xii], [856](last blank, i.e. 1710 columns); Vol. II, pp. [viii], [888](i.e. 1776 columns); Vol. III, pp. [vi], [830](i.e. 1660 columns); Vol. IV (Supplement to Volume I), pp. [vi], [434](last blank, i.e. 866 columns); Vol. V (Supplement to Volume II), pp. [vi], [430](i.e. 858 columns); Vol. VI (Supplement to Volume III), pp. [viii], [508](i.e. 1016 columns); title-pages in red & black; original cloth; a fine set in original acetate dustwrappers; scarce. (London); Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.; 1965. ***First published 1892-1921 in very limited editions of 250 copies (Vols. I-III) and 125 copies (Vols. IV-VI) and here reprinted for the first time and designated Second Impression. For full description and picture please click here. #15336 | A$110.00 | 138 Click HERE to order |
Bodine, Margaret L.
HOLIDAYS WITH HUMMING BIRDS. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 731-742; 15 illustrations from photographs by the Author; contained in the National Geographic Magazine, June, 1928; new plain wrappers. Washington; National Geographic Society; 1928. ***Much of the issue is devoted to Texas, with 24 col. plates. For full description and picture please click here. #22768 | A$20.00 | 139 Click HERE to order |
Bodine Electric Company:
BODINE FRACTIONAL-HORSEPOWER MOTOR HANDBOOK. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. vi, 66; several diagrams; original wire binding; (a few leaves with slight stain to top edge); a very good copy. [Chicago]; Bodine Electric Company; 1959. For full description and picture please click here. #68443 | A$25.00 | 140 Click HERE to order |
Boer War:
THE TIMES. No. 36,521. London, Wednesday, July 31, 1901. The complete issue, broadsheet; pp. 16; disbound from a volume, with traces of glue on spine, a section of the sporting news blacked out in dark brown paint, for no obvious reason, but otherwise in excellent condition. London; George Edward Wright [for The Times]; 1901. ***Includes reference to the progress of the Boer war, etc. For full description and picture please click here. #17048 | A$20.00 | 141 Click HERE to order |
Boldrewood, Rolf [pseud. Thomas Alexander Browne].
THE SPHINX OF EAGLEHAWK. A Tale of Old Bendigo. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [iv], 130, [2](adv.); attractive decorations to the chapters; original flush-cut limp cloth (spine slightly darkened); entirely uncut and unopened; a fine copy; rare. London; Macmillan and Co.; 1895. ***A story of the goldfields. For full description and picture please click here. #67554 | A$350.00 | 142 Click HERE to order |
Boldrewood, Rolf [pseud. Thomas Alexander Browne].
OLD MELBOURNE MEMORIES. With an Introduction and Editorial Commentary by C. E. Sayers. New Edition; pp. xxii, 210; index; original papered boards; a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. Melbourne; William Heinemann; (1969). ***First published in 1884. For full description and picture please click here. #678 | A$95.00 | 143 Click HERE to order |
Bolles, Captain Herbert W.
WE SEEMED TO GET THERE! From Deck Cadet and Deck Officer in time of war and peace, to a ship's Captain and Sydney Harbour Sea Pilot. First Edition; pp. [iv], 474(last blank); bibliography; original stiff wrappers (lightly soiled); a very good copy. [Sydney; The Author]; (1997). ***Inscribed and signed by the Author. For full description and picture please click here. #55720 | A$35.00 | 144 Click HERE to order |
Bond, George.
A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE COLONY OF PORT-JACKSON, 8vo, Deluxe Limited Edition; pp. [vi], 42(last colophon); sewn & cased in original papered boards, with printed title-label and translucent dustwrapper. Melbourne; Edition Renard; 2005. ***Deluxe Limited Edition of 75 copies within a total edition of 200 numbered copies, and now first published since about 1810. All the original editions are of great rarity. No copies of the 2nd or 3rd editions have been recorded and the first edition (Southampton, 1803) is extremely rare, while the 4th (Oxford, 1806), 5th (London, 1809), 5th (i.e. 6th, Cork, undated), and 6th (i.e. 7th, Dublin, also undated), editions are all very rare. The work is of considerable importance as one of the few accounts of Hunter's period as Governor. Hunter was dissatisfied with Bond's behaviour in the colony and complained of him in dispatches. Hunter was instructed to return him to England and Bond left the colony under a cloud in 1800, but his narrative was evidently very popular. He gives an account of the operation of the convict system and the economic corruption in the colony, and describes early efforts to encourage free settlers. He includes also comments on the Aborigines and on the natural history of the colony, including much from first-hand experience. See Ferguson 480; Wantrup, pp. 91-3. For full description and picture please click here. #15237 | A$110.00 | 145 Click HERE to order |
Bond, George.
A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE COLONY OF PORT-JACKSON, 8vo, Limited Edition; pp. [vi], 42(last colophon); sewn in original stiff wrappers, with french fold. Melbourne; Edition Renard; 2005. ***Limited Edition of 100 copies within a total edition of 200 numbered copies, and now first published since about 1810. All the original editions are of great rarity. No copies of the 2nd or 3rd editions have been recorded and the first (Southampton, 1803) edition is extremely rare, while the 4th (Oxford, 1806), 5th (London, 1809), 5th (i.e. 6th, Cork, undated), and 6th (i.e. 7th, Dublin, also undated), editions are all very rare. The work is of considerable importance as one of the few accounts of Hunter's period as Governor. Hunter was dissatisfied with Bond's behaviour in the colony and complained of him in dispatches. Hunter was instructed to return him to England and Bond left the colony under a cloud in 1800, but his narrative was evidently very popular. He gives an account of the operation of the convict system and the economic corruption in the colony, and describes early efforts to encourage free settlers. He includes also comments on the Aborigines and on the natural history of the colony, including much from first-hand experience. See Ferguson 480; Wantrup, pp. 91-3. For full description and picture please click here. #15238 | A$75.00 | 146 Click HERE to order |
Bontier, Pierre and Le Verrier, Jean.
THE CANARIAN, First Edition; pp. [viii], lvi, 232(last 3 blank); portrait frontispiece, full-page map, type-facsimile plate of the title-page to the original French edition & 1 other plate, index; uncut in the original cloth (spine a little darkened); a very good copy; very scarce. London; Printed for the Hakluyt Society; M.DCCC.LXXII [1872]. ***Hakluyt Society [First Series No. 46]. For full description and picture please click here. #57471 | A$250.00 | 147 Click HERE to order |
Book of Kells:
THE BOOK OF KELLS. Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin. With a Study of the Manuscript by Francoise Henry. 126 colour plates, 75 monochrome illustrations. Super roy. 4to, First Edition (of this version), Second Impression; pp. 230; 126 full-page coloured plates (included in pagination), 75 b/w. illustrations (many full-page), 2 appendices, index; a fine copy in original silk cloth, gilt, in original silk slip-case (the slipcase a little marked); scarce. London; Thames and Hudson; (1977). ***A typically fine production from Thames and Hudson, first published in this form in 1974. For full description and picture please click here. #5618 | A$225.00 | 148 Click HERE to order |
Borchgrevink, C. E.; Commander of the Expedition.
FIRST ON THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT: Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900. First Edition; pp. xvi, 336(last 3 blank), 32(adv); 3 folding tinted maps, 19 full-page plates (including photogravure portrait frontispiece), 178 photos. in text, appendices, index; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front board, with fine gilt illustration of the Author standing on the Antarctic on spine, and superb gilt and silver illustration on front board; top edge gilt, others uncut; (spine ends & joints a little worn); a very good, generally clean copy; very scarce. London; George Newnes, Limited; 1901. ***Spence 151; Renard 152; Rosove 45.A1. Inscribed on half-title to John Cumpston (Antarctic historian) from Carl Straubel, 1952. For full description and picture please click here. #11215 | A$1750.00 | 149 Click HERE to order |
Borchgrevink, C. E.
FIRST ON THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT: Facsimile Edition; pp. xvi, viii(Introduction, last blank), 334(last blank); frontispiece, 3 folding maps & 1 text map, 197 illustrations (some full-page); appendices, index; original blue papered boards, lettered in gilt; (spine slightly faded); very good copy; scarce. London; C. Hurst & Company, Canberra, Australian National University Press; (1980). ***Renard 155; Rosove 45.B1. For full description and picture please click here. #4806 | A$275.00 | 150 Click HERE to order |
Bottriell, Lena Godsall.
KING CHEETAH. The Story of the Quest. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 244(last blank); several sketch maps, 2 coloured plates, several b/w. illustrations, bibliography; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Leiden; E. J. Brill; 1987. ***The story of field research by the Author, a Queenslander, and her husband into the King Cheetah, a differently pigmented species. For full description and picture please click here. #65171 | A$35.00 | 151 Click HERE to order |
Bourne, William.
A REGIMENT FOR THE SEA and other Writings on Navigation. By William Bourne of Gravesend, a Gunner (c. 1535-1582). Edited by E. R. G. Taylor. First Modern Edition; pp. xxxvi, 464; 16 plates (including 1 folding & several full-page charts), several text illustrations, reproductions of early title-pages, tables, etc., 3 appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; a very good copy in worn & slightly defective dustwrapper. Cambridge; Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press; 1963. ***Originally published in 1574. The work was perhaps "the earliest technical manual written by an Englishman". Hakluyt Society Second Series, No. 121. For full description and picture please click here. #41124 | A$65.00 | 152 Click HERE to order |
Boutell, Charles.
BOUTELL'S HERALDRY. Revised by C. W. Scott-Giles. Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary, and J. P. Brooke-Little, F.S.A., F.H.S. Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms. With 28 Plates in Colour and numerous text figures. Super roy. 8vo, Revised Edition (Fourth Edition); pp. xii, 316; 28 coloured plates, each with titling tissue, 423 text figures, bibliography, glossary & index; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. London and New York; Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.; (1963). For full description and picture please click here. #67566 | A$85.00 | 153 Click HERE to order |
Bowden, K. M.
CAPTAIN JAMES KELLY OF HOBART TOWN. First Edition; pp. xii, 128(last 2 blank); 2 full-page & 1 other maps, 7 plates (1 double-page), 4 appendices, notes, bibliography; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. (Parkville); Melbourne University Press; (1964). For full description and picture please click here. #9084 | A$65.00 | 154 Click HERE to order |
Bowden, Keith Macrae.
SAMUEL THOMAS GILL: ARTIST. Demy 4to, First Edition; pp. xiv, 148, [2](blank); 78 illustrations, mostly full-page plates, appendices, sources, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in slightly faded dustwrapper. [Melbourne; The Author]; (1971). ***Including detailed collations of Gill's published collections, with the individual plates specified. For full description and picture please click here. #5801 | A$175.00 | 155 Click HERE to order |
Bowden, Keith Macrae.
DOCTORS AND DIGGERS ON THE MOUNT ALEXANDER GOLDFIELDS. Demy 4to, First Edition; pp. xii, 216(last blank); map, 17 b/w. illustrations & 5 coloured plates after S. T. Gill, also other illustrations by C. Clarke, G. F. Angas, D. Tulloch & Ludwig Becker, appendices, biographical index, sources, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in slightly marked dustwrapper. (Melbourne; The Author; 1974). For full description and picture please click here. #5986 | A$150.00 | 156 Click HERE to order |
Bowden, Keith Macrae.
GOLDRUSH DOCTORS AT BALLARAT. Demy 4to, First Edition; pp. xiv, 126(last blank); 1 coloured & 6 b/w. full-page illustrations after S. T. Gill, 6 full-page illustrations by other goldfields artists (3 coloured) also plan & 6 other b/w. illustrations, 2 appendices, biographical index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Melbourne; The Author; 1977). For full description and picture please click here. #5987 | A$135.00 | 157 Click HERE to order |
Bowen, John; Edited by.
SCALE MODEL SAILING SHIPS. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 192; numerous illustrations & figures, bibliography, glossary; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. Greenwich; Conway Maritime Press; (1977). For full description and picture please click here. #24144 | A$20.00 | 158 Click HERE to order |
[Bower, Frederick O.; Smith, G. Elliot & others].
EVOLUTION IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE. A Collective Work. First Edition, Second Impression; pp. xvi, 518(last blank), [12](index), [2](blank), [2](adv.); 4 plates (2 folding), several illustrations, index; original cloth; a very good copy. London; Blackie and Son Limited; 1925. ***This second impression contains an addendum dated September 1925 concerning further advances in physics and chemistry. With a chapter on Mental Evolution by William M'Dougall. For full description and picture please click here. #9622 | A$45.00 | 159 Click HERE to order |
Bowker, R. M. and Budd, S. A.
MAKE OUR OWN SAILS. A Handbook for the Amateur and Professional Sailmaker. Cr. 8vo, Second Impression; pp. xii, 140; 8 plates, 32 figures, glossary, index; original cloth; a fine copy in slightly torn dustwrapper. London; Macmillan & Co Ltd; 1957. For full description and picture please click here. #42543 | A$30.00 | 160 Click HERE to order |
Bowlby, John.
CHARLES DARWIN. A New Life. Med. 8vo, First U.S. Edition; pp. xiv, 514(last 3 blank); 6 maps, numerous illustrations, chronology, appendix, notes, bibliography, index; original quarter cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. New York; W. W. Norton & Company; (1990). ***The Author died shortly before publication of this U.S. edition. Contains approximately seventy pages on the Beagle voyage. For full description and picture please click here. #51829 | A$65.00 | 161 Click HERE to order |
Bowler, Peter J.
CHARLES DARWIN. The Man and His Influence. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 250, [10](blank); endpaper map, 15 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Oxford); Basil Blackwell; (1990). ***Blackwell Science Biographies, General Editor: David Knight. For full description and picture please click here. #52473 | A$60.00 | 162 Click HERE to order |
[Boyd, Edward Lindsay Arthur Alexander].
THE WAY IT WAS. 4to; ff. [2], 21(rectos only, Introduction), pp. 28(Appendix), ff. [142](rectos only, the Diary); typed in capitals throughout; untitled ring binder; a fine copy. No Imprint; [The Author; 1997]. ***With useful details of events including the fall of Singapore and others. For full description and picture please click here. #68214 | A$40.00 | 163 Click HERE to order |
[Bradlow, Frank].
THOMAS BAINES: THE FRONTIER WARS 1851-1853. Oblong folio; original art. leather, gilt. [Cape Town]; The Heritage Collection; 1976. ***The prints were issued in this form in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies with text leaf to each of the six prints and a title leaf [this lacking from this set]. The prints offered are as follows:
The Rifle Brigade Landing at Algoa Bay 1852 [this print without text] (3 copies); River crossing by the Rifle Brigade 1852; Bloemfontein 1851; Lt. Gen. Cathcart's Forces Crossing the Orange River 1852 (3 copies); The 74th and 12th Regiments Coming Out of the Water Kloof (3 copies); The Graaf-Reinet Hottentot Levies in the Amatolas (5 copies).
| A$75.00 | 164 Click HERE to order |
Brasier, Martin.
DARWIN'S LOST WORLD. The Hidden History of Animal Life. First Edition; pp. xiv, 304, [2](blank); 16 illustrations on 8 coloured plates, 22 figures, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Oxford); Oxford University Press; (2009). For full description and picture please click here. #8556 | A$40.00 | 165 Click HERE to order |
Brassey, Annie.
THE LAST VOYAGE. 1887. First Edition; pp. [ii], xxiv, 490; 2 folding coloured maps, 20 fine tinted plates, numerous tinted illustrations and wood engravings in text, index; original cloth, gilt (slightly marked); top edge gilt, others uncut; a very good copy; scarce. London; Longmans, Green, and Co.; 1889. ***Ferguson 7361. Published posthumously, this copy is poignantly inscribed to Sir William Robinson, In Memoriam, and signed by Lord Brassey. Lady Brassey died on this voyage and was buried at sea on 14th September 1887. This work was compiled from her journals by M. A. Broome and covers her journey from India to Ceylon, Labuan, Brunei, Borneo and the Celebes, then to Australia (which the "Sunbeam" circumnavigated). Following Lady Brassey's death off the north-west coast of Australia, the "Sunbeam" returned to Portsmouth via Cape Town. The full-page plates and the headings to the chapters are printed in "monotone" by E. Nister of Nuremberg and the wood engravings were executed by Edward Whymper J. D. Cooper and G. Pearson. For full description and picture please click here. #64110 | A$475.00 | 166 Click HERE to order |
Brassey, Earl; G.C.B., D.C.L.
THE "SUNBEAM," R.Y.S. Voyages and Experiences in Many Waters. Naval Reserves and other Matters. First Edition; pp. xvi, 450; 50 plates (1 in photogravure), 5 appendices, index; original cloth, decorated in gilt & colours (a little flecked; some mild foxing); a nice copy in worn dustwrapper; scarce. London; John Murray; 1917. For full description and picture please click here. #64113 | A$300.00 | 167 Click HERE to order |
Breen, William J.; Editor.
BUILDING LATROBE UNIVERSITY. Reflections on the first 25 years 1964-1989. William J. Breen Editor. John A. Salmond Chair, 25 Year history Committee. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 212(last 7 blank); 16 plates, chronology, 3 appendices, notes, index; original papered boards, gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper; scarce. Melbourne; La Trobe University Press; 1989. For full description and picture please click here. #67586 | A$50.00 | 168 Click HERE to order |
Brennan, Frank.
SHARING THE COUNTRY. [The Case for an Agreement between Black and White Australians]. First Edition; pp. x, 176, [6](adv.); notes; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (Ringwood, Victoria); Penguin Books; (1991). For full description and picture please click here. #67879 | A$20.00 | 169 Click HERE to order |
Brennan, Michael G.; Editor.
THE TRAVEL DIARY OF ROBERT BARGRAVE, LEVANT MERCHANT (1647-1656). Super roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xx, 288; 17 figures, 5 genealogical charts, bibliography, index; original cloth, gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; The Hakluyt Society; 1999. ***Third Series, No. 3, the third of a fine new series in slightly larger format than Series I & II. For full description and picture please click here. #63375 | A$45.00 | 170 Click HERE to order |
Briggs, John.
HISTORY OF THE RISE OF THE MAHOMEDAN POWER IN INDIA 4 vols., 8vo; Vol. I, pp. lxiv, 360; several genealogical tables (2 folding), chronology; Vol. II, pp. xvi, 352; 3 genealogical tables (2 folding), chronology; Vol. III, pp. xx, 332(last 4 blank); 3 genealogical tables (1 folding), chronology; Vol. IV, pp. xxiv, 424(last blank); 8 genealogical tables (6 folding), chronology, alphabetical lists; original cloth; a very good set in dustwrappers. New Delhi; Oriental Books Reprint Corporation; (1981). For full description and picture please click here. #15725 | A$65.00 | 171 Click HERE to order |
Britton, Alexander & Bladen, F. M.; Editors.
HISTORICAL RECORDS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 4to, pp. [vi]; 12 folding charts; original buckram; a fine copy. (Mona Vale; Lansdown Slattery & Company; 1978-80). For full description and picture please click here. #140 | A$950.00 | 172 Click HERE to order |
Brody, Annemarie.
KUNWINJKU BIM. Western Arnhem Land Paintings from the collection of the Aboriginal Arts Board. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. 80; coloured map, numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, bibliography; original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers; a fine copy. Melbourne; National Gallery of Victoria; 1985. For full description and picture please click here. #57808 | A$35.00 | 173 Click HERE to order |
Broinowski, G. J.
PLATES FROM THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. Chromo-lithographs, each 380 x 280 mm approx. Sydney; C. Stuart; 1890-91. For full description and picture please click here. #16257 | A$165.00 | 174 Click HERE to order |
Brokensha, Peter.
THE PITJANTJATJARA AND THEIR CRAFTS. 4to, Third Impression; pp. 72(plus text on inside rear wrapper); full-page map, numerous illustrations, several figures, references; original stiff wrappers; a very good copy. [North Sydney; The Aboriginal Arts Board, Australia Council; 1987]. For full description and picture please click here. #67763 | A$60.00 | 175 Click HERE to order |
Brooks, Rodney A.
ROBOT: The Future of Flesh and Machines. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 262(last blank); 6 figures, references, appendix, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Allen Lane, The Penguin Press; (2002). For full description and picture please click here. #12582 | A$40.00 | 176 Click HERE to order |
Broome, [Mary Anne].
REMEMBERED WITH AFFECTION. A New Edition of Lady Broome's 'Letters to Guy' with Notes and a Short Life by Alexandra Hasluck. Drawings by Alison Forbes. First Edition; pp. [vi], 138(last blank); portrait frontispiece, several illustrations; original papered boards; (small stain to back of frontispiece). Melbourne; Oxford University Press; 1963. For full description and picture please click here. #67545 | A$25.00 | 177 Click HERE to order |
Broome, Richard.
ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS: Black Response to White Dominance 1788-1980. First Edition; pp. 228(last blank); 2 maps, 22 illustrations (4 full- page), appendix, notes, bibliography, index; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. Sydney; George Allen & Unwin; (1982). ***A volume in the series: The Australian Experience. For full description and picture please click here. #57776 | A$25.00 | 178 Click HERE to order |
Brown, Anthony J.
ILL-STARRED CAPTAINS. Flinders and Baudin. With a foreword by Tim Flannery. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xx, 512; 6 double-page & 8 full-page maps, 28 coloured plates, 4 appendices, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Adelaide; Crawford House Publishing; (2000). For full description and picture please click here. #66163 | A$85.00 | 179 Click HERE to order |
Brown, Colin H.
STALEMATE IN KOREA. And how we coped 1952-1953. [The Royal Australian Regiment in the static war of 1952-1953]. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. xii, 100; a few maps, several illustrations, 4 appendices, glossary, bibliography, index; original slick pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. (Loftus; Australian Military History Publications; 1997). ***Inscribed and signed by the Author. For full description and picture please click here. #30963 | A$45.00 | 180 Click HERE to order |
Brown, George W.; Hayne, David M.; Halpenny, Francess G.; General Editors.
DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY. pp. viii, 254, [2](blank); list of biographical subjects, index; original buckram; a fine copy. Toronto; University of Toronto Press; (1981). ***Not collated in detail but apparently fine and complete. For full description and picture please click here. #36236 | A$850.00 | 181 Click HERE to order |
Brown, Malcolm; MacGladrie, Stuart & Sutton, Candace.
YOU'RE LEAVING TOMORROW. Conscripts and correspondents caught up in the Vietnam War. Oblong 4to, First Edition; pp. xiv, 210; numerous illustrations, short biographies; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (North Sydney); Random House Australia; (2007). For full description and picture please click here. #31543 | A$30.00 | 182 Click HERE to order |
Browning, D. C.
EVERYMAN'S DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY. English & American. Compiled after John W. Cousin. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition; pp. xii, 772(last 3 blank); original cloth; (a little ink underlining & annotation); a very good copy in defective dustwrapper. London; J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.; (1960). For full description and picture please click here. #41799 | A$20.00 | 183 Click HERE to order |
Brumby, Ed & Vaszolyi, Eric; Edited by.
LANGUAGE PROBLEMS AND ABORIGINAL EDUCATION. First Edition; pp. xii, 208; bibliogs.; original stiff wrappers (very slightly silverfished; bookplate on title-page). (Mount Lawley); Aboriginal Teacher Education Program, Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education; 1977). For full description and picture please click here. #67828 | A$30.00 | 184 Click HERE to order |
Brunton, Paul.
AWAKE, BOLD BLIGH. William Bligh's letters describing the mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty. Edited, with an introduction by Paul Brunton. 4to, First Edition; pp. [viii], 88; 15 illustrations including coloured portrait of Bligh's daughter & 4 other coloured illustrations, as well as complete coloured facsimile of the letters and transcription, short bibliography; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney); Allen & Unwin [and] State Library of New South Wales; (1989). For full description and picture please click here. #35417 | A$45.00 | 185 Click HERE to order |
Bryant & May:
A PRINTED SHEET, 115 x 185 mm approx. showing various awards, trade marks & patents for Bryant & May's Safety Matches. Printed on tissue paper, probably a liner for a box or carton of matches; a rare survival of an extremely ephemeral item; (lightly folded and dust-soiled). London; Bryant & May; N.D. [c. 1890?]. For full description and picture please click here. #68541 | A$25.00 | 186 Click HERE to order |
Buchanan, Thomas G.
WHO KILLED KENNEDY? First Edition; pp. 192; full-page plan; original papered boards; a nice copy in silverfished and repaired dustwrapper. London; Secker & Warburg; (1964). ***An interesting early account usefully comparing previous American presidential assassinations to the murder of JFK; the similarities seem uncanny, but the conclusions drawn are perhaps debatable. For full description and picture please click here. #56509 | A$30.00 | 187 Click HERE to order |
Buchner, Prof. Ludwig.
FORCE AND MATTER. Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon. A Popular Exposition. Translated from the Fifteenth German Edition, enlarged and revised by the Author. Reprinted from the fourth English edition. First U.S. Edition; pp. [ii], xiv, 400, [2](adv.), [2](blank); appendix; original cloth, leather title-label on spine; a very good copy. New York; Peter Eckler, Publisher; 1891. ***Including speculations on intelligence, consciousness, etc. For full description and picture please click here. #65697 | A$45.00 | 188 Click HERE to order |
Building Research:
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. 8vo; pp. 12; original wrappers (lightly soiled; some pencilled ticks). Chatswood; Department of Works, Commonwealth Experimental Building Station; 1955. For full description and picture please click here. #68473 | A$15.00 | 189 Click HERE to order |
Bull, H. J.
THE CRUISE OF THE 'ANTARCTIC' to the South Polar Regions. With Frontispiece by W. L. Wyllie, A.R.A., and Illustrations by W. G. Burn Murdoch. Facsimile Edition; pp. xxii, 244(last blank); 12 plates, appendices; original dark blue cloth, decorated in silver & black; a fine copy. (Bungay, Suffolk); The Paradigm Press, Bluntisham Books; 1984. ***With new introduction by D. W. H. Walton, pp. [xv]-xxi. Renard 221; Rosove 55.B1. For full description and picture please click here. #4812 | A$265.00 | 190 Click HERE to order |
Burbidge, Nancy T.; compiled by.
PLANT TAXONOMIC LITERATURE IN AUSTRALIAN LIBRARIES. Edited by Alison McCusker. Demy 4to, First Edition; pp. [viii], 520; portrait; original cloth (a little marked; spine faded); a very good copy. Canberra; Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Science; (1978). For full description and picture please click here. #7319 | A$75.00 | 191 Click HERE to order |
Burchett, Wilfred and Purdy, Anthony.
COSMONAUT YURI GAGARIN. First Man in Space. With 32 pages of half-tone Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 188(last blank); 32 plates, index; original papered boards; (inscription on endpaper; a little foxing); a very good copy in worn dustwrapper. London; Anthony Gibbs & Phillips; (MCMLXI) [1961]. For full description and picture please click here. #64923 | A$25.00 | 192 Click HERE to order |
Burchett, Winston.
EAST MELBOURNE. 1837-1977. People, Places, Problems. Oblong 4to, First Edition; pp. xiv, 178(last blank); numerous illustrations & diagrams (a few full-page), 5 appendices, bibliography, index; original plasticised papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. Melbourne; Craftsman Press; (1978). For full description and picture please click here. #21483 | A$95.00 | 193 Click HERE to order |
Burgess, Fred W.
OLD PRINTS AND ENGRAVINGS. Roy. 8vo, U.S. Edition; pp. xiv, 282(last blank); 78 illustrations on 47 plates, tailpiece, index; original cloth; a very good copy in worn & defective dustwrapper. New York; Tudor Publishing Company; MCMXXXVII [1937]. For full description and picture please click here. #22790 | A$65.00 | 194 Click HERE to order |
Burke, Iris.
AUSTRALIA'S FIRST PICTORIALIST. [William Stanley Jevons]. 4to; pp. 6-23; 14 illustrations; contained in The Australasian Photo-Review, Volume 61, Number 1, January 1955, pp. 64; numerous illustrations; original pictorial wrappers; a nice copy. Sydney; Kodak (Australasia) Pty. Ltd.; 1955. For full description and picture please click here. #68484 | A$35.00 | 195 Click HERE to order |
Burke, John and Burke, Sir Bernard; Founders.
BURKE'S GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE PEERAGE, BARONETAGE AND KNIGHTAGE. Privy Council & Order of Precedence. Founded 1826 by John Burke & Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., Ulster King of Arms 1853-1892. 99th Edition. Very thick impl. 8vo, 99th Edition; pp. ccxc(numerous adverts.), 2476(last blank); 11 full-page portrait illustrations, Index to Advertisers, Abbreviations and Use of Symbols, Officers of Arms and Heraldic Glossary, 24-page addendum loosely inserted; original cloth, gilt (spine faded); a nice copy. London; Burke's Peerage Limited (in conjunction with Shaw Publishing Co.); 1949. ***Includes lists of The Principal Appointments to the Royal Households; Styles of Address; Extinct Titles; Representative Peers; The Ministry; Baronetcies - the claims to which have not yet been proved; Precedence and Scales of General and Social Precedence; Key to the Work and Guide to Precedence; Orders, Decorations and Medals; Wearing of Orders, Decorations and Medals in Morning Dress; Wearing of Orders, Miniature Decorations and Medals with Evening Dress; Peerages in Order of Precedence; Standing Council of the Baronetage; Baronetcies in Order of Precedence; The Orders of Knighthood; an Historical Introduction; Portraits of the Royal Family; The Royal Family; The Royal Lineage; Other Titled Nobility of the British Empire; Foreign Titles; Knightage; Honorary Knights; and The List of Royal Warrant Holders. For full description and picture please click here. #46621 | A$275.00 | 196 Click HERE to order |
Burke, John & Burke, Sir Bernard; Founders.
BURKE'S GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY. Founded 1836 by John Burke and Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., LL.D. (Ulster King of Arms 1853-92). Edited by L. G. Pine, B.A., F.S.A.Scot., F.R.S.A. Seventeenth Edition. Very thick impl. 8vo, 17th Edition; pp. clxxviii(numerous adverts), 2840; 53 fine coloured plates of arms, numerous illustrations in text, addendum; original cloth, gilt (spine faded); a very nice copy. London; Burke's Peerage Ltd (in conjunction with City Ltd.); 1952. For full description and picture please click here. #46989 | A$250.00 | 197 Click HERE to order |
Burke, John and Burke, Sir Bernard; Founders.
BURKE'S GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE PEERAGE, BARONETAGE AND KNIGHTAGE. Privy Council & Order of Precedence. Founded 1826 by John Burke & Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., (Ulster King of Arms 1853-1892). Edited by Peter Townend. One Hundred and Fourth Edition. Very thick impl. 8vo, 99th Edition; pp. xcvi (including adverts., some coloured), 3060(last blank); title-page in red & black; hundreds of heraldic illustrations, index & index to advertisers, abbreviations and symbols used; original buckram, gilt; (tape repair to one leaf); a nice copy. London; Burke's Peerage Limited; MCMLXVII [1967]. ***Includes Special Articles, Portrait and Biographies of the Royal Family, Royal Lineage, Royal Warrant Holders, Peerages in order of Precedence, Baronetcies in order of Precedence, etc., etc. For full description and picture please click here. #67535 | A$220.00 | 198 Click HERE to order |
Burke and Wills:
THE BURKE AND WILLS AUSTRALIAN EXPLORING EXPEDITION. Three leaves, folio, pp. 125-130; extracted from the Illustrated London News, Feb. 1, 1862; 4 large and 3 smaller illustrations; lightly folded; in very good condition. London; Illustrated London News; 1862. ***Comprising a full-page engraving showing the departure of the expedition (page 126), portraits of Burke and Wills and the burial of Burke by Howitt's party (page 127) and an account of the ill-fated expedition (pp. 127-129 - about five columns in total). For full description and picture please click here. #67544 | A$75.00 | 199 Click HERE to order |
THE FINAL, FINAL AND ONLY COMPLETE VERSION Burke & Wills:
PROGRESS REPORTS AND FINAL REPORT OF THE EXPLORATION COMMITTEE of the Royal Society of Victoria, 1863. Royal Society, Melbourne, 20th August, 1863 [but 1873, see below]. Melbourne; Royal Society of Victoria; 1872 [1873]. For full description and picture please click here. #16383 | A$12,500.00 | 200 Click HERE to order |
Burke & Wills:
THE BURKE AND WILLS EXPLORING EXPEDITION: An Account of the Crossing the Continent of Australia, from Cooper's Creek to Carpentaria, with Biographical Sketches of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills. Facsimile Edition, Second Impression; pp. [ii], [ii](cover reproduction), iv, 36; printed in double-column; folding map, frontispiece, facsimile of original wrapper; Pp. 35-6 containing biographical sketches of Burke & Wills; a nice copy. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1971]. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 10, first issued 1963; a total of 970 copies were printed. Originally published in Melbourne by Wilson & Mackinnon, 1861. For full description and picture please click here. #33093 | A$110.00 | 201 Click HERE to order |
Burkhardt, Frederick; Edited by.
CHARLES DARWIN'S LETTERS. A Selection 1825-1859. [Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould]. First Edition; pp. xxvi, 254(last 5 blank); portrait frontispiece, double-page map, a few figures, endpaper genealogical table & map, notes, biographical register, bibliography, bibliography note, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Cambridge); Cambridge University Press; (1996). For full description and picture please click here. #16329 | A$45.00 | 202 Click HERE to order |
Burkhardt, Frederick; Edited by.
CHARLES DARWIN THE BEAGLE LETTERS. With an Introduction by Janet Browne. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxx, 470, [6](blank); frontispiece, 12 coloured & 24 b/w. plates, a few figures, endpaper genealogical table & map, chronology, notes, brief biographies and index to correspondents, bibliography, index; original papered boards; (inscription on endpaper verso); a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Cambridge); Cambridge University Press; (2008). For full description and picture please click here. #37959 | A$65.00 | 203 Click HERE to order |
Burl, Aubrey.
STONEHENGE. A New History of the World's Greatest Stone Circle. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 274, [4](blank); frontispiece, 11 illustrations on 8 coloured plates, 35 figures, 6 tables, 3 appendices, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Constable; (2006). For full description and picture please click here. #41397 | A$45.00 | 204 Click HERE to order |
Burmese Manuscript:
A BURMESE-CAMBODIAN MANUSCRIPT BOOK. Burma (?); Producer Unknown; N.D. [c. 1900 ?]. For full description and picture please click here. #68048 | A$500.00 | 205 Click HERE to order |
Burton, Canon A.; Compiled by.
HISTORY OF ST. MARY'S BUSSELTON. Cr. 8vo, Fifth Edition; pp. 32; 4 coloured illustrations; original wrappers. (Perth; St Mary's Ladies' Guild); [1980]. ***First published in 1940, here extended. For full description and picture please click here. #67513 | A$15.00 | 206 Click HERE to order |
Burton, Maurice.
UNDER THE SEA. Illustrated by Maurice Wilson. Roy. 8vo (approx.), First U.K. Edition; pp. 256; numerous coloured illustrations, glossary, index; original cloth (front joint slightly worn); a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. London; Vista Books; (1960). ***Vista Illustrated Science Series. For full description and picture please click here. #65741 | A$25.00 | 207 Click HERE to order |
Busby, James.
A TREATISE ON THE CULTURE OF THE VINE, Together, 3 vols., Facsimile Editions; a fine set in original buckram. (N.S.W.; David Ell Press; 1979). ***Reprints of Busby's three books on Australian wine and viticulture. They were the first three books on Australian wine, and the first three books on wine published in Australia (1825, 1830, & 1833). All of the originals are rare or very rare. For full description and picture please click here. #3753 | A$450.00 | 208 Click HERE to order |
Bustard, Robert.
AUSTRALIAN SEA TURTLES. Natural History and Conservation. First Edition; pp. [iv], 220; endpaper maps, 24 plates, 16 text figures, appendix, references, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London - Sydney; Collins; (1972). For full description and picture please click here. #8675 | A$45.00 | 209 Click HERE to order |
Butcher, Barry.
OF VETS, VIRUSES AND VACCINES. The Story of CSIRO's Animal Health Research Laboratory, Parkville. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 326, [2](blank); 6 coloured plates, numerous b/w. illustrations, chronology, sources, 2 appendices, index; original slick pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. (Collingwood); CSIRO Publishing; (2000). For full description and picture please click here. #65717 | A$35.00 | 210 Click HERE to order |
Buxbaum, Edwin C.
COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE. Roy. 8vo, Second (revised & expanded) Edition; pp. [iv], 328, [6](blank); 13 plates, record chart, index to the Geographic, 1888-1898; original cloth (spine slightly faded); a fine copy in original slip-case. Wilmington, Delaware; (Edwin C. Buxbaum; 1962). For full description and picture please click here. #20653 | A$110.00 | 211 Click HERE to order |
Buxbaum, Edwin C.
COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE. Impl. 8vo, Third (revised & expanded) Edition; pp. xii, 390, [2](blank); 27 plates (2 coloured), record chart, Census of Complete original Sets; original cloth; a fine copy in original slip-case. Wilmington, Delaware; (Edwin C. Buxbaum; 1971). For full description and picture please click here. #16265 | A$125.00 | 212 Click HERE to order |
Byrd, Commander Richard Evelyn.
OUR TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 347-522; map, 16 photos.; contained in The National Geographic Magazine, September, 1927; original wrappers (rear wrapper repaired). Washington; National Geographic Society; 1927. For full description and picture please click here. #23462 | A$30.00 | 213 Click HERE to order |
Byrd, Richard E.
ALLEIN! Auf einsamer Wacht im Sudeis. Mit 42 Abbildungen. Dritte Auflage. German Edition, Third Impression; pp. 300(last blank); 16 plates, 12 chapter decorations by Richard E. Harrison; original cloth; a very good copy. Leipzig; F. A. Brockhaus; 1940. ***German translation of "Alone". This edition is a useful addition to the literature as the 16 plates are not contained in the original American Edition. For full description and picture please click here. #8663 | A$45.00 | 214 Click HERE to order |
Byron, Hon. John:
BYRON'S JOURNAL OF HIS CIRCUMNAVIGATION 1764-1766. Edited by Robert E. Gallagher. First Edition; pp. lxxxii, 230; 10 folding charts, 7 full-page charts, 3 plates, appendices, bibliography, index; original blue cloth, gilt; a nice copy in worn & torn dustwrapper. Cambridge; Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press; 1964. ***Hakluyt Society Second Series, No. 122. For full description and picture please click here. #2151 | A$75.00 | 215 Click HERE to order |
Callender, Geoffrey.
THE NAVAL SIDE OF BRITISH HISTORY. First Edition, Second Impression; pp. 308(last blank); endpaper map, 18 plates, chronology, index; original cloth (slightly faded; some mild foxing); a very good copy; scarce. London; Christophers; (1924). For full description and picture please click here. #45855 | A$50.00 | 216 Click HERE to order |
Callinan, Bernard J.
INDEPENDENT COMPANY. The 2/2 and 2/4 Australian Independent Companies in Portuguese Timor, 1941-1943. Foreword by Lieutenant General Sir Vermon Sturdee. Introductory Chapter [by] Nevil Shute. With 44 Illustrations and Maps. Third Impression; pp. xxxiv, 236, [2](blank); endpaper & 6 full-page maps, 25 plates, index (including map references); original cloth (rubbed; some minor soiling). Melbourne; William Heinemann Ltd.; (1954). For full description and picture please click here. #46637 | A$65.00 | 217 Click HERE to order |
Calvert, Albert F.
THE EXPLORATION OF AUSTRALIA. 2 vols., cr. 4to, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [viii], 238, [20](adv. & reviews of Calvert's works); large folding map, 15 plates (of which 13 are portraits of the Explorers); Vol. II, From 1844 to 1896; pp. [ii], xiv, 386, [6](adv., last 3 blank); large folding map & 1 smaller folding map (at Pp. 320/321), the latter not mentioned by Ferguson; appendix to each vol., index; original linen backs (a little foxed as often), with blue cloth sides, top edges gilt, others uncut; a very nice, clean set; scarce. London; George Philip & Son; 1895-96. ***Ferguson 7821, not mentioning the third map at Pp. 320/21 in Volume II. The two large folding maps are identical as always, and are dated 1895. The smaller map shows the proposals for the Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1896. For full description and picture please click here. #19452 | A$1250.00 | 218 Click HERE to order |
Calvert, Albert F.
THE EXPLORATION OF AUSTRALIA From 1844 to 1896. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [ii], xiv, 386, [6](adv., last 3 blank); large folding coloured map (a few short tears at folds) & 1 smaller folding map (at Page 320), the latter not mentioned by Ferguson; appendix, index; original linen back, with blue cloth sides, top edge gilt, others uncut; some external soiling; a good, sound copy; scarce. London; George Philip & Son; 1896. ***Volume II only of a two-volume set, but complete in itself: Volume I covering the earlier period was published in the previous year. See Ferguson 7821, not mentioning the second map at Page 320. This smaller map shows the proposals for the Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1896. For full description and picture please click here. #18896 | A$225.00 | 219 Click HERE to order |
Calvert, Albert F.
THE ABORIGINES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. F'cap 8vo, Facsimile Edition; pp. [iv], 48(last blank); folding map; original vinyl; a fine copy. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1973]. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 194 (1011 copies printed). Originally published London, W. Milligan & Co., 1892. For full description and picture please click here. #33107 | A$100.00 | 220 Click HERE to order |
Cameron, Hector Charles.
SIR JOSEPH BANKS, K.B., P.R.S.: The Autocrat of the Philosophers. First Edition; pp. xx, 344(last 3 blank); 9 plates, 7 appendices, notes on Banks correspondence, chronology, references, index; original cloth; a very nice copy in taped & slightly defective dustwrapper; scarce. London; The Batchworth Press; (1952). ***Beddie 3970. For full description and picture please click here. #13807 | A$135.00 | 221 Click HERE to order |
Cameron, Ian.
ANTARCTICA: The Last Continent. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 256; 1 coloured & 17 b/w. maps, 31 coloured & numerous b/w. illustrations, bibliography, index; original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; a very good copy in torn dustwrapper. London; Cassell & Company Ltd; (1974). ***Spence 241; Renard 275. For full description and picture please click here. #3971 | A$60.00 | 222 Click HERE to order |
Cameron, W. J.; Compiler.
A SHORT-TITLE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PRINTED IN BRITAIN AND BRITISH BOOKS PRINTED ABROAD 1641-1700 Held in Australian Libraries. With an Introduction by W. J. Cameron on the development of rare book collections and research facilities in Australia and New Zealand Libraries. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [vi], xxiv, 158; original cloth-backed stiff wrappers; a nice copy. Sydney; The Wentworth Press; 1962. ***Edition Limited to 500 copies. Studies in Australian Bibliography, No. 11. For full description and picture please click here. #34127 | A$85.00 | 223 Click HERE to order |
[Campbell, George]; The [8th] Duke of Argyll.
ORGANIC EVOLUTION CROSS-EXAMINED. Or some suggestions on the great secret of biology. By the Duke of Argyll, K.G., etc. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], vi, 202(last blank), [2](adv.); original cloth (number removed from spine; label presenting the work to Trinity College, Melbourne from G. W. Rusden on endpaper; marginal mark on Page 157 and related note in ms. on the final blank); a very good copy. London; John Murray; 1898. For full description and picture please click here. #66614 | A$65.00 | 224 Click HERE to order |
Campbell, George F.
CHINA TEA CLIPPERS. Drawings by the Author. Demy 4to, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. [viii], 156; frontispiece, 53 figures (illustrations & diagrams); original vinyl; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Adlard Coles Limited; (1985). ***First published in 1974. Drawings by the author showing all details of the ships. For full description and picture please click here. #50012 | A$50.00 | 225 Click HERE to order |
Campbell, Joseph.
Historical Atlas of World Mythology. Volume II. THE WAY OF THE SEEDED EARTH. 2 parts, folio, First Edition; Part 2: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Northern Americas, pp. [vi], [115]-252, [vii]-xxii; several maps, numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, notes, subject index, index of place names; Part 3: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Middle and Southern Americas, pp. [vi], [251]-388, [ix]-xxiv; several maps, numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, notes, subject index, index of place names; original pictorial stiff wrappers; fine copies. New York; Perennial Library, Harper & Row, Publishers; (1989). For full description and picture please click here. #67917 | A$60.00 | 226 Click HERE to order |
Campbell, R. J.; Editor.
THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS. The Voyages of the Brig Williams 1819-1820 as recorded in contemporary documents and the Journal of Midshipman C. W. Poynter. Super roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 232; 15 coloured & numerous b/w. illustrations (several double-page), 4 appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; The Hakluyt Society; 2000. ***Another fine production from the Hakluyt Society in the handsome new livery of the Third Series of which this is Volume 4. For full description and picture please click here. #64322 | A$145.00 | 227 Click HERE to order |
Canney, Donald L.
THE OLD STEAM NAVY. Volume One. Frigates, Sloops, and Gunboats, 1815-1885. 4to, First Edition; pp. xx, 212(last 4 versos blank); several illustrations & diagrams, 2 appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Annapolis, Maryland; Naval Institute Press; (1990). ***A fine book, complete in itself: a second volume on the Ironclads was published in 1993. For full description and picture please click here. #27788 | A$65.00 | 228 Click HERE to order |
Cannon, Michael; Editor.
THE VICTORIAN GOLDFIELDS 1852-3. An Original Album by S. T. Gill. Edited and Introduced by Michael Cannon. Oblong med. 4to, Second Edition; pp. [iv], 100; 41 coloured full-page illustrations, bibliography; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (Melbourne); State Library of Victoria; (1992). For full description and picture please click here. #45295 | A$75.00 | 229 Click HERE to order |
Cannon, Michael.
MELBOURNE AFTER THE GOLD RUSH. [The Story of a City in Ferment]. First Edition; pp. [vi], 474(last blank); 110 coloured & 150 b/w. illustrations; 2 appendices, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Main Ridge, Vic.); Loch Haven Books; (1993). ***The sequel to the Author's preceding volume "Old Melbourne Town before the Gold Rush", continuing the story of the developing metropolis and illustrated with many coloured illustrations from contemporary sources. For full description and picture please click here. #40274 | A$165.00 | 230 Click HERE to order |
[Cano, Pilar & Serrats, Marta; Edited by].
TYPOSPHERE. New Fonts to Make You Think. Cr. 4to, First Edition in English; pp. 192(last blank); numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (New York); Collins Design, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; (2007). ***First published in Spanish in the same year at Barcelona. For full description and picture please click here. #14500 | A$40.00 | 231 Click HERE to order |
Capell, A.
DISTRIBUTION OF LANGUAGES IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, NEW GUINEA. Cr. 4to; pp. 104-129, 349-377; 2 full-page maps; disbound. [Sydney; Extracted from Oceania; 1948-49]. For full description and picture please click here. #64701 | A$25.00 | 232 Click HERE to order |
Capper, Henry:
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Cr. 8vo, Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], [ii], 108 (pagination irregular); folding map, folding plan, table of ships; original vinyl; a fine copy; very scarce. [Adelaide; Public Library of South Australia; 1962]. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 16: only 49 copies were printed. For full description and picture please click here. #38452 | A$125.00 | 233 Click HERE to order |
Carnegie, Margaret.
MORGAN. The Bold Bushranger. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [x], 136, [2](blank); endpaper map, 1 full-page map, 8 plates, references, appendix, bibliography, index; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Melbourne; The Hawthorn Press; (1974). For full description and picture please click here. #27796 | A$40.00 | 234 Click HERE to order |
Carney, Michael.
BRITAIN IN PICTURES. A History and Bibliography. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 136; 4 coloured plates, 4 illustrations, chronology list, list of authors and editors, subject list, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Werner Shaw Ltd; 1995. For full description and picture please click here. #67978 | A$45.00 | 235 Click HERE to order |
Carnochan, W. B.
GIBBON'S SOLITUDE. The Inward World of the Historian. First Edition; pp. xvi, 232(last 7 blank, but for colophon at end); 1 full-page illust., 3 appendixes, notes, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Stanford, California; Stanford University Press; 1987. For full description and picture please click here. #57551 | A$35.00 | 236 Click HERE to order |
Carpenter, Humphrey and Prichard, Mari.
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO CHILDREN'S LITERATURE. Med 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 588, [6](blank); numerous illustrations; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Oxford; Oxford University Press; 1984. For full description and picture please click here. #24865 | A$65.00 | 237 Click HERE to order |
Carre, Abbe.
THE TRAVELS OF THE ABBE CARRE in India and the Near East 1672 to 1674. Translated from the manuscript journal of his travels in the India Office by Lady Fawcett and edited by Sir Charles Fawcett with the assistance of Sir Richard Burn. 3 vols., Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. [iii]-lvi, 316(last blank); 3 folding maps, 2 plates; Vol. II, pp. [iii]-xxiv, 317-676(last blank), [2](blank); 3 folding maps, 1 plate; Vol. III, pp. [iii]-xxiv, 677-984; 3 folding maps, 3 plates, index; original cloth; a very good set in dustwrappers. New Delhi; Asian Educational Services; 1990. ***First published in the Hakluyt Society Second Series, Nos. XCV-XCVII, 1947-48. For full description and picture please click here. #17610 | A$70.00 | 238 Click HERE to order |
Carroll, F. S.
THE NEW COUNTIES, HUNDREDS, & DISTRICT ATLAS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA AND NORTHERN TERRITORY, 1876. Demy folio, First Edition; pp. [ii](title, verso index), 24(misnumbered 20); large folding coloured map of South Australia, 25 double-page coloured maps of the city of Adelaide, counties and districts; original half calf with patterned cloth sides, gilt title-panel on front board; (boards a little warped; the large general map with short splits and tears, but sound; some minor marginal staining); a very good, sound copy; rare. Adelaide; Published E. S. Wigg & Son; 1876. ***Ferguson 7981 and 7982 (collation in error). The text is closely set and contains a vast quantity of useful and detailed information on the state of the colony. The plates were printed in colours by F. W. Niven, Ballarat, the letterpress probably done in Adelaide. This atlas is of considerably greater rarity then Hiscocks' similar atlas of Victoria published two years earlier. For full description and picture please click here. #53872 | A$2750.00 | 239 Click HERE to order |
Carruthers, Sir Joseph.
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, R.N. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii](blank), xx, 316, [6](adv.); map, 15 plates (1 double-page), 8 appendices, index; original cloth (date of publication in white ink on spine; edges foxed); a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; (1930). ***Beddie 283. With front & inside flap of dustwrapper together with relevant newsclippings loosely inserted. For full description and picture please click here. #7864 | A$135.00 | 240 Click HERE to order |
Carter, John.
TASTE & TECHNIQUE IN BOOK COLLECTING. By John Carter. Sandars Reader 1947. President 1969 of The Bibliographical Society. With an Epilogue. Fourth Impression; pp. xiv, 242; index, Corrections and Notes 1969; original cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper (spine faded). London; Private Libraries Association; (1972). For full description and picture please click here. #26890 | A$45.00 | 241 Click HERE to order |
Carteret, Philip:
CARTERET'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD 1766-1769. Edited by Helen Wallis. 2 vols., First Edition; Vol. I, pp. xii, 276(last 3 blank); 4 folding maps, 6 text maps & 4 plates; Vol. II, pp. vi, 275-564; 1 folding map, 5 plates, bibliography, index; original cloth, gilt; a nice set in slightly worn dustwrappers; scarce. Cambridge; Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press; 1965. ***Spence 247; also Spence 1239 (duplicate entry); Renard 290. Based on Carteret's own MS Journals, including one which Carteret wrote with a view to publication to correct the misrepresentation of John Hawkesworth's Voyages (1773). Supplemented also by letters and other documents from English and Dutch archives. Hakluyt Society, Second Series Nos. CXXIV & CXXV. For full description and picture please click here. #9403 | A$220.00 | 242 Click HERE to order |
Caruana, Wally.
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART. A Souvenir Book of Aboriginal Art in the Australian National Gallery. 4to, First Edition; pp. 56(last blank); numerous coloured illustrations; original pictorial stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (Canberra; The Australian National Gallery; 1987). For full description and picture please click here. #67714 | A$30.00 | 243 Click HERE to order |
Caruana, Wally.
ABORIGINAL ART. 187 illustrations, 31 in colour. First Edition; pp. 216; map, 31 coloured & 156 b/w. illustrations, bibliography, glossary, index; original pictorial stiff wrappers; a fine copy. [London]; Thames and Hudson; (1993). For full description and picture please click here. #67713 | A$40.00 | 244 Click HERE to order |
Casey, Maie.
AN AUSTRALIAN STORY 1837-1907. First Edition; pp. 196(last 2 blank); full-page map, numerous head & tail illustrations by the Author; original cloth; a very good copy in torn dustwrapper. London; Michael Joseph; (1962). For full description and picture please click here. #62851 | A$25.00 | 245 Click HERE to order |
[Cash, Martin]:
MARTIN CASH. The Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land in 1843. A Personal Narrative of his Exploits in the Bush and his Experiences at Port Arthur and Norfolk Island. Fifteenth Thousand. Cr. 8vo; pp. [iv], 184; original illustrated wrappers (worn). Hobart; J. Walch & Sons; N.D. [c. 1900?]. ***Includes the preface to the first edition by the author. With the pencilled signature of Norman Brookes on title-page & following leaf and enclosed in card wrapper with Mabel Brookes' bookplate. For full description and picture please click here. #67502 | A$45.00 | 246 Click HERE to order |
Castle, William R.
HAWAII, THEN AND NOW. Boyhood Recollections and Recent Observations by An American Whose Grandfather Came to the Islands 102 Years Ago. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 419-462; 3 maps, 8 coloured plates, numerous b/w. illustrations; contained in The National Geographic Magazine, October, 1938; original wrappers. Washington; National Geographic Society; 1938. ***Includes two additional articles on Pacific fishes and other marine life. For full description and picture please click here. #18359 | A$25.00 | 247 Click HERE to order |
Cave, Roderick.
THE PRIVATE PRESS. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 376; 73 plates, 83 text figures, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. London; Faber and Faber; (1971). ***Including brief mention of Australian presses. For full description and picture please click here. #48776 | A$135.00 | 248 Click HERE to order |
Cave, Roderick.
THE PRIVATE PRESS. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 376; 73 plates, 83 text figures, bibliography, index; original cloth; a nice copy in laminated dustwrapper. London; Faber and Faber; (1971). ***Including brief mention of Australian presses. For full description and picture please click here. #66242 | A$75.00 | 249 Click HERE to order |
Central America:
MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA. Compiled and Drawn in the Cartographic Section of the National Geographic Society for National Geographic Magazine, Gilbert Grosvenor, Editor. Albers Conical Equal-Area Projection. Scale 1:3,500,000 or 55.24 miles to the inch. Large folded coloured map, 900 by 650 mm; a very good copy. Washington; National Geographic Society; March, 1953. For full description and picture please click here. #17831 | A$20.00 | 250 Click HERE to order |
Central Australia:
QUEENSLAND GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL (New Series). Session 1957-1958-1959. Vol. LVIII.-LIX. Med. 8vo; pp. 48; numerous illustrations; original wrappers. Brisbane; Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Queensland); 1959. ***Containing, inter alia, an editorial on Commemorations at Alice Springs, Northern Territory of Australia, with several illustrations. For full description and picture please click here. #68477 | A$20.00 | 251 Click HERE to order |
Chambers, David.
JOAN HASSALL. Engravings & Drawings. with an introductory memoir by Joan Hassall and an appreciation of her technique by George Mackley. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. lxiv, 160; over 470 reproductions of the artist's wood-engravings, systematic & detailed lists of illustrated books, journals & bookplates, index of books; original cloth; a fine copy. Pinner; Private Libraries Association; 1985. For full description and picture please click here. #17132 | A$25.00 | 252 Click HERE to order |
[Chambers, Robert].
EXPLANATIONS: A Sequel to "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation." By the Author of that Work. Second Edition. London: John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho. M CCC XLVI. Post 8vo, Second Edition; pp. viii, 206(last blank), 10(adv.); original cloth (marked); uncut; (name stamp on title-page; a few leaves mildly stained); a very good copy; rare. London; John Churchill; [1846]. ***Chambers had planned to respond to criticisms of his work by publishing a series of letters to the 'Times' followed by a pamphlet of a hundred or so pages, however Churchill convinced the anonymous author (through his friend Alexander Ireland) that it should be issued in book form, printed and bound similarly to the original. This was duly issued in 1845, and was followed by this slightly altered version in 1846. By then the fifth edition of 'Vestiges' was ready and the two works were often reviewed together, the publisher going so far as to suggest a combined volume, however his anonymous author pointed out that the arguments were already incorporated in the new edition. For full description and picture please click here. #66864 | A$650.00 | 253 Click HERE to order |
[Chambers, Robert].
VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION. Eleventh Edition. Illustrated by numerous Engravings on Wood. London: John Churchill, New Burlington. M CCC LX. Post 8vo, Eleventh Edition; pp. [iv], 286, [2], lxiv(Proofs, illustrations, authorities, etc.); 106 figures; original green cloth (rubbed & a little marked; hinges weak); uncut; a very good copy; very scarce. London; John Churchill; [1860]. ***An anonymous work which had an enormous influence on Charles Darwin, first published in 1844 and here greatly enlarged. This edition (the second to be illustrated) was published just following publication of Darwin's 'Origin' and is Chambers' final revision of the text. A twelfth edition, published in 1884 following Chambers' death, reprints this text and acknowledges his authorship. For full description and picture please click here. #36388 | A$650.00 | 254 Click HERE to order |
Chambers, Robert.
VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION. With an Introduction by Henry Morley. Cr. 8vo; pp. [3]-286(lacking half-title), [2](adv.); full-page diagram; original quarter vellum (a bit stained), with cloth sides; top edge gilt, others uncut; a very good copy; very scarce. London; George Routledge and Sons; 1887. ***An anonymous work, first published in 1844 by John Churchill, which had an enormous influence on Charles Darwin. The text follows that of the first edition. A volume in Morley's Universal Library. For full description and picture please click here. #66863 | A$95.00 | 255 Click HERE to order |
Chamonal, Francois et Rodolphe.
LIVRES ET MANUSCRITS ANCIENS RARES ET PRECIEUX. Catalogue publie a l'occasion du centenaire de notre libraire 1890 -1990. 4to; pp. [304]; 7 folding & 1 mounted plates, numerous full-page illustrations (many coloured); price list loosely inserted; original cloth, gilt; a fine copy. Paris; Francois et Rodolphe Chamonal; 1990. ***A fine catalogue listing 100 choice items including several of Australia/Pacific interest. For full description and picture please click here. #14050 | A$50.00 | 256 Click HERE to order |
Channell, David F.
THE VITAL MACHINE. A Study of Technology and Organic Life. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 192, [4](blank); 8 plates, notes, index; original quarter cloth; a very good copy in dustwrapper. New York; Oxford University Press; 1991. For full description and picture please click here. #46966 | A$30.00 | 257 Click HERE to order |
Chapelle, Howard I.
BOATBUILDING. A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 624; 186 figures, index; original cloth; (new front endpaper; some minor soiling); a very good copy. New York; W. W. Norton & Company. Inc., Publishers; (1941). For full description and picture please click here. #31946 | A$65.00 | 258 Click HERE to order |
Chapelle, Howard I.
THE BALTIMORE CLIPPER. Its Origin and Development. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], xii, 192, [2](blank); 48 plans, 33 plates, appendix, index; original cloth, (upper corners very slightly bumped); a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. Hatboro, Pennsylvania; Tradition Press, A Division of Folklore Associates, Inc.; 1965. ***First published in 1930. For full description and picture please click here. #20933 | A$50.00 | 259 Click HERE to order |
Chapelle, Howard I.
THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN SAILING SHIPS. With drawings by the Author; and George C. Wales and Henry Rusk. Cr. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. xviii, 400; 14 plates & very numerous figures (16 double-page & 60 full-page), appendix, index; original quarter cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; Bonanza Books; (1982). ***First published in 1935. For full description and picture please click here. #20756 | A$50.00 | 260 Click HERE to order |
Chapelle, Howard I.
THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SAILING NAVY: The Ships and their Development. Cr. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. xx, 3-558(but intact); 32 double-page plans, 155 text figures (plus a few unnumbered; more than half full-page), 16 plates, appendix, index; original quarter cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; Bonanza Books; (1988). For full description and picture please click here. #20757 | A$50.00 | 261 Click HERE to order |
Chapman, Don.
1788. THE PEOPLE OF THE FIRST FLEET. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. 208; 16 coloured plates, numerous b/w. illustrations, bibliography; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper; scarce. (Sydney); Cassell Australia; (1981). ***Including names and brief biographical details. For full description and picture please click here. #45881 | A$75.00 | 262 Click HERE to order |
Chapman, Frederick.
CAINOZOIC GEOLOGY OF THE MALLEE AND OTHER VICTORIAN BORES by Frederick Chapman. First Edition; pp. [iv], [327]-430; 15 plates nos. LXIII-LXXVIII, 5 text figures; index to genera & general index; a fine copy in original wrappers; scarce. Melbourne; Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer; 1916. ***Victoria, Department of Mines, Records of the Geological Survey of Victoria., Vol. III, Part 4. For full description and picture please click here. #3226 | A$45.00 | 263 Click HERE to order |
[Chapman, Dr. R. W.; & others; Editors].
ANNALS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 1475-1950. The principal publications of each year together with an alphabetical index of authors with their works. Second Edition. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition; pp. [ii], vi, 380; 90-page index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Oxford; at the Clarendon Press; 1961. ***First published in 1935. For full description and picture please click here. #19953 | A$25.00 | 264 Click HERE to order |
Chapman, T.
SIX VIEWS OF HOBART TOWN. Lithographed Printed and Published by T. Bluett, Hobart Town, V.D.L. [1844]. Impl. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii]; 6 full-page plates, original pictorial wrappers, enclosed in original printed card folder (the folder only mildly soiled; the contents, including the pictorial wrapper, in fine condition). Melbourne; H. A. Evans; 1967. ***Includes reproduction of the only known copy in existence of the original front wrapper. For full description and picture please click here. #5798 | A$45.00 | 265 Click HERE to order |
Chapman, Wendell and Lucie.
LORDS OF THE ROCKIES. Photographing Big Game Animals in Their Primeval Surroundings, from Arizona to Canada, Brings Adventure to Two Wilderness Wanderers [drop title]. With Illustrations from Photographs by the Author. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 87-120; 24 coloured plates, 14 illustrations; extracted from the National Geographic Magazine; plain wrappers. [Washington; National Geographic Society; July 1939]. For full description and picture please click here. #15832 | A$20.00 | 266 Click HERE to order |
Chappell, Warren.
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE PRINTED WORD. A New York Times Book. Med. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. [ii], xviii, 244, xxiv(last 5 blank); very numerous illustrations (many being reproductions of early printed works) & diagrams, index; original buckram; a fine copy in laminated dustwrapper. (London); Andre Deutsch, A Grafton Book; (1972). ***A history of western printing, with reference both to developments in technique and to great exponents of the art. For full description and picture please click here. #53684 | A$50.00 | 267 Click HERE to order |
Chater, Melville.
UNDER THE SOUTH AFRICAN UNION. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 391-88; double-page map, 24 coloured plates, 97 b/w. illustrations; contained in the National Geographic Magazine, April, 1931; original wrappers. Washington; National Geographic Society; 1931. ***Including, amongst others, "Fire-Walking Hindus of Singapore", by L. Elizabeth Lewis, 10 pp., with 12 illusts. For full description and picture please click here. #21188 | A$30.00 | 268 Click HERE to order |
Chattaway, M. Margaret.
MORPHOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL VARIATIONS IN THE RAYS OF PORED TIMBERS. Reprinted from the Australian Journal of Scientific Research, Series B - Biological Sciences, Volume 4, Number 1. Cr. 4to; pp. 12-28(last blank); 2 plates, 7 figs, references; original wrappers; a fine copy. [Melbourne]; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization; 1951. ***Division of Forest Products Reprint No. 138. For full description and picture please click here. #64529 | A$20.00 | 269 Click HERE to order |
Cheever, Rev. Henry T.
THE ISLAND WORLD OF THE PACIFIC: Being the Personal Narrative and Results of Travel through the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands, and other Parts of Polynesia. Cr. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. 304; tinted frontispiece, appendix; full prize calf, gilt; (spine a little rubbed); a very nice copy. Glasgow; Collins; N.D. [1851]. ***The Appendix is - Statistical View of the Resources, Trade, Commerce, Population, Piety, Position and Prospects of the Hawaiian Islands. For full description and picture please click here. #1771 | A$175.00 | 270 Click HERE to order |
Cheshire, F. W.:
AUSTRALIAN BOOKS 1960 - 1961. A Select and Annotated List of Available and Forthcoming Books at Cheshires. Med. 4to; pp. 20; printed in green; original wrappers; (a few marks). [Melbourne]; Cheshires; 1961. ***Loosley inserted is a 4-page 'Yuletide Broadsheet' printed in red, with several illustrations. For full description and picture please click here. #68517 | A$25.00 | 271 Click HERE to order |
[Chisholm, Alec H.; Editor-in-Chief].
THE AUSTRALIAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA. In Ten Volumes, with a Supplement giving 1961 Census Information in Vol. 10. 10 vols., cr. 4to (in 28-page sections), Second Edition, Second Issue; pp. in total 5,156; several full-page coloured plates (including coloured maps), numerous b/w. maps (some full-page), over 300 b/w. plates, very numerous other text illustrations, list of contributors, comprehensive index; original cloth; a nice set. Sydney; Grolier Society of Australia; (1962). ***The Australian Encyclopaedia was first published in two volumes in 1925-26 and in this ten-volume form by Angus and Robertson in 1958. With an example of the 20-page prospectus to the 1958 issue loosely inserted. For full description and picture please click here. #28297 | A$175.00 | 272 Click HERE to order |
Christie's:
THE POLAR SALE INCLUDING THE NEIL SILVERMAN COLLECTION. [London], Wednesday 25 September 2002. 4to; pp. 338; 394 lots, lavishly illustrated in colour; original pictorial wrappers; estimates; list of prices realised loosely inserted; a fine copy. London; Christie's; 2002. ***A wonderful collection of books, photographs, manuscripts, original diaries and relics, mostly relating to Antarctica, but including a little Arctic and some South American material. For full description and picture please click here. #23946 | A$45.00 | 273 Click HERE to order |
Clair, Colin.
CHRISTOPHER PLANTIN. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 302, [2](blank); 16 plates, numerous decorations in text, appendix, notes, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in slightly soiled dustwrapper; scarce. London; Cassell & Company Ltd.; (1960). ***A biography of the famous typographer and commentary on his times, attractively produced and printed on high quality paper. For full description and picture please click here. #36248 | A$95.00 | 274 Click HERE to order |
Clair, Colin.
A HISTORY OF PRINTING IN BRITAIN. First Edition; pp. [xii], 314, [2](blank); 36 plates, notes, index; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. London; Cassell; (1965). For full description and picture please click here. #33413 | A$75.00 | 275 Click HERE to order |
Clair, Colin.
A HISTORY OF PRINTING IN BRITAIN. First U.S. Edition; pp. [xii], 314, [2](blank); 36 plates, notes, index; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. New York; Oxford University Press; 1966. ***Printed in the U.K. For full description and picture please click here. #67932 | A$50.00 | 276 Click HERE to order |
Clancey, William J.; Smoliar, Stephen W.; and Stefik, Mark J.; edited by.
CONTEMPLATING MINDS. A Forum for Artificial Intelligence. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 552(last 7 blank); a few figures, index; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. Cambridge, Massachusetts; The MIT Press; (1994). ***Issued only in softcover. A selection of reviews of important papers and books in the field with responses by the original authors; a most interesting collection and review of the subject. For full description and picture please click here. #45910 | A$30.00 | 277 Click HERE to order |
A MANNING CLARK COLLECTION Clark, C. M. H.
A HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA. Together, 5 works in 11 volumes. Melbourne, Sydney & London; Melbourne University Press, Oxford University Press, Angus & Robertson and Penguin Books; 1965-2001. For full description and picture please click here. #67736 | A$300.00 | 278 Click HERE to order |
[Clark, John Heaviside].
ABORIGINAL LIFE IN OLD AUSTRALIA, being an enhanced Facsimile of Field Sports, &c. &c. of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales; With Ten Plates. First published in 1814, and now faithfully reprinted by Edition Renard, Melbourne, 2003. 4to, Limited Facsimile Edition; pp. [60], including 10 fine coloured plates from the original hand-coloured aquatints, and 2 illustrations of the extremely rare original wrapper; finely bound in half emu and kangaroo leathers, with printed cloth sides; coloured and glazed edges, head- and tail-bands and marker ribbon. Melbourne; Edition Renard; 2003. ***Edition limited to 125 numbered copies for sale. The text has been entirely reset in the recreated original types, faithfully matching the original edition which was the first separate work devoted to Aboriginal Australians. Included is an essay on the bibliography and publishing history of the work and interesting speculations on the text. For full description and picture please click here. #18783 | A$495.00 | 279 Click HERE to order |
[Clark, John Heaviside].
FIELD SPORTS, 4to, Limited Facsimile Edition; pp. [60], including 10 fine coloured plates from the original hand-coloured aquatints, and 2 illustrations of the extremely rare original wrapper; finely bound in half emu and kangaroo leathers, with printed cloth sides; coloured and glazed edges, head- and tail-bands and marker ribbon. Melbourne; Edition Renard; 2003. ***Edition limited to 212 numbered copies, 200 for sale (including 75 Large Paper & Special copies). The text has been entirely reset in the recreated original types, faithfully matching the original edition. Included is an essay on the bibliography and publishing history of the work and interesting speculations on the text. This copy accompanied by an original handcoloured aquatint from one of the original editions circa 1813-20, matted and suitable for framing. For full description and picture please click here. #49507 | A$675.00 | 280 Click HERE to order |
Clark, Lt. Ralph:
THE JOURNAL AND LETTERS OF LT. RALPH CLARK 1787-1792. Edited by Paul G. Fidlon B.A.(Hons), Dip.Editor. and R. J. Ryan B.A. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. xx, 344; 8 plates, 3 illustrations, appendix, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Sydney; Australian Documents Library in association with The Library of Australian History Pty Ltd; (1981). For full description and picture please click here. #5142 | A$135.00 | 281 Click HERE to order |
Clarke, Peter.
ON THE ICE. Demy 4to, First Edition; pp. 104; full-page map, 7 coloured plates; very numerous b/w. photos (including double & full-page), glossary, index; original blue-grey cloth, spine lettered in white; a very good copy in dustwrapper. New York, Chicago, San Francisco; A Burdette & Company Book, Distributed by Rand McNally & Company; (1966). ***Spence 302; Renard 347. For full description and picture please click here. #4116 | A$45.00 | 282 Click HERE to order |
Clarke, Peter.
HELL AND PARADISE. Square 4to (250 x 240mm.), First Edition; pp. 190; endpaper, 2 double-page, 3 full-page & several text maps & very numerous double-page, full-page & other illustrations, mostly in colour, appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. [Ringwood]; Viking [Penguin Books Australia Ltd; 1986]. ***Including Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands. For full description and picture please click here. #16115 | A$75.00 | 283 Click HERE to order |
Cleasby, Richard.
AN ICELANDIC-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. Based on the MS. Collection of the late Richard Cleasby. Enlarged and completed by Gudbrand Vigfusson. With an Introduction and Life of Richard Cleasby by George Webbe Dasent, D.C.L. Thick 4to, First Edition; pp. [ii], cviii, 780; Errata, Addenda; printed in double-column; half crimson morocco, with cloth sides, spine gilt, with raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges; (top and bottom of spine and corners a little rubbed, but a very nice, clean and sound copy); very scarce. Oxford; at the Clarendon Press; M.DCCC.LXXIV [1874]. For full description and picture please click here. #41319 | A$350.00 | 284 Click HERE to order |
Clinton, Alan.
PRINTED EPHEMERA. Collection Organisation and Access. First Edition; pp. 128(last 3 blank); notes, 7 appendices, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Clive Bingley; (1981). For full description and picture please click here. #50174 | A$25.00 | 285 Click HERE to order |
Clodd, Edward.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], xiv, 226, [2](adv.); chronology, index; original cloth (slightly rubbed); a nice copy; scarce. Edinburgh; William Blackwood; MCMII [1902]. ***Modern English Writers series. For full description and picture please click here. #66032 | A$40.00 | 286 Click HERE to order |
Clune, Frank.
JOURNEY TO PITCAIRN. First Edition; pp. xviii, 246(last blank); illust. endpapers; 5 maps, 24 plates; appendix, references; original cloth; a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper; scarce. (Sydney); Angus and Robertson; (1966). ***Burnet 60. For full description and picture please click here. #8468 | A$125.00 | 287 Click HERE to order |
Coates, A. E.
The Halford Oration. THE DEPARTMENTS OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. 4to; pp. 8; stapled, as issued; (two light horizontal folds; last page lightly dust-soiled); a very good copy. [Sydney; Australasian Medical Publishing Company Limited; 1953]. ***Reprinted from The Medical Journal of Australia, September 26, 1953, page 481. For full description and picture please click here. #68545 | A$20.00 | 288 Click HERE to order |
Cobham, Sir Alan J.
SEEING THE WORLD FROM THE AIR. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 349-384; map, 36 illustrations; contained in the complete issue of the National Geographic Magazine, March, 1928; plain wrappers. Washington; National Geographic Society; 1928. ***Including amongst others an article on Bali, Indonesia, with 16 col. photographs. For full description and picture please click here. #23133 | A$30.00 | 289 Click HERE to order |
Cockerell, Douglas.
BOOKBINDING, AND THE CARE OF BOOKS. A Text-Book for Bookbinders and Librarians. With an Appendix by Sydney M. Cockerell, Drawings by Noel Rooke and other illustrations. Fifth Edition. Cr. 8vo, Fifth Edition, Ninth Impression (including 2 revisions); pp. 348(last 3 blank); 12 plates, 120 figures, appendix, glossary, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in repaired dustwrapper. (London); Pitman Publishing; (1975). ***The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks Edited by W. R. Lethaby. This excellent book was reprinted many, many times throughout the twentieth century. This fifth edition, first issued in 1953, includes a Note by the Author's son, Sydney M. Cockerell, and an Appendix including some revisions intended by the Author prior to his death in 1945. The volume was further revised in 1962 and again in 1973. For full description and picture please click here. #15917 | A$110.00 | 290 Click HERE to order |
Cockerell, Sydney M.
THE REPAIRING OF BOOKS. Illustrations by Joan Rix Tebbutt. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition; pp. 110, [6](adv., last 2 blank); frontispiece, 34 figures, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Sheppard Press; (1960). ***First published in 1958 in identical form. For full description and picture please click here. #47157 | A$50.00 | 291 Click HERE to order |
Collingridge, George.
THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA. Roy. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. xvi, 376; 87 maps & illustrations (some double-page), appendix, indices; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney; Golden Press; 1983). ***First published Sydney, Hayes Brothers, 1895, see FERGUSON 8465. With the current interest in early (16th Century) Portuguese discovery in the Australasian region this work has become much sought after. It includes also much valuable information on the early Dutch discoveries. Included as a bonus is a large col. folded reproduction of Pieter Goos and Joannes van Keulan's Sea Chart of the East Indies, 1680. For full description and picture please click here. #741 | A$135.00 | 292 Click HERE to order |
Collingridge, George.
THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA. Roy. 4to, Facsimile Edition, later impr.; pp. xvi, 376; 87 maps & illustrations (some double-page), appendix, indices; original slick illustrated papered boards; a fine copy. (Silverwater, NSW; Golden Press; 1989). ***First published Sydney, Hayes Brothers, 1895, see FERGUSON 8465 and in this facsimile in 1983. With the current interest in early (16th Century) Portuguese discovery in the Australasian region this work has become much sought after. It includes also much valuable information on the early Dutch discoveries. For full description and picture please click here. #67668 | A$65.00 | 293 Click HERE to order |
Collins, David.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES, London; T. Cadell & W. Davies; 1804. ***The superior issue with the natural history plates hand-coloured. Ferguson 390; Wantrup 21 (who gives only xviii pages of preliminaries). Lacking the final advertisement leaf which is not mentioned by Ferguson. Pages 289-312 (signatures PP, QQ & RR) are misnumbered 299-322 as usual, but the text is quite continuous and nothing is missing or duplicated. This apparently escaped Ferguson's notice. The plates for this work were engraved too large for the page size of the text with the result that in most bound copies the fore-margins are completely trimmed away (in both First and Second Editions). For full description and picture please click here. #26126 | A$6500.00 | 294 Click HERE to order |
Collins, David.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES: 2 vols., 4to, Facsimile of First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [ii], xx, xl, 622(last 3 blank); 2 charts (1 folding), 18 plates, 4 text illustrations; Vol. II, pp. [ii], xvi, 336; 1 full-page chart, 5 plates (4 coloured) & 4 text illustrations (2 coloured); 12 appendices, including vocabulary, postscript; original buckram; a nice set. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1971]. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions, No. 76 (1002 sets produced). Originally published London, Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1798-1802. For full description and picture please click here. #6438 | A$375.00 | 295 Click HERE to order |
Collis, John.
THE EUROPEAN IRON AGE. Cr. 4to, First U.S. Edition; pp. 192; several maps, numerous illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; (slight foxing of first 2 leaves); a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; Schocken Books; (1984). For full description and picture please click here. #66132 | A$40.00 | 296 Click HERE to order |
Colnett, James.
A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH ATLANTIC AND ROUND CAPE HORN INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], iv, [iii]-vi, xviii, 182(last 3 blank); 6 folding charts, 3 folding plates; original white simulated vellum, lettered in gilt on blue panels on spine and front board; a fine copy. Amsterdam; N. Israel, & New York, Da Capo Press; (1968). ***Bibliotheca Australiana No. 36. The original edition printed for the Author at London, 1798 [Spence 309] is very scarce. This edition not in Spence; Renard 354. For full description and picture please click here. #701 | A$135.00 | 297 Click HERE to order |
Colton, F. Barrows.
NEWS OF THE UNIVERSE. Mars Swings Nearer the Earth, Sunspots Wane, and a Giant New Telescopic Eye Soon Will Peer Into Unexplored Depths of Space. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 32; 8 coloured plates, 17 illustrations; extracted from the National Geographic Magazine; plain wrappers. [Washington; National Geographic Society; July 1939]. For full description and picture please click here. #15919 | A$15.00 | 298 Click HERE to order |
Columbus, Christopher:
THE VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [vi], 350(last 3 blank); 5 maps, 2 appendices, index; original vinyl; (soft pencilled lines & occasional notes in margins); a nice copy. [Amsterdam; N. Israel; 1970]. ***Argonaut Press No. 9. First published (in this form) in 1930. For full description and picture please click here. #42790 | A$75.00 | 299 Click HERE to order |
Columbus, Christopher.
Nuova Raccolta Colombiana. English Edition. [Volume XI]. COLUMBIAN ICONOGRAPHY. 4to, First Edition in English; pp. [iv], 660(last 3 blank); 218 superb plates (mostly coloured) & a few additional illustrations, index of names, index of places, index of bibliographic references, index of illustrations, index of authors, list of collections; original pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. Roma; Instituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato; [1996]. ***A superb work, part of the 12-volume magnum opus on Columbus, complete in itself, superbly illustrated and finely printed in the security printing plant of the Instituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, in Rome, on special watermarked paper produced by Cartiere Miliani Fabriano. There are four sections covering; Portraits of Columbus; Landscapes, Plants and Animals [of the New World]; People and Cultures; and Sixteenth-century Cartography. For full description and picture please click here. #65704 | A$110.00 | 300 Click HERE to order |
Colwell, Max.
THE VOYAGES OF MATTHEW FLINDERS. Demy 4to, First Edition; pp. 152(last blank); numerous maps (some double-page & full-page), lavishly illustrated with full-page coloured & b/w. plates & other illustrations, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. Sydney; Paul Hamlyn; (1970). For full description and picture please click here. #5253 | A$75.00 | 301 Click HERE to order |
Comins, Neil F.
WHAT IF THE EARTH HAD TWO MOONS? And Nine Other Thought-Provoking Speculations on the Solar System. Med. 8vo, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. [xii], 288, [4](blank); several figures, appendix, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; St. Martin's Press; (2010). For full description and picture please click here. #64897 | A$30.00 | 302 Click HERE to order |
Commonwealth National Library:
AUSTRALIAN BOOKS 1955. A Select List. Med. 8vo; pp. 22, [2](blank); original wrappers. Canberra; Commonwealth National Library; 1956. For full description and picture please click here. #68508 | A$20.00 | 303 Click HERE to order |
Concert Programme:
INSTITUTION HALL, FAREHAM. The Members of The Parish Church Choir Have the pleasure to announce that they intend giving a Concert of Secular Music, [etc.]. 8vo; pp. [4](versos blank); (lightly folded & dust-soiled, but in very good condition). Fareham; Gilbert's Printing Machine Office; 1875. For full description and picture please click here. #68540 | A$25.00 | 304 Click HERE to order |
[Conder, James Bryance (Bryant?).
UNDER CANVAS]. Folio; pp. [ii], 194(last blank) plus unused blanks to Page 232 at end; wire-bound notebook; in very good condition. No Place; Unpublished (?); written c. 1889. For full description and picture please click here. #30664 | A$250.00 | 305 Click HERE to order |
Connolly, Cyril.
100 KEY BOOKS OF THE MODERN MOVEMENT FROM ENGLAND, FRANCE & AMERICA 1880-1950. Chosen by Cyril Connolly. Post 8vo, Second Edition; pp. 160; bibliography; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Allison & Busby; (1986). ***Cyril Connolly, himself a leading literary figure of the inter-war and post-war periods, gives his reflections on 100 of the most influential books of the first half of the twentieth century. These are books of what he calls the Modern Movement, i.e. "a revolt against the bourgeois in France, the Victorians in England, the puritanism and materialism of America." The authors selected include Guy de Maupassant, Andre Gide, T. S. Eliot (for several works), E. E. Cummings, Robert Graves, Graham Greene and Arthur Koestler. The bibliography, here updated, gives publication details of the first editions and of available texts and English translations. For full description and picture please click here. #27969 | A$30.00 | 306 Click HERE to order |
SIXTEEN ANTARCTIC PHOTOS BY HERBERT PONTING Conrad, Joseph.
GEOGRAPHY AND SOME EXPLORERS. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 239-274; map, 28 photos. (mostly full-page, including 16 of the Antarctic by Herbert G. Ponting, & one by Frank Hurley of Torres Strait); plain wrappers. Washington; extracted from The National Geographic Magazine, March; 1924. For full description and picture please click here. #46888 | A$30.00 | 307 Click HERE to order |
Constable, W. G.
THE PAINTER'S WORKSHOP. Cr. 4to, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. [ii], xiv, 148; frontispiece, 24 plates, references, index; original cloth (a little marked); a very good copy. London; Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press; (1955). ***A most useful book on the processes and materials used in painting, including a chapter on restoration and brief remarks on forgery. For full description and picture please click here. #17656 | A$45.00 | 308 Click HERE to order |
FIRST CROSSING OF THE ANTARCTIC CIRCLE Cook, Captain James.
A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE AND ROUND THE WORLD. London; W. Strahan & T. Cadell; [1784]. ***First published in 1777, this is the last edition published in the same format as the first. This set has all the plate imprints present (these are often cropped); one plate only (XXXVIII) has the imprint just shaved. At the foot of the first page of the List of Plates (Page xxxvii) is a printed note regarding the plate of a plant used by the Tahitians to catch fish by intoxicating them (Plate XXIV); this note does not appear in the first edition. Cook's ship, the Resolution, accompanied by Furneaux in the Adventure, was the first to cross the Antarctic circle in January 1773. On the same voyage he circumnavigated the pole and subsequently crossed twice more, penetrating to 71 degrees S, further than anyone else for another 50 years, and possibly within sight of the Antarctic continent. This voyage in extremely difficult and dangerous conditions, was a monument to Cook's abilities as a seaman and commander - he lost only four men from a complement of 112 on the entire voyage - three through accidents and one from illness (not scurvy). [Spence 314 (1st Edn.); U.S.N. 23-5.6; Beddie 1229]. For full description and picture please click here. #21082 | A$6500.00 | 309 Click HERE to order |
Cook, Captain James & King, Captain James.
A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Dublin; Printed for H. Chamberlaine [etc.]; 1784. For full description and picture please click here. #20444 | A$1650.00 | 310 Click HERE to order |
COOK'S THREE VOYAGES Cook, Captain James:
THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS OF COOK'S THREE VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD. Together 8 vols. text, med. 4to, & folio atlas; in all 202 fine, engraved maps, charts, portraits, costume plates, views, etc.; the text volumes uniformly rebacked in contemporary style, the atlas in near-matching contemporary full calf as described above; a very attractive set. London; W. Strahan [etc.]; 1773-1784. ***See Holmes 5, 24 & 47; Beddie 648, 1216, 1543; Hill I, Pp. 139-40, 61-62; Hill 2, Nos. 782, 358 & 361. A complete collection of First Editions of the three voyages, of which the "long-delayed official account of the third voyage was so eagerly awaited by the public that it was sold out on the third day after publication ...." (Holmes). The third voyage is the first issue of the first edition of which Forbes (No. 62) says: "It is in fact one of the most important English books published in the last quarter of the eighteenth century." For full description and picture please click here. #36600 | A$57,500.00 | 311 Click HERE to order |
Cook, Captain James.
A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. London; Printed by H. Hughs; 1785. ***Without the folio Atlas, issued separately. This second edition, printed by Hughs rather than by Strahan has been entirely reset from the First Edition of the previous year, with the wording of the title-page altered and the addition of the medallions to the title-pages. It is, and was at the time, considered to be typographically superior to the First Edition. See Holmes 47; Beddie 1552; Forbes 85. For full description and picture please click here. #34112 | A$4000.00 | 312 Click HERE to order |
Cook, Captain James.
A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. London; Printed by H. Hughs; 1785. ***Without the folio Atlas, issued separately. See Holmes 47; Beddie 1553; Forbes 86. The "Defence of the Arguments ... " which is by William Wales, appears for the first time in this Third Edition which is in other respects closely similar to the second edition of the same year, reset from the first edition of the previous year, both sold out within days of publication. Forbes, whose collations are meticulous, makes no mention of the table of bank capital ("Corrected to the 5th of January, 1786") opposite page 286, and there seems no obvious reason for its inclusion, except for references to South Sea stock. The table is headed "(To face Page 286.)", but it seems likely that this is an accidental inclusion from another contemporary publication: it has clearly been present in this copy since its original collation. This edition, the last of the original quarto editions, is valuable for the addition of the "Defence ..." by William Wales. For full description and picture please click here. #64850 | A$4500.00 | 313 Click HERE to order |
Cook, Captain James:
A JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, Demy 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii](modern title), [ii](original title-page), 130, [4](vocabulary of Otaheite, last blank), [2](blank); (slight mark to top edge, otherwise a fine copy); scarce. [Amsterdam; N. Israel; 1967]. ***Bibliotheca Australiana No. 14. This edition Beddie 701; see Holmes 3, Beddie 694, for original edition. The first issue contained a Dedication to Banks and Solander, which was suppressed after a small number of copies had been circulated, following the publication of an advertisement by Banks and Solander, disclaiming any responsibility for its publication. The dedication is not reproduced in this facsimile. This rare surreptitious account of Cook's First Voyage preceded Hawkesworth's official account by two years. It is the first published account of Cook's First Voyage and of his discovery of the Eastern Coast of Australia, which led to the Foundation of Australia eighteen years later. The authorship of the work is a matter of conjecture - it has been ascribed to JAMES MAGRA (or MATRA) and others, but the evidence is inconclusive. For full description and picture please click here. #26437 | A$500.00 | 314 Click HERE to order |
Cook, Captain James:
CAPTAIN COOK'S JOURNAL DURING HIS FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD made in H.M. Bark "Endeavour" 1768-71. A Literal Transcription of the Original MSS. With Notes and Introduction. Edited by Captain W. J. L. Wharton, R.N., F.R.S. Hydrographer of the Admiralty. Illustrated by Maps and Facsimiles. Cr. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [vi], lvi, 400; frontispiece, 2 folding charts (1 in 2 sheets) at end, 4 other folding charts, portrait of Cook, 4 plates, including 2 facsimiles of log entries, index; (small inscription on pastedown); a fine copy in original canvas. Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1968. ***Originally published in 1893. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 188 (1887 copies produced including a 1970 reprint). For full description and picture please click here. #5036 | A$275.00 | 315 Click HERE to order |
Cook, Captain James:
AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, 4to; Facsimile Edition; pp. xxx, [481]-661(i.e., pp. xxxi-ccxi), ccxii-ccxvi(including list of persons who left England in the Endeavour, and those who died on the voyage - totalling 38); portrait of Cook, large folding chart, 3 smaller folding charts, 2 folding plates; original papered boards, gilt; a fine copy in original colour-printed pictorial cloth slipcase (slightly marked); scarce. Brisbane; W. R. Smith & Paterson Pty. Ltd. [& others]; MCMLXIX [1969]. ***Comprising a facsimile of the portion of Hawkesworth's edition of Cook's first voyage dealing with the Australian coast (Book III, Chapters I-IX), together with modern introduction and a re-setting of various tables of personnel, etc. For full description and picture please click here. #23432 | A$185.00 | 316 Click HERE to order |
Cook, Captain James.
A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE AND ROUND THE WORLD. 2 vols., med. 4to, Facsimile of First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [viii], xl, 378; portrait frontispiece, large folding chart & 6 smaller charts (2 double-page), 2 folding plans, 27 plates (10 double-page, 2 folding); Vol II, pp. [ii], [viii], 364, [ii](folding plate), [367]-370, 369-396; 7 charts (3 folding), 20 plates (3 folding & 8 double-page), folding language table, appendices, including vocabularies; original canvas; (upper corner of Vol. I a little bumped); a very good set. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1970]. ***Spence 318; Renard 370. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 191. Only 781 sets were printed of this facsimile from the first edition of W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1777. The pp. [viii] in Volume I contains an introduction written specially for this facsimile reprint by A. Grenfell Price and the pp. 369-396 in Vol. II contain Sir John Pringle's discourse on the health of mariners (from Cook's paper on the subject). The two sets of pages 369-70 contain variations in the text of Sir John Pringle's introduction. For full description and picture please click here. #2162 | A$500.00 | 317 Click HERE to order |
Cook, James.
CAPTAIN COOK IN THE SOUTH SEAS. Two Letters Written to Captain John Walker 1771 and 1775. Facsimile Edition with Transcriptions. 4to, First Edition; pp. 24; 11 pp. facsimiles; original wrappers; a very good copy. Sydney; The Council of the Library of New South Wales; 1970. For full description and picture please click here. #49355 | A$45.00 | 318 Click HERE to order |
Cook, Captain James:
THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK ON HIS VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY. Thick med. 8vo; pp. xii, 760; 1 folding & 4 full-page maps, 4 coloured & 40 b/w. plates, bibliography, index; original buckram, gilt (slightly marked; name stamp on endpaper); a nice copy in very slightly defective dustwrapper. London; The Hakluyt Society; 1974. ***Published collaterally with the First Edition of the same year by A. & C. Black. For full description and picture please click here. #38172 | A$1200.00 | 319 Click HERE to order |
Cooke, Capt. Edward.
A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEA, 2 vols., Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. [ii], [xxii], 432, [433-442](index); 4 folding & 1 full-page charts & plans, 16 plates; Vol. II, pp. [ii], [viii], xxiv, 328, [8](index), [2](blank); 2 folding & 2 full-page charts, 2 plates, 5 full-page & numerous smaller charts & 300-400 coastal diagrams in text, 3 folding journal tables; 10-page table of longitudes, separate index to each vol.; original vinyl; a fine set. [Amsterdam; N. Israel; 1969]. ***Bibliotheca Australiana Nos. 51-52. First published London, Printed by H. M. for B. Lintot [& others], 1712. For full description and picture please click here. #15301 | A$220.00 | 320 Click HERE to order |
Cooke, J. Herbert.
Pitman's Common Commodities and Industries. THE VELVET AND CORDUROY INDUSTRY. A Brief Account of the Various Processes connected with the Manufacture of Cotton Pile Goods. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 116, [2](adv.), 24(adv.); 13 illustrations, 7 diagrams, index; original papered boards; a very good copy. London; Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons; N.D. [c. 1925]. For full description and picture please click here. #39404 | A$25.00 | 321 Click HERE to order |
Coppinger, R. W.
CRUISE OF THE "ALERT." Demy 8vo, Second Edition; pp. xvi, 256; 16 plates, 2 text illustrations, general & natural history indices; original olive-green gilt & red pictorial cloth (spine dull & faded, as usual); all edges gilt; a very nice copy; scarce. London; W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.; 1885. ***Ferguson 8683; Spence 320 (first edition of 1883 only); Renard 373. Of smaller format than the similarly bound first edition, this interesting work includes the survey of the Straits of Magellan, and investigations of the nature and exact position of reefs in the South Pacific; also surveys of parts of the northern and western coasts of Australia. There are a few plates illustrating the natives of Tierra del Fuego and Australia, and their implements and drawings. For full description and picture please click here. #19376 | A$250.00 | 322 Click HERE to order |
Corbett, Sir Julian S. [and Newbolt, Henry].
HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR. Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. NAVAL OPERATIONS. London; Longmans, Green & Co.; 1920, 1921, 1923, 1928, 1931. ***The first author, Corbett, died only a few hours after completing the third volume which was seen through the press by E. Y. Daniel. The first three volumes cover events up to and including the Battle of Jutland and cover all the events in the Dardanelles and the evacuation of Gallipoli. The fourth and fifth volumes, completing the work to the end of the war, were compiled by Henry Newbolt. For full description and picture please click here. #22720 | A$850.00 | 323 Click HERE to order |
Corning, Peter.
NATURE'S MAGIC. Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind. First Edition; pp. x, 454; notes, references, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Cambridge); Cambridge University Press; (2003). For full description and picture please click here. #45685 | A$45.00 | 324 Click HERE to order |
Cornwall, Peter Bruce.
IN SEARCH OF ARABIA'S PAST [and] SAUDI ARABIA, OIL KINGDOM, by Maynard Owen Williams. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 493-522; 2 maps, numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations; contained in the complete issue of the National Geographic Magazine, April, 1948; original wrappers (spine a little worn). Washington; National Geographic Society; 1948. For full description and picture please click here. #18203 | A$25.00 | 325 Click HERE to order |
Cotton, B. C.; Edited by.
ABORIGINAL MAN IN SOUTH AND CENTRAL AUSTRALIA. Part I. Authors selected by the Board for Anthropological Research, University of Adelaide. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 220, [4](last 3 blank); 2 coloured plates, numerous figures, glossary, references; original stiff wrappers; scarce. Adelaide; British Science Guild Handbooks Committee; 1966. ***Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia, issued by the South Australian Branch of the British Science Guild Handbooks Committee and published by favour of the Honourable the Premier F. H. Walsh, Esq., M.P. For full description and picture please click here. #51432 | A$85.00 | 326 Click HERE to order |
Cottrell, Leonard.
WONDERS OF ANTIQUITY. First Edition; pp. 162, [2](blank); 12 plates, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. (London); Longmans; (1960). For full description and picture please click here. #37712 | A$35.00 | 327 Click HERE to order |
Coulls, A.; (City Librarian).
Broken Hill Municipal Library. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, MAPS, ETC. ON BROKEN HILL AND DISTRICT (Third Edition). 4to, Third Edition; ff. [ii], 24; duplicated typescript printed on rectos only; stapled in original stiff wrappers; a nice copy. Broken Hill; The Council of the City of Broken Hill; 1961. For full description and picture please click here. #68481 | A$25.00 | 328 Click HERE to order |
Coulter, John.
ADVENTURES ON THE WESTERN COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA, 2 vols., demy 12mo, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. xxiv, 288, 32(adv. dated October, 1847); Vol. II, pp. xii, 278, [2](adv.); original cloth (a little discoloured; spines faded & slightly worn; front endpaper to Vol. I replaced, other endpapers a little marked or worn); a very good set; scarce. London; Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; 1847. ***Howes C802; Sabin 17143; Hill II, 386; Forster 31; Forbes 1633; not in Ferguson. The author did not visit either Hawaii or Australia, but there are references to both, including the adventures of one Terry Connel in Sydney, the Queensland coast and New Guinea. As hinted in the title the work is a continuation of the author's "Adventures in the Pacific." The first chapter includes an account of a successful whale chase and the second accounts of whaling operations. The remainder of the book is largely taken up with accounts of the various places visited and their native peoples and there are significant accounts of Melanesia generally, and of California. For full description and picture please click here. #57710 | A$650.00 | 329 Click HERE to order |
Cousin, John W.
A SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. F'cap 8vo, Third Impression; pp. viii, 456(last blank); 2 addenda, appendix of Living Writers; original cloth; a very good copy. London; J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.; (1912). ***Everyman's Library No. 449. For full description and picture please click here. #60814 | A$25.00 | 330 Click HERE to order |
Coveney, Peter and Highfield, Roger.
THE ARROW OF TIME. A voyage through science to solve time's greatest mystery. Foreword by Ilya Prigogine Nobel Laureate. First Edition; pp. 378, [6](blank); 4 coloured plates, 8 b/w. plates, 34 figures, notes, bibliography, glossary, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (London); W H Allen; (1990). ***A very well explained and argued exploration of the nature of time and its relationship to thermodynamics and evolution. For full description and picture please click here. #47495 | A$35.00 | 331 Click HERE to order |
Cowan, James.
SACRED PLACES IN AUSTRALIA. Photographs by Colin Beard. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. 232; double-page coloured map, numerous coloured illustrations, glossary, chapter references, selected bibliography; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney); Simon & Schuster Australia; (1991). For full description and picture please click here. #46883 | A$60.00 | 332 Click HERE to order |
Cowburn, Philip.
THE WARSHIP IN HISTORY. [The brilliant, heart-stirring account - from river canoe to dreadnought - of man's noblest instruments of battle]. Thick cr. 4to, First U.K. Edition; pp. xviii, 364, [2](blank); very numerous illustrations, bibliography, index, ship listing; original cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. London; Macmillan; (1966). ***From antiquity to the present day, including the Vikings, days of sail, submarines and aircraft carriers. For full description and picture please click here. #49378 | A$50.00 | 333 Click HERE to order |
Cowley, Des and Williamson, Clare.
THE WORLD OF THE BOOK. Square 4to, First Edition; pp. xiv, 250; profusely illustrated in colour throughout, bibliography, index; original pictorial papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Carlton); The Miegunyah Press, State Library of Victoria; (2007). ***Lavishly illustrated from items in the Library's splendid collections. For full description and picture please click here. #49155 | A$60.00 | 334 Click HERE to order |
Cox, P. Brian.
HOODED FALCON. FAUCON CHAPERONNE. Far Eastern Poems. Bilingual Version by the Author. Introduction by Gaston-Henry Aufrere. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 110; original wrappers; (some sections lightly browned - a different paper stock); a fine copy; very scarce. Paris; Published under the Patronage of Office Francais d'Informations Culturelles, by Editions Unimuse, Tournai; [1957]. ***Edition of 250 numbered copies, this copy inscribed and signed by the Author. The Author was a London born poet who lived in Melbourne after giving up journalism for health reasons arising from his maltreatment in Japanese prison camps. For full description and picture please click here. #26760 | A$35.00 | 335 Click HERE to order |
Coxe, William.
TRAVELS IN SWITZERLAND, 3 vols., Second Edition; Vol. I, pp. xiv, 410; very large folding map (a couple of minor tears at folds), 2 plates; Vol. II, [iv], iv, 432(last blank); folding map, 3 plates (2 folding); Vol. III, pp. xii, 420, [28](last blank); appendix, index; full contemporary calf (rebacked, with original backstrips preserved); a very good set. London; Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand; 1791. ***The third volume contains a detailed list of the fauna of Switzerland. Coxe's travels were first published in 1779 under the title "Sketches of the natural, civil and political state of Switzerland" and published under this new title, illustrated for the first time, in 1789. Formerly a curate at Denham, near Uxbridge, Coxe became tutor to the eldest son of the Duke of Marlborough, and two years later undertook his travels through Switzerland in the capacity of travelling tutor to the son of the Earl of Pembroke. Coxe is credited with being the first to apply notions of the "Picturesque" to Switzerland, and with being one of the first to write in such a way as to open the country up to touristic possibilities (see Abbey). For full description and picture please click here. #12295 | A$450.00 | 336 Click HERE to order |
Craig, C[lifford].
A MEDICAL PAMPHLET OF 1845. 8vo; pp. 8(last blank); stapled, as issued. Sydney; Australasian Medical Publishing Company Limited; 1941. ***Reprinted from The Medical Journal of Australia, September 6, 1941, page 266. For full description and picture please click here. #68502 | A$15.00 | 337 Click HERE to order |
Craig, C[lifford].
FROM WHAT DID SUDDS DIE? 4to; pp. 4; 1 illust; bibliography Sydney; Australasian Medical Publishing Company Limited; 1945. ***Reprinted from The Medical Journal of Australia, February 3, 1941, page 110. For full description and picture please click here. #68503 | A$20.00 | 338 Click HERE to order |
Craig, C[lifford].
THE EGREGIOUS DR. BEANEY OF THE BEANEY SCHOLARSHIPS. 4to; pp. 8; 1 illust.; references. Sydney; Australasian Medical Publishing Company Limited; 1950. ***Reprinted from The Medical Journal of Australia, May 6, 1950, page 593. For full description and picture please click here. #68504 | A$20.00 | 339 Click HERE to order |
Craig, C[lifford].
The Archibald Watson Memorial Lecture. SOME DOCTORS IN FAMOUS NOVELS AND A FAMOUS PLAY. 4to; pp. 8; stapled, as issued. Sydney; Australasian Medical Publishing Company Limited; 1958. ***Reprinted from The Medical Journal of Australia, July 5, 1958. For full description and picture please click here. #68505 | A$15.00 | 340 Click HERE to order |
Craig, Clifford.
THE VAN DIEMEN'S LAND EDITION OF THE PICKWICK PAPERS. A general and bibliographical study with some notes on Henry Dowling. Roy. 8vo; pp. xiv, 66(last blank); endpaper illustrations, portrait of Dowling as frontispiece & 10 plates, references; original printed cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper; very scarce. Hobart; Cat & Fiddle Press; 1973. ***Edition limited to 150 numbered copies. It went out-of-print almost immediately after publication. For full description and picture please click here. #470 | A$250.00 | 341 Click HERE to order |
Craven, Rev. Thomas.
THE NEW ROYAL DICTIONARY. English into Hindustani and Hindustani into English. Compiled originally by Rev. Thomas Craven, M. A., B. D. and in subsequent editions Revised and Enlarged. 1932 edition revised by Bishop J. R. Chitambar, M. A., D. D. Impl. 8vo, New Edition; pp. [viii], 328, 372, [4](blank); quarter cloth (skilfully rebacked); a very good copy. Lucknow; Methodist Publishing House; 1932. For full description and picture please click here. #65394 | A$65.00 | 342 Click HERE to order |
Crawford, A. L.
AIDA. Life and Ceremony of the Gogodala. Super roy. 4to, First Edition; pp. 408; full-page coloured map, 2 plans, 17 coloured & 6 b/w. double- page plates, 35 coloured & 27 b/w. full-page plates, 122 coloured & 226 b/w. smaller illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Bathurst); National Cultural Council of New Guinea, in association with Robert Brown and Associates; (1981). ***With numerous illustrations of artefacts and native art. For full description and picture please click here. #6660 | A$250.00 | 343 Click HERE to order |
Crawford, I. M.
THE ART OF THE WANDJINA. Aboriginal Cave Paintings in Kimberley, Western Australia. Cr. 4to; First Edition; pp. 144; 48 coloured & 37 b/w. photos; several text drawings; bibliography; index; original canvas; a nice copy in slightly worn d/w; very scarce. Melbourne; Oxford University Press, Published in association with the Western Australian Museum; (1968). ***Including the Wandjinas, Bradshaws and other human and animal figures. For full description and picture please click here. #11052 | A$450.00 | 344 Click HERE to order |
[Crawford, J. G.].
THE "VERNON" REPORT: Some Wrong Impressions Corrected. Address to the National Press Club, Canberra. 2.12.65. F'cap folio; ff. [i](Corrigenda), 18, 12(Extracts from Report of the Committee of Economic Enquiry, last blank); duplicated typescript, stapled at top corner; a very good copy. Canberra; The Author; 1965. For full description and picture please click here. #18599 | A$15.00 | 345 Click HERE to order |
Crawford, O. G. S. [and Austin, Roland, Vols. VIII & IX]; Edited by.
ANTIQUITY. A Quarterly Review of Archaeology. A fine run of this elegant journal, from No. 5 to No. 36, complete [comprising Volumes II to IX]. (Gloucester; Printed by John Bellows); 1928-35. ***A finely produced journal from all aspects, with wide-ranging authoritative and well-illustrated articles. For full description and picture please click here. #38361 | A$450.00 | 346 Click HERE to order |
Crawford, R. M.
AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE. First Edition; pp. [ii], x, 82; index, original cloth; a fine copy. Madison; The University of Wisconsin Press; 1960. For full description and picture please click here. #35624 | A$25.00 | 347 Click HERE to order |
Crawfurd, John.
JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY TO THE COURTS OF SIAM AND COCHIN CHINA. With an Introduction by David K. Wyatt. Cr. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [viii], viii, 598; double-page view as frontispiece, large folding map, 3 other maps & plans, 11 other plates, 11 illustrations in text, appendix; original slick illustrated boards; a fine copy. Singapore; Oxford University Press; 1987. ***Originally published 1828. For full description and picture please click here. #32041 | A$145.00 | 348 Click HERE to order |
Crevier, Daniel.
AI. The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 386; several diagrams, notes, index; original quarter cloth; (endpaper slightly marked); a nice copy in dustwrapper. (New York); Basic Books, A Division of HarperCollins Publishers; (1993). For full description and picture please click here. #58636 | A$45.00 | 349 Click HERE to order |
Crittenden, Victor.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST FLEET. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [viii], x, 360(last blank); indices; original stiff wrappers; (several pencilled annotations by former owner); a very good copy. Canberra; Australian National University Press; 1981 (1982). For full description and picture please click here. #12313 | A$30.00 | 350 Click HERE to order |
Crook, Gillian; Edited by.
MAN IN THE CENTRE. Proceedings of a Symposium held at CSIRO, Alice Springs, 3-5 April 1979. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. viii, 232; several maps, numerous illustrations & figures, several tables, references; original pictorial stiff wrappers; a nice copy. Perth; CSIRO Division of Groundwater Research; 1983. For full description and picture please click here. #67756 | A$35.00 | 351 Click HERE to order |
Crosby, Alfred W.
AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN PANDEMIC. The Influenza of 1918. Second Edition. Med. 8vo, Second Edition, Fifth Impression; pp. xiv, 208, [4], [209]-342(last 5 blank); 12 graphs, maps & tables, index; original stiff wrappers; a nice copy. (New York); Cambridge University Press; (2006). ***First published in 1976 as Epidemic and Peace: 1918, second edition first published in 2003. For full description and picture please click here. #68306 | A$30.00 | 352 Click HERE to order |
Crossley, Robert; Edited by.
LETTERS ACROSS THE WORLD. The Love Letters of Olaf Stapledon and Agnes Miller, 1913-1919. First Edition; pp. xlii, 382; 13 illustrations, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Kensington, NSW); New South Wales University Press; (1987). ***Covering the period of Stapledon's military service in World War I. For full description and picture please click here. #29513 | A$45.00 | 353 Click HERE to order |
Crowe, Ambrose.
THE BATTLE AFTER THE WAR. The story of Australia's Vietnam veterans. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 210; 2 illustrations, notes, references, index; original stiff wrappers; a nice copy. (St Leonards, NSW); Allen & Unwin; (1999). For full description and picture please click here. #30946 | A$35.00 | 354 Click HERE to order |
Crystal, David.
TXTNG. The Gr8 Db8. With cartoons by Ed McLachlan. First Edition; pp. x, 246(last 7 blank); several illustrations, text abbreviations in eleven languages, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Oxford); Oxford University Press; (2008). For full description and picture please click here. #9162 | A$25.00 | 355 Click HERE to order |
C.S.I.R.O:
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. GUIDE TO AUTHORS. 4to; ff. 16 (duplicated typescript on versos only); original wrappers; a fine copy. Melbourne; [Government Printer]; 1949. For full description and picture please click here. #68470 | A$20.00 | 356 Click HERE to order |
C.S.I.R.O:
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. WILDLIFE SURVEY SECTION. List of Reprints. 4to; ff. 19 (duplicated typescript on versos only); stapled, as issued. Melbourne; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization; [1962]. ***Listing 201 papers. For full description and picture please click here. #68471 | A$20.00 | 357 Click HERE to order |
Cumming, Rev. John; D.D.
GENESIS AND GEOLOGY. A Lecture delivered before the Church of England Young Men's Society, in Freemasons' Hall, January 19, 1852, Admiral Vernon Harcourt in the chair. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 32(last 3 blank); sewn, as issued, in original printed wrappers; a nice copy; scarce. [London]; Seeleys; MDCCCLII [1852]. For full description and picture please click here. #68466 | A$45.00 | 358 Click HERE to order |
Cumpston, J. H. L.
AUGUSTUS GREGORY AND THE INLAND SEA. Super roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. viii, 130, [13](maps), 131-147(last blank); 57 illustrations on 28 plates, several other maps & illustrations in text, appendices, abbreviations, references, indices; original pictorial boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Canberra); Roebuck; (1972). For full description and picture please click here. #56 | A$75.00 | 359 Click HERE to order |
Cunningham, Robert O[liver].
NOTES ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN and West Coast of Patagonia. Made during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Nassau' in the Years 1866, 67, 68, & 69. First Edition; pp. xviii, 518(last blank); folding coloured map, 5 tinted & 16 plain 21 lithograph plates, index; original cloth; (some foxing, moderately heavy to a few plates; pencilled annotations; bookplate and pencilled signature of Edmund Giles Loder); very scarce. Edinburgh; Edmonston and Douglas; 1871. ***The narrative includes a journal of the voyage interspersed with detailed notes on the animal and plant species and accounts of the places visited. For full description and picture please click here. #37222 | A$850.00 | 360 Click HERE to order |
Cuyas, Arturo.
APPLETON'S NEW ENGLISH-SPANISH AND SPANISH-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. Thick 8vo, Second Edition, reprinted; pp. xxviii, 554(English-Spanish); xviii, 524(Spanish-English, last 3 blank); appendix, abbreviations & supplement to each part; original quarter leather; a nice copy in worn & slightly defective dustwrapper. New York; D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated; 1935. ***R. M. Crawford's copy with his signature on front endpaper. For full description and picture please click here. #67418 | A$45.00 | 361 Click HERE to order |
Cuyas, Arturo.
APPLETON'S NEW ENGLISH-SPANISH AND SPANISH-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. Thick 8vo, Third Edition; pp. xxviii, 596(English-Spanish); xviii, 540(Spanish-English, last blank); appendix, abbreviations & supplement to each part; original buckram; (lacks front endpaper; otherwise a very good copy in worn & repaired dustwrapper). New York; D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated; (1940). For full description and picture please click here. #67417 | A$25.00 | 362 Click HERE to order |
Dale, J. E. and Milthorpe, F. L.; Edited by.
THE GROWTH AND FUNCTIONING OF LEAVES. Proceedings of a Symposium held prior to the Thirteenth International Botanical Congress at the University of Sydney 18-20 August 1981. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 540, [4](blank); numerous figures, references, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press; (1983). For full description and picture please click here. #36590 | A$35.00 | 363 Click HERE to order |
[Dalton, Dr. William].
THE DALTON JOURNAL. Two Whaling Voyages to the South Seas 1823-1829. Edited by Niel Gunson. Super roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], xii, 142(last 2 blank); 12 illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index; original cloth; gilt; a fine copy. (Canberra); National Library of Australia; (1990). ***Dalton was surgeon on the "Phoenix" (1823-25) and the "Harriet" (1826-29). This well-edited first edition of the original journals includes extensive detailed and informative notes. For full description and picture please click here. #26875 | A$35.00 | 364 Click HERE to order |
Dampier, William.
A NEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. With an Introduction by Sir Albert Gray. Cr. 4to; First Edition under this editorship; pp. xl, 376, [4](colophon, last 3 blank); 3 folding & 1 full-page charts, portrait, reproduction of title-pages to First Edition & the edition of 1729 (from which this edition is taken), and reproduction of a page of Dampier's MS. Journal, index; original quarter vellum, buckram sides; entirely uncut; a nice copy; scarce. London; The Argonaut Press; 1927. ***Edition limited to 975 numbered copies on Japon Vellum. Sir Albert Gray's Introduction includes a resume of Dampier's career, both before and after his voyages, and there is a very valuable preface by N. M. Penzer giving bibliographical information on the various early editions of Dampier's voyages. For full description and picture please click here. #6500 | A$350.00 | 365 Click HERE to order |
[Dana, Richard Henry; Jr.].
TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. New-York: Harper & Brothers - 82 Cliff-Street. 1847. Cr. 12mo, First Edition, later printing; pp. 484(last blank), 20(adv.); original dark brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; (extremities lightly worn; some very minor foxing & soiling); a very good copy; very scarce. New York; Harper & Brothers; 1847. ***Harpers' "The Family Library, No. 106. Life Before the Mast" - gilt spine title. A scarce straight reprint of the first edition of which there were a number up to as late as 1854 (we have noted others dated 1841 and 1844); see Hill, page 392-3 (very little detail given), or 492 (Hill, 2nd Edition); see also Renard 398 (this copy, but erroneously described). See Blanck 4434 for the first edition of 1840 which was issued in two bindings (no priority established) one similar to this copy. This issue is essentially a straight reprint of the first edition in Blanck's 'A' binding, only the date on title-page being amended, and with the addition of advertisements at the end. Blanck notes a true second edition of 1869 (Blanck 4471). This classic work of seafaring life has been reprinted in many forms and many languages over the ensuing period. For full description and picture please click here. #44415 | A$375.00 | 366 Click HERE to order |
Dance, S. Peter.
SHELL COLLECTING. An Illustrated History. First Edition; pp. 344; 35 plates (3 coloured), 31 text illustrations, 4 appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. London; Faber and Faber; (1966). ***Including substantial reference to the important collection formed by Elizabeth Bligh including shells brought back from the Pacific by her famous husband, and the subsequent disposal of the collection at auction by Dubois. For full description and picture please click here. #33045 | A$85.00 | 367 Click HERE to order |
Dance, S. Peter.
A HISTORY OF SHELL COLLECTING. Med. 8vo, Second Edition; pp. xvi, 268(last 3 blank); coloured frontispiece, 32 b/w. plates, 17 text illustrations, 4 appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper; scarce. Leiden; E. J. Brill - Dr. W. Backhuys; (1986). ***Including substantial reference to the important collection formed by Elizabeth Bligh including shells brought back from the Pacific by her famous husband, and the subsequent disposal of the collection at auction by Dubois. For full description and picture please click here. #14173 | A$175.00 | 368 Click HERE to order |
Danielsson, Bengt.
WHAT HAPPENED ON THE BOUNTY. Translated from the Swedish by Alan Tapsell. First Edition in English; pp. 230, [2](recto colophon, verso adv.); double-page chart of the Pacific, showing the "Bounty's" route, the track of Bligh's epic voyage in the open boat, and the mutineers' route to Pitcairn, full-page map of Tahiti & 1 full-page plan of the "Bounty"; original quarter cloth & wood-grain patterned paper sides; (name on preliminary blank); a very good copy in slightly defective dustwrapper. London; George Allen & Unwin Ltd; (1962). ***Du Rietz 278. For full description and picture please click here. #22375 | A$75.00 | 369 Click HERE to order |
Dantzig, Tobias.
NUMBER. The Language of Science. A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-Mathematician. First Edition; pp. xiv, 260, [2](blank); 11 plates, several full-page illustrations, index of names, index of subjects; original cloth (spine faded; a little foxing at start, otherwise a nice copy). New York; The Macmillan Company; 1930. ***The author was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland. For full description and picture please click here. #35808 | A$35.00 | 370 Click HERE to order |
Darby, Madge.
WHO CAUSED THE MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY? First Edition; pp. [vi], 128, [2](blank); a few text illustrations, appendix, index; original cloth; (neat name on endpaper); a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney); Angus and Robertson; (1965). ***Du Rietz 281. For full description and picture please click here. #9360 | A$75.00 | 371 Click HERE to order |
Darell, William.
THE HISTORY OF DOVER CASTLE. By the Revd. Wm. Darell Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth. Illustrated with 10 Views and a Plan of the Castle. London. Printed for Hooper & Wigstead, No. 212, High Holborn, opposite Southampton Street, Bloomsbury Square. 1797. 4to, Second Edition(?); pp. [ii](engraved title-page, with vignette of the castle), viii, 72(last adv.); folding plan as frontispiece, 8 plates, 1 illust. at head of Page 1; nineteenth-century half roan (a little rubbed), with cloth sides by R. Hyne, Bookbinder, 7, Townall St. Dover (with ticket), and with original title-label from front board preserved on a preliminary binder's blank; some slight marginal foxing of plates, but a fine, clean copy; scarce. London; Hooper & Wigstead; 1797 [but c. 1810]. ***First published in 1786 by S. Hooper and reissued as here in 1797, this must be a later issue by E. Jeffrey [or Jeffery] as the folding plan bears the imprint: 'Published by E. Jeffrey, Pall Mall, 1810' and the final page (verso of Page 71) carries a full-page advertisement for Edward Jeffery's re-issue of Grose and Astle's 'Antiquarian Repertory' - 'This Day was published ....' That work was published with the date 1809. All issues subsequent to 1786 appear to be very scarce. For full description and picture please click here. #12589 | A$275.00 | 372 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
A MONOGRAPH ON THE FOSSIL LEPADIDAE, Together in half calf, with marbled sides & early marbled wrappers bound in; a very good copy; very scarce. London; Printed for the Palaeontographical Society; 1851-54. ***Freeman 342. A duplicate from the Bibliotheque Universitaire, Bordeaux, with stamp on title-pages, in the bottom margin of plates and in margins of a few text pages. The two parts were published as monographs in the Palaeontographical Society's series. The Index to Volume II is not present; it was apparently overlooked and was not published until 1858, when it appeared as a single leaf. The collation of this copy differs slightly from Freeman's in which no mention is made of the final leaf in Volume I, and which gives only pp. [iv] for the preliminaries to Volume II. As Freeman notes, a complete set of the Palaeontographical Society's monograph volumes appeared in facsimile in 1966, but Darwin's work was not available alone. For full description and picture please click here. #66799 | A$1850.00 | 373 Click HERE to order |
THE DEFINITIVE TEXT Darwin, Charles.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. Author 'Origin of Species,' etc. Tenth Thousand. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition, reissued; pp. xvi(last blank), 520(last blank); 14 text illustrations, index; contemporary full calf, gilt, with marbled endpapers & edges and gilt dentelles; a very nice, most attractive copy; rare. London; John Murray; 1860. ***Not in Sabin; Not in Ferguson (except by reference - see Ferguson 8957); Freeman 20. The final definitive text, with the addition of a Postscript on Page vii (page viii blank) and the Contents (pp. ix-xv). The four Contents leaves are printed on creamier paper than that used for the earlier preliminaries and the main text (as with all other copies we have seen). This is the final version of Darwin's text; he made no further alterations or additions to it despite the very many subsequent editions (a real gold mine for John Murray and later other publishers, Darwin having sold the copyright to Murray for £150). For full description and picture please click here. #2172 | A$2400.00 | 374 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. With photographic and other illustrations. Cr. 8vo, Second Issue of First Edition; pp. vi, 374, [4](adv.); 7 heliotype plates (3 folding) containing 30 portraits, 21 text illustrations (7 full-page), index; original cloth, uncut; (spine ends lightly worn; rear hinge neatly strengthened); a very good copy; rare. London; John Murray; 1872. ***Freeman 1142. The heliotype plates are numbered in Roman (see Freeman for discussion). As Freeman notes, in his unpublished Additions and Corrections of 1986, Darwin made a number of corrections to this second issue, the first of which is found on Page 103 [104]. One of Darwin's most important works, and of considerable interest in reference to Australia and its native inhabitants--Darwin takes over a page in thanking Australian notables for their help--including Dyson Lacy, R. Brough Smyth, Samuel Wilson, George Taplin, Archibald Lang, Dr. Ferdinand Mueller and others. For full description and picture please click here. #66852 | A$1350.00 | 375 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN, and Selection in Relation to Sex. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., Etc. With Illustrations. In two volumes.--Vol. I [II]. 2 vols., Third U.S. Issue; Vol. I, pp. [iv](blank), vi, 410(last blank), [2](adv.); [2](blank); 25 text illustrations; Vol. II, pp. [ii](blank), viii, 436, [12](adv.), [2](blank); 51 text illustrations, extensive index; original brown cloth, decorated in black (spine ends a little worn); a very good, sound set; scarce. New York; D. Appleton and Company; 1872. ***Freeman 943. Based on the second U.K. issue of the previous year (Freeman 938) with no list of Errata to Volume I and with the errors corrected. For full description and picture please click here. #66511 | A$450.00 | 376 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. Author 'Origin of Species,' etc. Twelfth Thousand. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition, reissued; pp. x, 520(last blank); 14 text illustrations, index; contemporary half morocco, gilt, with marbled endpapers & edges; a nice copy; rare. London; John Murray; 1873. ***Ferguson 8957; Freeman 27. For full description and picture please click here. #66372 | A$600.00 | 377 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE STRUCTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF CORAL REEFS. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. With Three Plates. Second Edition, Revised. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition; pp. xx, 278, 6(adv.); 3 folding map plates (2 coloured), 6 text illustrations, appendix, index; uncut in original cloth (fore-edge to front board abraded; inscriptions on half-title & old name on title-page; a few light pencil marks; a very good copy; very scarce. London; Smith, Elder; 1874. ***Freeman 275. Included in the Appendix is the text of a paper by Darwin first published in the Philosophical Magazine in 1841. For full description and picture please click here. #66813 | A$550.00 | 378 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE VARIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS UNDER DOMESTICATION. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. Second Edition, Revised. Fourth Thousand. In two volumes.--Vol. I [II]. With illustrations. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1875. The right of Translation is reserved. 2 vols., cr. 8vo, First Issue of Second Edition; Vol. I, pp. [ii], xiv, 474(last adv.); 43 illustrations; Vol. II, pp. [ii], x, 496(last colophon only), 32(adv., dated January, 1876); index; entirely uncut (portion of Vol. II unopened) in the original cloth (Vol. I slightly marked; neat name of former owner on preliminary blanks); a very good, sound & clean set; scarce. London; John Murray; 1875. ***Freeman 880. In this work, the first issue of the Second Edition, DARWIN first states his theory of PANGENESIS. For full description and picture please click here. #66710 | A$1000.00 | 379 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., etc. Second Thousand. With illustrations. Cr. 8vo, First Edition, Second Issue; pp. x, 462; Errata slip, 30 text illustrations, index; original green cloth, gilt; uncut; (spine ends rubbed; piece cut from half-title); a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1875. ***Freeman 1218. For full description and picture please click here. #66720 | A$650.00 | 380 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE MOVEMENTS AND HABITS OF CLIMBING PLANTS. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., etc. Second Edition, Revised. With illustrations. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition; pp. viii, 208, 32(adv., dated October 1875); 13 text illustrations; original green cloth (spine worn; lacking front endpaper; a very good ex-library copy with label on front pastedown & a few stamps); very scarce. London; John Murray; 1875. ***Freeman 836. A considerable revision and enlargement of the first edition published in the Journal of the Linnean Society ten years earlier. Often described as the first edition in book form, this is not strictly true as the first, Linnean Society, version was also issued commercially at a price of Four Shillings (see Freeman 834). For full description and picture please click here. #66728 | A$195.00 | 381 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE VARIOUS CONTRIVANCES BY WHICH ORCHIDS ARE FERTILISED BY INSECTS. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. Second Edition, Revised. With Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, First Issue of Second Edition; pp. xvi, 300, 32(adv. dated January, 1876); 38 illustrations, bibliography, index; original cloth, uncut; (name of former owner clipped from head of title-page; old name on half-title and on preliminary binder's blank); a very good copy; very scarce. London; John Murray; 1877. ***Freeman 801. The second issue of Darwin's work, first published in 1862, here with considerably altered text, augmented by the text of a paper first prepared for insertion in the first French translation and a bibliography of works on the subject published in the intervening period. For full description and picture please click here. #66715 | A$350.00 | 382 Click HERE to order |
THE FINAL DEFINITIVE TEXT Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Cr. 8vo, Sixth Edition, Seventh Issue; pp. xxii, 458; folding diagram, glossary, index; original green cloth, with binder's ticket of W. Bone & Son on rear pastedown; a nice copy; very scarce. London; John Murray; 1878. ***Freeman 403. Printed from stereos of the eleventh thousand, and the second issue of the final definitive text, Darwin having made some very minor corrections to the eighteenth thousand (vide Freeman). This Sixth edition, the last to be fully revised by Darwin and quite extensively re-written, includes a new chapter in refutation of objections to his theory, especially those of St. George Mivart, the Roman Catholic biologist. The Sixth was also the first edition to drop the word 'ON' from the title and the first edition of the 'Origin' to use the word 'evolution'. The Glossary was compiled by W. S. Dallas at Darwin's request. For full description and picture please click here. #66444 | A$950.00 | 383 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Cr. 8vo, Sixth Edition, Eighth Issue; pp. xxii, 458; folding diagram, glossary, index; original green cloth, with binder's ticket of W. Bone & Son on rear pastedown; (front hinge re-glued); a very good copy; very scarce. London; John Murray; 1880. ***Freeman 405. Printed from stereos of the eleventh thousand, and the third issue of the final definitive text, Darwin having made some very minor corrections to the eighteenth thousand (vide Freeman). This Sixth edition, the last to be fully revised by Darwin and quite extensively re-written, includes a new chapter in refutation of objections to his theory, especially those of St. George Mivart, the Roman Catholic biologist. The Sixth was also the first edition to drop the word 'ON' from the title and the first edition of the 'Origin' to use the word 'evolution'. The Glossary was compiled by W. S. Dallas at Darwin's request. For full description and picture please click here. #66445 | A$650.00 | 384 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE FORMATION OF VEGETABLE MOULD through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits. By Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S. With illustrations. Third Thousand. Cr. 8vo, First Edition, Third Thousand; pp. [ii], viii, 326, [2](adv.); 15 text illustrations, Errata slip, index; original cloth; uncut; a very nice, clean & fresh copy; very scarce. London; John Murray; 1881. ***Freeman 1359. Issued in the same year as the first. For full description and picture please click here. #7694 | A$600.00 | 385 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE FORMATION OF VEGETABLE MOULD through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits. By Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S. With illustrations. Fourth Thousand. Cr. 8vo, First Edition, Fourth Thousand; pp. [ii], viii, 326, [2](adv.); 15 text illustrations, index; original cloth; uncut; (name of original owner on title-page); a very nice, clean & fresh copy; very scarce. London; John Murray; 1881. ***Freeman 1360. Issued in the same year as the first, here with the errata corrected. For full description and picture please click here. #66840 | A$475.00 | 386 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE FORMATION OF VEGETABLE MOULD through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits. By Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S. With illustrations. Seventh Thousand (Corrected). Cr. 8vo, Seventh Thousand; pp. [ii], viii, 328, [2](adv.); 15 text illustrations, index; original cloth; uncut; (inscription on title-page & long inscription on first blank); a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1882. ***Freeman 1364. With corrections and additions by Francis Darwin. For full description and picture please click here. #7695 | A$350.00 | 387 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE FORMATION OF VEGETABLE MOULD through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits. By Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S. With illustrations. Cr. 8vo, First U.S. Edition; pp. [iv], viii, 326, [2](blank); 15 text illustrations, index; original cloth (worn; a very good ex-library copy with label to endpaper, blind stamp to title-page & label on verso, otherwise internally clean); scarce. New York; D. Appleton & Company; 1882. ***Freeman 1363. From stereos of the first (John Murray) edition of the previous year. For full description and picture please click here. #66842 | A$95.00 | 388 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN, and Selection in Relation to Sex. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. Fifteenth Thousand. With Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition, Sixth Issue; pp. xvi, 694(last blank); 78 text illustrations, Table of Additions & Corrections, Supplemental Note, extensive index; uncut in the original blindstamped green cloth (front board slightly stained), spine gilt; (first few leaves slightly wrinkled; some occasional very minor soiling); a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1882. ***Freeman 955. As Freeman notes: the word 'evolution' occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin's works, on Page 2 of the first volume of the first edition, before its appearance in the sixth edition of the 'Origin' in the following year. This edition includes the Supplemental Note on Sexual Selection in Relation to Monkeys (Reprinted from Nature, November 2, 1876, p. 18). This first appeared in the 12th Thousand of 1877. For full description and picture please click here. #66518 | A$450.00 | 389 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE FORMATION OF VEGETABLE MOULD through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits. By Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S. With illustrations. Ninth Thousand (Corrected). Cr. 8vo, Ninth Thousand; pp. [ii], viii, 328, [2](adv.); 15 text illustrations, index; original cloth (slightly flecked; neatly recased, with new endpapers); uncut; a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1883. ***Freeman 1367. With corrections and additions by Francis Darwin as first issued in the Seventh Thousand. For full description and picture please click here. #66843 | A$285.00 | 390 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN, and Selection in Relation to Sex. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. Nineteenth Thousand. With Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition, Eighth Issue; pp. xvi, 694(last blank), 32(adv., dated January, 1885); 78 text illustrations, Table of Additions & Corrections, Supplemental Note, extensive index; uncut in the original blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt; (front endpaper & half-title and adverts. at end a little foxed); a very nice, bright copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1885. ***Freeman 959. As Freeman notes: the word 'evolution' occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin's works, on Page 2 of the first volume of the first edition, before its appearance in the sixth edition of the 'Origin' in the following year. This edition includes the Supplemental Note on Sexual Selection in Relation to Monkeys (Reprinted from Nature, November 2, 1876, p. 18). This first appeared in the 12th Thousand of 1877. For full description and picture please click here. #66519 | A$450.00 | 391 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
The Principal Works of Charles Darwin. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. THE DESCENT OF MAN. New York: John B. Alden, Publisher. 1886. Med. 8vo, two works in one volume; Origin: pp. [viii], 254(last blank), also numbered [441]-[694]; portrait frontispiece, the diagram reproduced in white on black at Page 51, index, glossary; Descent: pp. [iv], [viii](7 plates), 334, also numbered [151]-[484]; a few figures, index; original dark green cloth (slightly worn), titled on spine: DARWIN'S | SELECT [sic] | WORKS. [cf. Freeman] and, lower down, ORIGIN OF SPECIES | [rule] | DESCENT OF MAN; printed in double-column; a very good, sound copy; scarce. New York; John B. Alden; 1886. ***Freeman 419 (Origin) [=962 Descent] (no detail given). The alternate pagination seems to be derived from an earlier issue in the Humboldt Library of Popular Science [New York, 1884] itself probably derived from an even earlier American issue (unidentified, but possibly Philadelphia c. 1872). The text of the 'Origin' is taken from the sixth edition, but the Historical Sketch is omitted. The text of the 'Descent' is from the first edition, which is perhaps suggestive that the c. 1872 Philadelphia printing is the original American edition in this form. For full description and picture please click here. #66462 | A$250.00 | 392 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE VARIOUS CONTRIVANCES BY WHICH ORCHIDS ARE FERTILISED BY INSECTS. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. Second Edition, Revised. Fourth Thousand. With Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, Fifth Issue of Second Edition; pp. xvi, 300, 32(adv. dated January, 1889); 38 illustrations, bibliography, index; original cloth, uncut; a very good, clean ex-library copy with erasure from spine, labels on front endpapers & a couple of neat stamps at start and end; scarce. London; John Murray; 1888. ***Freeman 808. The sixth issue of Darwin's work, first published in 1862, this second edition with considerably altered text, augmented by the text of a paper first prepared for insertion in the first French translation and a bibliography of works on the subject published in the intervening period. For full description and picture please click here. #66716 | A$175.00 | 393 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE MOVEMENTS AND HABITS OF CLIMBING PLANTS. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., etc. Fourth Thousand. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition, Sixth Issue; pp. x, 208, 32(adv., dated April, 1889); 13 text illustrations; original green cloth; entirely uncut and unopened; a very nice, bright copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1888. ***Freeman 844. This edition includes the Appendix to the Preface which first appeared in the first issue of the Third Thousand in 1882. For full description and picture please click here. #66730 | A$450.00 | 394 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN, and Selection in Relation to Sex. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. Twenty-Third Thousand. With Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition, Eleventh Issue; pp. [ii](blank), xvi, 694(last blank); 78 text illustrations, Table of Additions & Corrections, Supplemental Note, extensive index; original blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt; uncut & partly unopened (a few leaves a little carelessly opened); with the ticket of W. & E. Pickering, Bath on rear pastedown; a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1888. ***Freeman 966. As Freeman notes: the word 'evolution' occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin's works, on Page 2 of the first volume of the first edition, before its appearance in the sixth edition of the 'Origin' in the following year. This edition includes the Supplemental Note on Sexual Selection in Relation to Monkeys (Reprinted from Nature, November 2, 1876, p. 18). This first appeared in the 12th Thousand of 1877. For full description and picture please click here. #66520 | A$350.00 | 395 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN, and Selection in Relation to Sex. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. (22nd Thousand.) In Two Volumes.--Vol. I [II]. With Illustrations. 2 vols., cr. 8vo, Second Edition, First Issue of Library Edition; Vol. I, pp. [ii], xx, 508, [2](adv.); 26 text illustrations, Table of Additions & Corrections; Vol. II, pp. [ii], viii, 528, [2](adv., verso blank); 52 text illustrations, Supplemental Note, extensive index, Errata leaves to both volumes; uncut in the original grey-green cloth, spine gilt; (spine ends very slightly worn); a nice, clean set; very scarce. London; John Murray; 1888. ***Freeman 965. Entirely reset, in larger type and printed on thicker paper--a desirable edition, very scarce on the market. Two further issues of this Library Edition (1891 and 1898) are also seldom seen. As Freeman notes: the word 'evolution' occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin's works, on Page 2 of the first volume of the first edition, before its appearance in the sixth edition of the 'Origin' in the following year. This edition includes the Supplemental Note on Sexual Selection in Relation to Monkeys (Reprinted from Nature, November 2, 1876, p. 18). This first appeared in the 12th Thousand of 1877. For full description and picture please click here. #66522 | A$1650.00 | 396 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
A Naturalist's Voyage. JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle' Round the World, under the Command of Capt. FitzRoy, R.N. With Portrait. Cr. 8vo; pp. x, 520(last blank), 4(adv.); portrait frontispiece, a few text illustrations, index; original dark green cloth, gilt, with 3/6 on spine in gilt; a very good copy. London; John Murray; 1889. ***Freeman 49, but he makes no mention of the portrait (new to this edition?). For full description and picture please click here. #64263 | A$250.00 | 397 Click HERE to order |
NOT IN FREEMAN; NOT IN FERGUSON Darwin, Charles.
A Naturalist's Voyage. JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle' Round the World. Under the Command of Capt. FitzRoy, R.N. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., Author of 'Origin of Species,' etc. Twentieth Thousand. With Portrait. Cr. 8vo; pp. [iv], xii, [13]-616(last blank), 32(inserted adv. dated September 1888); portrait frontispiece, a few text illustrations, index; uncut in original dark green cloth (a little flecked), gilt, with the Rhea Hunt in gilt on front cover, but no price on spine; (a very small tear to inner margin of title-page neatly repaired); a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1889. ***Not in Ferguson; not in Freeman, but see his 50a, however he makes no mention of the portrait either in this edition or by reference to his 46 (1888) which is generally similar. The page references in the Postscript have been changed to refer to the new pagination scheme. For full description and picture please click here. #66373 | A$450.00 | 398 Click HERE to order |
NOT IN FREEMAN? ; NOT IN FERGUSON Darwin, Charles.
A Naturalist's Voyage. JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle' Round the World. Under the Command of Capt. FitzRoy, R.N. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., Author of 'Origin of Species,' etc. Twentieth Thousand. With Portrait. Cr. 8vo; pp. [ii], xii, [13]-616(last blank); portrait frontispiece, a few text illustrations, index; uncut in original dark green cloth (a little worn), gilt, with the Rhea Hunt in gilt on front cover, and Price (3/6) in gilt on spine; patterned John Murray endpapers; (hinges cracked & re-glued; a small defect to preliminary blank before frontispiece; name of original owner in ink on back of frontispiece); otherwise a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1889. ***Not in Ferguson; not in Freeman, but see his 50b, in which however he makes no mention of the portrait either in this edition or by reference to his 46 (1888) which is generally similar. The page references in the Postscript have been changed to refer to the new pagination scheme. For full description and picture please click here. #66374 | A$250.00 | 399 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
The Minerva Library of Famous Books. Edited by G. T. Bettany, M.A., B.Sc. JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY Cr. 8vo, Fifth Ward Lock Edition; pp. xx, 382(last blank), [2](adv. for Minerva Library), [12](adv.); 16 plates, several text illustrations (including maps), index; original grey-green cloth; (some minor foxing); a very good copy; scarce. London, New York, and Melbourne; Ward, Lock and Co.; 1889. ***Not in Ferguson; Freeman 56. The biographical introduction is by the editor, G. T. Bettany. For full description and picture please click here. #66385 | A$135.00 | 400 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Cr. 8vo, Sixth Edition, later issue; pp. [ii], xxii, 458; folding diagram (edges slightly frayed), glossary, index; original green cloth (lightly rubbed); original pale-blue JM printed endpapers; (some occasional mild foxing & minor soiling); a nice copy; very scarce. London; John Murray; 1889. ***Freeman 426. The Sixth Edition was the final edition extensively edited by Darwin and the first edition to drop the word 'ON' from the title and the first edition of the 'Origin' to use the word 'evolution'. The Glossary was compiled by W. S. Dallas at Darwin's request. This copy has a label, dated January 15th, 1891, on front pastedown presenting the book to Henry J. Taperell, Chief Reporter of the New Zealand Times on the occasion of his leaving for Sydney, from members of the New Zealand Parliamentary Press Gallery and the Wellington Press. For full description and picture please click here. #66449 | A$475.00 | 401 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE VARIOUS CONTRIVANCES BY WHICH ORCHIDS ARE FERTILISED BY INSECTS. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. Second Edition, Revised. Fifth Thousand. With Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, Sixth Issue of Second Edition; pp. xvi, 300, 32(adv. dated April, 1890); 38 illustrations, bibliography, index; original cloth (very slightly flecked), uncut; a fine, clean copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1889. ***Freeman 810. The seventh issue of Darwin's work, first published in 1862, this second edition with considerably altered text, augmented by the text of a paper first prepared for insertion in the first French translation and a bibliography of works on the subject published in the intervening period. For full description and picture please click here. #66717 | A$450.00 | 402 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN, and Selection in Relation to Sex. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. Twenty-Fifth Thousand. With Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition, Twelfth Issue; pp. [ii](blank), xvi, 694(last blank); 78 text illustrations, Table of Additions & Corrections, Supplemental Note, extensive index; uncut in the original blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt; (very slight wear to front joint); a very nice, clean copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1889. ***Freeman 968. As Freeman notes: the word 'evolution' occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin's works, on Page 2 of the first volume of the first edition, before its appearance in the sixth edition of the 'Origin' in the following year. This edition includes the Supplemental Note on Sexual Selection in Relation to Monkeys (Reprinted from Nature, November 2, 1876, p. 18). This first appeared in the 12th Thousand of 1877. For full description and picture please click here. #9647 | A$275.00 | 403 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
Cole's Library of Notable Books. ON THE STRUCTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF CORAL REEFS; Cr. 8vo, Australian Edition; pp. xx, 550(last blank); 6 plates (3 folding, including 2 maps), over 40 text illustrations, index to each work; original black cloth (spine ends & joints a little worn); edges dyed red; a very good copy; scarce. Melbourne; E. W. Cole, Book Arcade; N.D. [c. 1890]. ***Not in Freeman, but clearly derived from the Ward, Lock & Co. edition [Freeman 279]. The first Australian edition? For full description and picture please click here. #66817 | A$145.00 | 404 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY & GEOLOGY Reduced height roy. 8vo, First Illustrated Murray Edition; pp. [ii], xvi, 552(last blank); 2 folding coloured maps (at end), frontispiece & 10 plates, 93 text illustrations, index; original grey-green cloth, with CD monogram in circle of porpoises and scallop shell below in gilt on front cover, and bolas in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; bevelled edges; (some mild foxing; slight fraying at foot of Contents leaf); a very good copy; very scarce. London; John Murray; 1890. ***Ferguson 8958b; Freeman 59, this being one of the copies without the unlisted Plan of the 'Beagle' which is not present in all copies. For full description and picture please click here. #66380 | A$250.00 | 405 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. London: T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row. Edinburgh; and New York. 1890. Reduced height demy 8vo; Second Nelson Edition; pp. 616(last blank); 6 double-page & 16 full-page plates, several text illustrations, index; original red cloth with bevelled edges, gilt (spine faded); a very good copy; scarce. London; T. Nelson and Sons; 1890. ***Ferguson 8960; Freeman 63 (collation incorrect by reference to his 48). First published by Nelson in this form in 1888 (the first substantially illustrated edition). For full description and picture please click here. #66381 | A$195.00 | 406 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
The Minerva Library of Famous Books. Edited by G. T. Bettany, M.A., B.Sc. JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY Cr. 8vo, Seventh Ward Lock Edition; pp. xx, 382(last blank), [2](adv. for Minerva Library), [12](adv.); 16 plates, several text illustrations (including maps), index; original grey-green cloth (spine slightly worn; front hinge repaired); a very good copy; scarce. London, New York, and Melbourne; Ward, Lock and Co.; 1890. ***Not in Ferguson; Freeman 60. The biographical introduction is by the editor, G. T. Bettany. For full description and picture please click here. #66386 | A$95.00 | 407 Click HERE to order |
NOT IN FERGUSON and NOT IN FREEMAN - THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN EDITION (?) Darwin, Charles.
Cole's Library of Notable Books. JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY Cr. 8vo, First Australian Edition(?); pp. xx, 382(last blank); 16 plates, over 30 text illustrations (including maps), index; original black cloth, gilt; all edges dyed red; (portions of cloth from boards eaten away by silverfish, otherwise a fine, clean, and crisp copy); rare. Melbourne; E. W. Cole, Book Arcade; N.D. [c. 1890?]. ***Not in Ferguson, nor in Freeman, but clearly sharing the same parentage as the Routledge edition (John Lubbock's Hundred Book's - Freeman 69), in this case however including both the plates and the biographical introduction by G. T. Bettany. The title-page is a cancel. This appears to be the first Australian edition. For full description and picture please click here. #66393 | A$220.00 | 408 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Cr. 8vo, Sixth Edition, later issue; pp. [ii], xxii, 458; folding diagram (edges very slightly frayed), glossary, index; original green cloth (slightly flecked); original pale-blue JM printed endpapers; a nice copy; very scarce. London; John Murray; 1890. ***Freeman 436. The Sixth Edition was the final edition extensively edited by Darwin and the first edition to drop the word 'ON' from the title and the first edition of the 'Origin' to use the word 'evolution'. The Glossary was compiled by W. S. Dallas at Darwin's request. For full description and picture please click here. #66450 | A$475.00 | 409 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE VARIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS UNDER DOMESTICATION. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. Second Edition, Revised. Seventh Thousand. In two volumes.--Vol. I [II]. With illustrations. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1890. The right of Translation is reserved. 2 vols., cr. 8vo, Second Edition; Vol. I, pp. [ii], xiv, 474(last adv.); 43 illustrations; Vol. II, pp. [ii], x, 496(last blank), 32(adv., dated March, 1893); index; original green cloth, gilt (very slightly flecked); uncut; a very nice, clean & bright set; scarce. London; John Murray; 1890. ***Freeman 890. In this Second Edition, first issued in 1875, DARWIN first states his theory of PANGENESIS. For full description and picture please click here. #66712 | A$850.00 | 410 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN, and Selection in Relation to Sex. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. Twenty-Seventh Thousand. With Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition, Thirteenth Issue; pp. [ii](blank), xvi, 694(last blank); 78 text illustrations, Table of Additions & Corrections, Supplemental Note, extensive index; uncut in the original blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt; (very slight foxing of edges only); a very nice, clean & bright copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1890. ***Freeman 970. As Freeman notes: the word 'evolution' occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin's works, on Page 2 of the first volume of the first edition, before its appearance in the sixth edition of the 'Origin' in the following year. This edition includes the Supplemental Note on Sexual Selection in Relation to Monkeys (Reprinted from Nature, November 2, 1876, p. 18). This first appeared in the 12th Thousand of 1877. For full description and picture please click here. #66521 | A$375.00 | 411 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books. JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" Round the World. Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. (From the Corrected and Enlarged Edition of 1845). Cr. 8vo; pp. xiv, 382(last blank); portrait frontispiece, a few text illustrations, index; contemporary half leather, with marbled sides & endpapers; top edge gilt; (spine a little worn); a nice copy; scarce. London and New York; George Routledge and Sons; N.D. [1891]. ***Not in Ferguson; Freeman 69, the first Routledge edition, clearly derived from the Ward, Lock editions but without the biographical introduction by G. T. Bettany. For full description and picture please click here. #66392 | A$95.00 | 412 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Cr. 8vo, Sixth Edition, Second Issue of Library Edition; Vol. I, pp. [ii], xxvi, 366, [2](adv., verso blank); portrait frontispiece (with tissue-guard), folding diagram; Vol. II, pp. vi, 340; glossary, index; original grey-green cloth; original navy blue chalk-surfaced endpapers; (spines a little dull & ends slightly worn; a little foxing at start of first volume); a nice set; very scarce. London; John Murray; 1891. For full description and picture please click here. #66452 | A$850.00 | 413 Click HERE to order |
A MOST UNUSUAL COMBINED VOLUME - NOT IN FREEMAN Darwin, Charles.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. London [and] Manchester; W. H. White & Co.; 1892. ***In addition to the full-page illustrations mentioned in the collation above, there are 11 text illustrations to Darwin's Journal and there is an illustration on each of the three title-pages (these are all dated 1892). A most unusual publisher's issue in one volume of three quite unrelated works, the second being Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter and the third being Sir John Kincaid's (factual) Adventures in the Rifle Brigade in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands. Darwin's Journal is Freeman 73 but he does not record this combined issue. For full description and picture please click here. #67538 | A$75.00 | 414 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., etc. Second Edition, revised by Francis Darwin. Sixth Thousand. Cr. 8vo, Second Issue of Second Edition; pp. xiv, 378, 16(adv., dated January 1894); list of chief additions to the Second Edition, 30 text illustrations, index; a fine, clean and fresh copy in the original green cloth, gilt; entirely uncut and unopened; scarce. London; John Murray; 1893. ***Freeman 1227. With the armorial bookplate of Arthur Wood. This edition which includes material from Francis Darwin's own experiments was first issued in 1888. For full description and picture please click here. #23608 | A$500.00 | 415 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
The Minerva Library of Famous Books. Edited by G. T. Bettany, M.A., B.Sc. JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY Cr. 8vo, Twelfth Ward, Lock Edition; pp. 492, [20](adv.); portrait frontispiece, 16 plates, over 30 text illustrations (including maps), index; original blue-grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge uncut; (lacking front endpaper; name on half-title); a very good copy. London; Ward, Lock, & Bowden, Limited; 1894. ***Freeman 77. The biographical introduction is by G. T. Bettany. For full description and picture please click here. #66415 | A$95.00 | 416 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN, and Selection in Relation to Sex. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. Thirty-First Thousand. With Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition, reprinted; pp. [ii](blank), xvi, 694(last blank); 78 text illustrations, Table of Additions & Corrections, Supplemental Note, extensive index; uncut in the original blind-stamped green cloth (very slightly rubbed; corners a little worn), spine gilt; a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1894. ***Freeman 976. As Freeman notes: the word 'evolution' occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin's works, on Page 2 of the first volume of the first edition, before its appearance in the sixth edition of the 'Origin' in the following year. This edition includes the Supplemental Note on Sexual Selection in Relation to Monkeys (Reprinted from Nature, November 2, 1876, p. 18). This first appeared in the 12th Thousand of 1877. For full description and picture please click here. #66523 | A$220.00 | 417 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
The International Scientific Series. THE FORMATION OF VEGETABLE MOULD, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits. U.S. Edition; pp. [iv], 4, viii, 326, [12](adv.), [2](blank); 15 text figures, index; original red cloth, decorated in gilt & black; (covers a little marked, otherwise a nice copy). New York; D. Appleton and Company; 1895. ***International Scientific Series, Volume XXXVII [Freeman 1379]. For full description and picture please click here. #42088 | A$135.00 | 418 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. London: T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row. Edinburgh; and New York. 1896. Reduced height demy 8vo; Fifth Nelson Edition; pp. 616(last blank); 6 double-page & 16 full-page plates, several text illustrations, index; original blue cloth with bevelled edges, gilt; (spine ends very slightly worn); a nice copy; scarce. London; T. Nelson and Sons; 1896. ***Not in Ferguson; Freeman 81 (collation incorrect by reference to his 48). First published by Nelson in this form in 1888 (the first substantially illustrated edition). For full description and picture please click here. #66383 | A$175.00 | 419 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN, and Selection in Relation to Sex. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. Thirty-Fifth Thousand. With Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition, reprinted; pp. [ii](blank), xvi, 694(last blank); 78 text illustrations, Table of Additions & Corrections, Supplemental Note, extensive index; uncut in the original blind-stamped green cloth; (spine ends a little worn; blue pencil marks on 3 pp.); a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1896. ***Freeman 985. This edition includes the Supplemental Note on Sexual Selection in Relation to Monkeys (Reprinted from Nature, November 2, 1876, p. 18). This first appeared in the 12th Thousand of 1877. For full description and picture please click here. #67678 | A$85.00 | 420 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN, and Selection in Relation to Sex. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. Thirty-Third Thousand. With Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition, reprinted; pp. [ii](blank), xvi, 694(last blank); 78 text illustrations, Table of Additions & Corrections, Supplemental Note, extensive index; uncut in the original blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt; a very nice copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1896. ***Freeman 979. As Freeman notes: the word 'evolution' occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin's works, on Page 2 of the first volume of the first edition, before its appearance in the sixth edition of the 'Origin' in the following year. This edition includes the Supplemental Note on Sexual Selection in Relation to Monkeys (Reprinted from Nature, November 2, 1876, p. 18). This first appeared in the 12th Thousand of 1877. For full description and picture please click here. #66524 | A$275.00 | 421 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE FORMATION OF VEGETABLE MOULD through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits. By Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S. Thirteenth Thousand. With illustrations. Cr. 8vo, Thirteenth Thousand; pp. [ii], viii, 328, [2](blank); 15 text illustrations, index; uncut in the original cloth (flecked & a little marked; a few tears neatly repaired); a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1897. ***Freeman 1381. For full description and picture please click here. #66845 | A$150.00 | 422 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE FORMATION OF VEGETABLE MOULD, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits. Authorized Edition; pp. [iv], viii, 326; 15 text figures, index; original red cloth (slightly marked); top edge gilt; a very good copy. New York; D. Appleton and Company; 1898. ***Freeman 1384. With Authorized Edition stated on title-verso. For full description and picture please click here. #66846 | A$110.00 | 423 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
ON THE STRUCTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF CORAL REEFS. Cr. 8vo; pp. xx, 550(last blank), [6](adv. for Minerva Library, New Series); frontispiece (portrait of Darwin by Collier), 6 plates (3 folding, including 2 maps), over 40 text illustrations, 3 indices; original blue cloth, gilt; a very good copy; scarce. London; Ward, Lock & Co.; N.D. [c. 1900]. ***Freeman 294 (variant coloured cloth). For full description and picture please click here. #66831 | A$175.00 | 424 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE FORMATION OF VEGETABLE MOULD, through the Action of Worms. Westminster Edition; pp. [iv](binder's blanks), [ii], vi, 326, [2](blank), [4](binder's blanks); gravure frontispiece, with title-guard, 15 text figures, index; title-page in red & black; original half morocco, with cloth sides, spine gilt in panels, with raised bands, marbled endpapers; top edge gilt, others uncut; a fine copy; very scarce. New York and London; D. Appleton and Company; N.D. [c. 1900]. ***Freeman 1387. With Authorized Edition stated on title-verso. Entirely reset (and quite different from other so-called Authorized Edition copies), apparently without the additions of Francis Darwin. The frontispiece is a fine view of Darwin's study. A very handsome edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies, this appears to be one of a smaller number specially bound for Brentano's, N.Y., most copies being issued in red cloth. For full description and picture please click here. #66847 | A$650.00 | 425 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" Round the World. With a Biographical Introduction. Cr. 8vo; pp. 492, [12](adv.); 16 plates, over 30 text illustrations (including maps), index; original red cloth, gilt; (spine slightly stained & small stain to lower inner margin of frontis & title-page); a very good copy; scarce. London; Ward Lock & Co., Limited; N.D. [c. 1900]. ***Freeman 95, a volume in the Minerva Library, New Series, but not explicitly identified as such. The first leaf of the advertisements describes "The Minerva Library (New Series.) Large Crown 8vo, art linen, extra gilt, fully illustrated, 2s." and Volume II in the series is this work. The biographical introduction is by G. T. Bettany. For full description and picture please click here. #66387 | A$85.00 | 426 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" Round the World. With a Biographical Introduction. Cr. 8vo; pp. 492, [12](adv.); 16 plates, over 30 text illustrations (including maps), index; original blue cloth, gilt; (short inscription on back of frontispiece; some occasional very pale foxing); a nice copy; scarce. London; Ward Lock & Co., Limited; N.D. [c. 1900]. ***Freeman 95, a volume in the Minerva Library, New Series, but not explicitly identified as such. The first leaf of the advertisements describes "The Minerva Library (New Series.) Large Crown 8vo, art linen, extra gilt, fully illustrated, 2s." and Volume II in the series is this work. The biographical introduction is by G. T. Bettany. For full description and picture please click here. #66388 | A$145.00 | 427 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., etc. New Impression. With Portrait. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street 1900. Post 8vo, 'Popular Impression', First Issue; pp. [iii]-xxxii(lacking a preliminary blank?), 704(last blank); portrait frontispiece, folding diagram, glossary, index; original leaf-green cloth, with gilt title 'Origin of Species' on spine and debossed design in dark green on front board, the rear board blank; a very nice copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1900. ***Freeman 467. Printed in larger type and on slightly larger paper than the preceding editions, taken from the setting for the two-volume 'Library Edition' of 1888 (repaginated, with minor adjustment at the end of Volume I in that edition, and with the Contents at start and Index at end reset), but printed on thinner paper. This, the first issue of the 'Popular Impression', was issued in September 1900, although it was not so identified until the second impression of November the same year. For full description and picture please click here. #66453 | A$195.00 | 428 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES | DARWIN' on spine and debossed design in dark green on front board & simpler border on rear board; (neat inscribed initials and date [1900] on title-page); a very nice copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1900. ***Freeman 468, but note the slight difference in the titling on spine. Printed in larger type and on slightly larger paper than the preceding editions, taken from the setting for the two-volume Library Edition of 1888 (repaginated, with minor adjustment at the end of Volume I in that edition, and with the Contents at start, and Index at end reset), but printed on thinner paper. This is the second issue of the Popular Impression, issued in November 1900, and so identified on Page [iv]. For full description and picture please click here. #66454 | A$175.00 | 429 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Post 8vo; pp. [ii], xx, 506(last 5 blank); portrait frontispiece, double-page diagram, glossary, index; original brown ribbed cloth; top edge gilt; a fine copy; very scarce. New York; Hurst and Company, Publishers; N.D. [c. 1900]. ***Freeman 461(?). The Sixth Edition was the final edition extensively edited by Darwin and the first edition to drop the word 'ON' from the title and the first edition of the 'Origin' to use the word 'evolution'. The Glossary was compiled by W. S. Dallas at Darwin's request. Freeman describes his 461 as being a volume in the 'Library of Famous Books by Famous Authors' but there is no internal or external evidence of that in this copy, nor does he mention the portrait. A plain but attractive volume. For full description and picture please click here. #66464 | A$225.00 | 430 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Post 8vo; pp. xxii, 432, [2](adv.); folding diagram, glossary, index; original orange-brown printed wrappers (a little worn; half-title silverfished; tiny stain to extreme top edge of several leaves); uncut & largely unopened; a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1901. ***Not in Freeman, however see his 475 (green wrappers, description inadequate). This is a reissue of the 1891 printing, on slightly larger paper, and with slightly differing text to title-page, with quite different pagination from the other 'Popular Impressions' of 1900 and following. For full description and picture please click here. #66455 | A$85.00 | 431 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN and Selection in Relation to Sex. by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. New Edition. With Illustrations. Thick 8vo, First Issue of New Edition; pp. xx, 1032(last blank); 78 text illustrations, Supplemental Note, extensive index; original leaf-green cloth, front board blind-stamped in dark green, spine gilt; (some foxing); a very good copy. London; John Murray; 1901. ***Freeman 1001. Printed from stereos of the Library Edition, with the larger type and page count. For full description and picture please click here. #60122 | A$165.00 | 432 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. With Portrait. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, W. 1902. Post 8vo, 'Popular Impression', Fourth Issue; pp. xxxii, 704(last blank); portrait frontispiece, folding diagram, glossary, index; original leaf-green cloth, with gilt title 'The Origin of Species' on spine & debossed design in dark green on front board and simpler border on rear board; a very nice copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1902. ***Freeman 479. As with the three preceding issues, printed in larger type and on slightly larger paper than the preceding editions, taken from the setting for the two-volume 'Library Edition' of 1888 (repaginated, with minor adjustment at the end of Volume I in that edition, and with the Contents at start, and Index at end reset), but printed on thinner paper. This is the fourth issue of the 'Popular Impression' first issued in November 1900, and so identified on Page [vi]. For full description and picture please click here. #66456 | A$175.00 | 433 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE FORMATION OF VEGETABLE MOULD through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits. By Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S. Thirteenth Thousand. With illustrations. Cr. 8vo; pp. viii, 298, [2](adv., verso blank); 15 illustrations on 10 plates, index; original cloth (slightly marked; some foxing); spine and front board lettered in black; a nice copy in slightly defective dustwrapper. London; John Murray; 1904. ***Freeman 1389. The reference on title-page to Thirteenth Thousand is clearly incorrect unless the earlier issue of 1897 was of fewer than 1000 copies. This edition is entirely reset, with the text figures transferred to separate plates and was issued in at least two binding styles, one with spine lettered in gilt, the other in black, as here. The dustwrapper is very rarely seen. For full description and picture please click here. #66849 | A$150.00 | 434 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS. By Charles Darwin. Edited by Francis Darwin, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. With photographic and other illustrations. Popular Edition. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition, Fifth issue; pp. viii, 398(last blank), [2](adv., verso blank); 7 half-tone plates, containing 30 portraits reproduced from photogravures by V. Brooks, Day & Son, 21 illustrations from engravings on 16 plates, index; original leaf-green cloth; a very good copy. London; John Murray; 1904. ***Presumably Freeman 1157 but he fails to mention the words "Popular Edition" on title-page and by implication gives the pagination as viii, 394 only. With John Murray (only) in gilt at foot of spine and the front board stamped in black. This second edition was first issued in 1890. One of Darwin's most important works, and of considerable interest in reference to Australia and its native inhabitants--Darwin takes over a page of his introduction to thanking Australian notables for their help--including Dyson Lacy, R. Brough Smyth, Samuel Wilson, George Taplin, Archibald Lang, Dr. Ferdinand Mueller and others. For full description and picture please click here. #47319 | A$125.00 | 435 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
ON THE STRUCTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF CORAL REEFS. By Charles Darwin. Edited, with an Introduction by Joseph W. Williams. Cr. 8vo; pp. xxiv, 278, [2](adv.), [16](adv. for The Scott Library); coloured folding map, 4 coloured plates, numerous text illustrations, appendix, index; original green cloth, gilt; top edge gilt; others uncut; a very good copy; scarce. London and Felling-on-Tyne; The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd.; N.D. (1905). ***A volume in The Scott Library, first published in this form in 1890. Not in Freeman, but similar to his 293, with the date 7-05 on title verso. Included after the index is the text of a paper by Darwin first published in the Philosophical Magazine in 1841. For full description and picture please click here. #66818 | A$110.00 | 436 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" Round the World. With a Biographical Introduction. Cr. 8vo; pp. 492, [12](adv.); 16 plates, over 30 text illustrations (including maps), index; original blue cloth, decorated in gilt and blind; a nice copy; scarce. London; Ward, Lock & Co., Limited; N.D. [c. 1906]. ***Freeman 111 (?), a volume in the Minerva Library, New Series, but not explicitly identified as such. The first leaf of the advertisements describes "The Minerva Library (New Series.) Large Crown 8vo, art linen, extra gilt, fully illustrated, 2s." and Volume II in the series is this work. This volume however has a variant binding, and the three-quarter portrait of Darwin in the regular series has been replaced by a portrait of Darwin standing from the painting by Sir J. Collier in the National Portrait Gallery. We hazard a guess that this is a somewhat later publication (concurring with Freeman). The biographical introduction is by G. T. Bettany. For full description and picture please click here. #66390 | A$125.00 | 437 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" Round the World. With a Biographical Introduction. Cr. 8vo; pp. 492; 16 plates, over 30 text illustrations (including maps), index; contemporary prize calf, gilt, with prize label for Sydney Grammar School dated December 1908; (moderate foxing throughout); a very good copy; scarce. London; Ward, Lock & Co., Limited; N.D. [c. 1906]. ***Freeman 111 (?) with the frontispiece portrait of Darwin standing from the painting by Sir J. Collier in the National Portrait Gallery. The paper is rather soft and spongy in comparison to another copy we have seen in original binding with the same portrait. The biographical introduction is by G. T. Bettany. For full description and picture please click here. #66391 | A$65.00 | 438 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN and Selection in Relation to Sex. by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. With Illustrations. Thick 8vo, Second Edition, 22nd Impression [Second Issue of New Edition]; pp. xx, 1032(last blank), [2](adv.), [2](blank); 78 text illustrations, Supplemental Note, extensive index; original leaf-green cloth, front board blind-stamped in dark green, spine gilt; (covers slightly marked); a very good copy. London; John Murray; 1906. ***Freeman 1006. Printed from stereos of the Library Edition, with the larger type and page count. This impression has a list of the Murray editions with prices on half-title verso; this is not present in earlier editions [but Freeman does not note it until the later issue of 1913]. For full description and picture please click here. #66525 | A$135.00 | 439 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE MOVEMENTS AND HABITS OF CLIMBING PLANTS. Post 8vo, Popular Edition; pp. x, 208; 13 figures; original leaf green cloth (front joint slightly worn; business card of former owner affixed to endpaper); a very good copy. London; John Murray; 1906. ***Freeman 852. The title-page is a cancel (as in another copy we have seen). This edition includes the Appendix to the Preface which first appeared in the first issue of the Third Thousand in 1882. For full description and picture please click here. #42725 | A$100.00 | 440 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE GEOLOGY & NATURAL HISTORY of the Various Countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the World by Charles Darwin. London: J. M. Dent & Co. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. F'cap 8vo, Second Everyman Edition; pp. xvi, 496; a few text illustrations, original grey ribbed cloth, spine gilt; a nice copy. London; J. M. Dent & Co.; (1908). ***Not in ANB; Freeman 113. First published in Everyman's Library in 1906 (Freeman 110). Includes Darwin's Postscript as originally published in 1860. For full description and picture please click here. #66397 | A$45.00 | 441 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRIES VISITED DURING THE VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD OF H.M.S. 'BEAGLE' UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN FITZ ROY, R.N. By Charles Darwin M.A., F.R.S. With illustrations. Cr. 8vo; pp. xiv, [15]-16, 522(last blank), [10](adv.); 16 plates, 6 text illustrations, original leaf-green cloth; (edges very slightly foxed); a very nice copy. London; John Murray; 1909. ***Freeman 117. The fourth issue of this new format and binding. For full description and picture please click here. #66376 | A$135.00 | 442 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin. Cassell and Company, Ltd. London, Paris, New York, Toronto & Melbourne. MCMIX. Cr. 8vo; pp. 430, [2](adv.); full-page diagram, Historical Sketch (at end), index; original green cloth; a very good copy; scarce. London; Cassell and Company, Ltd.; 1909. ***Freeman 505. A volume in The People's Library. A reprint of the second edition, with the addition of the Historical Sketch from the third edition. For full description and picture please click here. #66478 | A$45.00 | 443 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
CORAL REEFS. Volcanic Islands. South American Geology. Cr. 8vo; pp. [ii], xx, 550(last blank); 6 plates (3 folding, including 2 maps), over 40 text illustrations, 3 indices; original green cloth, spine gilt; a very good copy; scarce. London; Ward, Lock & Co.; 1910. ***Freeman 300. A volume in The World Library series. For full description and picture please click here. #66834 | A$85.00 | 444 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Cr. 8vo; pp. [iii]-xxii(lacking half-title?), 432; folding diagram, glossary, index; original pink-red cloth (faded; a little foxing of edges & end leaves); a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1910. ***Freeman 509. A volume in Murray's Library. This is a reissue of the 1891 printing, with slightly differing text to title-page, and with quite different pagination from the other 'Popular Impressions' of 1900 and following. For full description and picture please click here. #66457 | A$70.00 | 445 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Cr. 8vo; pp. xxii, 538, [8](adv., last blank); portrait frontispiece, double-page diagram, glossary, index; original red cloth (corners slightly worn; Prescott, Arizona, Public Schools label on endpaper, but no other marks); top edge gilt; a nice copy; scarce. New York; A. L. Burt company, Publishers; N.D. [c. 1910]. ***Freeman 514. A volume in 'The Home Library', so designated on spine. The Sixth Edition was the final edition extensively edited by Darwin and the first edition to drop the word 'ON' from the title and the first edition of the 'Origin' to use the word 'evolution'. The Glossary was compiled by W. S. Dallas at Darwin's request. For full description and picture please click here. #66465 | A$135.00 | 446 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. With Portrait. London John Murray, Albemarle Street, W. 1911. Post 8vo, 'Popular Impression', Sixth Issue; pp. xxxii, 704(last blank); portrait frontispiece, folding diagram, glossary, index; original leaf-green cloth, with gilt title 'The Origin of Species' on spine and design printed in black on front board with simpler border printed on rear board; a very nice copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1911. ***Freeman 515. As with the five preceding issues, printed in larger type and on slightly larger paper than the preceding editions, taken from the setting for the two-volume 'Library Edition' of 1888 (repaginated, with minor adjustment at the end of Volume I in that edition, and with the Contents at start, and Index at end reset), but printed on thinner paper. This is the sixth issue of the 'Popular Impression', first issued in November 1900, and so identified on Page [iv]. For full description and picture please click here. #66458 | A$175.00 | 447 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRIES VISITED DURING THE VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD OF H.M.S. 'BEAGLE' UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN FITZ ROY, R.N. By Charles Darwin M.A., F.R.S. With illustrations. Cr. 8vo; pp. xiv, [15]-16, 522(last blank), [6](adv.); 2 folding maps (at end), 16 plates, 6 text illustrations, original green cloth (slightly darker than the preceding editions in this format); (inscription on half-title; some mild foxing); a nice copy. London; John Murray; 1912. ***Freeman 122 (but he does not note the reduced number of advertisements at end). The fifth issue of this new format and binding, this being the first to contain the maps, which are unlisted. For full description and picture please click here. #66377 | A$150.00 | 448 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., Etc. With Photographic and other Illustrations. U.S. Edition; pp. vi, 372, [4](blank); 7 photogravure plates containing 30 portraits, by V. Brooks, Day & Son, 21 text illustrations (7 full-page), index; original dark green cloth, top edge gilt; a very good, clean & sound copy. New York; Specially Published for The Brunswick Subscription Co. by D. Appleton and Company; 1915. ***Freeman 1162. A volume in The World's Greatest Scientists series, so designated on spine. For full description and picture please click here. #66854 | A$85.00 | 449 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN and Selection in Relation to Sex. by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. With Illustrations. Thick 8vo, Second Edition, 25th Impression [Fifth Issue of New Edition]; pp. [iii]-xx(but as issued?), 1032(last blank), [4](adv.); 78 text illustrations, Supplemental Note, extensive index; original leaf-green cloth, spine and front board both printed in black; a very good copy. London; John Murray; 1922. ***Freeman 1027. Printed from stereos of the Library Edition, with the larger type and page count. This impression has a list of the Murray editions with prices on half-title verso; this list first appeared in the 22nd impression. This was the final John Murray edition (at least until recent times). For full description and picture please click here. #9651 | A$120.00 | 450 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. By Means of Natural Selection. (A Reprint of the Second Edition). Pott 8vo, First Edition in this form; pp. lxiv, 456, 16(adv.); full-page diagram, index; original cloth; a very good copy. London; Oxford University Press; (1929). ***Freeman 544. The World's Classics, No. XI. With a Preface by Leonard Darwin and a valuable comparison of the first and second, and first and sixth editions by Miss Irene Manton. For full description and picture please click here. #40357 | A$60.00 | 451 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
The Thinker's Library, No. 8. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Means of Natural Selection. By Charles Darwin, LL.D. Last (Sixth) Edition. F'cap 8vo, First Edition in the Thinker's Library; pp. viii, 434, [6](adv.); full-page diagram, glossary, index; original printed papered boards; a nice copy. London; Watts & Co.; (1929). ***Freeman 545. For full description and picture please click here. #66491 | A$35.00 | 452 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life and THE DESCENT OF MAN and Selection in Relation to Sex. Thick post 8vo, First Edition in this form; pp. xvi, 386, [2], 389-924, [925]-1000(indexes); 1 diagram in "Origin" & 78 figures in "Descent", Supplemental Note on Sexual Selection in Relation to Monkeys (Reprinted from Nature, November 2, 1876), glossary, index to each work; original cloth; a very good copy in worn dustwrapper. New York; The Modern Library; N.D. [1936]. ***Modern Library Giant G27. Freeman 554. Includes the Historical Sketch of the Sixth Edition of the Origin, from which this text is taken. The 'Descent' is taken from the Second Edition. An excellent, portable, reading edition, with good legible type. For full description and picture please click here. #60118 | A$120.00 | 453 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin. (A Reprint of the First Edition). With a Foreword by Dr. C. D. Darlington, F.R.S. Reduced demy 8vo; pp. xxii, 426; double-page diagram, index; original cloth; (a little foxing towards end); a nice copy in worn dustwrapper. London; Watts & Co.; (1950). ***Freeman 571. Claimed to be the first reprint of the first edition, "the only changes being punctuation", but this is clearly not so, the very same publisher having reprinted the first edition in 1903 (complete with an extensive note stating that fact--this not explicitly noted by Freeman). For full description and picture please click here. #66431 | A$65.00 | 454 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE GEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY of the various countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle, by Charles Darwin (1839). Facsimile Reprint of the First Edition. Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], xiv, 630, [609]-[616](index, last blank), [2] + 16 plates; endpaper map, frontispiece (profile plan of the 'Beagle'), text map & 2 text illustrations, index; original quarter cloth, with patterned papered sides; a nice copy in worn dustwrapper; scarce in such condition. New York - London; Hafner Publishing Company; 1952]. ***Freeman 144, being a facsimile of Freeman 11 (Ferguson 2739), the second issue of Darwin's journal, the first as a stand-alone work, it having been published earlier in the same year as Volume III - 'Journal and Remarks', of the three-volume 'Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle'. This facsimile did not reproduce the two folding maps belonging to this volume but does include sixteen plates derived from other volumes in the original three-volume publication of the 'Voyages'. For full description and picture please click here. #66368 | A$150.00 | 455 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles:
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN. Including an Autobiographical Chapter. Edited by his Son, Francis Darwin. Foreword by George Gaylord Simpson. In two volumes. Vol. I [II]. 2 vols., Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. xxii, 558, [6](blank); 4 plates; Vol. II, pp. [x], 562; frontispiece & facsimile with facing transcription, 4 appendices, index; original cloth (spines faded; name on title-pages); a very good set in original slipcase (rubbed & repaired). New York; Basic Books, Inc.; 1959. ***Freeman 1501. A facsimile of the two-volume Appleton edition (1888) of the original three-volume edition, with the addition of the Foreword by Simpson. For full description and picture please click here. #65661 | A$85.00 | 456 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles:
DARWIN'S JOURNAL. Together, 7 parts, cr. 4to, all First Editions; pp. 176; 3 figures; original wrappers; a fine set. London; Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Historical Series, Vol. 2 Nos. 1-6, and Vol. 3 No. 5; 1959-60-60-60-60-61-67. For full description and picture please click here. #66811 | A$125.00 | 457 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS addressed to Professor Henslow by C. Darwin, Esq. Read at a Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 16 November, 1835. A reprint of the original pamphlet dated Cambridge, Dec. 1, 1835. Privately Printed. 1960. First Edition (of this facsimile); pp. [vi], 34(last 3 blank); sewn in original wrappers; a very fine copy; scarce. [Cambridge; Cambridge Philosophical Society]; 1960. ***Freeman 4, being a reprint of Freeman 1. Letters from Darwin on the 'Beagle'. The original work is of utmost rarity. For full description and picture please click here. #66366 | A$150.00 | 458 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. By Means of Natural Selection. Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin. A reprint of the Sixth Edition with a Preface by Sir Gavin de Beer. Pott 8vo, Fourth Edition of this version; pp. xxxii, 592; full-page diagram, glossary, index; original cloth; a very good copy in worn dustwrapper. London; Oxford University Press; (1963). ***Freeman 596. The World's Classics, No. XI. A reprint of the Sixth Edition, first issued in this form in 1951, having earlier (1902 ff.) been published in this series reprinting the Second Edition of 1860. For full description and picture please click here. #66474 | A$40.00 | 459 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BREEDING OF ANIMALS. [1840] Facsimile. With an Introduction by Gavin de Beer, F.R.S. lately Director, British Museum (Natural History). 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. xii, 8; original cloth, gilt; a fine copy. London; Society for the Bibliography of Natural History; 1968. ***Freeman 263. This was the first of Charles Darwin's printed questionnaires sent out to gain information and specimens for his studies. Only two copies of the original work are known to have survived. For full description and picture please click here. #66809 | A$65.00 | 460 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE GEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY Facsimile Edition; pp. xiv, 630, [609]-[616](index, last blank); folding map of the southern portion of South America at Page xiv, and folding map of Keeling Islands at Page 532, text map & 2 text illustrations, index; original vinyl; a very good copy. [Bruxelles; Culture et Civilisation; 1969]. ***Freeman 161, being a facsimile of Freeman 11 (Ferguson 2739), the second issue of Darwin's narrative, the first as a stand-alone work, it having been published earlier in the same year as Volume III - 'Journal and Remarks', of the three-volume 'Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle'. As Freeman notes, this facsimile was made from a defective copy, and issued, at least initially, lacking signature 2Q (= pp. 593-608), however this copy has had the deficiency very skilfully remedied (possibly by the original publisher?) with the insertion of the missing leaves, so is a quite complete facsimile of the original edition. For full description and picture please click here. #66367 | A$140.00 | 461 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN and Selection in Relation to Sex. With a Preface by Ashley Montagu and Drawings by Fritz Kredel. Demy 4to, Limited Edition; pp. xx, 362, [2](Colophon, recto blank); numerous text illustrations finely printed in red and black, supplemental note, extensive index; original quarter red morocco & wood-veneered sides, spine gilt; top edge sprinkled; a fine copy in slightly defective glassine dustwrapper. [New York]; Printed for The Limited Editions Club at the Griffin Press, Adelaide, South Australia; 1971. ***Freeman 1043. Edition limited to 1500 copies signed by Fritz Kredel, but this copy not numbered or signed. This edition, taken from the revised and supplemented edition of 1877 omits Chapters Nine to Sixteen [concerning sexual selection in "lower" animals]; a note on the reasons why is supplied by Ashley Montagu. An attractive production. For full description and picture please click here. #66530 | A$145.00 | 462 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN and Selection in Relation to Sex. With a Preface by Ashley Montagu and Drawings by Fritz Kredel. Post 4to; pp. [ii], xx, 362; numerous text illustrations, supplemental note, extensive index; original full maroon leather-grained cloth, spine gilt; a fine copy. New York; The Heritage Press; (1972). ***Freeman 1044 (date in error?). This, the trade edition of the Limited Editions Club edition of the previous year is taken from the revised and supplemented edition of 1877 omitting Chapters Nine to Sixteen [concerning sexual selection in "lower" animals]; a note on the reasons why is supplied by Ashley Montagu. For full description and picture please click here. #49849 | A$75.00 | 463 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles; Editor.
THE ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. "BEAGLE". Part V: Reptiles, by Thomas Bell, with a new introduction by Roberto Donoso-Barros, facsimile reprint by the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 1975. 4to, First Edition (in this form); pp. [ii], vi, [ii], vi, 52; 20 plates; references; original cloth; a fine copy. Lawrence, Kansas; Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; 1975. ***Originally published London, Smith, Elder, 1843 - see Freeman 9; Spence 342. For full description and picture please click here. #66351 | A$75.00 | 464 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN and Selection in Relation to Sex. With a Preface by Ashley Montagu and Drawings by Fritz Kredel. Post 4to; pp. [ii], xx, 362; numerous text illustrations, supplemental note, extensive index; original quarter black leatherette, with cloth sides, gilt; a fine copy in slipcase. Norwalk, Connecticut; The Heritage Press; (1972) [but later c. 1975?]. ***A re-issue of Freeman 1044. This, a re-issue of the trade version of the Limited Editions Club edition of 1971, is taken from the revised and supplemented edition of 1877 omitting Chapters Nine to Sixteen [concerning sexual selection in "lower" animals]; a note on the reasons why is supplied by Ashley Montagu. For full description and picture please click here. #66531 | A$65.00 | 465 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Means of Natural Selection. Illustrated by Walter Raine. A Limited Edition. F'cap 4to (approx.); pp. [xviii], 610, [4](blank); 15 full-page coloured illustrations, diagram, glossary, index; original full green leather, gilt; all edges gilt; watered silk endpapers; silk marker ribbon; a fine copy. Franklin Center, Pennsylvania; The Franklin Library; 1978. ***A reprint of the Sixth Edition of 1872, taken from the edition published by Encyclopedia Britannica in its series The Great Books of the Western World (together with Darwin's The Descent of Man), in 1952, see Freeman 576, but entirely reset and with the addition of the illustrations by Raine. A handsome volume. For full description and picture please click here. #52965 | A$145.00 | 466 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ILLUSTRATED ORIGIN OF SPECIES. Abridged and Introduced by Richard E. Leakey. Consultants W. F. Bynum [and] J. A. Barrett. Post 4to, First Australian Edition (in this form); pp. 240; geological chart on endpaper, several maps, numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, figures, and diagrams, glossary, list of further reading, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in pictorial dustwrapper (spine slightly faded). Melbourne; Oxford University Press; (1979). ***A useful abridgement from the sixth edition, with informative illustrations, and a good introduction by Leakey. For full description and picture please click here. #18639 | A$30.00 | 467 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE DESCENT OF MAN and Selection in Relation to Sex. With a Preface by Ashley Montagu and Drawings by Fritz Kredel. The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Collector's Edition bound in genuine leather. Post 4to; pp. [iv], xx, 362; coloured frontispiece, numerous text illustrations, supplemental note, extensive index; original full black leather, gilt; all edges gilt, watered silk endpapers & silk ribbon; (the gilt on rear board a little dull, otherwise a fine copy). Norwalk, Connecticut; The Easton Press; (1979). ***A re-issue of Freeman 1044. This, a re-issue of the trade version of the Limited Editions Club edition of 1971 with the addition of the coloured frontispiece, is taken from the revised and supplemented edition of 1877 omitting Chapters Nine to Sixteen [concerning sexual selection in "lower" animals]; a note on the reasons why is supplied by Ashley Montagu. For full description and picture please click here. #60121 | A$95.00 | 468 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles:
THE RED NOTEBOOK OF CHARLES DARWIN. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Sandra Herbert. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [x], 166(last blank); several illustrations, bibliography, index to Persons, subject index, geographical index; original vinyl, gilt; (endpapers & edges slightly foxed); a very good copy in slightly defective dustwrapper; scarce. Ithaca and London; British Museum (Natural History), Cornell University Press; (1980). ***The 'Red Notebook' was commenced on the 'Beagle' voyage. Freeman 1583f (IN Additions and Corrections to Second Edition of 1977 to 1 January, 1986 - limited circulation, University College London for the Author). For full description and picture please click here. #66413 | A$125.00 | 469 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles; Editor.
THE ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. BEAGLE, During the Years 1832-1836. Edited by Charles Darwin. Facsimile Reprint 1980. Wellington; Nova Pacifica; 1980. For full description and picture please click here. #9182 | A$1100.00 | 470 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Introduction by Sir Julian Huxley. Second [Hardcover] Impression of this Edition; pp. xvi, 448; full-page diagram, glossary, index; original vinyl, gilt; printed marbled endpapers; a nice copy. (New York); The Masterpieces of Science, New American Library; (1986). ***First published in this form in 1958 (Freeman 585). A reprint of the Sixth Edition. For full description and picture please click here. #66480 | A$65.00 | 471 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. A Facsimile of the First Edition with an Introduction by Ernst Mayr. Facsimile Edition, Thirteenth Printing; pp. [ii], xxviii, x, 490, [491-520](bibliography & subject index, last 5 blank); portrait frontispiece, double-page diagram (at end), bibliography, index; original wrappers; a fine copy. Cambridge, Massachusetts; Harvard University Press; (1994). ***A later printing of Freeman 602, first published 1964, the first facsimile edition. The bibliography and index (replacing the original, and here enlarged from the 1964 edition) are new to this edition. For full description and picture please click here. #66430 | A$45.00 | 472 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. with an Afterword by Oliver Francis. Pott 8vo, First Edition in this form; pp. 576; double-page diagram, historical sketch, glossary, brief bibliography & biography; original cloth; all edges gilt, marker ribbon; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Collectors Library; (2004). ***An attractive small portable edition, clearly printed and nicely bound, taken from the text of the Sixth Edition. For full description and picture please click here. #66482 | A$65.00 | 473 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Introduced by Richard Keynes. Roy. 8vo, First Edition in this form; pp. xxii, 416(last blank); coloured frontispiece & 24 plates (mostly coloured), diagram, glossary, index; original gilt-illustrated cloth; a fine copy in slipcase. London; The Folio Society; 2006. ***Reproducing the text of the first edition "with some minor emendations, and with the inclusion of a glossary of scientific terms first published in the fifth edition of ... 1869"--this statement is however partly in error as the glossary was not in fact included until the Sixth Edition of 1872. An attractive edition, nicely produced, with good legible type. For full description and picture please click here. #30793 | A$165.00 | 474 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles:
EVOLUTION. Selected letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Samantha Evans, Alison M. Pearn. Foreword by David Attenborough. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxii, 308, [6](blank); portrait frontispiece, endpaper genealogical table, biographical register, bibliography, bibliographical note, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Cambridge); Cambridge University Press; (2008). For full description and picture please click here. #21417 | A$35.00 | 475 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. The Illustrated Edition. David Quammen, General Editor. Square 4to, Fourth Impression of this edition; pp. xvi, 544; very numerous coloured illustrations, appendix, glossary, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; Sterling; (2008). ***Comprising the text of the First Edition, with numerous additions, lavishly (and usefully) illustrated. For full description and picture please click here. #57545 | A$75.00 | 476 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Charles.
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Means of Natural Selection. With a Preface by George Davidson. Med. 4to, U.S. Issue; pp. 384; numerous text illustrations from contemporary and other sources, diagram, glossary, index; original pictorial papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; Chartwell Books, Inc.; (2010). ***A reprint of the Sixth Edition of 1872 (notwithstanding the title, which follows that of the First), first issued in this form in the U.K. in 2008. For full description and picture please click here. #35692 | A$65.00 | 477 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Sir Francis.
RUSTIC SOUNDS and other studies in literature and natural history. With Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [viii], 232(last blank); 8 figures (including 1 plate); original cloth (spine a little dull; a corner bumped); a very good copy. London; John Murray; 1917. ***Including essays on Francis Galton, Jane Austen, Stephen Hales, Sir George Darwin, and others. Inscribed "C. Allison from the Author Nov 1923". For full description and picture please click here. #64261 | A$50.00 | 478 Click HERE to order |
Darwin, Sir George Howard.
SCIENTIFIC PAPERS. Cambridge; at the University Press; 1907-08-10-11. ***Sir George Darwin (1845-1912) was the second son of Charles Darwin. After studying mathematics at Cambridge he read for the Bar, but soon returned to science at Cambridge, where in 1883 he was appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. A further slim supplementary volume with a biographical memoir by his brother Francis and a couple of lectures was posthumously published in 1916. For full description and picture please click here. #65695 | A$225.00 | 479 Click HERE to order |
Darwinism:
DOUBTS ABOUT DARWINISM. By a Semi-Darwinian. First Edition; pp. [ii], vi, 116(last blank); original cloth; (some neat pencilled marginal notes, otherwise a very good copy); scarce. London; Longmans, Green, and Co.; 1903. ***A contemporary reviewer in Nature remarked "This is bad science, and we much doubt whether it is good theology" however it is unfortunate that the Author has concealed his identity as there are nevertheless some interesting arguments and discussion of such matters as evolutionary saltation versus gradualism, etc. For full description and picture please click here. #9712 | A$35.00 | 480 Click HERE to order |
David, Andrew [C. F.]; Chief Editor.
THE CHARTS & COASTAL VIEWS OF CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES. London; Hakluyt Society [Vol. I in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities]; 1988-1992-1997 [1998]. ***A most useful and interesting complement to The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages, published a few years ago and an essential accompaniment to The Journals of Captain Cook on his Voyages of Discovery, edited by Beaglehole and published 1955-67. All but the third volume are now out-of-print. For full description and picture please click here. #3791 | A$1650.00 | 481 Click HERE to order |
Davidson, Rodney.
A BOOK COLLECTOR'S NOTES on items relating to the Discovery of Australia, the First Settlement and the Early Coastal Exploration of the Continent. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [x], 138; 16 plates, bibliography, index; original cloth; a very good copy in dustwrapper. (Melbourne); Cassell Australia; (1970). For full description and picture please click here. #8325 | A$95.00 | 482 Click HERE to order |
Davies, Gordon L.
THE EARTH IN DECAY. A History of British Geomorphology 1578-1878. Med. 8vo, First U.S. Edition; pp. xvi, 390, [2](blank); 8 plates, 4 text figures, glossary, bibliography, index; original buckram; a nice copy in worn dustwrapper. New York; American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc.; (1969). ***History of Science Library. For full description and picture please click here. #3604 | A$35.00 | 483 Click HERE to order |
Da Vinci, Leonardo:
LEONARDO DA VINCI. Impl. 4to, First Edition in English; pp. [4], [viii](indexes), 5-520(last blank); 16 very fine plates (12 coloured), very numerous illustrations, bibliographical note, bibliography, Supplemental bibliography, subject index to the illustrations; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper in original papered board slipcase; scarce. London; The Cresset Press; 1957. ***A superb and definitive work on the artistic, scientific, architectural, engineering and anatomical achievements of Leonardo by a galaxy of Italian authors. For full description and picture please click here. #66235 | A$250.00 | 484 Click HERE to order |
Davis, Mike.
THE MONSTER AT OUR DOOR. The Global Threat of Avian Flu. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. viii, 212, [4](blank); 1 fig., a few tables, notes, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; The New Press; (2005). ***A clear exposition of the risks of further flu pandemics and a timely (2020) reminder that Covid-19 notwithstanding, we are still ill-prepared for the emergence of new or resurgent strains of influenza. For full description and picture please click here. #45959 | A$30.00 | 485 Click HERE to order |
Davis, Stephen.
ABOVE CAPRICORN. Aboriginal Biographies from Northern Australia. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. vi, 114(last blank); numerous coloured illustrations; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Sydney; Angus & Robertson, An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; (1994). For full description and picture please click here. #67784 | A$40.00 | 486 Click HERE to order |
Dawkins, Richard.
THE BLIND WATCHMAKER. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 332, [6](blank); 12 b/w. plates, 11 text figures, bibliography, index and key to bibliography; original papered boards; (fore-edges very slightly foxed, but a fine copy in dustwrapper). (London); Longman Scientific & Technical; (1986). For full description and picture please click here. #12267 | A$35.00 | 487 Click HERE to order |
Dawkins, Richard.
CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE. Original drawings by Lalla Ward. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 308; 24 plates, numerous text illustrations & figures, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (London); Viking; (1996). For full description and picture please click here. #53880 | A$30.00 | 488 Click HERE to order |
Dawson, J. W.
THE CHAIN OF LIFE IN GEOLOGICAL TIME. A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants. With numerous illustrations. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 272; frontispiece, over 200 illustrations, 2 full-page tables, index; original cloth, gilt; (spine worn); a very good copy. [London]; The Religious Tract Society; N.D. [c. 1880]. For full description and picture please click here. #53773 | A$45.00 | 489 Click HERE to order |
Dawson, Sir J. W.
THE STORY OF THE EARTH AND MAN. Ninth Edition. With corrections and additions. Ninth Edition; pp. xii, 412(last blank); coloured frontispiece, 19 illustrations, appendix; original cloth, gilt (covers a little marked); uncut; a very good copy; scarce. London; Hodder and Stoughton; MDCCCLXXXVII [1887]. For full description and picture please click here. #65908 | A$65.00 | 490 Click HERE to order |
Dawson, J. W.
FOSSIL MEN AND THEIR MODERN REPRESENTATIVES. An Attempt to Illustrate the Characters and Condition of Pre-Historic Men in Europe, by those of the American Races. Third Edition. Cr. 8vo, Third Edition; pp. [iv], viii, 354, [2](adv.); frontispiece, 43 figures, appendix, index; original cloth (flecked); uncut; (a couple of stamps on half-title only); a very good copy; scarce. London; Hodder and Stoughton; MDCCCLXXXVIII [1888]. For full description and picture please click here. #65909 | A$45.00 | 491 Click HERE to order |
Dawson, Sir J. William.
THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD according to Revelation and Science. Sixth Edition. Cr. 8vo, Sixth Edition; pp. [ii], viii, 452, [2](blank); 15 appendices, index; full prize calf, gilt, with marbled edges & endpapers; a nice copy; scarce. London; Hodder and Stoughton; MDCCCXCIII [1893]. For full description and picture please click here. #65911 | A$65.00 | 492 Click HERE to order |
Dawson, Sir J. William.
MODERN SCIENCE IN BIBLE LANDS. With Maps and Illustrations. Third Edition with a New Preface. Cr. 8vo, Third Edition; pp. xvi, 400; coloured geological map as frontispiece, geological table, 8 full-page illustrations, 38 text figures, appendix, index; original cloth, gilt (a few minor marks); uncut & largely unopened; a very good copy; scarce. London; Hodder and Stoughton; MDCCCXCVI [1896]. For full description and picture please click here. #65910 | A$45.00 | 493 Click HERE to order |
Dawson, Warren R.; Edited by.
SIR GRAFTON ELLIOT SMITH: A Biographical Record by His Colleagues. First Edition; pp. 272; 4 plates, full-page map of distribution of customs by Prof. Smith & list of his published works, 2 appendices, index; original cloth; a very good copy in worn & faded dustwrapper; scarce. London; Jonathan Cape; (1938). ***A notable Australian. Contributors include Professors F. Wood Jones, J. T. Wilson, J. S. B. Stoppord and H. A. Harris, also the late Lord Rutherford, A. J. E. Cave, W. J. Perry and the Editor. With a review, portrait and obituary loosely inserted. For full description and picture please click here. #19410 | A$95.00 | 494 Click HERE to order |
Day, Kenneth; Editor.
BOOK TYPOGRAPHY 1815-1965. In Europe and the United States of America. Edited with an Introduction by Kenneth Day. Med. 8vo, First Edition in English; pp. xxiv, 408(last 5 blank); 192 plates, index; original cloth; a fine copy in faded & rubbed dustwrapper. London; Ernest Benn Limited; 1966. ***First published 1965 in the Netherlands, by NV Drukkerij G. J. Thieme, Nijmegen. For full description and picture please click here. #27734 | A$95.00 | 495 Click HERE to order |
Dean, Beth and Carell, Victor.
DUST FOR THE DANCERS. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 214; endpaper maps, 4 coloured plates, 16 b/w. plates, glossary; a very good copy in worn dustwrapper (a slight waterstain to rear of dustwrapper and bottom of rear board only). Sydney; Ure Smith; (1955). For full description and picture please click here. #51100 | A$50.00 | 496 Click HERE to order |
de Beer, Gavin.
CHARLES DARWIN. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. Autobiographies. Edited with an Introduction by Gavin de Beer. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxvi, 126(last 3 blank); 12 plates, chronology of Darwin and of Huxley, bibliography, notes index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Oxford University Press; 1974. ***Freeman 1508. A volume in the series Oxford English Memoirs and Travels, General Editor: James Kinsley. For full description and picture please click here. #49208 | A$35.00 | 497 Click HERE to order |
de Kock, W. J. & Kruger, D. W.; Editors.
DICTIONARY OF SOUTH AFRICAN BIOGRAPHY. 2 vols., thick super roy. 8vo, Vol. I, Second impr.; pp. xxiv, 896; glossary, references, addenda; Vol. II, First Edition; pp. [xviii], 870, [8](index to both vols.); glossary, references, corrigenda & addenda to Vol. I, glossary, name index; original papered boards; a nice set in slightly worn dustwrappers. (Capetown); Tafelberg-Uitgewers Ltd., for the Human Sciences Research Council; (1976 & 1972). For full description and picture please click here. #23708 | A$165.00 | 498 Click HERE to order |
de Kruif, Paul
THE FIGHT FOR LIFE. First Edition; pp. [x], 342; index; original cloth, fore-edge uncut; a nice copy in worn dustwrapper. New York; Harcourt, Brace and Company; (1938). ***The progress of medical research in fighting disease with particular reference to U.S. public health. Covers especially microbial infections including maternal mortality (childbed fever), meningitis, syphilis, tuberculosis and infantile paralysis (polio). Written before the advent of polio vaccines and antibiotics this book provides a useful historical perspective on more recent achievements. For full description and picture please click here. #45895 | A$30.00 | 499 Click HERE to order |
De la Loubere, Simon.
THE KINGDOM OF SIAM. With an Introduction by David K. Wyatt. F'cap folio, Facsimile Edition; pp. x, [ii], 260, [2](adv., verso blank); 11 plates including 2 maps; original slick boards; a fine copy. Singapore; Oxford University Press; 1986. ***First published in 1693. For full description and picture please click here. #32066 | A$65.00 | 500 Click HERE to order |
De Latil, Pierre.
THINKING BY MACHINE. A Study of Cybernetics. Translated from the French by Y. M. Golla with a foreword by Sir Walter Puckey. First Edition; pp. xiv, 354(last blank); 8 plates, numerous figures, folding table; original papered boards; a very good copy. London; Sidgwick and Jackson; (1956). ***First published in French in 1953. For full description and picture please click here. #14692 | A$30.00 | 501 Click HERE to order |
Dening, Greg.
MR BLIGH'S BAD LANGUAGE. Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], xii, 450(last 5 blank); several maps & illustrations including portraits of many of the people connected with Bligh, notes, references bibliography, index; original cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (Cambridge); Cambridge University Press; (1992). ***A compelling and useful contribution, with much interesting background on the Bounty Mutiny and subsequent developments over 200 years. For full description and picture please click here. #35904 | A$35.00 | 502 Click HERE to order |
Denk, Roland and Kimball, Anne; Editors.
THE COMPLETE SAILING HANDBOOK. Foreword by Richard Henderson. 4to, First U.S. Edition; pp. 344; 30 coloured plates, numerous text illustrations & figures, glossary, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (New York City); Mayflower Books; (1976). ***Text printed throughout in blue and black. For full description and picture please click here. #38589 | A$50.00 | 503 Click HERE to order |
Dennett, Daniel C.
KINDS OF MINDS. Towards an Understanding of Consciousness. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. viii, 184; bibliography, index; original quarter cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. [New York]; Basic Books, A Division of HarperCollins Publishers; (1996). ***Science Masters series (US issue). For full description and picture please click here. #64758 | A$35.00 | 504 Click HERE to order |
Desmond, Adrian J.
THE APE'S REFLEXION. Med. 8vo, First U.S. Edition; pp. 288; 24 plates, bibliography, notes & references, index; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly frayed dustwrapper. New York; The Dial Press/James Wade; (1979). ***On man and the apes, intelligence, etc. For full description and picture please click here. #56973 | A$30.00 | 505 Click HERE to order |
Desmond, Adrian and Moore, James.
DARWIN. Thick med. 8vo, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. xxii(last blank), [3]-808(as issued), [4](blank); 56 plates, map, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. London; Michael Joseph; (1991). ***Inscribed and signed by the second Author on title-page. For full description and picture please click here. #65599 | A$85.00 | 506 Click HERE to order |
Desmond, Adrian and Moore, James.
DARWIN. Thick med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxii(last blank), [3]-808(as issued), [4](blank); 56 plates, map, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. London; Michael Joseph; (1991). For full description and picture please click here. #49250 | A$65.00 | 507 Click HERE to order |
Desmond, Adrian.
HUXLEY: THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xviii, 478(last 3 blank); 38 illustrations on 24 plates, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. London; Michael Joseph; (1994). For full description and picture please click here. #14486 | A$75.00 | 508 Click HERE to order |
Desmond, Adrian.
HUXLEY: EVOLUTION'S HIGH PRIEST. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 370; 20 illustrations on 16 plates, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Michael Joseph; (1997). For full description and picture please click here. #19863 | A$75.00 | 509 Click HERE to order |
(de Ste. Croix, Philip; Editor).
ROBOTS. Consultant: Peter Marsh. 4to, First Australian Edition; pp. 160; numerous coloured illustrations, glossary, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. Sydney; Hodder and Stoughton; (1985). For full description and picture please click here. #67172 | A$20.00 | 510 Click HERE to order |
De Vries, Hugo.
SPECIES AND VARIETIES. Their Origin by Mutation. Lectures delivered at the University of California by Hugo De Vries, Professor of Botany in the University of Amsterdam. Edited by Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Assistant Director of the New York Botanical Garden. First Edition; pp. xviii, 848(last blank), [vi](adv.), [2](blank); index; original cloth, with gilt title-label on spine, top edge gilt; a nice copy; scarce. Chicago; The Open Court Publishing Company, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd; 1905. For full description and picture please click here. #49439 | A$350.00 | 511 Click HERE to order |
de Waal, Frans.
PEACEMAKING AMONG PRIMATES. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 294, [4](blank); very numerous illustrations, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in slightly torn dustwrapper. Cambridge, Massachusetts; Harvard University Press; 1989. ***Including insights into sexuality. For full description and picture please click here. #50245 | A$45.00 | 512 Click HERE to order |
de Waal, Frans.
THE APE AND THE SUSHI MASTER. Cultural Reflections by a Primatologist. First U.K. Edition; pp. x, 438(last 5 blank); 16 plates, 15 illustrations & figures, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Allen Lane, The Penguin Press; (2001). For full description and picture please click here. #34833 | A$35.00 | 513 Click HERE to order |
Diamond Jubilee:
DAILY MAIL. The Golden Extra. To commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. No. CCCLVII. London, Wednesday, June 23, 1897. Sixpence. Broadsheet format; pp. 8; several illustrations including 2 full-page; unbound, as issued (spine neatly strengthened with gold tape; a few minor repairs to folds & edges); a very good copy. London; John Hood Lingard; 1897. ***Printed throughout in gold ink. For full description and picture please click here. #16551 | A$25.00 | 514 Click HERE to order |
Dickens, Charles:
Retrospectus and Prospectus. THE NONESUCH DICKENS. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 134(last 5 blank, several leaves being of varying sizes); numerous illustrations; original cloth (a little dust-soiled; some foxing); a very good copy; scarce. Bloomsbury; The Nonesuch Press; 1937. ***An important contribution to bibliographical literature on Charles Dickens comprising: I. Charles Dickens and his Illustrators, by Arthur Waugh, Past President of the Dickens Fellowship and Deputy-Chairman of the Board of Chapman & Hall (the original Dickens publishers); II. A bibliographical List of the original illustrations to the works of Charles Dickens being those made under his supervision, Now compiled for the first time by Thomas Hatton, Co-author of the standard reference work upon the periodical writings of Charles Dickens; III. Retrospectus: Editions of Dickens's Works; IV. Prospectus: The Nonesuch Dickens. Loosely inserted are: "A Portrait in Natural Colour of the Nonesuch Dickens", roy. 4to, 8 pp. with mounted coloured plate; (lightly folded); an original subscription form and envelope; and
[Meynell, Francis]. A NOTE ON THE FORMAT: THE NONESUCH DICKENS. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], 10(last 5 blank); original wrappers. Bloomsbury; The Nonesuch Press; 1937.
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Diehl, Edith.
BOOKBINDING. Its Background and Technique. 2 vols., Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. xxii, 254(last blank); frontispiece, 91 plates, references, bibliography, glossary, index; Vol. II, pp. vi, 406; frontispiece, 189 figures (including 2 full-page plates), glossary, index; original pictorial printed cloth; a fine set. New York; Hacker Art Books; 1979. ***An excellent informative work, of great practical utility and a good historical overview, first published in 1946. For full description and picture please click here. #24808 | A$145.00 | 516 Click HERE to order |
Dine, Michael.
SUPERSYMMETRY AND STRING THEORY. Beyond the Standard Model. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xx, 516(last blank); references, index; original slick boards; a fine copy. (Cambridge); Cambridge University Press; (2007). For full description and picture please click here. #47804 | A$85.00 | 517 Click HERE to order |
Dixon, R. M. W.; edited by.
GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES IN AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES. First Edition; pp. [viii], 776; 3 maps, a few tables, references, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper; scarce. Canberra; Linguistic Series No. 22, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; 1976. For full description and picture please click here. #49226 | A$120.00 | 518 Click HERE to order |
[Dobree, Bonamy; General Editor].
INTRODUCTIONS TO ENGLISH LITERATURE. 5 vols., Second (revised) Edition, Complete; Vol. I, pp. [3]-450(complete, as issued); Vol. II, pp. 384(last 3 blank); Vol. III, pp. 320; Vol. IV, pp. 360; Vol. V, pp. x, 376, [2](blank); bibliography; index to each vol.; original papered boards; (former owner's name on front endpapers); a very good set in slightly worn & foxed dustwrappers. London; The Cresset Press; 1952-51-50-50-58. ***Vol. I, The Beginnings of English Literature to Skelton, 1509, by W. L. Renwick and Harold Orton; Vol. II, The English Renaissance 1510-1688, by V. de Sola Pinto, With a Chapter on Literature and Music by Bruce Pattison; Vol. III, Augustans and Romantics 1689-1830 by H. V. D. Dyson and John Butt, With chapters on Art, Economics and Philosophy by Geoffrey Webb, F. J. Fisher, and H. A. Hodges; Vol. IV, The Victorians and After 1830-1914, by Edith C. Batho and Bonamy Dobree, With a chapter on Economic Background by Guy Chapman; Vol. V, The Present Age, after 1920 by David Daiches. For full description and picture please click here. #28262 | A$75.00 | 519 Click HERE to order |
Dobson, Jessie and Wakeley, Sir Cecil.
SIR GEORGE BUCKSTON BROWNE. With a Foreword by Emeritus Professor Sir Harry Platt. First Edition; pp. viii, 144(last blank); coloured portrait frontispiece, 21 b/w. plates, 5 text figures, bibliography of Browne's works, index; original embossed papered boards; a nice copy in worn & slightly defective dustwrapper. Edinburgh and London; E. & S. Livingstone Ltd.; 1957. ***Biography of a notable surgeon, who purchased Charles Darwin's home, Down House, and generously provided for its repair, upkeep and preservation (a chapter is devoted to this topic). With neat marginal annotations giving the age of the subject throughout. For full description and picture please click here. #65715 | A$40.00 | 520 Click HERE to order |
Dolling, Alison.
THE HISTORY OF MARION ON THE STURT. The Story of a Changing Landscape and its People. Commissioned by The City of Marion. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. xvi, 400(last 3 blank); endpaper map, full-page coloured Coat of Arms, numerous b/w. illustrations, references, bibliography, 2 appendices, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Frewville, South Australia; Peacock Publications; (1981). For full description and picture please click here. #22779 | A$35.00 | 521 Click HERE to order |
Doncaster, L.
HEREDITY in the Light of Recent Research. Small 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], x, 140; 12 figures, a few diagrams, 2 appendices, bibliography, glossary, index; original cloth (spine a little faded); a nice copy. Cambridge; at the University Press; 1910. ***The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature. For full description and picture please click here. #66781 | A$35.00 | 522 Click HERE to order |
Doncaster, L.
HEREDITY in the Light of Recent Research. Small 8vo, Second Edition; pp. [ii], x, 160; 13 figures, a few diagrams, 2 appendices, bibliography, glossary, index; original cloth (spine a little faded; a few ink markings); a very good copy. Cambridge; at the University Press; 1912. ***The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature. For full description and picture please click here. #66782 | A$25.00 | 523 Click HERE to order |
Dornbusch, C. E.; Compiled by.
THE NEW ZEALAND ARMY. A Bibliography. First Edition; pp. [viii], 120(last blank); frontispiece, index; original stiff wrappers; a very good copy; scarce. Cornwallville, N.Y.; Hope Farm Press; 1961. ***Number 3 in a series of military books. Edition of 300 copies only. For full description and picture please click here. #50673 | A$125.00 | 524 Click HERE to order |
Dornbusch, C. E.; Compiled by.
AUSTRALIAN MILITARY BIBLIOGRAPHY. First Edition; pp. x, 80, [2](adv., verso blank); frontispiece, addenda, index; original stiff wrappers (spine faded, as usual); a very good copy; very scarce. Cornwallville, N.Y.; Hope Farm Press; 1963. ***Number 6 in a series of military books. Edition of 400 copies only. For full description and picture please click here. #18503 | A$165.00 | 525 Click HERE to order |
Dornbusch, C. E.
SPEECH OF GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON. Jr. to his Third Army on the eve of The Normandy Invasion. Somewhere in England, June 1944. 8vo; pp. [iv], 8; frontispiece; original wrappers. Cornwallville, N.Y.; Hope Farm Press; 1980. For full description and picture please click here. #68467 | A$25.00 | 526 Click HERE to order |
Douglas, General Sir Howard; Bart, GCB, GCMG, DCL, FRS.
A TREATISE ON NAVAL GUNNERY 1855. Facsimile Edition; pp. [xii], [iii]-viii, 650(last blank); 2 double-page & 3 full-page plates, 64 figures, several tables, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Conway Maritime Press; (1982). ***First published in 1820, this is a facsimile of the fourth, revised edition of 1855. For full description and picture please click here. #29702 | A$50.00 | 527 Click HERE to order |
Drescher, Gary L.
MADE-UP MINDS. A Constructivist Approach to Artificial Intelligence. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 220, [4](adv., last blank); numerous figures, bibliography, index; original cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Cambridge, Massachusetts; The MIT Press; (1991). For full description and picture please click here. #34512 | A$30.00 | 528 Click HERE to order |
Drummond, Henry.
The Lowell Lectures on THE ASCENT OF MAN. First Edition; pp. [ii], xiv, 444, [4](adv., last 3 blank); original cloth, rubbed; fore-edge of front board marked; a very good copy. London; Hodder and Stoughton; 1894. For full description and picture please click here. #65904 | A$25.00 | 529 Click HERE to order |
Drummond, Henry.
THE MONKEY THAT WOULD NOT KILL. [Childrens] Stories by Henry Drummond with 16 full-page illustrations by Louis Wain. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 116(last blank); original illustrated cloth, gilt; all edges gilt; (new front endpaper); a very good copy. London; Hodder and Stoughton; 1898. For full description and picture please click here. #65903 | A$35.00 | 530 Click HERE to order |
Ducker, Sophie C.; Editor.
THE CONTENTED BOTANIST. Letters of W. H. Harvey about Australia and the Pacific. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 416(last 2 blank); 6 full-page & 3 other maps, 8 coloured plates (including 1 double-page) & 8 b/w. plates, biographical notes, 5 appendices, notes, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper; scarce. Melbourne; Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press; 1988. ***W. H. Harvey was the author of Phycologia Australica, still the most important treatise on Australian seaweeds and a rare and beautiful book. Two of the colour plates are reproduced from that work. His botanical observations are important and interesting and his letters also throw light on the historical events of the time, both within Australia and in other parts of the Pacific. Number three in the first Miegunyah Press series. For full description and picture please click here. #15702 | A$95.00 | 531 Click HERE to order |
Dudin, M.
THE ART OF THE BOOKBINDER AND GILDER. By M. Dudin 1772. Translated into English by Richard MacIntyre Atkinson. Impl. 4to, First Edition; pp. xiv, 130(last blank); 16 full-page facsimile plates from the original edition, glossary of terms; original half green calf, gilt, with canvas sides (the sides very slightly mottled); top edge gilt, others uncut; a fine copy; scarce. Leeds, England; The Elmete Press; 1977. ***A limited edition of 490 numbered copies, this is the first edition in English of 'L'Art du Relieur Doreur de Livres' which was published by the French Royal Academy of Sciences in 1772. A most attractively produced book of considerable practical interest. For full description and picture please click here. #59145 | A$275.00 | 532 Click HERE to order |
Dumont d'Urville, Captain (later Rear-Admiral) Jules S-C.
An account in two volumes of TWO VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEAS. 2 vols., approx. cr. 4to, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. liv, 312, [2](blank); Vol. II, pp. xii, 313-634, [2](blank); 29 maps (2 double-page & 11 full-page), frontispiece to each vol., 12 coloured & 32 b/w. plates, 17 appendices, notes, bibliography, biographical & general indices; original full canvas binding in cloth slipcase (the slipcase slightly marked); a fine set. Melbourne; Melbourne University Press; 1987. ***A very important work of very wide interest giving for the first time a full account in English of these major French voyages to the Australasian, Pacific and Antarctic regions. Volume I includes detailed accounts of King George Sound in Western Australia, New South Wales, New Britain, New Ireland, and the north coast of New Guinea, Van Diemen's Land including a stay in Hobart Town; Vanikoro & many other islands in the Pacific. Volume II includes accounts of the Straits of Magellan, again many parts of the Pacific including New Zealand, two visits to the Antarctic regions including the discovery and exploration of Adelie Land and a further stay in Hobart Town. The natural history, anthropology and history of the places visited is described in great detail. Not in Renard; Rosove 108.A1. A fine production nicely printed on good paper and with interesting and attractive illustrations. For full description and picture please click here. #18047 | A$450.00 | 533 Click HERE to order |
Dumouriez, [Charles Francois Du Perier].
AN ACCOUNT OF PORTUGAL, as it appeared in 1766 to Dumouriez; since a Celebrated General in the French Army. Printed at Lausanne in 1775. London: Printed for C. Law, Ave-Maria Lane; J. Debrett, Piccadilly; and Elph. Balfour, Edinburgh. 12mo, First Edition; pp. xii, 274; contemporary full olive-green straight-grained morocco (spine slightly rubbed); a fine, most attractive copy; very rare. London; Printed for C. Law [etc.]; 1797. ***General Dumouriez, then a captain of infantry, made a tour of Spain and Portugal in the years 1765 and 1766 by order of the Duke de Choiseul. His report, which displeased both Portuguese and the Spanish on account of its accuracy and bluntness, was published at Lausanne under the title "L'Etat present du royaume de Portugal en 1766", and is here published in English translation for the first time. A quarto edition was published at Hambourg, also in 1797. All editions are rare. The work is divided into four books: Book I, Geographical Description of Portugal; Book II, The Portuguese Colonies (including a substantial account of Brazil, although it seems to have escaped Borba de Moraes); Book III, The Army; Book IV, National Character and Government (including customs, architecture, summary history, the Lisbon earthquake, etc.). For full description and picture please click here. #12291 | A$1500.00 | 534 Click HERE to order |
Dunbar, Diane.
THOMAS BOCK. Convict Engraver, Society Portraitist. Exhibition and catalogue coordinated by Diane Dunbar, Curator of Fine Art, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston. 4to, First Edition; pp. viii, 108(last blank); 16 coloured plates, numerous b/w. illustrations, 5 tables, chronology; original stiff colour-illustrated wrappers; a fine copy. Launceston; Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery; [1991]. ***An important catalogue with much interesting information on Bock's painting methods, his daguerrotypes, conservation, etc. For full description and picture please click here. #45029 | A$45.00 | 535 Click HERE to order |
Duncan, David; LL.D.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF HERBERT SPENCER. With Seventeen Illustrations. Thick demy 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 622(last blank); 14 plates, 3 text illustrations, 5 appendices including bibliography of Spencer's works, index; original cloth (spine dull); uncut & partly unopened; a very good copy; scarce. London; Methuen & Co.; (1908). For full description and picture please click here. #7844 | A$45.00 | 536 Click HERE to order |
Dunmore, John.
FRENCH EXPLORERS IN THE PACIFIC. I. The Eighteenth Century. Vol. I only (of 2), First Edition; pp. [viii], 356; 13 maps, 2 plates (reproductions of Bougainville's Charts of his Passage through the Tuamotus and through the Society Islands), bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper; scarce. Oxford; at the Clarendon Press; 1965. ***This first volume, complete in itself, contains the great early voyages of the French to the Pacific region, including: Bougainville, De Surville, Marion du Fresne, Kerguelen, La Perouse, D'Entrecasteaux and Marchand. The second volume, on the nineteenth century, was published in 1969. For full description and picture please click here. #66164 | A$195.00 | 537 Click HERE to order |
Dunmore, John; Translated and edited by.
THE JOURNAL OF JEAN-FRANCOIS DE GALAUP DE LA PEROUSE 1785-1788. 2 vols., First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [ii], ccxl, 232, [2](blank); 8 maps (5 double-page), 3 plates; Vol. II, pp. [ii], vi, [ii](blank), 233-616(last 3 blank); frontis, 5 maps, 20 plates, 4 appendices (including the Master Rolls), sources, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine set in dustwrappers. London; Hakluyt Society; 1994-95. ***Hakluyt Society Second Series, Volumes 179 & 180. For full description and picture please click here. #52436 | A$220.00 | 538 Click HERE to order |
Du Rietz, Rolf; Editor.
STUDIA BOUNTYANA. Vol. 1 [Vol. 2]. [All published?]. 2 vols., reduced roy. 8vo, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. 64(last 5 blank); Vol. 2, pp. 24(last 2 blank); original stiff wrappers. Uppsala; (The Editor); 1965. ***Edition in each case limited to 500 copies. 1. The causes of the Bounty mutiny: Some comments on a book by Madge Darby, by Rolf Du Rietz. 2. A Short Reply to Mr. Rolf Du Rietz's Comments, by Madge Darby. With a few concluding remarks by Rolf Du Rietz. [Du Rietz 324 & 282]. For full description and picture please click here. #33533 | A$85.00 | 539 Click HERE to order |
Dutton, Geoffrey.
PAINTINGS OF S. T. GILL. With an Introduction and Commentaries by Geoffrey Dutton. Demy 4to, First Edition; pp. [iv], 36; 12 full-page mounted coloured plates; original canvas, with leather title-label on front board, in original canvas slip-case (the slip-case slightly marked); a fine copy; scarce. Adelaide; Rigby; 1962. ***Edition Limited to 600 signed and numbered copies. For full description and picture please click here. #23819 | A$175.00 | 540 Click HERE to order |
Dutton, Geoffrey.
FOUNDER OF A CITY. The Life of Colonel William Light, first Surveyor-General of the Colony of South Australia: Founder of Adelaide, 1786-1839. Third Edition; pp. xvi, 324(last blank); 2 endpaper maps, 3 full-page maps, 8 plates, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Adelaide); Rigby; (1984). For full description and picture please click here. #22750 | A$30.00 | 541 Click HERE to order |
Dutton, Geoffrey.
THE AUSTRALIAN COLLECTION. Australia's Greatest Books. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. 408(last 2 blank); numerous illustrations (mostly coloured), list of text extracts, index of authors & index of titles; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney); Angus and Robertson; (1985). ***With biographical backgrounds of various Australian authors, together with extracts from their work, and reproductions of Australian art. For full description and picture please click here. #55706 | A$45.00 | 542 Click HERE to order |
Duyker, Edward.
AN OFFICER OF THE BLUE. Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne, South Sea Explorer, 1724-1772. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xviii, 230(last blank); 13 maps, 28 plates (11 coloured), glossary, 4 appendices, extensive notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper; scarce. Melbourne; Melbourne University Press; 1994. For full description and picture please click here. #67627 | A$350.00 | 543 Click HERE to order |
Duyker, Edward.
NATURE'S ARGONAUT. Daniel Solander, 1733-1782. Naturalist and Voyager with Cook and Banks. Med. 8vo, Second Impression; pp. xx, 384(last 3 blank); 4 maps, 36 plates (several coloured), 1 text illust., glossaries of scientific & Swedish terms, appendix, notes, bibliography, indices (botanical, zoological & general); a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Carlton South); The Miegunyah Press (Melbourne University Press; 1999). ***No. 17 in the second Miegunyah series. Having co-edited his Collected Correspondence, Duyker concerns himself again with Daniel Solander, naturalist on the Endeavour voyage, and intimately explores this character at the very centre of eighteenth century naturalism and exploration. For full description and picture please click here. #63367 | A$70.00 | 544 Click HERE to order |
Dyens, Ollivier.
METAL AND FLESH. The Evolution of Man: Technology Takes Over. Translated by Evan J. Bibbee and Ollivier Dyens. F'cap 4to, First Edition; pp. [xiv], 120, [2](blank); notes, glossary, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Cambridge, Massachusetts; The MIT Press; (2001). For full description and picture please click here. #45759 | A$35.00 | 545 Click HERE to order |
Dyer, Christine Adrian; Edited by.
KUNWINJKU ART FROM INJALAK 1991 - 1992. The John W. Kluge Commission. 4to, Second Edition; pp. 152(last blank); 2 maps, numerous coloured illustrations, notes, bibliography, brief artist's biogs.; original stiff pictorial wrappers; a fine copy. [North Adelaide]; Museum Art International Pty. Ltd.; [1995]. For full description and picture please click here. #67728 | A$50.00 | 546 Click HERE to order |
Dyson, George.
DARWIN AMONG THE MACHINES. Med. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. xii, 286, [6](blank); notes, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (London); Allen Lane, The Penguin Press; (1998). ***First published in the U.S. in the previous year. On the competitive evolution of machines and biological organisms; a wide-ranging and thoughtful exploration of the meaning of intelligence and how it may arise. The author is the son of Freeman Dyson and the logician Verena Huber-Dyson. For full description and picture please click here. #25905 | A$40.00 | 547 Click HERE to order |
Dyson, John.
SPIRIT OF SAIL. Clippers, Windjammers, and Tall Ships. Photographs by Peter Christopher. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. 176; over 150 coloured & b/w. illustrations (many double & full-page) & a few diagrams; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Buderim, Qld.); David Bateman; (1987). For full description and picture please click here. #20089 | A$35.00 | 548 Click HERE to order |
Early Closing Association:
LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION, Melbourne, 1869-70. First Collected Edition; [iv], 24, 32, 32, 20(last blank), [2](half-page Errata slip, titled "Typographical Errors"), 24(last blank), 20, 24, 24; original cloth, gilt, with Price 5/- at foot of spine (spine ends & corners slightly rubbed); a nice copy; very scarce. Melbourne; Samuel Mullen; 1870. For full description and picture please click here. #65569 | A$500.00 | 549 Click HERE to order |
Easty, John; Private Marine.
MEMORANDUM OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF A VOYAGE FROM ENGLAND TO BOTANY BAY 1787-1793. A First Fleet Journal. 4to, First Edition; pp. [ii], x, 186, [2](blank); facsimile of page of the Journal; original cloth; a fine copy in very slightly worn dustwrapper. Sydney; Public Library of New South Wales, in association with Angus and Robertson; 1965. ***Never before published. Easty's original Journal is in the Dixson Library, Sydney. For full description and picture please click here. #4975 | A$150.00 | 550 Click HERE to order |
Ebury, Sue.
WEARY. The Life of Sir Edward Dunlop. Roy. 8vo, First Edition, Third Impression; pp. x, 710(last blank); 6 maps, 48 plates, 6 illustrations, diag., abbreviations, endnotes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. (Ringwood); Viking (Penguin Books Australia Ltd); (1994). For full description and picture please click here. #62867 | A$65.00 | 551 Click HERE to order |
Eccleston, Gregory C.
GRANVILLE STAPYLTON. Australia Felix 1836. Second in Command to Major Mitchell. Oblong folio, First Edition; pp. xx, 250, [2](blank); numerous coloured & b/w. maps, very numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, 7 appendices, bibliography, glossary, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Malvern); Evandale Publishing; (2018). ***A truly magnificent book with something for everyone interested in Australian history, exploration, natural history, local New South Wales and Victorian history, the Aboriginal people, Colonial settlement and administration, and just about everything else, beautifully and extensively illustrated. The book, written by experienced surveyor, Greg Eccleston, a close student of Mitchell's track across south eastern Australia, is based on Stapylton's original journals of Mitchell's expedition, supplemented by extensive and highly informative notes. For full description and picture please click here. #68264 | A$160.00 | 552 Click HERE to order |
Eckel, John C.
THE FIRST EDITIONS OF THE WRITINGS OF CHARLES DICKENS: Their Points and Values. A Bibliography By John C. Eckel. Revised and Enlarged. With illustrations and facsimiles. Second (and best) Edition; pp. xviii, 272, [6](headed "Notes", otherwise blank); 30 plates, addenda, index; top edge gilt, others uncut, original cloth; (upper edge of front board slightly bumped); a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; Maurice Inman, Inc., London, Maggs Bros.; 1932. ***Edition limited to 750 numbered copies. First published in 1913. For full description and picture please click here. #34269 | A$250.00 | 553 Click HERE to order |
[Eden, The Right Honourable William; erroneous attribution].
THE HISTORY OF NEW HOLLAND, Demy 8vo, Second Edition; pp. xxxvi, 254, [2](adv.]; 2 folding maps, nicely hand-coloured in outline; contemporary half calf, with marbled sides (front joint cracked, but firm); a fine, clean copy, complete with the final leaf of Stockdale's advertisements; rare. London; John Stockdale; 1787. For full description and picture please click here. #16305 | A$7500.00 | 554 Click HERE to order |
Edey, Maitland A. and Johanson, Donald C.
BLUEPRINTS. Solving the Mystery of Evolution. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 420(last 2 blank); 16 plates, a few figures, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Boston; Little, Brown and Company; (1989). For full description and picture please click here. #28045 | A$35.00 | 555 Click HERE to order |
Edwards, Captain Kenneth; Anderson, Roderick; Cookson, Richard.
Anatomy of the Ship. THE FOUR-MASTED BARQUE LAWHILL. Oblong 4to, First Edition; pp. 128; very numerous photos. & detailed drawings, extensive appendices, select bibliography; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Conway Maritime Press; (1996). ***"A complete anatomy of the ship in words, photographs and drawings, accurate, visually exciting and totally comprehensive, offering ship buffs, historians and modelmakers a novel insight into the technicalities of each ship type covered". For full description and picture please click here. #23990 | A$75.00 | 556 Click HERE to order |
Edwards, Robert & Guerin, Bruce.
ABORIGINAL BARK PAINTINGS. Post 4to, First Edition; pp. [32]; 41 coloured photos. (many full-page); original slick pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. [Adelaide]; Rigby; [1969]. For full description and picture please click here. #30372 | A$35.00 | 557 Click HERE to order |
Edwards, Robert.
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART. The Art of the Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory. Cr. 4to, Second Edition; pp. [xii], 202, [2](blank); 2 full-page maps, 17 coloured & 28 b/w. plates; bibliography; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Canberra; Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; 1979. ***The First Edition was published in 1974 under the title - The Art of the Alligator Rivers Region, but with fewer coloured plates. For full description and picture please click here. #74 | A$60.00 | 558 Click HERE to order |
Edward VII:
KING EDWARD VII. A Comprehensive Account of his Glorious Reign. Compiled by an eminent literary gentleman. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [5]-250(last blank, but apparently as issued & complete); portrait frontispiece, 21 plates (some, but not all included in pagination), 1 text illust.; original cloth, gilt (spine faded; some occasional mild foxing); a very good copy; scarce. London; R. E. King & Co. Ltd.; [1910]. For full description and picture please click here. #28802 | A$45.00 | 559 Click HERE to order |
Egerton, Hugh Edward; M.A.
SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES. England in the Far East. Cr. 8vo; pp. xx(including frontispiece), 290, [2](adv.); portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 2 appendices (including Genealogical tree), index; original decorated cloth; (some foxing); a very good copy. London; T. Fisher Unwin; MCM [1900]. ***First published in 1897, this volume is one of the Builders of Great Britain series, Edited by H. F. Wilson. This is an interesting copy inscribed on half-title "With the Author's compliments" and with extensive notes on endpapers and some margins by J. R. Crawford. For full description and picture please click here. #67580 | A$60.00 | 560 Click HERE to order |
Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Irenaus.
GALAPAGOS. Translated from the German by Alan Houghton Brodrick. First Edition in English; pp. 192; endpaper maps, 5 coloured & 16 b/w. plates, text fig., glossary of zoological terms, bibliography; original papered boards; (inscription on half-title); a very good copy in worn dustwrapper. London; Macgibbon & Kee; 1960. For full description and picture please click here. #23907 | A$50.00 | 561 Click HERE to order |
Eldredge, Niles.
TIME FRAMES. The Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 240; 11 illustrations & figures, appendix, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in faded dustwrapper; scarce. London; Heinemann; (1986). For full description and picture please click here. #63528 | A$45.00 | 562 Click HERE to order |
Eldredge, Niles.
REINVENTING DARWIN. The Great Evolutionary Debate. First U.K. Edition; pp. xii, 244; 3 figures, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. London; Weidenfeld and Nicolson; (1995). For full description and picture please click here. #9189 | A$40.00 | 563 Click HERE to order |
Eldredge, Niles.
WHY WE DO IT. Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene. First Edition; pp. 272(last 3 blank); a few diagrams, notes, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. New York; W. W. Norton & Company; (2004). For full description and picture please click here. #28437 | A$30.00 | 564 Click HERE to order |
Elkin, A. P.; Edited by.
STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN LINGUISTICS. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 174; 3 text maps, several tables; original wrappers (spine worn; corner torn from rear wrapper); very scarce. Sydney; The Australian National Research Council; N.D. [c. 1940?]. ***The Oceania Monographs, No. 3. For full description and picture please click here. #47443 | A$150.00 | 565 Click HERE to order |
Elkin, A. P.
Australian Landmarks Edited by Renee Erdos. THE ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS. Illustrated by Pamela Johnston. First Edition; pp. 56; 18 illustrations (some full-page); original illustrated wrappers; a very good copy. (London); Longmans; N.D. [c.1960]. ***Printed in Australia. For full description and picture please click here. #20736 | A$30.00 | 566 Click HERE to order |
Elkin, A. P.
THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. How to Understand Them. Fourth Edition, Fourth Impression; pp. xxii, 394(last blank); double-page map, coloured frontispiece, 32 b/w. plates, a few tables, appendix, index; original cloth; a fine copy in slightly worn & repaired dustwrapper. (Sydney); Angus and Robertson; (1970). ***First published in 1938. For full description and picture please click here. #67649 | A$50.00 | 567 Click HERE to order |
Elliott, H. Chandler.
THE SHAPE OF INTELLIGENCE. The Evolution of the Human Brain. Drawings by Anthony Ravielli. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 304(last blank), [2](adv.); numerous illustrations, glossary, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. London; George Allen and Unwin Ltd; (1970). For full description and picture please click here. #11345 | A$25.00 | 568 Click HERE to order |
Ellis, Havelock.
MAN AND WOMAN. A Study of Human Secondary Sexual Characters. Illustrated. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii](adv.), xiv, 410(last blank), [22](adv.); several figures, index of authors, index of subjects; original cloth, gilt (rubbed; some minor soiling); a very good copy; scarce. London; Walter Scott, Ltd.; 1894. ***The Contemporary Science Series, Edited by Havelock Ellis, Volume XXIV. For full description and picture please click here. #65846 | A$40.00 | 569 Click HERE to order |
Ellis, Havelock.
MY LIFE. with a Foreword by Francoise Delisle and an Introduction and detailed Bibliography by Alan Hull Walton. New Edition; pp. xlii, 614; 8 plates, bibliography, index; original cloth; a very good copy in worn & slightly defective dustwrapper. London; Neville Spearman; (1967). ***First published in 1940, and containing 40-odd pages on Ellis's experiences as a schoolmaster in the Australian bush, this edition includes the new Bibliography (with details of the Contents of each work) as well as the previously-suppressed texts of two rare Ellis items. For full description and picture please click here. #65317 | A$45.00 | 570 Click HERE to order |
Ellis, Jean A.
FROM THE DREAMTIME. Australian Aboriginal Legends. First Edition, Fourth Impression; pp. [vi], 122(last adv.); several illustrations; original stiff pictorial wrappers; a fine copy. (North Blackburn); CollinsDove, A Division of HarperCollins Publishers; (1994). ***First published in 1991. For full description and picture please click here. #67829 | A$20.00 | 571 Click HERE to order |
Ellis, Jean A.
ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS. Their Journey. 4to, First Edition; pp. [ii], 190; several illustrations & maps, glossary [index]; original pictorial stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (Penrith, NSW; Kaliarna Productions Pty. Ltd.; 2007). For full description and picture please click here. #65343 | A$35.00 | 572 Click HERE to order |
Ellis, William.
The Advertiser Historical Series No. 2. NARRATIVE OF A TOUR THROUGH HAWAII, Pp. [ii](blank), 480; portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 14 illustrations (mostly full-page), facsimile signature, appendix on the Hawaiian language; original cloth, gilt; (covers a little flecked; a very good copy; scarce. Honolulu, Hawaii; Hawaiian Gazette Co., Ltd.; 1917. ***See Hill, Volume II, pages 143 and 414: "The Narrative of English missionary William Ellis is particularly important, as it was the first book written about the Hawaiian islands and the first serious notice of the islands since Captain Cook's discovery of them forty-eight years earlier. It may be called the first scientific book on Hawaii: although its main purpose was to report on mission progress, and Ellis was primarily interested in local manners and traditions, he was sufficiently expansive to include observations on such natural and cultural history topics as volcanoes, antiquities, and the anthropology of the islands." He includes an account of the death of Captain Cook from an eyewitness report of native Hawaiians. This edition is from the considerably enlarged second edition of 1827 (first published 1826) and includes material also from Ellis's Journal of 1825: "This combination constitutes the clearest, most accurate, and detailed account extant of the physical and social conditions existing in Hawaii in 1823." - Hill. See also Forbes 656/657 and Hill (second edition) 547. For full description and picture please click here. #67087 | A$135.00 | 573 Click HERE to order |
Emboden, William A.
LEONARDO DA VINCI ON PLANTS AND GARDENS. Foreword by Carlo Pedretti. 4to, First Edition; pp. [vi], 234; 8 coloured plates, 100 figures, 5 appendices, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Portland, Oregon); Dioscorides Press in cooperation with The Armand Hammer Center for Leonardo Studies at UCLA; (1987). ***Historical, Ethno- & Economic Botany Series, Volume 1 -- Theodore R. Dudley, Ph.D., General Editor. For full description and picture please click here. #66230 | A$85.00 | 574 Click HERE to order |
Erdmann, Erika and Stover, David.
BEYOND A WORLD DIVIDED. Human Values in the Brain-Mind Science of Roger Sperry. Foreword by David H. Hubel. First Edition; pp. xx, 208, [4](blank); appendix, notes, index; original quarter cloth; a nice copy in slightly faded dustwrapper. Boston & London; Shambhala; 1991. For full description and picture please click here. #41194 | A$30.00 | 575 Click HERE to order |
Ericksen, Ray.
ERNEST GILES. Explorer and Traveller 1835-1897. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 308(last blank); endpaper & 2 full-page & 3 double-page maps, 12 plates, bibliography, notes on sources, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. Melbourne; Heinemann; (1978). ***Brigadier FitzGerald's copy with bookplate. For full description and picture please click here. #4995 | A$110.00 | 576 Click HERE to order |
Erskine, John Elphinstone; Captain, R.N.
A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LATE DISCOVERIES OF GOLD IN AUSTRALIA; With Notes of a Visit to the Gold District. First Edition; pp. [ii], 102(last blank); folding map (partially hand-coloured) showing the location of the goldfields; contemporary calf-backed cloth boards, armorially stamped; (first four leaves slightly foxed; otherwise fine and clean); top edge gilt, others uncut; a very good copy; rare. London; T. & W. Boone; 1851. ***Ferguson 9461 (collation inaccurate). With the bookplate of the noted historian, politician and collector, Sir William Stirling (and with a typewritten summary of his life loosely inserted). Erskine, better known for his "Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific", visited Australia in 1851 and wrote this account of the discovery of gold in New South Wales on his passage back to England. He made a personal excursion to the new discoveries, or diggings, as he refers to them at Summer-hill Creek and the Turon River. His dated notes of this journey form the appendix to this volume which commences with a brief account of the earliest discoveries of the 1820s and earlier, and continues with a detailed account of the discoveries from the late 1840s onwards. The map is adapted from Mitchell's map and information from H.M.S. Acheron and drawn up by Captain John Lort Stokes for the Author. This was the first eyewitness account of the goldfields and is particularly rare in this first edition. A second edition was published in 1852; this is also of considerable rarity. For full description and picture please click here. #16725 | A$4000.00 | 577 Click HERE to order |
Erskine, John Elphinstone; Capt. R.N.
JOURNAL OF A CRUISE AMONG THE ISLANDS OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC, including the Feejees and others inhabited by the Polynesian Negro Races, in Her Majesty's Ship Havannah. With Maps and Plates. First Edition; pp. viii, 488, 32(adv.); large folding chart by Captain Erskine (a tear repaired), 4 fine coloured litho. plates by Day & Son, 3 b/w. plates, 11 text engravings, 3 appendices, Errata slip; old half calf, with cloth sides (rubbed); a very good copy; very scarce. London; John Murray; 1853. ***Ferguson 9463. The appendix includes the narrative of JOHN JACKSON and of his residence in the Feejees. JACKSON'S narrative occupies 77 pages, and recounts his varied and perilous adventures amongst cannibal peoples for several years from 1840. After his rescue and subsequent service in the Havannah he was discharged at Sydney in 1850. For full description and picture please click here. #1632 | A$450.00 | 578 Click HERE to order |
[Esdaile, Arundell].
ESDAILE'S MANUAL OF BIBLIOGRAPHY. Revised Edition by Roy Stokes. Fourth Edition, Third Impression; pp. 336; 8 plates, 11 text figures, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. London; George Allen & Unwin Ltd; (1974). ***First published in 1931. For full description and picture please click here. #13754 | A$85.00 | 579 Click HERE to order |
Europe:
EUROPE AND THE NEAR EAST. Compiled and Drawn in the Cartographic Section of the National Geographic Society for National Geographic Magazine, Gilbert Grosvenor, Editor. Scale 1:6,000,000 or 94.7 miles to the inch. Large folded coloured map, 950 by 820 mm; (a few minor marks); a very good copy. Washington; National Geographic Society; May, 1940. ***Includes the North African coast. For full description and picture please click here. #55911 | A$20.00 | 580 Click HERE to order |
Europe:
EUROPE. Large folded coloured map, 700 by 800 mm; (a few minor marks); a very good copy. Washington; National Geographic Society; June, 1957. ***Including northern Africa. For full description and picture please click here. #17676 | A$15.00 | 581 Click HERE to order |
Ewald, Paul W.
PLAGUE TIME. How Stealth Infections Cause Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments. Med. 8vo, Third Impression; pp. [vi], 282; notes, glossary, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; The Free Press; (2000). ***A clear and persuasive account of the infectious causes of many acute and chronic illnesses and suggestions for the direction of future research. For full description and picture please click here. #30680 | A$40.00 | 582 Click HERE to order |
Ewing, Juliana Horatia.
DADDY DARWIN'S DOVECOT. A Country Tale by Juliana Horatia Ewing, author of Jackanapes &c. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott. F'cap 4to; First Edition; pp. 52; coloured frontispiece & numerous drawings by Caldecott; original illustrated papered boards (spine worn); a very good copy; scarce. London; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; N.D. [1884]. ***The tale recaptures the Author's Yorkshire childhood. For full description and picture please click here. #24897 | A$45.00 | 583 Click HERE to order |
Eyre, Edward John; Resident Magistrate, Murray River.
JOURNALS OF EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY INTO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, London; T. and W. Boone; 1845. ***Ferguson 4031 (incorrectly describing it as royal 8vo); Wantrup 133a. Pages 145-512 in Volume II consist of "Manners and Customs of the Aborigines of Australia", a substantial and important early contribution to the literature on the Aborigines. For full description and picture please click here. #44468 | A$1250.00 | 584 Click HERE to order |
Fabes, Gilbert H.
MODERN FIRST EDITIONS: Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxviii, 100; table of book sizes, index; original buckram; fore and lower edges uncut; a very good copy. London; W. and G. Foyle Limited; (1929). ***Edition of 750 numbered copies, nicely printed on laid paper, this copy unnumbered.
Still of some value as a reference to those authors for whom there is no separate bibliography.
| A$150.00 | 585 Click HERE to order |
Fadiman, Clifton; General Editor.
THE FABER BOOK OF ANECDOTES. Roy. 8vo, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. xxii, 754(last 3 blank); source list, bibliography, index of names, index of subjects; original quarter cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Faber and Faber; (1985). ***A treasure-trove of stories about notable personages. For full description and picture please click here. #65047 | A$35.00 | 586 Click HERE to order |
Fairbairn, James:
FAIRBAIRN'S BOOK OF CRESTS OF THE FAMILIES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. A New Edition revised and brought down to the present date by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. 2 vols., 4to, Artificer's Edition; Vol. I, pp. [iv], vi, 492(last blank), [4], 144(last 2 blank); list of mottoes, key to plates & dictionary of terms; Vol. II, pp. [vi], 229 fine plates (plus 3 blanks, as issued); original buckram (marked, spines worn); a very good, sound set; scarce. Edinburgh; T. C. & E. C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works; 1892. For full description and picture please click here. #21401 | A$450.00 | 587 Click HERE to order |
Fairbairn, James.
FAIRBAIRN'S CRESTS OF THE FAMILIES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Compiled from the best Authorities by James Fairbairn and Revised by Laurence Butters, Seal Engraver in ordinary to the Queen for Scotland. 2 vols. in 1, med. 8vo, Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. x, 600(last blank); abbreviations, list of mottoes, glossary, index; Vol. II, 148 plates (numbered 1-144 & 126a-d) plus pp. [601]-644; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Rutland, Vermont; Charles E. Tuttle Co.: Publishers; 1968. ***First published at Edinburgh by Thomas C. Jack c. 1890. For full description and picture please click here. #15737 | A$125.00 | 588 Click HERE to order |
Fairbank, Alfred.
A BOOK OF SCRIPTS. Cr. 8vo, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. 40(last blank); 64 plates; original printed papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Harmondsworth, Middlesex); Penguin Books; (1950). ***King Penguin No. 48, first published in 1949. For full description and picture please click here. #42709 | A$35.00 | 589 Click HERE to order |
Fairley, Alan.
A FIELD GUIDE TO THE NATIONAL PARKS OF VICTORIA. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 368(last 5 blank); illust. frontispiece, numerous text maps (several double-page), 32 coloured plates, 2 appendices, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Adelaide); Rigby; (1982). For full description and picture please click here. #52902 | A$40.00 | 590 Click HERE to order |
Falconer, William.
SAIL & STEAM. A Century of Seafaring Enterprise. 1840-1935. Photographs from The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Roy. 4to, First Edition; pp. 192; numerous fine photographic illustrations; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Viking; (1993). ***Including photos. from the Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica. For full description and picture please click here. #30425 | A$45.00 | 591 Click HERE to order |
Fanning, Edmund.
VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD; New York; Collins & Hannay; 1833. For full description and picture please click here. #13069 | A$2750.00 | 592 Click HERE to order |
Fanning, Edmund.
VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEAS, INDIAN AND PACIFIC OCEANS, Demy 8vo, Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], xii, 13-324; frontispiece, appendix; original pictorial cloth; a nice copy. [Upper Saddle River, N.J.; The Gregg Press; 1970]. ***Renard 526. Facsimile of the "Fourth Edition" of a quite separate work from the Author's "Voyages Round the World" which was first published in 1833, and not reprinted until 1924. For full description and picture please click here. #25433 | A$135.00 | 593 Click HERE to order |
Farwell, George; Edited by.
THE AUSTRALASIAN BOOK NEWS and Library Journal. Vol. I, No. 1. Cr. 8vo; pp. 32; a few illustrations; original wrappers. Sydney; F. H. Johnston Publishing Co. Pty. Limited; 1946. ***Includes the List of Books Supplied to the National Library, Canberra, under the Provisions of the Copyright Act. For full description and picture please click here. #68510 | A$20.00 | 594 Click HERE to order |
[Fawkner, John Pascoe]:
THE AGE. Vol. 1, No. 1. Melbourne, Tuesday October 17, 1854. Broadsheet, Facsimile Edition; pp. 8; with facsimile signature of John Pascoe Fawkner; folded; in very good condition. [Melbourne; The Age]; N.D. [1954?]. ***Probably issued to commemorate the Centenary of publication. For full description and picture please click here. #64698 | A$15.00 | 595 Click HERE to order |
Feakes, Henry James.
WHITE ENSIGN - SOUTHERN CROSS. A Story of the King's Ships of Australia's Navy. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. xxvi, 246; mounted portrait frontispiece, 32 plates, 2 appendices; original cloth, gilt; a nice copy in worn dustwrapper; scarce. Sydney; A Ure Smith Publication; (1951). For full description and picture please click here. #32517 | A$65.00 | 596 Click HERE to order |
Featherstone, Guy; Edited by.
THE COLONIAL CHILD. Papers presented at the 8th Biennial Conference of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria Melbourne, 12-13 October 1979. First Edition; pp. [xii], 88(last blank); 8 illustrations, references; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (Melbourne); Royal Historical Society of Victoria; 1981. For full description and picture please click here. #67516 | A$25.00 | 597 Click HERE to order |
WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK Ferguson, Charles D.
EXPERIENCES OF A FORTY-NINER IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. F'cap 4to, First Edition (in this form); pp. xxvi, 182(last blank); portrait (from an engraving in the 1888 edition), 10 full-page & double-page illustrations by Ninon Phillips, 16 small chapter-head illustrations, index; original cloth (with trifling production flaw); a very good copy. Melbourne; Gaston Renard; 1979. ***Limited to 450 numbered copies, this being an out-of-series copy. The Author spent thirty-three years in Australia and New Zealand, mainly on the diggings. This edition is a reprint, with new illustrations, of the Australian and New Zealand portion of the original work of 1888 covering California and Australia. Together with an enlarged reproduction of the portrait and 15 original pen & ink drawings for the chapter-head decorations by Ninon Phillips. For full description and picture please click here. #68884 | A$100.00 | 598 Click HERE to order |
Ferguson, Charles D.
EXPERIENCES OF A FORTY-NINER IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. F'cap 4to, First Edition (in this form); pp. xxvi, 182(last blank); portrait (from an engraving in the 1888 edition), 10 full-page & double-page illustrations by Ninon Phillips, 16 small chapter-head illustrations, index; original cloth (with trifling production flaw); a very good copy. Melbourne; Gaston Renard; 1979. ***Limited to 450 numbered copies, this being an out-of-series copy. The Author spent thirty-three years in Australia and New Zealand, mainly on the diggings. This edition is a reprint, with new illustrations, of the Australian and New Zealand portion of the original work of 1888 covering California and Australia. For full description and picture please click here. #432 | A$45.00 | 599 Click HERE to order |
Ferguson, George.
SOME EARLY AUSTRALIAN BOOKMEN. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [vi], 66; 18 full-page & 1 other illustrations; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Canberra; Australian National University Press; 1978. ***Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by the Author. For full description and picture please click here. #7839 | A$65.00 | 600 Click HERE to order |
Ferguson, John Alexander.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIA. [1784-1900]. Canberra; National Library of Australia; 1975-76 [and Sydney, Angus and Robertson Ltd, 1963-69]. ***All volumes are now out-of-print. This is the most important single work of Australian historical and bibliographical reference, containing about 20,000 entries, and despite the now-accumulated substantial number of errors and omissions, a remarkable achievement and probably one of the best and most detailed national bibliographies in existence. For full description and picture please click here. #43350 | A$450.00 | 601 Click HERE to order |
Fielding, Jean; [and] O'Neill, Robert.
A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIAN MILITARY HISTORY 1891-1939. Small cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [viii], 354(last 3 blank); appendix; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. Canberra; (Australian National University); 1978. For full description and picture please click here. #5955 | A$45.00 | 602 Click HERE to order |
Fiennes, Sir Ranulph.
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. The Transglobe Expedition - the First Pole-to-Pole Circumnavigation of the Globe. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 10, [10](maps), 11-550(last 3 blank); endpaper map, 8 full-page & 1 double-page maps, 24 coloured plates, 10 appendices, index; original quarter cloth; a very good copy in dustwrapper. New York; Arbor House; (1983). ***Renard 530. For full description and picture please click here. #10105 | A$50.00 | 603 Click HERE to order |
Finger, Stanley.
MINDS BEHIND THE BRAIN. A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 364, [6](blank); numerous text illustrations, notes, index; original quarter cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (New York); Oxford University Press; 2000. For full description and picture please click here. #9028 | A$75.00 | 604 Click HERE to order |
Finney, C. M.
TO SAIL BEYOND THE SUNSET. Natural History in Australia 1699-1829. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. x, 206; endpaper maps, 5 double-page illustrations (2 coloured), 27 full-page illustrations (19 coloured) & 107 other illustrations (65 coloured); notes, scientific & general indices; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Adelaide); Rigby; (1984). For full description and picture please click here. #12914 | A$100.00 | 605 Click HERE to order |
Firebaugh, Morris W.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. A Knowledge-Based Approach. Cr. 4to; pp. xxiv, 740, [4](blank); very numerous figures, references, notes, 2 appendices, index; original slick boards; a very good copy. Boston; PWS-Kent Publishing Company; 1989. ***First published the previous year. For full description and picture please click here. #67185 | A$25.00 | 606 Click HERE to order |
Firefighting:
MANUAL OF FIREMANSHIP. A Survey of the Science of Firefighting. Part 7. Fireboats and Ship Fires. First Edition; pp. ii, 150(last blank); 4 full-page coloured plates, 24 half-page b/w. plates, numerous figures, appendix, Errata slip; original wrappers; a very good copy. London; Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office; N.D. [1944]. For full description and picture please click here. #30340 | A$35.00 | 607 Click HERE to order |
Fisher, Robin & Johnston, Hugh; Editors.
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK AND HIS TIMES. Med. 8vo, First Australian Edition; pp. [x], 278; 12 maps, 31 illustrations, 4 tables, notes, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. Canberra; Australian National University Press; 1979. ***Printed in Canada; the authors were associate professors at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. This valuable work contains much useful information on obscure publications relating to Cook's voyages and their legacy. For full description and picture please click here. #2192 | A$70.00 | 608 Click HERE to order |
Fishlock, David.
MAN MODIFIED. An Exploration of the Man/Machine Relationship. First Edition; pp. 216(last blank); 40 illustrations on 24 plates, 27 figures, notes; original papered boards; a nice copy in slightly torn dustwrapper. London; Jonathan Cape; (1969). For full description and picture please click here. #51765 | A$25.00 | 609 Click HERE to order |
Fiske, John.
OUTLINES OF COSMIC PHILOSOPHY, based on the Doctrine of Evolution, with Criticisms on the Positive Philosophy. 2 vols., First U.K. Edition; Vol. I, pp. xvi, 466(last blank), [2](adv.); Vol. II, pp. viii, 524(last blank); index; original cloth; uncut; (a single stamp on half-title, title-page and last blank of Vol. I and on last blank of Vol. II); a fine, crisp set; scarce. London; Macmillan and Co.; 1874. For full description and picture please click here. #66273 | A$185.00 | 610 Click HERE to order |
Fitter, R. S. R.
LONDON'S NATURAL HISTORY. Second Impression; pp. xii, 284(last blank); 11 maps, 52 coloured & 41 b/w. plates, 6 appendices, bibliography, index; original buckram; a very good copy in worn & slightly defective dustwrapper. London; Collins; (1946). ***New Naturalist No. 3. A most interesting and informative history and natural history of the great city, first published in the previous year. For full description and picture please click here. #813 | A$30.00 | 611 Click HERE to order |
Fitzgerald, Lawrence.
JAVA LA GRANDE. The Story of the Portuguese Discovery of Australia Circa 1521. Impl. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xx, 140; 81 maps, illustrations & figures, biography, index; original pictorial boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Hobart; The Publishers Pty. Ltd.); [1984]. For full description and picture please click here. #4943 | A$110.00 | 612 Click HERE to order |
Fitzgerald, Lawrence.
JAVA LA GRANDE. The Story of the Portuguese Discovery of Australia Circa 1521. Impl. 8vo, Second Edition, with corrections; pp. xx, 140; 81 maps, illustrations & figures, biography, index; original pictorial boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Hobart; The Publishers Pty. Ltd.); 1984 (1986). For full description and picture please click here. #21096 | A$95.00 | 613 Click HERE to order |
Flesch, Juliet; compiled by.
LOVE BROUGHT TO BOOK. A bio-bibliography of 20th-century Australian romance novels. Super roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxiv, 44(last blank); 4 coloured plates; original pictorial wrappers; a nice copy. Melbourne; National Centre for Australian Studies; 1995. ***Inscribed and signed by the Author. For full description and picture please click here. #67961 | A$25.00 | 614 Click HERE to order |
Fletcher, Harold.
ANTARCTIC DAYS WITH MAWSON. A personal account of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition of 1929-31. First U.K. Edition; pp. 316(last 3 blank); endpaper & 3 other maps, 18 full-page & double-page illustrations; original grey cloth-grained papered boards, spine lettered in white; a nice copy in pictorial dustwrapper. (London); Angus & Robertson Publishers; (1984). ***Renard 541. For full description and picture please click here. #4012 | A$95.00 | 615 Click HERE to order |
Flinders, Matthew.
A VOYAGE TO TERRA AUSTRALIS; Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1966. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions, No. 37. 2150 sets were printed. The nine plates in the text volumes were drawn by WILLIAM WESTALL, landscape draughtsman on the "Investigator". The ten botanical plates in the atlas were drawn by FERDINAND BAUER, botanical draughtsman under ROBERT BROWN, naturalist to the voyage; these plates illustrate BROWN's "General Remarks, Geographical and Systematic, on the Botany of Terra Australis", 1814, and also the botanical Appendix to the "Voyage to Terra Australis". The Introduction contains a summary of earlier voyages to the Australasian Region, including an account of BLIGH's second voyage in the "Providence", in which FLINDERS served. The charts of the Australian Coast produced by Flinders were of high accuracy and were put to practical use for a long period. For full description and picture please click here. #14996 | A$650.00 | 616 Click HERE to order |
Foote, Peter; Editor.
OLAUS MAGNUS. Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus, Romae 1555. Description of the Northern Peoples, Rome 1555. Translated by Peter Fisher and Humphrey Higgens. With Annotation derived from the Commentary by John Granlund, abridged and augmented. 3 vols., First Edition; Vol. I, pp. xcvi, 288; full-page map, bibliography, 2 full-page tables, notes; Vol. II, pp. vi, 289-770; Vol. III, pp. vi, 771-1252(last 4 blank); numerous chapter title vignettes from original woodcuts throughout, notes, 3 indices (persons, places & peoples, authors), additions, corrections; original cloth; a fine set in dustwrappers. London; The Hakluyt Society; 1996-98-98. ***Hakluyt Society Second Series, Volumes 182, 187, 188. For full description and picture please click here. #64058 | A$95.00 | 617 Click HERE to order |
Ford, James L.
FORTY-ODD YEARS IN THE LITERARY SHOP. First Edition, Third Impression; pp. x, 362; 32 plates; original cloth (spine ends a little worn); a very good copy. New York; E. P. Dutton & Company; (1921). For full description and picture please click here. #67965 | A$25.00 | 618 Click HERE to order |
Fornasiero, Jean; Lawton, Lindl; and West-Sooby, John; Edited by.
THE ART OF SCIENCE. Nicolas Baudin's Voyagers 1800-1804. 4to, First Edition; pp. 176; very numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; original stiff wrappers (a trifling slight bump to upper wrapper fore-edge); a fine copy. (Adelaide; Wakefield Press; 2016). For full description and picture please click here. #67231 | A$40.00 | 619 Click HERE to order |
Forster, Georg.
COOK, THE DISCOVERER 4to, First Edition; pp. 40, [2], 106(the facsimile), 149-276; a few illustrations, bibliography; original quarter calf, with papered sides; a fine copy. (Sydney); Hordern House; (2007). ***Australian Maritime Series Number Six. Edition limited to 1050 copies of which 1000 are bound as here. For full description and picture please click here. #13588 | A$175.00 | 620 Click HERE to order |
Fortey, Richard.
LIFE. An Unauthorised Biography. A Natural History of the First Four Thousand Million Years of Life on Earth. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 400(last blank); 32 plates, a few figures, glossary, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. (London); HarperCollins Publishers; (1997). For full description and picture please click here. #37499 | A$30.00 | 621 Click HERE to order |
Foster, Sir William; Editor.
THE TRAVELS OF JOHN SANDERSON IN THE LEVANT 1584-1602. With his Autobiography and Selections from his Correspondence. Facsimile Edition; pp. [iii]-xliv(as issued), 322; 5 maps (3 full-page), 5 illustrations, 3 appendices, index; original buckram; a fine copy. Nendeln/Liechenstein; Kraus Reprint Limited; 1967. ***First published by the Hakluyt Society in 1931, Second Series, No. 67. For full description and picture please click here. #34108 | A$65.00 | 622 Click HERE to order |
Foster, William C.
SIR THOMAS LIVINGSTON MITCHELL AND HIS WORLD 1792-1855. Surveyor General of New South Wales 1828-1855. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [vi], viii, 594; 8 maps (3 double page), portrait frontispiece, 25 other illustrations (mostly full-page & half-page), appendix, ref. notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper; scarce. (Sydney); Published by The Institution of Surveyors N.S.W. Incorporated, The N.S.W. Division of the Institution of Surveyors, Australia; (1985). For full description and picture please click here. #11898 | A$225.00 | 623 Click HERE to order |
Foster, William; Editor.
THE VOYAGE OF THOMAS BEST TO THE EAST INDIES, 1612-14. Facsimile Edition; pp. lvi, 316, [2](blank); several maps, index; original slick papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (New Delhi); Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.; (1997). ***First published by The Hakluyt Society, 1943, Second Series, No. LXXXVIII, this reprint rather better produced than many of the Indian reprints. Travels on behalf of the East India Company. For full description and picture please click here. #35697 | A$35.00 | 624 Click HERE to order |
Fouts, Roger; with Stephen Tukel Mills.
NEXT OF KIN. What chimpanzees have taught me about who we are. Introduction by Jane Goodall. A Living Planet Book. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 420; 16 plates, notes, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. New York; William Morrow and Company, Inc.; (1997). For full description and picture please click here. #9196 | A$45.00 | 625 Click HERE to order |
Frame, Janet.
THE EDGE OF THE ALPHABET. First U.S. Edition; pp. [xii], 304; original decorated cloth; (name on endpaper); a nice copy in worn dustwrapper. New York; George Braziller; 1962. For full description and picture please click here. #40266 | A$45.00 | 626 Click HERE to order |
Frame, Janet.
THE ADAPTABLE MAN. First U.S. Edition; pp. [vi], 278; original cloth; (small label & inscription on front endpaper, otherwise a nice copy). New York; George Braziller; 1965. For full description and picture please click here. #40262 | A$25.00 | 627 Click HERE to order |
Frame, Janet.
DAUGHTER BUFFALO. A Novel. First Edition; pp. [xii], 212; a nice copy in faded dustwrapper. New York; George Braziller; (1972). For full description and picture please click here. #40267 | A$35.00 | 628 Click HERE to order |
Francis, Mark.
HERBERT SPENCER and the invention of modern life. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 434; 12 plates, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Ithaca, New York; Cornell University Press; (2007). For full description and picture please click here. #27141 | A$35.00 | 629 Click HERE to order |
Franklin, Colin.
THE PRIVATE PRESSES. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 240; 16 plates, 6 text illustrations, bibliogs., index; original cloth (a very slight bruise to lower board); a nice copy in laminated dustwrapper. London; Studio Vista; (1969). ***The first full account of the English Private Press movement including select bibliographies of several presses. For full description and picture please click here. #56479 | A$85.00 | 630 Click HERE to order |
Franklin, Stan.
ARTIFICIAL MINDS. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 450(last blank); numerous figures, notes, references, index; original cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Cambridge, Massachusetts; A Bradford Book, The MIT Press; (1995). ***A comprehensive guide to the interdisciplinary studies of artificial life, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience and robotics. For full description and picture please click here. #67206 | A$40.00 | 631 Click HERE to order |
[Freeman, Ivy].
THE HISTORY OF TUMBY BAY AND DISTRICT. These records have been collected to commemorate seventy-five years of declaration of local government of the Tumby Bay District Council. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. xiv, 290; numerous illustrations & a few maps, index; original papered boards; a fine copy. [Adelaide?]; The District Council of Tumby Bay; 1981. For full description and picture please click here. #30535 | A$40.00 | 632 Click HERE to order |
Freeman, R. B.
CHARLES DARWIN. A Companion. First Edition; pp. 312(last 3 blank); portrait frontispiece, 6 illustrations; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly faded dustwrapper. (Folkestone); Dawson; (1978). For full description and picture please click here. #14055 | A$85.00 | 633 Click HERE to order |
French Railways:
CHEMIN DE FER D'ORLEANS. Ce qu'on peut visiter en empruntant les lignes du Reseau d'Orleans. 8vo; pp. [4]; 3 illustrations; a nice copy. Orleans; [P. O. Trafic-Voyageurs; c. 1914]. ***An attractive tourism leaflet. For full description and picture please click here. #68523 | A$20.00 | 634 Click HERE to order |
Fricker, Dr. Karl.
Bibliothek der Landerkunde, herausgegeben von Alfred Kirchoff und Rudolf Fitzner, Band I. ANTARKTIS. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], viii, 230, [8](adv.); coloured folding map, 8 plates, numerous text illustrations & a few maps, index; original decorated half cloth, limp boards; uncut; (upper corner cut from front board; internally fine and clean); a very good copy; scarce. Berlin; Schall & Grund; 1898. ***Spence 484; Rosove 143.A1. For full description and picture please click here. #36042 | A$95.00 | 635 Click HERE to order |
Friday, Laurie and Laskey, Ronald; Edited by.
THE FRAGILE ENVIRONMENT. The Darwin College Lectures. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 198; numerous illustrations & figures, bibliogs., index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press; (1989). ***Human impacts; the future of forests; attitudes to animals; how many species; famine; exhaustible resources; changing climates; observing the environment from space. For full description and picture please click here. #35197 | A$50.00 | 636 Click HERE to order |
Fridriksson, Sturla.
SURTSEY. [Evolution of life on a Volcanic Island]. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [xii], 198; 14 coloured plates, numerous b/w. illustrations, figures, maps & tables, references, index; original cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. New York; A Halsted Press Book, John Wiley & Sons; (1975). ***An interesting account of the eruption in 1963 and subsequent commencement of colonisation of the new island to the south of Iceland on the mid-Atlantic ridge. For full description and picture please click here. #40691 | A$50.00 | 637 Click HERE to order |
Froggatt, Walter W.
Department of Agriculture, New South Wales. SOME USEFUL AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 86; 62 coloured plates, index; original cloth, gilt; (hinges cracked, but firm); a very good copy; scarce. Sydney; William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer; 1921. For full description and picture please click here. #1067 | A$95.00 | 638 Click HERE to order |
Frost, Alan.
ARTHUR PHILLIP. 1738-1814. His Voyaging. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. xii, 320; numerous maps (some double-page), 16 coloured plates, several illustrations, tables & text figures, notes & bibliography to each chapter, sources of illustrations, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in slightly worn & faded dustwrapper. Melbourne; Oxford University Press; (1987). ***An interesting account of Phillip's life, told from the viewpoint of his long naval career, including his service in the Portuguese navy, in South America and elsewhere. His varied experience, and the ability to learn from it, go to show that he was an inspired choice to lead the new settlement of Australia. For full description and picture please click here. #17549 | A$95.00 | 639 Click HERE to order |
Frost, Alan.
THE PRECARIOUS LIFE OF JAMES MARIO MATRA. Voyager with Cook. American Loyalist. Servant of Empire. With the assistance of Isabel Moutinho. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 266(last blank); 12 plates (including several maps), notes, sources, bibliography, index; original canvas; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Carlton, Melbourne); The Miegunyah Press; (1995). ***Number Six in the second numbered Miegunyah Press series: 1000 copies were printed. Using his letters and a probing biographical narrative, Frost builds up a picture of Matra, an important, but little-known figure in Australian history. An enigmatic American who sailed with Cook, Matra (who changed his name from Magra) was the first (in 1771) to have published a major book on the "Endeavour" voyage, and strove to found a colony in New South Wales for dispossessed American loyalists, only to end his days as Consul at Tangier. For full description and picture please click here. #48600 | A$70.00 | 640 Click HERE to order |
Frost, Alan.
THE GLOBAL REACH OF EMPIRE. Britain's maritime expansion in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, 1764-1815. First Edition; pp. xiv, 386(last blank); 2 endpaper maps, 12 maps in text (4 double-page), 5 illustrations on 4 coloured plates, 6 text figures, 4 tables, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper; very scarce. (Carlton); The Miegunyah Press; (2003). ***Number 46 in the second numbered Miegunyah series; 1000 copies were printed. Globalization began much earlier than commonly realised. In the mid eighteenth century there was for the first time in human history sufficient knowledge of the world for people to conceive of it as a whole. British politicians did so with the purpose of creating a trans-Pacific trading empire and this book is a study of the resulting British maritime and imperial expansion in the Indian and Pacific oceans. It explores seaborne discovery, strategy in wartime, and the infrastructure necessary to support far-flung maritime activity, colonization and trade. With several brief mentions of William Bligh. For full description and picture please click here. #41419 | A$275.00 | 641 Click HERE to order |
Frost, Alan.
BOTANY BAY: The Real Story. Second Edition; pp. xiv, 276, [14](blank); full-page map, notes, bibliography, index; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (Collingwood, VIC); Black Inc.; (2012). ***Not available in hardcover. For full description and picture please click here. #33475 | A$30.00 | 642 Click HERE to order |
Fuller, R. Buckminster.
NO MORE SECONDHAND GOD and Other Writings by R. Buckminster Fuller. Paperback Edition; pp. xvi, 152(last 7 blank); a few figures; original stiff wrappers; a very good copy. New York; Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc.; (1971). ***First published in hardcover by Southern Illinois University Press in 1963. For full description and picture please click here. #67257 | A$15.00 | 643 Click HERE to order |
Fuller, R. Buckminster.
EDUCATION AUTOMATION. Freeing the Scholar to Return to his Studies. Foreword by Charles D. Tenney. First U.K. Edition; pp. x, 86(last blank); original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Jonathan Cape; (1973). For full description and picture please click here. #67258 | A$25.00 | 644 Click HERE to order |
Furphy, Joseph.
A BOY OF THE OLD BRIGADE. A Short Story By Joseph Furphy ("Tom Collins"). Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [vi], 18; portrait frontispiece, 2 illustrations, notes; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. Melbourne; Tarcoola Press (for the Andrew Ross Museum, Kangaroo Ground; 1996). For full description and picture please click here. #67752 | A$20.00 | 645 Click HERE to order |
Furtwangler, Wilhelm.
NOTEBOOKS 1924-1954. Translated by Shaun Whiteside. Edited and with an Introduction by Michael Tanner. Med. 8vo, First Edition in English; pp. [viii], viii, 216(last 3 blank); original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. London; Quartet Books; (1989). For full description and picture please click here. #68005 | A$50.00 | 646 Click HERE to order |
Fussell, G. E.
THE OLD ENGLISH FARMING BOOKS from Fitzherbert to Tull 1523 to 1730. First Edition; pp. [viii], 144(last 3 blank); 16 plates, bibliography, appendix, title index, author index; original cloth; a nice copy. London; Crosby Lockwood & Son, Ltd.; (1947). For full description and picture please click here. #67938 | A$40.00 | 647 Click HERE to order |
Fussell, Paul.
WARTIME. Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], xii, 338(last 7 blank); several illustrations, notes, index; original quarter cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. New York; Oxford University Press; 1989. ***The psychology and sociology of war. For full description and picture please click here. #56659 | A$50.00 | 648 Click HERE to order |
Galdikas, Birute M. F.
REFLECTIONS OF EDEN. My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo. First U.S. Edition; pp. viii, 408; 2 maps, 16 plates; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Boston; Little, Brown and Company; (1995). For full description and picture please click here. #35413 | A$40.00 | 649 Click HERE to order |
Gale, Barry G.
EVOLUTION WITHOUT EVIDENCE. Charles Darwin and The Origin of Species. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 238, [8](blank); appendix, notes, bibliography, index; original cloth; a nice copy in worn dustwrapper. Albuquerque; University of New Mexico Press; (1982). ***A critical study of the thought and work of Darwin in the period 1838-1859, from his reading of Malthus' "Essay on the Principle of Population" to the publication of "The Origin of Species". This was the period when Darwin was developing his evolutionary theory. For full description and picture please click here. #27544 | A$35.00 | 650 Click HERE to order |
Galton, Francis; F.R.S.
Cole's Library of Notable Books. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORER IN TROPICAL SOUTH AFRICA. Cr. 8vo, First Australian Edition(?); pp. xx, 214, [8](index, last blank), [215]-320; frontispiece, full-page map, 2 plates & 3 text illustrations plus appendix & index to the Damaraland narrative, 4 plates & 4 text illustrations to the 'Vacation Tours'; original cloth (rebacked, preserving original spine; new endpapers); scarce. Melbourne; E. W. Cole, Book Arcade; N.D. [c. 1895]. ***First published in 1853, new edition (with additional Preface) 1889, the title-page with the Australian details is a cancel. The 'Vacation Tours' include an account of the Eclipse of 1860 in North Spain by Galton. For full description and picture please click here. #65680 | A$120.00 | 651 Click HERE to order |
Galton, Francis; F.R.S.
HEREDITARY GENIUS. An Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition, Third Impression; pp. xxxii, 380, [2](adv.), [2](blank); several tables, appendix, index; original cloth (a little flecked; spine faded); a very good copy; scarce. London; Macmillan and Co., Limited; 1925. ***First published in 1869, second edition first published in 1892 with an additional Prefatory Chapter, but otherwise unchanged from the first edition. Galton was Charles Darwin's cousin. For full description and picture please click here. #43529 | A$85.00 | 652 Click HERE to order |
ACCOMPANIED BY A SPECIAL PRINT Ganf, Rosemary Woodford; Illustrations by.
MARSUPIALS OF AUSTRALIA. Pp. 292; 48 coloured plates.; glossary, references & Systematic List of Species to each volume; original full canvas, with decorative blind-stamped leather panel with gilt edge, inlaid on front covers, & with similar title panel on spines; a fine set, as issued. Melbourne; Lansdowne Editions; (1980-1987. ***Editions limited to 1000 numbered copies, signed by the authors and artist. This set is accompanied by a special signed and numbered print of the Greater Bilby which was issued only to the first original purchasers of Volume II. The third and final volume may be obtained to order. For full description and picture please click here. #21856 | A$1450.00 | 653 Click HERE to order |
Gardiner, Robert; Editor.
THE ECLIPSE OF THE BIG GUN. The Warship 1906-45. Consultant Editor: David K Brown, RCNC. Super roy. 4to, First Edition; pp. 224(last blank); numerous fine illustrations & diagrams, several tables, notes, bibliography, glossary, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Conway Maritime Press; (1992). ***Conway's History of the Ship. For full description and picture please click here. #28030 | A$60.00 | 654 Click HERE to order |
Gardiner, Robert; Editor.
Conway's History of the Ship. SAIL'S LAST CENTURY. The Merchant Sailing Ship 1830-1930. Consultant Editor: Dr Basil Greenhill, CB, CMG, FSA, FRHistS. Roy. 4to, First Edition; pp. 176; numerous fine illustrations & diagrams, bibliography, glossary, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Conway Maritime Press; (1993). For full description and picture please click here. #21689 | A$65.00 | 655 Click HERE to order |
Gasperini, Maurizio.
ELEMENTS OF STRING COSMOLOGY. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 552; several figures, 10 appendices, references, index; original slick boards; a fine copy. (Cambridge); Cambridge University Press; (2007). For full description and picture please click here. #62161 | A$85.00 | 656 Click HERE to order |
Gaylard, Geoff; Text by.
ONE HUNDRED & FIFTY YEARS OF NEWS FROM THE HERALD. [Introduction by Kim Lockwood]. Super roy. 4to, First Edition; pp. 400; profusely illustrated; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. [Fishermens Bend]; Southbank; [1990]. ***The Victorian Herald. For full description and picture please click here. #50483 | A$50.00 | 657 Click HERE to order |
Geikie, Archibald.
GEOLOGICAL SKETCHES AT HOME AND ABROAD. First Edition; pp. x, 382, [2](adv.); 3 maps, 26 illustrations; original cloth; uncut; (spine faded & a little marked); a nice copy. London; Macmillan and Co.; 1882. For full description and picture please click here. #3281 | A$70.00 | 658 Click HERE to order |
Geikie, Sir Archibald.
OUTLINES OF FIELD-GEOLOGY. Fifth Edition. Cr. 8vo, Fifth Edition; pp. xx, 252; 88 illustrations, including many full-page & several sketch maps, index; original cloth (flecked); uncut; a nice clean copy. London; Macmillan and Co.; 1896. For full description and picture please click here. #14436 | A$45.00 | 659 Click HERE to order |
Geikie, James.
STRUCTURAL AND FIELD GEOLOGY. For Students of Pure and Applied Science. Third Edition, Revised. Pp. xxiv, 452, 32(adv.); 69 plates (4 coloured), 160 figures, 5 appendices, index; original cloth (slightly spotted; new front endpaper); a nice copy. Edinburgh; Oliver and Boyd; 1912. For full description and picture please click here. #53887 | A$70.00 | 660 Click HERE to order |
Gelernter, David.
MIRROR WORLDS or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox ... How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [xvi], 240(last 3 blank); 20 figures, notes, index; original quarter cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. New York; Oxford University Press; 1991. For full description and picture please click here. #58646 | A$25.00 | 661 Click HERE to order |
Gelernter, David.
THE MUSE IN THE MACHINE. Computers and Creative Thought. Med. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. [ii], x, 212(last blank); references, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. London; Fourth Estate; (1994). ***First published in the U.S. in the same year. For full description and picture please click here. #55112 | A$25.00 | 662 Click HERE to order |
Gelernter, David.
THE AESTHETICS OF COMPUTING. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [x], 150(last blank); several illustrations, notes, index; original papered boards (small remainder mark on lower edge); a nice copy in dustwrapper. London; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; (1998). For full description and picture please click here. #67196 | A$20.00 | 663 Click HERE to order |
George V and Queen Mary:
AN ATTRACTIVE COLOUR PORTRAIT OF GEORGE V AND QUEEN MARY in later life. 335 x 270 mm approx. plus silver margin (slightly frayed at top) reproduced from an etching or engraving by (artist signature indecipherable); a vertical fold between the two portraits; in fine condition. No Imprint; c. 1935. For full description and picture please click here. #28942 | A$15.00 | 664 Click HERE to order |
Germaine, Max.
ARTISTS AND GALLERIES OF AUSTRALIA. Thick large demy 4to, Second Edition; pp. xii, 596(last blank); 32 plates; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Brisbane; Boolarong Publications; (1984). ***Updated and enlarged second edition of "Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand", 1979. For full description and picture please click here. #8033 | A$135.00 | 665 Click HERE to order |
Gershenfeld, Neil.
WHEN THINGS START TO THINK. Med. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. [viii], 248(last blank); a few figures; original stiff wrappers. (London); Hodder & Stoughton; (1999). For full description and picture please click here. #67157 | A$25.00 | 666 Click HERE to order |
Gibbon, Edward.
THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. Volume the First [etc.] Oxford. William Pickering, London; and Talboys and Wheeler, Oxford. M D CCCXXVII. Oxford; D. A. Talboys; 1827. ***First published 1776-1788. For full description and picture please click here. #67705 | A$750.00 | 667 Click HERE to order |
Gibbon, Edward:
THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF EDWARD GIBBON, ESQ., with Memoirs of his Life and Writings, composed by Himself: Illustrated from his Letters, with Occasional Notes and Narrative, by John, Lord Sheffield. Complete in one volume. Thick demy 8vo; pp. xvi, 848; silhouette frontispiece, index; original cloth (spine ends slightly worn), gilt title on spine; uncut; a very nice, clean copy in original condition; scarce. London; B. Blake; MDCCCXXXVII [1837]. For full description and picture please click here. #13499 | A$200.00 | 668 Click HERE to order |
Gibbon, Edward.
MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE. edited from the manuscripts by George A. Bonnard. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxxvi, 346, [2](blank); 8 plates, 2 appendixes, notes, index; original cloth; a nice copy in worn dustwrapper. (London); Nelson; (1966). For full description and picture please click here. #67704 | A$65.00 | 669 Click HERE to order |
Gift Book:
THE QUEEN'S GIFT BOOK. In Aid of the Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals for Soldiers and Sailors who have Lost their Limbs in the War. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 160; mounted coloured portrait of Queen Mary as frontispiece, 11 mounted coloured plates, numerous b/w. text illustrations (by artists including Arthur Rackham, Charles Robinson & W. Heath Robinson), foreword by John Galsworthy, literary contributions by J. M. Barrie, John Buchan, Jeffery Farnol, Jerome K. Jerome and many others; original cloth; a nice copy. London; Hodder and Stoughton; N.D. [c. 1916]. ***With contemporary 4-page leaflet (14 illusts.) concerning the work of the hospitals loosely inserted. For full description and picture please click here. #25333 | A$30.00 | 670 Click HERE to order |
Giles, Ernest.
AUSTRALIA TWICE TRAVERSED: The Romance of Exploration, being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and through Central South Australia, and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876. 2 vols., Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. [ii], lx, 320; 3 folding maps (partially coloured), 11 plates, 11 text illustrations; Vol. II, pp. [ii], xii, 364; 3 folding maps (partially coloured), 10 plates, 13 text illustrations, botanical appendix of plants collected and arranged by Baron von Mueller, index to each vol.; original vinyl; (name of former owner on front endpapers); a nice set. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1964]. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 13 (619 sets printed). First published London, Sampson Low, 1889. For full description and picture please click here. #6477 | A$450.00 | 671 Click HERE to order |
Giles, Ernest.
AUSTRALIA TWICE TRAVERSED: The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and through Central South Australia, and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876. 2 vols., Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. lx, 322(last 2 blank); 3 folding maps, 22 illustrations (11 full-page), index; Vol. II, pp. xii, 364(last blank); 3 folding maps, 23 illustrations (10 full-page), appendix, index; original illustrated papered boards; (slight offsetting of a few pp. in Vol. I); a fine set. No modern imprint [Sydney; Doubleday Australia; N.D. 1979]. ***Originally published 1889; see Ferguson 9914. For full description and picture please click here. #5027 | A$250.00 | 672 Click HERE to order |
Gill, S. T.
Part 1. Price 10.6. SKETCHES OF THE VICTORIA GOLD DIGGINGS AND DIGGERS, AS THEY ARE, by S.T.G. 4to, First London Edition; illustrated title-wrapper & 24 fine lithographed plates on cream tinted backgrounds; original wrappers, with advertisement on yellow tinted verso of front wrapper and identical advertisement on outside rear wrapper, the inside being blank; (front wrapper detached at fold & rather soiled; rear wrapper less so; relatively minor water-staining to margins only of about 9 plates); a very good copy, otherwise clean; very rare. London; H. H. Collins & Co.; 1853. ***Ferguson 9920a; Wantrup 245; Not in Abbey; See also Bowden: Samuel Thomas Gill, Artist, pages 120 & 123. Only this first part was published in London, the two parts, comprising 48 plates, having been published in Melbourne in the previous year but in smaller format. The plates are beautifully executed in Gill's inimitable style and are both attractive and greatly informative of life on the goldfields. For full description and picture please click here. #59717 | A$8500.00 | 673 Click HERE to order |
Gill, S. T.
THE AUSTRALIAN SKETCHBOOK by S.T.G. Oblong demy folio, First Edition; pp. [50]; comprising 25 coloured plates including chromo-lithographed title-page; a spot in right margin of title-page & a few spots elsewhere, but a very good copy in contemporary half roan (front joint a little worn), with title in gilt on front board; rare. [Melbourne]; Printed in colors & published by Hamel & Ferguson; N.D. [1865]. ***Ferguson 9924f; Wantrup 251. This was Gill's last published and most acclaimed work, depicting in his fine characteristic style the rural life of the settlers and Aborigines. Several of the plates represent the culmination of scenes which Gill repeatedly reworked over his career. A fine example of Australian chromo-lithography. For full description and picture please click here. #18304 | A$8500.00 | 674 Click HERE to order |
Gill, Samuel Thomas:
S. T. GILL IN VICTORIA. An Exhibition showing examples of the artist's work from the collections of the La Trobe Library. Tuesday 5th March - Friday 10th May 1968. F'cap folio; pp. [8]; stapled, as issued; a very good copy. Melbourne; La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria; 1968. ***Listing 88 items. For full description and picture please click here. #68397 | A$25.00 | 675 Click HERE to order |
Gill, Samuel Thomas:
SUMMER, circa 1847. A Christmas card, 158 mm by 223 mm, 4 pp., with coloured image of S. T. Gill's 'Summer' on front, signed on page [3] by A[llan] P[ercy] Fleming, National Librarian; in very good condition. (Canberra; National Library of Australia; 1970). For full description and picture please click here. #68395 | A$20.00 | 676 Click HERE to order |
Gill, Samuel Thomas:
CITY POLICE STATION AND TOWN HALL, MELBOURNE. A coloured reproduction of the print from Victoria Illustrated, 1857, 280 mm by 227 mm including margins; in very good condition. [Melbourne(?); Publisher Unknown; N.D. [c. 1970]. ***The original print (steel engraving) was not coloured. For full description and picture please click here. #68396 | A$10.00 | 677 Click HERE to order |
Gill, S. T.
THE AUSTRALIAN SKETCH-BOOK. Demy folio, Facsimile Edition; pp. [64]; 25 coloured plates (reproduced from the originals & including the original title-page); a fine copy in original slip-case (the slip-case very slightly marked). (Melbourne); Lansdowne; (1974). ***Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies. Originally published in 1864, the plates are here accompanied by appropriate text taken from contemporary sources. For full description and picture please click here. #21672 | A$350.00 | 678 Click HERE to order |
ONLY 100 COPIES Gill, S. T.
DR. DOYLES SKETCHES IN AUSTRALIA. A collection of prints from the original watercolour drawings in the Mitchell Library. With notes on the drawings and an historical account of the association between S. T. Gill and Dr J. T. Doyle by Sasha Grishin. Oblong folio, First Edition; pp. [ii], 30, [31-120](plates), 121-132(last 3 blank); 45 mounted coloured plates, sources & notes; original quarter morocco, with marbled sides & morocco corners, in original folding canvas box with leather label, as issued; a fine copy. (Sydney); The Mitchell Library Press & The Centaur Press; (1993). ***Edition limited to 100 signed and numbered copies. For full description and picture please click here. #19331 | A$2750.00 | 679 Click HERE to order |
Gill, Samuel Thomas:
S. T. GILL. The Colonial Cruikshank. An Exhibition from the Picture Collection of the State Library of Victoria, 21 July--7 September 1997. 4to; pp. 8; 4 illustrations; stapled, as issued; a fine copy. Melbourne; State Library of Victoria; 1997. ***Listing 32 watercolours & lithographs. Together with, State Library of Victoria News, Volume I Number 1 July-September 1997, 4to, 12 pages plus wrappers, with several illustrations and a full-page notice of the above exhibition including 2 coloured illustrations. For full description and picture please click here. #68398 | A$20.00 | 680 Click HERE to order |
Gill, Thomas.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], [ii], 118, [2](blank); appendices, index; original vinyl; a fine copy. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1976]. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 200 (518 copies printed). First published in 1886. For full description and picture please click here. #31729 | A$35.00 | 681 Click HERE to order |
Gill, Walter.
PETERMANN JOURNEY. First U.K. Edition; pp. [viii], 184(last blank); endpaper maps, 16 plates; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. London; Angus & Robertson (U.K.) Limited, Rigby Limited, Adelaide; (1968). ***A journey to central Australia in 1931. R. S. Fox's copy with his bookplate. For full description and picture please click here. #43027 | A$95.00 | 682 Click HERE to order |
Gillen, Mollie.
THE FOUNDERS OF AUSTRALIA. A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet. With Appendices by Yvonne Browning, Michael Flynn, Mollie Gillen. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xlviii, 608; 5 maps, 49 illustrations, 12 appendices, bibliography, 4 indices (signatures, personal names, place names & general), list of subscribers; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper; scarce. Sydney; Library of Australian History; 1989. For full description and picture please click here. #28199 | A$275.00 | 683 Click HERE to order |
Gillett, Ross and Graham, Colin; with Anthony Macdougall.
WARSHIPS OF AUSTRALIA. 4to, First Edition; pp. 296; 40 coloured plates, numerous b/w. illustrations; original papered boards; (front endpaper slightly marked, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper); scarce. (Adelaide); Rigby; (1977). For full description and picture please click here. #45913 | A$95.00 | 684 Click HERE to order |
Gillett, Ross.
AUSTRALIAN SHIPS. [Over Two Centuries of Our Maritime Heritage]. 4to, First Edition; pp. 145(including rear endpaper); 32 coloured plates, numerous b/w. illustrations, bibliography, index; original slick pictorial papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Frenchs Forest); Child & Associates, An Australian Publisher; (1989). For full description and picture please click here. #29889 | A$45.00 | 685 Click HERE to order |
Gingerich, Owen.
THE BOOK NOBODY READ. Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus. Cr. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. xiv, 306; 8 coloured plates, numerous b/w. illustrations & a few maps, 2 appendices, bibliographic notes, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; William Heinemann; (2004). ***First published in the U.S. in 2004 by Walker Publishing Co. A fascinating account by an astronomer and book collector of his travels and researches on Nicolaus Copernicus' De Revolutionibus (of which he compiled an annotated census) and which Arthur Koestler most erroneously claimed was "the book nobody read". For full description and picture please click here. #33339 | A$35.00 | 686 Click HERE to order |
Ginswick, J.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PAMPHLETS ON AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY, 1830-1895. 4to, First Edition; pp. 24; original wrappers. Sydney; Law Book Co. of Australasia Pty Ltd; 1961. For full description and picture please click here. #57816 | A$15.00 | 687 Click HERE to order |
Glynn, Ian and Jenifer.
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SMALLPOX. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 278; several illustrations; notes, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Profile Books; (2004). ***An excellent account of smallpox, strong on historical aspects. For full description and picture please click here. #60038 | A$50.00 | 688 Click HERE to order |
Goldberg, Ken; Edited by.
THE ROBOT IN THE GARDEN. Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet. F'cap 4to, First Edition; pp. xx, 372(last 6 blank); several illustrations, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Cambridge, Massachusetts; The MIT Press; (2000). For full description and picture please click here. #46237 | A$30.00 | 689 Click HERE to order |
Golden Cockerel Press:
COCKALORUM. A Sequel to Chanticleer and Pertelote, Being a Bibliography of The Golden Cockerel Press June 1943-December 1948. Foreword and Notes by Christopher Sandford. Illustrations from the Books. Roy. 8vo, Unlimited Edition; pp. 112; 83 fine illustrations; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. No Place [London]; (Golden Cockerel Press); 1948. ***With the attractive bookplate of Alan Wambeek. For full description and picture please click here. #31035 | A$100.00 | 690 Click HERE to order |
Goldfields, Victoria:
MINER'S RIGHT. Lightly folded, in excellent condition; very scarce. [Stawell; Government of the Colony of Victoria; 1863]. ***An original Miner's Right, printed on parchment or vellum, issued to Duncan McKellar. These earlier Miner's Rights on parchment/vellum are relatively scarce. For full description and picture please click here. #68219 | A$550.00 | 691 Click HERE to order |
Goldfields, Victoria:
Colony of Victoria. No. 47448 [and 47448]. Five Shillings. District & Place in which issued (in ms.) "Stawell" Date (in ms.) "14 December 1866". [TWO CONSECUTIVE] MINER'S RIGHT[S]. Lightly folded, in fine condition; scarce. [Stawell; Government of the Colony of Victoria; 1866]. ***A very rare consecutive pair of original Miner's Rights, printed on paper and issued to Duncan McKellar, the two bearing the same dates of commencement and term, but the second bearing the superscription BS. 23.2.67. It would seem that there was some error in the issuing of two identical Rights. A most unusual survival. For full description and picture please click here. #68218 | A$450.00 | 692 Click HERE to order |
[Goldscheider, Ludwig].
LEONARDO DA VINCI. Impl. 4to, Fifth Edition; pp. 44(last blank), [4]; mounted tinted frontispiece, 2 mounted coloured plates, 108 plates with 148 illustrations (some mounted 7 coloured), 77 figures (2 mounted), index of collections, bibliography with index; original canvas; a very good copy in slightly torn & worn dustwrapper. London; Phaidon Press Ltd; (1954). For full description and picture please click here. #66234 | A$40.00 | 693 Click HERE to order |
Goncalves, Julio.
BIBLIOGRAFIA DO ULTRAMAR PORTUGUES existente na Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa. Fasciculo III Timor. Publicada em Anexo ao Boletim da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 20; original wrappers; a very good copy. Lisboa; Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa; 1961. ***Alphabetical bibliography of Timor, arranged by subject. For full description and picture please click here. #67834 | A$45.00 | 694 Click HERE to order |
Goodall, Jane.
THROUGH A WINDOW. My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe. Med. 8vo, First U.S. Edition; pp. [xii], 268, [8](all but last blank); map, 8 coloured & 40 b/w. plates, 2 appendices, index; original quarter cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Boston; Houghton Mifflin Company; 1990. For full description and picture please click here. #16060 | A$45.00 | 695 Click HERE to order |
Goodwin, Peter.
Anatomy of the Ship. THE 20-GUN SHIP BLANDFORD. Oblong 4to, First Edition; pp. 120(last blank); very numerous photos. & detailed drawings; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Conway Maritime Press; (1988). ***"A complete anatomy of the ship in words, photographs and drawings, accurate, visually exciting and totally comprehensive, offering ship buffs, historians and modelmakers a novel insight into the technicalities of each ship type covered". For full description and picture please click here. #24016 | A$60.00 | 696 Click HERE to order |
Goodwin, Peter.
Anatomy of the Ship. THE BOMB VESSEL GRANADO 1742. Oblong 4to, First Edition; pp. 128(last 3 blank); very numerous photos. & detailed drawings, appendices; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Conway Maritime Press; (1989). ***"A complete anatomy of the ship in words, photographs and drawings, accurate, visually exciting and totally comprehensive, offering ship buffs, historians and modelmakers a novel insight into the technicalities of each ship type covered". For full description and picture please click here. #24065 | A$60.00 | 697 Click HERE to order |
Gosnell, John; & Co.
JOHN GOSNELL & CO. Perfumers, Fine Soap Makers & Fancy Brush Manufacturers to H. M. the Queen and H. R. H. the Princess of Wales. 8vo; pp. [8]; map, several illustrations & decorations; printed in black, red and gold; original pictorial wrappers; (some very minor staining); a very good copy; scarce. London; John Gosnell & Co.; N.D. [c. 1880]. ***With the stamp, in gilt: Presented by J. Holdsworth, Chemist, Sandhurst [= Bendigo, Victoria]. Nicely illustrated short accounts of industry, the firm and brush-making methods, etc. For full description and picture please click here. #68521 | A$35.00 | 698 Click HERE to order |
Gosse, P. H.; F.R.S.
THE OCEAN. Med. 12mo; pp. xii, 360, [4](adv.); 4 plates, 48 text illustrations; original embossed cloth (foot of spine rubbed; frontispiece neatly pasted to endpaper); a very nice copy. London; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; [1860]. ***First published in 1845, here with Preface to the first edition, and to the present edition (Page vi). Including the natural history of the oceans and with substantial portion (60 pages) on the Pacific. For full description and picture please click here. #65698 | A$30.00 | 699 Click HERE to order |
Gosse, Philip Henry, F.R.S.
OMPHALOS: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot. Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii](blank), xiv, 376, [6](original adverts.), [2](blank); 56 illustrations, index; original stiff wrappers; a nice copy. Woodbridge, Connecticut; Ox Bow Press; (1998). ***First published in 1857, Gosse's Omphalos hypothesis that God had recently created the earth with the appearance of being very old, destroyed his reputation, but has nevertheless been trotted out from time to time as a supposed refutation of Darwin's theory of evolution and of the various means by which we know the antiquity of the earth. For full description and picture please click here. #57537 | A$30.00 | 700 Click HERE to order |
Gosse, W[illiam] C[hristie].
W. C. GOSSE'S EXPLORATIONS, 1873. Report and Diary of Mr. W. C. Gosse's Central and Western Exploring Expedition, 1873. F'cap folio, Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], 24(last blank); large folding map (in end-pocket), frontispiece of Ayers Rock; original vinyl; a fine copy. Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1973. ***Originally published in 1874. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 71. 603 copies only were printed. For full description and picture please click here. #24145 | A$275.00 | 701 Click HERE to order |
Goudy, Frederic W.
THE ALPHABET AND ELEMENTS OF LETTERING. Revised and enlarged with many full-page plates and other illustrations drawn & arranged by the Author. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [xiv], xvi, 104(last blank), [4](blank); 27 plates (one for each letter of the alphabet & one of numbers), full-page illust., 48 figures in text; original quarter cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Bracken Books; (1989). ***The Alphabet was first published in 1918 and ran to many editions, Elements of Lettering was published in 1922; this combined and enlarged edition was first published in 1942. For full description and picture please click here. #66251 | A$40.00 | 702 Click HERE to order |
Gould, George M.
GOULD'S POCKET PRONOUNCING MEDICAL DICTIONARY F'cap 8vo, Eleventh Edition, Fourteenth Impression; pp. viii, [1056]; 85 tables, appendix; original cloth; a nice copy. Philadelphia; The Blakiston Company; 1950. ***This edition first published in 1939. For full description and picture please click here. #49418 | A$25.00 | 703 Click HERE to order |
Gould, John:
THE MAMMALS OF AUSTRALIA BY JOHN GOULD (1804-1881). The Age Gallery 250 Spencer St. Melbourne. December 1-8. Folded 4to; pp. [i], 5; 1 illust.; catalogue of an exhibition and sale of prints from Gould's work. Canberra; Sloane Originals; N.D. [c. 1980]. ***Together with an announcement card for a similar exhibition by Robert Douwma of plates from The Birds of Australia. For full description and picture please click here. #68485 | A$20.00 | 704 Click HERE to order |
Gould, John.
HUMMING BIRDS. Eulampis Jugularis. A full size facsimile print of this bird (two specimens shown) being Plate 82 from Volume II of the Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Humming-Birds. A fine, colourful and attractive print, 370 by 540 mm. (image 310 by 380 approx. plus captions). Melbourne; Hill House; 1993. ***The colours are very faithful to the original. For full description and picture please click here. #58678 | A$45.00 | 705 Click HERE to order |
Gould, Stephen Jay.
HEN'S TEETH AND HORSE'S TOES. [Further Reflections in Natural History]. First Edition; pp. 416(last 3 blank); numerous illustrations in text, bibliography, index; original quarter cloth (spine slightly wrinkled); a very good copy in worn dustwrapper. New York; W. W. Norton & Company; (1983). ***Including essays on the Piltdown affair. For full description and picture please click here. #58204 | A$35.00 | 706 Click HERE to order |
Gould, Stephen Jay.
THE LYING STONES OF MARRAKECH. Penultimate Reflections in Natural History. Med. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. [xii], 372; numerous illustrations in text, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Jonathan Cape; (2000). For full description and picture please click here. #64441 | A$30.00 | 707 Click HERE to order |
Gould League of Bird Lovers of Victoria:
SERIES TWO. A collection of stickers of native birds with captions of conservation slogans in four languages. 36 stickers, each 56 x 48 mm, in three perforated sheets (selvedges a little frayed but in very good condition). Melbourne; Pilven Printing Services Pty. Ltd [for The League]; N.D. [c. 1955?]. For full description and picture please click here. #68530 | A$20.00 | 708 Click HERE to order |
Goulson, Dave.
A STING IN THE TALE. My Adventures with Bumblebees. First U.S. Edition; pp. xxiv, 264(last 7 blank); appendix, index; original papered boards; (tiny remainder mark on top edge); a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; Picador; (2014). ***An excellent entertaining and informative book with relevant remarks also on honey bees and the vital part played by bees in general in pollinating plants essential to human survival. For full description and picture please click here. #67140 | A$25.00 | 709 Click HERE to order |
Grafton, Fiona.
COOKING AFLOAT on Sail and Power Boats. First Edition; pp. [xii], 202, [2](blank); several illustrations, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Macmillan; (1979). For full description and picture please click here. #38549 | A$25.00 | 710 Click HERE to order |
Graham, H. Boyd.
"THE UNIMAGINABLE TOUCH OF TIME": The Centenary of the Royal Melbourne Hospital. 8vo; pp. 28; 2 figures, references; original wrappers. Sydney; Australasian Medical Publishing Company Limited; 1948. ***Reprinted from The Medical Journal of Australia, February 28, 1948, p. 274. For full description and picture please click here. #68494 | A$25.00 | 711 Click HERE to order |
Graham, Howard Boyd.
HAPPENINGS OF THE NOW LONG PAST: The Centenary of the Medical Society of Victoria. 4to; pp. 36; 10 figures, 3 appendices; original wrappers (spine a little worn). Sydney; Australasian Medical Publishing Company Limited; 1952. ***Reprinted from The Medical Journal of Australia, August 16, 1952, p. 213. For full description and picture please click here. #68495 | A$20.00 | 712 Click HERE to order |
Graham, Howard Boyd.
BEACONS ON OUR WAY: Some Memories of the Children's Hospital, Melbourne. 8vo; pp. 28; 3 figures, references, appendix; original wrappers. Sydney; Australasian Medical Publishing Company Limited; 1953. ***Reprinted from The Medical Journal of Australia, October 3, 1953, p. 517. For full description and picture please click here. #68496 | A$25.00 | 713 Click HERE to order |
Graham, Howard Boyd.
GEORGE THOMAS HOWARD: His Medico-Historical Activities. 8vo; pp. 20(last blank); 1 fig., references; original wrappers. Sydney; Australasian Medical Publishing Company Limited; 1954. ***Reprinted from The Medical Journal of Australia, June 26, 1954, p. 971. For full description and picture please click here. #68497 | A$20.00 | 714 Click HERE to order |
Graham, Howard Boyd.
FOOTPRINTS: The Jubilee of the Paediatric Society in Victoria. 4to; pp. 12; appendix; original wrappers. Sydney; Australasian Medical Publishing Company Limited; 1958. ***Reprinted from The Medical Journal of Australia, February 15, 1958, page 201. For full description and picture please click here. #68499 | A$15.00 | 715 Click HERE to order |
Graham, Howard Boyd.
ARTHUR JEFFREYS WOOD: A Paediatric Profile. 4to; pp. 8; original wrappers. Sydney; Australasian Medical Publishing Company Limited; 1959. ***Reprinted from The Medical Journal of Australia, January 31, 1959, page 144. For full description and picture please click here. #68501 | A$10.00 | 716 Click HERE to order |
Grand, Steve.
GROWING UP WITH LUCY. How to Build an Android in Twenty Easy Steps. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. viii, 232(last 3 blank); 8 coloured plates, 31 figures, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; (2003). For full description and picture please click here. #22731 | A$25.00 | 717 Click HERE to order |
Grant, James.
THE NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY, London; Printed for T. Egerton; 1803. For full description and picture please click here. #21808 | A$17,500.00 | 718 Click HERE to order |
Grant, James.
THE NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY, 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [viii], xxvi, [2](blank), [2](list of encouragers), 200(last 5 blank); large folding plan of the sliding keels, folding chart, 1 coloured & 5 b/w. plates, appendix; original cloth; (endpapers slightly marked); a nice copy in slightly faded dustwrapper. (Melbourne; Heritage Publications); N.D. [c. 1970]. ***The "Lady Nelson" was originally sent out to survey the unknown coasts of New Holland and was later chosen to accompany Matthew Flinders' on his circumnavigation of Australia. She accompanied him when he set off, but her slow sailing meant she was unable to keep up and was forced to turn back when she ran aground off the Queensland coast. The voyage included the first navigation of Bass Strait from West to East. The "Lady Nelson" was an experimental vessel, and her performance was of considerable interest to nautical science. Grant was given command rather than the designer Captain Schanck, as it was thought that the experiment would be given a fairer trial. The sliding keels did not, however, make the impact expected in spite of the advantage they presented for surveying in shallow waters. For full description and picture please click here. #22372 | A$225.00 | 719 Click HERE to order |
Graubard, Stephen R.; Edited by.
THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEBATE. False Starts, Real Foundations. Med. 8vo, First Edition in book form, Third Impression; pp. [vi], 314(last 3 blank); original stiff wrappers (neatly plastic covered); a fine copy. Cambridge, Massachusetts; The MIT Press; (1990). ***First published in 1988 from Daedalus, Volume 117, Number 1 of the same year. With contributions by many of the giants in the field: Seymour Papert, Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. Dreyfus, Robert Sokolowski, Pamela McCorduck, Jack D. Cowan and David H. Sharp, Jacob T. Schwartz, George N. Reeke, Jr., and Gerald M. Edelman, W. Daniel Hillis, David L. Waltz, Anya Hurlbert and Tomaso Poggio, Sherry Turkle, Hilary Putnam, Daniel C. Dennett, and John McCarthy. For full description and picture please click here. #55245 | A$35.00 | 720 Click HERE to order |
Gray, Albert; assisted by H. C. P. Bell.
THE VOYAGE OF FRANCOIS PYRARD OF LAVAL to the East Indies, the Maldives, the Moluccas and Brazil. Translated from the Third French Edition of 1619. 2 vols. in 3, Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. lx, 452; several illustrations; Vol. II, part I, pp. xlviii, 288(last blank); several illustrations; Vol. II, part II, pp. xii, [289]-572; several illustrations & maps (3 folding), dictionary of the Maldive language, 5 appendices, index; original cloth; a fine set. New Delhi; Asian Educational Services; 2000. ***Originally published by the Hakluyt Society in 1887-90. For full description and picture please click here. #26944 | A$60.00 | 721 Click HERE to order |
Gray, Nicolette.
XIXTH CENTURY ORNAMENTED TYPES AND TITLE PAGES. First Edition; pp. 216(last 3 blank); 8 plates, 32 illustrations, chart of ornamental types, index; original cloth; a very good copy; scarce. London; Faber and Faber Limited; (MCMXXXVIII) [1938]. For full description and picture please click here. #31725 | A$65.00 | 722 Click HERE to order |
Gray, William R.
VOYAGES TO PARADISE: Exploring in the Wake of Captain Cook. Photographed by Gordon W. Gahan. Super roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 216; a few sketch maps, numerous coloured illustrations (several double & full-page), index; original papered boards; a fine copy in slightly defective dustwrapper. Washington, D.C.; National Geographic Society; (1981). For full description and picture please click here. #23420 | A$35.00 | 723 Click HERE to order |
Green, H. M.
AN OUTLINE OF AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 288; index of authors; original cloth (spine faded; slightly flecked); a very good copy. Sydney; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd.; (1930). For full description and picture please click here. #19481 | A$30.00 | 724 Click HERE to order |
Green, H. M.
A HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE. Pure and Applied. A Critical Review of all Forms of Literature Produced in Australia from the First Books published after the Arrival of the First Fleet until 1950, with Short Accounts of Later Publications up to 1960. 2 vols., med. 8vo, First Edition, Second Impression, with corrections; pp. [ii], xxx, 842; viii, [843]-1470; index; original cloth; a very good set. (Sydney); Angus and Robertson; (1962). For full description and picture please click here. #21833 | A$110.00 | 725 Click HERE to order |
Greene, Jack and Massignani, Alessandro.
THE NAVAL WAR IN THE MEDITERRANEAN 1940-1943. Med. 8vo, First Edition, U.S. issue; pp. 352; numerous maps, 16 plates, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Chatham Publishing, Sarpedon (New York; 1999). ***First published in the U.K. in the previous year and printed in Britain. For full description and picture please click here. #19927 | A$50.00 | 726 Click HERE to order |
Greenfield, Susan.
BRAIN STORY. Unlocking Our Inner World of Emotions, Memories, Ideas and Desires. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 208; numerous coloured illustrations, bibliography, glossary; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); BBC; (2000). For full description and picture please click here. #7047 | A$50.00 | 727 Click HERE to order |
Greenhill, Basil.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE WOODEN SHIP. Illustrations [and commentary] by Sam Manning. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. 240(last blank); very numerous fine illustrations & figures & a few photos., glossary, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; B. T. Batsford; (1988). For full description and picture please click here. #21692 | A$85.00 | 728 Click HERE to order |
Gregory, Dickson.
AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIPS. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 260; 6 coloured & 138 b/w. plates, appendix, index; original blue buckram, gilt (the original primary binding); top edge gilt; (spine faded, as usual); a very nice, clean copy; scarce. London; The Richards Press Ltd. Publishers; (1928). For full description and picture please click here. #25608 | A$350.00 | 729 Click HERE to order |
Gregory's:
Map 502. Gregory's Trading & Tourist Reference Map of PACIFIC OCEAN & MAIN ISLAND GROUPS. Air Distances. Shipping. Products. Large folded coloured map, First Edition (?); 965 x 730 mm approx. plus margins; a fine copy. No Place [Sydney]; Gregory's Guides and Maps Pty. Ltd.; N.D. [c. 1966]. ***Showing the entire Pacific Ocean and coastal areas of the Pacific rim countries, with insets of the major islands and island groups, tables of air distances and countries showing currency (Australia: dollar), population (Australia: 11,500,000) and area. A useful and informative map. For full description and picture please click here. #67378 | A$20.00 | 730 Click HERE to order |
Grey, Edward.
THE TRAVELS OF PIETRO DELLA VALLE IN INDIA. From the Old English Translation of 1664, by G. Havers. In two volumes. Edited, with a Life of the Author, an Introduction and Notes. 2 vols., Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. [viii], iv, lvi, 192; portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps; Vol. II, pp. xii, [193]-454; portrait frontispiece, index; original cloth; a very good set. New Delhi; Asian Educational Services; 1991. ***First published by The Hakluyt Society in 1892. For full description and picture please click here. #27776 | A$45.00 | 731 Click HERE to order |
Grey, George.
JOURNALS OF TWO EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY IN NORTH-WEST AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA, during the Years 1837, 38, and 39, under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many Newly-Discovered, Important and Fertile Districts, with Observations on the Moral and Physical Condition of the Aboriginal Inhabitants, &c. &c. 2 vols., Facsimile of First Edition; Vol. I, pp. xiv, 412, [4](blank); 2 folding maps, 7 coloured & 4 b/w. plates, several text illustrations; Vol. II, pp. viii, 482; coloured frontispiece, 10 b/w. plates, 6 appendices; original papered boards; a fine set in dustwrappers. (Victoria Park, W.A.; Hesperian Press; 1983). ***Originally published London, T. & W. Boone, 1841. For full description and picture please click here. #17044 | A$250.00 | 732 Click HERE to order |
Grigsby, Joan.
GALLEY HO! A Manual of Cookmanship for Yachtsmen and all who Cook under difficulties. Small 8vo, First Edition; pp. 72; several illustrations, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Robert Ross & Co. Ltd; (1952). For full description and picture please click here. #55078 | A$18.00 | 733 Click HERE to order |
Grodzinsky, Yosef [and] Amunts, Katrin; Edited by.
BROCA'S REGION. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 424(last 5 blank); 16 coloured plates, numerous b/w. illustrations & figures, references, author index, subject index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (New York); Oxford University Press; 2006. ***A remarkable collection of papers from the Broca's Region Workshop held in Julich and Aachen in 2005, together with a selection of seminal historical papers (starting with Broca himself) on neuro-anatomy and linguistics. For full description and picture please click here. #62158 | A$75.00 | 734 Click HERE to order |
Gross, Alan.
CHARLES JOSEPH LA TROBE: Superintendent of the Port Phillip District 1839-1851, Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria 1851-1854. First Edition; pp. x, 158(last blank); 7 plates, 4 appendices including chronology & genealogy, bibliography, index; original cloth; a very good copy in slightly torn dustwrapper. Melbourne; Melbourne University Press; (1956). For full description and picture please click here. #228 | A$30.00 | 735 Click HERE to order |
[Gross, Alan].
VICTORIA'S FIRST GOVERNMENT HOUSE 1839-1854. Commentary and Catalogue. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [16]; 8 illustrations; original pictorial wrappers; a very good copy. [Melbourne; National Trust of Australia (Victoria); c. 1960]. ***Based on Gross's biography of C. J. La Trobe. For full description and picture please click here. #67500 | A$15.00 | 736 Click HERE to order |
Gruzinski, Serge.
PAINTING THE CONQUEST. The Mexican Indians and the European Renaissance. Translated by Deke Dusinberre. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. 240(last blank); 2 maps, 194 illustrations (mostly coloured, some full-page), notes, chronology, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Paris); Unesco, Flammarion; (1992). For full description and picture please click here. #67912 | A$85.00 | 737 Click HERE to order |
Guarmani, Carlo.
NORTHERN NAJD. A Journey from Jerusalem to Anaiza in Qasim. Translated from the Italian by Lady Capel-Cure. With introduction and notes by Douglas Carruthers, Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. xliv, 136(last 2 blank); facsimile title-page (of original Italian edition), 2 maps (1 folding), 7 plates, glossary, bibliography, 17 appendices, index; original vinyl; a fine copy. [Amsterdam; N. Israel; 1971]. ***Argonaut Press No. 16. First published (in this form) in 1938. For full description and picture please click here. #9132 | A$65.00 | 738 Click HERE to order |
Guenther, Conrad.
DARWINISM AND THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE. A Study of Familiar Animal Life. Translated from the Third Edition by Joseph McCabe. Thick roy. 8vo, First Edition in English; pp. 436; index; original cloth; (a little foxing); a very good copy; scarce. London; A. Owen & Co.; 1906. For full description and picture please click here. #9725 | A$45.00 | 739 Click HERE to order |
Gupta, A. P.; Edited by.
ARTHROPOD PHYLOGENY. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xx, 762, [2](blank); very numerous figures, references, index, index; original vinyl (very slightly marked; slight foxing of endleaves); a nice copy in dustwrapper; scarce. New York; Van Nostrand Reinhold Company; (1979). For full description and picture please click here. #65294 | A$65.00 | 740 Click HERE to order |
Guterl, Fred.
THE FATE OF THE SPECIES. Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [viii], 216(last 5 blank); notes, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; Bloomsbury; (2012). ***Including the threats from superviruses including those synthetically made by us, climate change, ecosystem destruction and extinction and the possibility of hostile autonomous machines. For full description and picture please click here. #67483 | A$35.00 | 741 Click HERE to order |
Haeckel, Ernst.
THE LAST LINK. Our Present Knowledge of the Descent of Man. With Notes, Biographical Sketches and Glossary by Hans Gadow. Second Edition. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition; pp. [viii], 160; 4 full-page illustrations, glossary; original cloth (a little marked), uncut; (name & stamp of former owners on title-page); a very good copy; scarce. London; Adam and Charles Black; 1899. For full description and picture please click here. #15298 | A$65.00 | 742 Click HERE to order |
Haeckel, Ernst.
THE HISTORY OF CREATION, 2 vols., Fourth Edition; Vol. I, pp. xxiv, 422, [2](blank); 5 tinted plates, 7 figures; Vol. II, pp. xii, 544; folding coloured map, 15 plates (some tinted or coloured), 11 text figures, references, appendix, index; original cloth, entirely uncut; a very nice, bright set; scarce. London; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.; 1906. For full description and picture please click here. #19523 | A$150.00 | 743 Click HERE to order |
Haeckel, Ernst.
THE EVOLUTION OF MAN. A Popular Scientific Study. Vol. I. Human Embryology or Ontogeny. [Vol. II. The Evolution of the Species or Phylogeny]. Translated from the Fifth (enlarged) Edition by Joseph McCabe. [Issued for the Rationalist Press Association, Limited]. 2 vols., First Edition in this form; Vol. I, pp. xx, 344(last blank); 16 plates (11 coloured or tinted), 244 text illustrations & figures, 15 genetic tables; Vol. II, pp. xiv, 355-774; 14 plates (3 tinted), 219 text illustrations & figures, 45 genetic tables, glossary, index; original cloth; (a few pp. in Vol. I with light pencilled underlining); a very nice set; scarce. London; Watts & Co.; 1910. For full description and picture please click here. #65851 | A$185.00 | 744 Click HERE to order |
Haeckel, Ernst.
THE STORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF A YOUTH by Ernst Haeckel. Letters to his Parents 1852-1856. Translated by G. Barry Gifford. First Edition, pp. xii, 420; original cloth (string marks); a very good copy in repaired dustwrapper; scarce. New York and London; Harper & Brothers, Publishers; MCM XXIII [1923]. For full description and picture please click here. #65853 | A$50.00 | 745 Click HERE to order |
Hague, James D.
REMINISCENCE OF MR. DARWIN. Med. 8vo; pp. [759]-763; full-page portrait; new titled wrappers; a fine copy. [Extracted from Harper's New Monthly Magazine; 1884]. For full description and picture please click here. #65668 | A$25.00 | 746 Click HERE to order |
Hain, Ludovic:
REPERTORIUM BIBLIOGRAPHICUM, 2 Parts in 3 vols., Facsimile Edition; Part I, pp. xvi, 510, [2](adv.); Part II, Vol. I, pp. [vi], 454, [2](adv.); Part II, Vol. II, pp. [vi], 316(last blank), xiv, [317]-670(Supplement, see below), [2](adv.); original cloth; a fine set. Milano; Gorlich Editore; (1950). ***Part II of Volume II contains a substantial supplement - THE PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS OF THE XV CENTURY, with Lists of their Works, Index to the Supplement to Hain's Repertorium Bibliographicum, etc., by Konrad Burger. For full description and picture please click here. #19851 | A$650.00 | 747 Click HERE to order |
[Hakluyt, Richard].
VIRGINIA VOYAGES FROM HAKLUYT. Edited with an Introduction by David B. Quinn and Alison M. Quinn. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxviii, 196(last blank); folding map, 12 plates, notes, bibliography, chronology, index of subjects & index of persons and places; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Oxford University Press; 1973. ***Oxford English Memoirs and Travels. For full description and picture please click here. #50106 | A$45.00 | 748 Click HERE to order |
Halkett, Samuel & Laing, John:
A DICTIONARY OF ANONYMOUS AND PSEUDONYMOUS ENGLISH LITERATURE Edinburgh; Oliver and Boyd; 1926-62. ***First published 1882-1888 in four volumes, this enlarged second edition is the foremost reference on the subject. For full description and picture please click here. #45598 | A$950.00 | 749 Click HERE to order |
Halkett, Samuel & Laing, John:
A DICTIONARY OF ANONYMOUS AND PSEUDONYMOUS PUBLICATIONS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Third (Revised and Enlarged) Edition. 1475-1640. John Horden, Editor. 4to; pp. xlviii, 272(last blank); addenda & Corrigenda, Index of Writers' Names; List of Pseudonyms; Tables of S.T.C. Numbers, A. & R. Numbers, and Greg Numbers; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Harlow & London); Longman; (1980). ***All so far published. For full description and picture please click here. #20535 | A$85.00 | 750 Click HERE to order |
(Hall, Tony; Editor).
D-DAY. Operation Overlord. From its planning to the Liberation of Paris. Foreword by Winston S. Churchill. Super roy. 4to, Book Club Edition; pp. 224; 2 endpaper maps, very numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations & maps, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; BCA; (1993). ***The foreword is by the grandson of his famous namesake. For full description and picture please click here. #19858 | A$45.00 | 751 Click HERE to order |
Hallam, Henry.
INTRODUCTION TO THE LITERATURE OF EUROPE, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries. 3 vols., Third Edition; Vol. I, pp. xxviii, 576(last 2 blank); Vol. II, pp. xii, 560(last blank); Vol. III, pp. xii, 668; index; original cloth (spines faded), with original paper labels; entirely uncut; a very nice set; scarce. London; John Murray; 1847. For full description and picture please click here. #26504 | A$175.00 | 752 Click HERE to order |
Halliwell, James O.; Esq., F.R.S.
A DICTIONARY OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS, existing either in print or in manuscript, from the earliest times to the close of the seventeenth century; including also notices of Latin Plays written by English Authors during the same period. First Edition; pp. viii, 296, [28](inserted adv.); index; original blind-stamped cloth (spine worn; some foxing of endpaper & edges); a very good copy; scarce. London; John Russell Smith; M.DCCC.LX [1860]. For full description and picture please click here. #36905 | A$70.00 | 753 Click HERE to order |
Ham, Paul.
VIETNAM. The Australian War. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xviii, 814; 6 full-page maps, 24 plates, a few text illustrations, 4 appendices, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; (a passage on Page 625 underlined and noted with sarcasm); a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney); HarperCollins Publishers; (2007). For full description and picture please click here. #30962 | A$65.00 | 754 Click HERE to order |
Hamilton, Alexander.
A NEW ACCOUNT OF THE EAST INDIES BY ALEXANDER HAMILTON. With numerous Maps & Illustrations. Now edited with Introduction and Notes by Sir William Foster, C.I.E., President of the Hakluyt Society. 4to, First Edition in this form; Volume I ONLY, pp. [ii], xxxviii, 260(last blank); 3 folding maps, frontispiece, facsimile title-page & 4 text illustrations; original quarter vellum, with buckram sides, gilt; uncut and unopened; a very good copy; scarce. London; The Argonaut Press; 1930. ***VOLUME ONE ONLY. The complete work in two volumes is a limited edition of 975 numbered sets. The original edition was published in Edinburgh in 1727 and the work covers the observations of Captain Hamilton during the years 1688 to 1723 when he was engaged in trade and navigation between the Cape of Good Hope and Japan. For full description and picture please click here. #22724 | A$50.00 | 755 Click HERE to order |
Hamilton, George.
A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD Facsimile Edition; pp. 38, 164, [2](blank); portrait frontispiece (to original work), map frontispiece & 5 illustrations in introduction; original quarter leather, with marbled sides; (spine slightly faded); a nice copy. (Sydney); Hordern House; (1998). ***Australian Maritime Series Number Four. Edition limited to 950 copies. Originally published at Berwick in 1793. For full description and picture please click here. #59450 | A$350.00 | 756 Click HERE to order |
Hamilton, Lieut-General Sir Ian.
A STAFF OFFICER'S SCRAP BOOK. During the Russo-Japanese War. With illustrations, maps and plans. [Volume I ONLY]. First Edition; pp. xii, 364(last blank); 9 folding maps, 17 plates, 7 full-page sketches; original cloth; uncut; a very nice copy. London; Edward Arnold; 1905. ***A second volume was published in 1907. For full description and picture please click here. #27765 | A$35.00 | 757 Click HERE to order |
Hammerschmidt-Hummel, Hildegard.
THE TRUE FACE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. The Poet's Death Mask and Likenesses from Three Periods of His Life. Translated from the German by Alan Bance. 4to, First Edition in English; pp. 208; 127 illustrations, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Chaucer Press; (2006). For full description and picture please click here. #50611 | A$35.00 | 758 Click HERE to order |
Hammerton, J. A.; Edited by.
OUR KING AND QUEEN. A Pictorial Record of Their Times. Over Two Thousand Illustrations from Photographs and Twenty-six Colour Plates. 3 vols., 4to, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [viii], 448; mounted portrait as frontispiece, 10 coloured plates, numerous b/w. illustrations; Vol. II, pp. [vi], 449-896; mounted portrait as frontispiece, 8 coloured plates, numerous b/w. illustrations; Vol. III, pp. [viii], 897-1344; mounted portrait as frontispiece, 8 coloured plates, numerous b/w. illustrations, chronology, index; original embossed cloth, top edges gilt; a nice set. London; The Educational Book Co. Ltd.; [1930]. ***A comprehensive work, including references to Australia and other parts of the empire, World War I, etc. For full description and picture please click here. #28804 | A$45.00 | 759 Click HERE to order |
Hammerton, Sir J. A.; Editor.
CONCISE UNIVERSAL BIOGRAPHY. A Dictionary of the Famous Men and Women of All Countries and All Times recording the Lives of more than 20,000 Persons and arranged for Reading or Reference. Profusely Illustrated with Authentic Portraits and other Pictorial Documents. 2 vols., 4to, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [iv], 728; Vol. II, pp. [iv], 729-1452; several text maps, numerous illustrations, lists of abbreviations & "Novissima Verba" (latest information); original blind-stamped buckram; a very nice, clean set. London; The Amalgamated Press Limited; N.D. [1935]. ***An expansive work originating from the "Universal Encyclopaedia", and including more than 20,000 biographies. For full description and picture please click here. #48244 | A$135.00 | 760 Click HERE to order |
Hansel, C. E. M.
ESP AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY: A Critical Reevaluation. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. vi, 330(last 5 blank); a few illustrations, bibliography, index; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. Buffalo, New York; Prometheus Books; (1980). For full description and picture please click here. #51240 | A$25.00 | 761 Click HERE to order |
Harney, Bill [and] Elkin, A. P.
SONGS OF THE SONGMEN. Aboriginal Myths Retold. Cr. 4to, Second (new and revised) Edition; pp. [x], 178; numerous illustrations, glossary; original papered boards; a very good copy in worn dustwrapper. (Adelaide); Rigby; (1968). For full description and picture please click here. #51111 | A$65.00 | 762 Click HERE to order |
Harney, W. E. and Elkin, A. P.
SONGS OF THE SONGMEN. Aboriginal Myths Retold. First Edition; pp. [viii], 176(last blank); map, glossary; original stiff wrappers in slightly torn dustwrapper; (spine worn; half-title a little damaged). Melbourne; F. W. Cheshire; (1949). For full description and picture please click here. #24141 | A$30.00 | 763 Click HERE to order |
Harold Holt:
THE LAST DAYS OF HAROLD HOLT. Broadsheet format; pp. in total approx. 40, plus several duplicates; many illustrations; extracted from the various issues of the newspapers; lightly folded; in very good condition. Melbourne; The Age and The Herald; 1968. For full description and picture please click here. #19287 | A$25.00 | 764 Click HERE to order |
Harris, Alexander.
MARTIN BECK: Pp. [iii]-xii, 368. London; Simms and M'Intyre; 1852.
| A$125.00 | 765 Click HERE to order |
Harris, Daniel G.
F H CHAPMAN. The First Naval Architect and his Work. 4to, First Edition; pp. 256(last blank); numerous illustrations, sources, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Conway Maritime Press; (1989). For full description and picture please click here. #32447 | A$65.00 | 766 Click HERE to order |
Harris, Marvin.
THE RISE OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY. A History of Theories of Culture. Med. 8vo, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. [x], 806; bibliography, index; original cloth; (name on half-title); a very good copy in worn dustwrapper. London; Routledge & Kegan Paul; (1972). ***First published 1969. For full description and picture please click here. #31641 | A$45.00 | 767 Click HERE to order |
Harrison, John.
[BROADSIDE on deep blue paper addressed to] PETER DAVIS, ESQ. Mayor of Melbourne. F'cap folio; a single sheet, printed on recto only; (previously folded, and with light stains, but in excellent condition); a fine copy; rare. Richmond; The Author; 1857. ***From a disgruntled tenant, during the housing shortage consequent on the gold rushes. For full description and picture please click here. #25799 | A$2750.00 | 768 Click HERE to order |
Harrison, W. H.
THE TOURIST IN PORTUGAL. Illustrated from Paintings by James Holland. First Edition; pp. xii, 290, [2](adv.); engraved title-page (additional) with vignette & 17 full-page engraved plates; original full dark green morocco, gilt, all edges gilt; (corners slightly rubbed but a very nice, clean copy); scarce. London; Robert Jennings; MDCCCXXXIX [1839]. ***Jennings' Landscape Annual for 1839. For full description and picture please click here. #11816 | A$110.00 | 769 Click HERE to order |
Hart, G. M.
THE MAGIC OF MALANDA and Lovely Eacham Shire North Queensland. 8vo; pp. [8]; 3 illustrations; stapled, as issued; a nice copy. [Townsville; Reprinted from the "North Australian Monthly"]; N.D. [c. 1960]. For full description and picture please click here. #68450 | A$20.00 | 770 Click HERE to order |
Harth, Erich.
THE CREATIVE LOOP. How the Brain Makes a Mind. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxvi, 196, [2](blank); several figures, notes, bibliography, index; original quarter cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Reading, Massachusetts; A William Patrick Book, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company; (1993). For full description and picture please click here. #60717 | A$35.00 | 771 Click HERE to order |
Hartmann, Robert.
ANTHROPOID APES. With sixty-three illustrations. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [iv](adv.), viii, 326, [2](blank), 44(adv.); 63 illustrations, appendix, index; original red cloth, decorated in gilt & black (worn; library label on front cover, but internally clean, with no stamps); scarce. London; Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.; 1885. ***International Scientific Series, Vol. LIII. For full description and picture please click here. #42093 | A$25.00 | 772 Click HERE to order |
Harvey, Sir Paul; Compiled and Edited by.
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE. Med. 8vo, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. viii, 868(last blank); original buckram; a fine copy. Oxford; at the Clarendon Press; 1932. ***Alphabetically arranged. For full description and picture please click here. #26051 | A$45.00 | 773 Click HERE to order |
Harvey, Sir Paul; Compiled and edited by.
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO CLASSICAL LITERATURE. Cr. 8vo, First Edition, reprinted with corrections; pp. xii, 468; 14 plates, including 8 maps (including 2 double-page); original cloth; a fine copy in worn & taped dustwrapper. Oxford; at the Clarendon Press; (1940). ***Alphabetically arranged. First published 1937. For full description and picture please click here. #20023 | A$45.00 | 774 Click HERE to order |
Haskell, Francis.
PATRONS AND PAINTERS. A Study in the Relations Between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. xx, 456(last 2 blank); 64 plates, 7 appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; a nice copy in torn dustwrapper. London; Chatto & Windus; 1963. For full description and picture please click here. #22500 | A$45.00 | 775 Click HERE to order |
Hasluck, Paul N.; Editor.
BOOKBINDING. With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams. F'cap 8vo, Eleventh Impression; pp. 160; 125 illustrations, index; original wrappers (spine silverfished); a very good copy. London; Cassell & Company, Ltd; (1931). ***First published in 1902. For full description and picture please click here. #38507 | A$35.00 | 776 Click HERE to order |
Hast, Fai Chivell.
THAR SHE BLOWS! Where to see Whales and Dolphins in Australia. First Edition; pp. xvi, 240(last blank); several illustrations & maps, bibliography; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (South Melbourne); Matchbooks; (1989). For full description and picture please click here. #28176 | A$25.00 | 777 Click HERE to order |
Hatcher, John.
THE BLACK DEATH. An Intimate History. Med. 8vo, First Edition, Third Impression; pp. xviii, 302(last blank); 3 maps, 16 plates, source notes; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; (2008). ***A partly fictionalized account, based on historical facts, of the bubonic plague in an English village in the fourteenth century. For full description and picture please click here. #14525 | A$30.00 | 778 Click HERE to order |
[Hatlem, Lt. Col. John C. and Hunter, Capt. Kenneth E.; and others].
Pictorial Record. THE WAR AGAINST GERMANY AND ITALY: MEDITERRANEAN AND ADJACENT AREAS. Cr. 4to, Special Commemorative Edition; pp. xii, 468(last 3 blank); hundreds of illustrations, 2 appendices, index; original pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. Washington, D.C.; Center of Military History United States Army (Minnetonka, National Historical Society); 1988 (1995). ***United States Army in World War II. This volume first published in 1951. For full description and picture please click here. #20252 | A$50.00 | 779 Click HERE to order |
Hatton, Thomas & Cleaver, Arthur H.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PERIODICAL WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS: Bibliographical, Analytical and Statistical. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xx, 384; numerous illustrations (including full-page plates, numerous facsimile reproductions of wrappers & adverts., title-pages, etc.); original buckram, top edge gilt, others uncut; a fine copy in worn dustwrapper. London; Chapman & Hall, Ltd.; 1933. For full description and picture please click here. #20631 | A$250.00 | 780 Click HERE to order |
Hausler, Thomas.
VIRUSES VS. SUPERBUGS. A solution to the antibiotics crisis? Translated by Karen Leube. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 292, [6](adv.); several illustrations, 2 appendices, notes, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Macmillan; (2006). ***A fascinating book on the use of bacteriophages (bacteria eating viruses or 'phages') to combat bacterial infections, a treatment understood before the discovery of penicillin and long used in the Soviet bloc, but neglected until recent times in the West; a promising solution to the crisis of antibiotic resistance. For full description and picture please click here. #62166 | A$50.00 | 781 Click HERE to order |
[Haweis, Thomas; Editor].
A MISSIONARY VOYAGE TO THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC OCEAN, Med. 4to, Best Issue of First Edition, pp. [xii], c, 420, [12](Subscribers' Names); 7 maps & charts (5 folding), 6 plates, appendix (on Otaheitian government, society, inhabitants, deities, customs, natural history, etc,); half navy blue morocco, with moire cloth sides (small trifling mark on front cover; slight scuffing of spine); a fine, clean copy, entirely uncut, with the original paper title-label preserved on inside front board; scarce in such condition. London; Printed by S. Gosnell, for T. Chapman; 1799. ***Ferguson 301; Hill 2, 1894; . The first and preferred of two closely similar editions bearing the same date, this being of slightly larger format and printed on better quality paper. Another edition bearing the imprint "Printed for T. Chapman ... by T. Gillet" and with a completely different set of subscriber's names, was issued almost simultaneously (see Ferguson 302). The purpose of employing two printers appears to have been to ensure the speedy production of sufficient copies to meet the demand. This important work is the account of the first English missionary enterprise in the South Seas. The hostility of the natives at Tahiti and Tonga caused many of the missionaries to seek refuge at Sydney. Some of them settled in Australia "and founded families important in Australian history". William Wilson was Chief Mate on the voyage. Apart from its missionary interest the work contains much valuable information on Tahiti, Fiji and the Marquesas. The Duff Group in the Santa Cruz islands was newly discovered on this voyage. For full description and picture please click here. #2293 | A$2450.00 | 782 Click HERE to order |
[Haweis, Thomas; Editor].
A MISSIONARY VOYAGE TO THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC OCEAN 1796-1798. [By] James Wilson. Introduction by Irmgard Moschner. Small 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. xx, [xii], c, 420; 7 folding charts, 7 plates (including 6 folding), appendix, bibliography; original vinyl; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. New York; Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers; N.D. [c. 1960]. ***The voyage of the "Duff" with William Wilson as Chief Mate. A facsimile, printed in Austria, of the Gosnell edition of 1799. The first XX pages comprise a valuable historical/bibliographical introduction. For full description and picture please click here. #5289 | A$165.00 | 783 Click HERE to order |
Hawkins, Clifford W.
ARGOSY OF SAIL. A Photographic History of Sail. Demy 4to, First Edition; pp. 184; very numerous fine photographic illustrations, index; original vinyl; a fine copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. Auckland; Collins; (1980). For full description and picture please click here. #20290 | A$35.00 | 784 Click HERE to order |
Haws, Duncan.
MERCHANT FLEETS in Profile: 2. [The Ships of the Cunard, American, Red Star, Inman, Leyland, Dominion, Atlantic Transport and White Star Lines]. With drawings to 1:1800 scale. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 216(last blank); very numerous text illustrations (a couple full-page), index for each shipping line; original papered boards; (name on endpaper); a fine copy in very slightly worn dustwrapper. Cambridge; Patrick Stephens; (1979). ***No. 2 in the series. For full description and picture please click here. #29685 | A$40.00 | 785 Click HERE to order |
Haws, Duncan.
MERCHANT FLEETS in Profile: 3. [The Ships of the Union, Castle & Union-Castle, Allan and Canadian Pacific Lines]. With drawings to 1:1800 scale. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 186, [2](blank); 2 full-page maps, very numerous text illustrations, index for each shipping line; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Cambridge; Patrick Stephens; (1979). ***No. 3 in the series. For full description and picture please click here. #29686 | A$35.00 | 786 Click HERE to order |
Haws, Duncan.
MERCHANT FLEETS in Profile: 4. [The Ships of the Hamburg America, Adler and Carr Lines]. With drawings to 1:1800 scale. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 208; very numerous text illustrations (a couple full-page), index for each shipping line; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Cambridge; Patrick Stephens; (1980). ***No. 4 in the series. For full description and picture please click here. #19841 | A$35.00 | 787 Click HERE to order |
Hayden, Brian.
PALAEOLITHIC REFLECTIONS. Lithic Technology and Ethnographic Excavation among Australian Aborigines. 4to, Second Impression; pp. viii, 182; map, 30 plates, 140 figures; appendices, glossary, references, index; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. Canberra; Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; 1981. For full description and picture please click here. #662 | A$50.00 | 788 Click HERE to order |
Hayter, Adrian.
THE YEAR OF THE QUIET SUN. One Year at Scott Base, Antarctica: a personal impression. First Edition; pp. 192(last blank); endpaper maps, 8 plates, appendix; original blue cloth-grained papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (London); Hodder and Stoughton; (1968). ***Spence 578; Renard 679. For full description and picture please click here. #4811 | A$45.00 | 789 Click HERE to order |
Hayter, S. W.
ABOUT PRINTS. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 176; 65 plates (8 coloured), several figures, bibliography, index; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. London; Oxford University Press; 1962. ***An excellent and original contribution to the subject -- techniques, history, identification, publishing and distribution -- a valuable reference work. For full description and picture please click here. #41922 | A$75.00 | 790 Click HERE to order |
Healey, Edna.
EMMA DARWIN: The Inspirational Wife of a Genius. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [xii], 372; 16 plates, appendix, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. (London); Headline; (2001). For full description and picture please click here. #23374 | A$40.00 | 791 Click HERE to order |
Hearn, Chester G.
GRAY RAIDERS OF THE SEA. How Eight Confederate Warships Destroyed the Union's High Seas Commerce. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 352(last blank); 80 plates, appendix, notes, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Camden, Maine; International Marine Publishing; (1992). ***Including the visit of CSS Shenandoah to Melbourne. For full description and picture please click here. #32674 | A$60.00 | 792 Click HERE to order |
Hearne, Dennis.
BLOOMS OF THE AUSTRALIAN WILDERNESS. Photography [by] Leo Meier. Roy. 4to, First Edition; pp. 264; 1 mounted, 25 double-page & 179 full-page coloured photos. & several smaller; original patterned cloth with colour-illustrated title label on front board; a fine copy. (Sydney); Wattle Books, A Kevin Weldon Production; (1984). ***Superb photographs nicely presented. For full description and picture please click here. #37610 | A$45.00 | 793 Click HERE to order |
Heber, Reginald.
NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY THROUGH THE UPPER PROVINCES OF INDIA, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824--25, (With notes upon Ceylon,) an account of a journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and letters written in India, by the Late Right Rev. Reginald Heber, D.D. Lord Bishop of Calcutta. In Two Volumes. 2 vols. in 1, 4to, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. xvi, [4](List of Subscribers, etc., last blank), [xvii]-xlviii, 632; full-page map, coloured in outline, 5 plates, 21 wood engravings in text; Vol. II, pp. viii, 516; 5 plates, 4 wood engravings in text; contemporary full calf (nicely rebacked; considerable foxing to plates & adjacent leaves, with small waterstain to several plates in Vol. I, but otherwise clean); a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; MDCCCXXVIII [1828]. ***Posthumously published by his widow Amalia. Heber (1783-1826) was a prime mover of the missionary work in India, completing the establishment of Bishop's College, Calcutta and travelling widely throughout all parts of his diocese. He arrived at Calcutta in October 1823 and in 1824 crossed India to Bombay, via Dacca, Benares, Allahabad, Lucknow, Delhi, and Agra. He later visited Ceylon, and sailed to the south and Madras, where he died in April 1826. Heber's journal is valuable for his description of the rivers, mountains and people of India and observations on their culture. (Lowndes (1858 edn.), Vol. II, Page 1030). W. R. Crocker's copy with his signature on front endpaper. W. R. Crocker was an Australian ambassador and author of the book "Australian Ambassador", Melbourne University Press, 1971,. For full description and picture please click here. #15242 | A$1250.00 | 794 Click HERE to order |
Heber, Reginald.
NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY THROUGH THE UPPER PROVINCES OF INDIA, 3 vols., Second Edition; Vol. I, pp. lxviii, 450; 17 wood engravings; Vol. II, pp. viii, 564; 7 plates; Vol. III, pp. viii, 528, viii(memorial to Heber); 4 plates; contemporary half calf, with marbled sides and fully gilt spines; (some occasional mild soiling); a very nice set. London; John Murray; MDCCCXXVIII [1828]. ***Posthumously published by his widow Amalia, Heber (1783-1826) was a prime mover of the missionary work in India, completing the establishment of Bishop's College, Calcutta and travelling widely throughout all parts of his diocese. He arrived at Calcutta in October 1823 and in 1824 crossed India to Bombay, via Dacca, Benares, Allahabad, Lucknow, Delhi, and Agra. He later visited Ceylon, and sailed to the south and Madras, where he died in April 1826. Heber's journal is valuable for his description of the rivers, mountains and people of India and observations on their culture. (Lowndes (1858 edn.), Vol. II, Page 1030). For full description and picture please click here. #26515 | A$750.00 | 795 Click HERE to order |
Heller, Jules.
PAPER-MAKING. 4to, First Edition; pp. 216; numerous illustrations including 8 pages in colour, chronology, glossary, bibliography, index; original cloth; (endpapers & first & last leaves a little foxed); a very good copy in worn dustwrapper. New York; Watson-Guptill Publications; (1978). ***An unusually interesting book on all sorts of unusual and experimental ways of making paper, and with much diverse information collected together. For full description and picture please click here. #25060 | A$35.00 | 796 Click HERE to order |
Hennessey, John David.
THE DIS-HONOURABLE. With an Introduction by Nancy Bonnin. Pp. 32, [8](plates), [viii], 320(last 3 blank); 8 full-page illustrations; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. (St. Lucia); University of Queensland Press; (1975). ***A murder mystery set in the disastrous Brisbane floods of 1893, first published in 1895. For full description and picture please click here. #23928 | A$25.00 | 797 Click HERE to order |
Henslow, The Rev. George.
THE ORIGIN OF FLORAL STRUCTURES through Insect and Other Agencies. Second Edition, Revised. With eighty-eight illustrations. Cr. 8vo, Second Edition; pp. xx, 352(last 3 blank), [8](adv.); 88 figures, index; original red cloth, gilt & blind stamped; a nice copy; very scarce. London; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co; 1893. ***The International Scientific Series, Vol. LXIV. For full description and picture please click here. #65808 | A$120.00 | 798 Click HERE to order |
Herschel, Sir John F. W.; Edited by.
ADMIRALTY MANUAL OF SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY. With a New Introduction by David Knight. Facsimile Edition; pp. xxii, xii, 504(last adv.); 2 folding maps, appendices, including an additional leaf before Page 99; original buckram; a nice copy. (Folkestone, Kent); Dawsons of Pall Mall; (1974). ***Freeman 335, a facsimile of the Second Edition of 1851 (Freeman 328). The chapter on Geology is by Charles Darwin, that on Botany by Sir W. Hooker. For full description and picture please click here. #66838 | A$65.00 | 799 Click HERE to order |
Hess, Elizabeth.
NIM CHIMPSKY. The Chimp Who Would Be Human. First Edition, Second Impression; pp. xiv, 370(last blank); numerous illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; Bantam Books; (2008). For full description and picture please click here. #59816 | A$45.00 | 800 Click HERE to order |
Hibbert, Christopher.
AFRICA EXPLORED. Europeans in the Dark Continent, 1769-1889. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 336; 16 maps, 24 plates, glossary, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Allen Lane; (1982). For full description and picture please click here. #30822 | A$45.00 | 801 Click HERE to order |
Hiscock, Eric C.
CRUISING UNDER SAIL. With 250 photographs by the Author and 80 diagrams. Second Edition, Seventh Impression; pp. [ii], xxii, 468; coloured frontispiece, 64 b/w. plates, 80 figures (1 folding), appendices, glossary, index; original cloth; a fine copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. London; Oxford University Press; (1974). For full description and picture please click here. #36435 | A$65.00 | 802 Click HERE to order |
Hiscock, Eric C.
VOYAGING UNDER SAIL. With 150 Photographs by the Author and 65 Diagrams. Second Edition. Fifth Impression; pp. xvi, 320(last 5 blank); endpaper map, coloured frontispiece, 48 b/w. plates (incl 150 photographs by the Author), 65 figures, appendices, index; original cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (Oxford); Oxford University Press; (1974). For full description and picture please click here. #36460 | A$75.00 | 803 Click HERE to order |
Hobbs, William.
THE EARTH GENERATED AND ANATOMIZED. An early eighteenth century theory of the earth. Edited with an introduction by Roy Porter. Cr. 4to, First U.K. Edition; pp. [ii], 158; 6 plates, 8 figures, several illustrations, notes & references; original papered boards; (edges slightly foxed); a nice copy. Ithaca and London; British Museum (Natural History) / Cornell University Press; (1981). ***Printed in the U.S. For full description and picture please click here. #65542 | A$40.00 | 804 Click HERE to order |
[Hodder, Ken; Publisher].
WELCOME TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA. A Guide to Tourism, Trade & Business. First Edition; pp. [64]; numerous coloured maps & illustrations; original colour-pictorial wrappers; a fine copy. [Port Moresby; PNG Publishing; 1991]. For full description and picture please click here. #68456 | A$20.00 | 805 Click HERE to order |
Hoffman, Dezo:
THE BEATLES -- exclusive photo with the compliments of your Mobil Dealer. Reproduction (20 x 248 mm) with coloured background of photo by Dezo Hoffman of London of the four Beatles with facsimile signatures; brief description and additional details on reverse. A few light creases and slight marks, but in very good condition. No Imprint [Melbourne?]; Mobil [Oil Company]; N.D. [c. 1964]. For full description and picture please click here. #47795 | A$35.00 | 806 Click HERE to order |
Hoffmann, Banesh; with the collaboration of Helen Dukas.
ALBERT EINSTEIN. Creator and Rebel. Med. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. xvi, 272; portrait frontispiece, 94 illustrations, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in slightly foxed dustwrapper. London; Hart-Davis, MacGibbon; (1973). For full description and picture please click here. #37643 | A$30.00 | 807 Click HERE to order |
Holt-White, Rashleigh.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF GILBERT WHITE OF SELBORNE. Written and Edited by his Great-Grand-Nephew Rashleigh Holt-White. With pedigree, portraits, and illustrations. In two volumes. London; John Murray; 1901. For full description and picture please click here. #38438 | A$165.00 | 808 Click HERE to order |
Home, R. W.; Editor.
AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE IN THE MAKING. Cr. 4to, First Edition.; pp. xxx, 418(last 5 blank); frontis, several illustrations, notes, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in slightly torn dustwrapper. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press; (1988). For full description and picture please click here. #26783 | A$45.00 | 809 Click HERE to order |
[Honeyman, Robert D.].
THE HONEYMAN COLLECTION OF SCIENTIFIC BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS. The Property of Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. Part III. Manuscript and Autograph Letters of the 12th to 20th Century. 4to, pp. [ii], vi, [208]; numerous illustrations, including 2 full-page coloured; original wrappers; a fine copy. London; Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co.; 1979. ***173 lots, including important early manuscripts, letters from notables such as Darwin, contemporary Ms. copies of works by Galileo, etc., with copy of prices realized loosely inserted. The complete collection, begun in the 1930s, was one of the finest collections on the history of science assembled in the 20th century. Robert D. Honeyman IV began by collecting early mathematical works but the scope of his collection was soon widened to include important works in most branches of science. For full description and picture please click here. #30929 | A$20.00 | 810 Click HERE to order |
Honigsbaum, Mark.
THE FEVER TRAIL. In Search of the Cure for Malaria. Med. 8vo, First U.S. Edition; pp. xx, 308(last blank); 5 full-page maps, 16 plates, notes, sources, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. New York; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; (2002). ***An excellent book on the discovery, exploration for, and cultivation of Cinchona for the production of quinine, and on the search for vaccines against malaria. For full description and picture please click here. #27997 | A$50.00 | 811 Click HERE to order |
Honnywill, Eleanor.
THE CHALLENGE OF ANTARCTICA with a Foreword by Sir Vivian Fuchs. Second Edition (revised & expanded); pp. 128(last blank); 7 maps & 36 illustrations (some full-page), chronological list of expeditions, bibliography, index; original dark green cloth-grained papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Oswestry; Shropshire), Anthony Nelson; (1984). ***First published in 1969. Renard 742. For full description and picture please click here. #7585 | A$25.00 | 812 Click HERE to order |
Hood, T. H.
NOTES OF A CRUISE IN H.M.S. "FAWN" IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC in the Year 1862. First Edition; pp. xii, 268; folding track chart, full-page plan of the ruins at Ascension (Ponapi) Island, 9 full-page tinted litho. plates, 4 b/w. plates, 6 text illustrations, 5 appendices; original blind-stamped purple pebbled cloth (a little rubbed; front hinge cracked, but sound); uncut; a fine copy; scarce. Edinburgh; Edmonston & Douglas; 1863. ***Ferguson 10528. Treats of Norfolk Island and the Pitcairners, and gives a general account of the "Bounty" mutiny and subsequent events. For full description and picture please click here. #48784 | A$750.00 | 813 Click HERE to order |
Hooker, Sir J. D.
HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA: Cr. 8vo, Sixth Edition; pp. lxxx, 584, 16(inserted adv.); index; original cloth; a nice copy. London; L. Reeve & Co.; 1896. For full description and picture please click here. #66023 | A$60.00 | 814 Click HERE to order |
Hordern, Marsden.
MARINERS ARE WARNED! John Lort Stokes and H.M.S. Beagle in Australia 1837-1843. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxiv, 360; 7 folding maps (in pocket), 9 other maps, 24 plates (4 coloured), 9 figures, notes, 3 appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; (trifling silverfishing to rear endpaper only; otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper); scarce. (Melbourne); Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press; 1989. ***An important and long overdue study of the man who charted much of Australia's coast, adding detail to the work of Matthew Flinders, and whose charts were still in use a century later. Number four in the Miegunyah Press Series. 1250 copies only of this first edition were printed. For full description and picture please click here. #18182 | A$220.00 | 815 Click HERE to order |
Hordern, Marsden.
MARINERS ARE WARNED! John Lort Stokes and H.M.S. Beagle in Australia 1837-1843. Med. 8vo, Second Impression, pp. xxiv, 360; 7 folding maps (in pocket), 9 other maps, 24 plates (4 coloured), 9 figures, notes, 3 appendices, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Melbourne); Melbourne University Press; 1989. ***An important and long overdue study of the man who charted much of Australia's coast, adding detail to the work of Matthew Flinders, and whose charts were still in use a century later. Number 4 in the Miegunyah Press series. For full description and picture please click here. #28091 | A$135.00 | 816 Click HERE to order |
Horman, Ivor.
A FINE PORTRAIT OF AN ABORIGINAL MAN being an original photograph of a drawing by Ivor Norman, signed (in the original sketch) lower left. 190 x 240 mm approx., in fine condition. No Imprint; N.D. [c. 1950]. For full description and picture please click here. #67891 | A$50.00 | 817 Click HERE to order |
Horne, Alan.
THE DICTIONARY OF 20TH CENTURY BRITISH BOOK ILLUSTRATORS. Demy 4to, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. 456; very numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, bibliography; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Woodbridge, Suffolk); Antique Collectors' Club; (1995). For full description and picture please click here. #53550 | A$135.00 | 818 Click HERE to order |
Horrocks, N. K.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATOLOGY. With a Foreword by Professor S. W. Wooldridge. First Edition, Ninth Impression; pp. xvi, 368; 257 figures, index; original papered boards; a nice copy. (London); Longmans; (1962). ***First published in 1953. For full description and picture please click here. #66998 | A$35.00 | 819 Click HERE to order |
Horwitz, Tony.
BLUE LATITUDES. Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [xii], 484(last 3 blank); endpaper & 7 full-page maps, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; (inscription on a preliminary blank); a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; Henry Holt and Company; (2002). For full description and picture please click here. #19199 | A$45.00 | 820 Click HERE to order |
Houfe, Simon.
THE DICTIONARY OF BRITISH BOOK ILLUSTRATORS AND CARICATURISTS 1800-1914. With introductory chapters on the Rise and Progress of the Art. Thick demy 4to, Second Edition; pp. 520; 16 coloured plates (1 full-page), over 300 b/w. illustrations (some full-page), chapter notes, appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Woodbridge, Suffolk); Antique Collectors' Club; (1981). ***Revised from the original edition of 1978. For full description and picture please click here. #23428 | A$175.00 | 821 Click HERE to order |
Hough, Richard.
THE BLIND HORN'S HATE. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 336; endpaper & 5 full-page maps, 8 coloured plates, 62 b/w. illustrations (some full-page), bibliography, references, index; original green cloth (flecked), decorated in red, spine lettered in gilt; a very good copy in slightly worn pictorial dustwrapper by Michael Brett. London; Hutchinson of London; (1971). ***Spence 610; Renard 746. For full description and picture please click here. #8664 | A$65.00 | 822 Click HERE to order |
Hough, Richard.
CAPTAIN BLIGH & MR. CHRISTIAN. The Men and the Mutiny. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 320; endpaper maps, 18 plates (1 double-page), 13 text illustrations & maps, chronology, sources, index; original cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. London; Hutchinson of London; (1972). For full description and picture please click here. #2114 | A$65.00 | 823 Click HERE to order |
Hough, Richard.
CAPTAIN BLIGH & MR CHRISTIAN. The Men and the Mutiny. Med. 8vo, Second Edition, with additions; pp. 320; double-page map, 3 text maps, 18 plates (1 double-page), 10 text illustrations, including sketches of the Bounty & the Bounty's Launch, chronology, sources, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in slightly faded dustwrapper. London; Cassell; (1979). For full description and picture please click here. #2116 | A$50.00 | 824 Click HERE to order |
Hough, Richard.
MAN O'WAR. The Fighting Ship in History. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 240(last blank); numerous double-page & other illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd; (1979). For full description and picture please click here. #46585 | A$40.00 | 825 Click HERE to order |
Howard, Robert W.
ALL ABOUT INTELLIGENCE. Human, Animal, and Artificial. First Edition; pp. viii, 248(last blank); references, index; original stiff wrappers; a very good copy. (Sydney); New South Wales University Press; (1991). For full description and picture please click here. #32545 | A$20.00 | 826 Click HERE to order |
Howard-Williams, Jeremy.
SAILS. First Edition; pp. 400; 32 plates, very numerous figures, several tables, 11 appendices, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. (London); Adlard Coles Limited; 1967. ***Everything one needs to know: from the blurb: This is the first really comprehensive book on the subject of sails, amply and exhaustively analysed. For full description and picture please click here. #38585 | A$65.00 | 827 Click HERE to order |
Howitt, William.
VISITS TO REMARKABLE PLACES: Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes Illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Poetry. [First Series]. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. viii, 526, [2](adv.), 16(inserted adv. dated February 1840); numerous engraved illustrations; modern quarter morocco, with cloth sides; a very good copy; scarce. London; Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans; M.DCCC.XL [1840]. ***A second series was published in 1842. For full description and picture please click here. #13181 | A$135.00 | 828 Click HERE to order |
Hubbard, Lucius L.
CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. Facsimile Edition; pp. xiv, [15]-192; 25 plates; original cloth; a fine copy. New York; Burt Franklin; (1968). ***A facsimile of the original edition Chicago, 1922. For full description and picture please click here. #33548 | A$50.00 | 829 Click HERE to order |
Hudson, Lionel.
DINGOES DON'T BARK. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 80; endpaper map, frontispiece, 16 coloured & 16 b/w. plates; original papered boards; (inscription on endpaper); a very good copy in dustwrapper. (Adelaide); Rigby; (1974). ***Exploding some myths about the Australian dingo. For full description and picture please click here. #22145 | A$30.00 | 830 Click HERE to order |
Hudson, Nicholas.
MODERN AUSTRALIAN USAGE. First Edition; pp. viii, 440; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Melbourne; Oxford University Press; (1993). ***A useful reference to the Australian idiom. For full description and picture please click here. #65974 | A$25.00 | 831 Click HERE to order |
Hughes, Wade.
EXPLORING ANTARCTICA. Illustrated by Zbyshek Bilyk. Discovery and Exploration Series. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [ii], 90; endpaper map, and three others, numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, index; original stiff coloured illustrated wrappers; a fine copy. (Sydney; Horwitz Grahame Pty. Ltd.; 1988). ***An informative book for children. Renard 750. For full description and picture please click here. #21793 | A$30.00 | 832 Click HERE to order |
Humboldt, Alexander von.
Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books 86. PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS TO THE EQUINOCTIAL REGIONS OF AMERICA during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aime Bonpland. Written in French by Alexander von Humboldt. Translated and edited by Thomasina Ross. In three volumes. Cr. 8vo; Vol. I, pp. [iv], xxii, 506; Vol. II, pp. [vi], 522; Vol. III, pp. [vi], 442; index; original cloth (spine ends worn); a very good set. London; George Routledge and Sons, Limited; 1895. For full description and picture please click here. #66328 | A$185.00 | 833 Click HERE to order |
Hunnewell, James F.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. [ii], 18(last blank), ff. 19-75(printed on rectos only); title in red & black, 3 illustrations; binders' cloth; a nice copy; rare. Boston; [The Author]; 1869. ***Edition limited to 100 copies only. An important work, still of considerable utility. For full description and picture please click here. #1785 | A$475.00 | 834 Click HERE to order |
[Hunt, W. R. & Sons].
HILLVIEW CARAVAN PARK. Grosser Street, Millicent, S.A. 8vo; pp. [6]; map, 4 illustrations plus another 6 pp. of related insertions; folded as issued; a nice copy. Millicent, S.A.; [W. R. Hunt & Sons, Proprietors]; N.D. [c. 1965]. For full description and picture please click here. #68451 | A$20.00 | 835 Click HERE to order |
Hunter, Dard.
PAPERMAKING. The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Med. 8vo, Second Edition, Third Impr,; pp. [ii], xxiv, 612(last blank), xlii(index, last 3 blank); frontispiece, folding map, 322 illustrations (including folding diag.), 12-page chronology, bibliography, notes, index; original buckram; a fine copy in dustwrapper; scarce. New York; Alfred A. Knopf; 1967. ***The second-last leaf carries a note describing the type used for this fine book. This is not present in the U.K. issues of 1947 (Pleiades Books, part of the first printing of this second edition) and 1957 (The Cresset Press, at the same address, part of the second printing of this second edition). A wonderful, comprehensive and finely produced book, full of interest and information at every page. For full description and picture please click here. #62451 | A$350.00 | 836 Click HERE to order |
WITH THE EARLIEST PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION OF THE SETTLEMENT Hunter, John; Esqr. Post Captain in His Majesty's Navy.
AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS AT PORT JACKSON AND NORFOLK ISLAND, London; John Stockdale; 1793. ***Ferguson 152; Wantrup, Pp. 68-71. The plates in particular are very fine and clean, with excellent impressions. Apart from the work's general and obvious importance, it should be noted that the plate - "View of the Settlement on Sydney Cove, Port Jackson 20th August, 1788, Drawn by S. Dayes from a Sketch of I. Hunter", executed less than eight months after the arrival of the First Fleet, is the earliest pictorial representation of the settlement, and the plate opposite page 414, a particularly fine impression of 'A Family of New South Wales,' is engraved by William Blake. For full description and picture please click here. #21544 | A$9500.00 | 837 Click HERE to order |
Hunter, John.
REISE NACH NEU-SUDWALLIS, nebst Nachrichten von den Entdeckungen in diesem Lande und in der Sudsee. Aus dem Englischen. Mit Anmerkungen von J. R. Forster, Professor in Halle, und Mitglied der Konigl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften. 2 vols., f'cap 8vo, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. viii, 280(last 2 blank); 2 folding maps, 2 folding plates; Vol. II, pp. iv, 460(last 2 blank); contemporary half roan, with speckled paper sides (corners a little rubbed); a nice pair; rare. [Vienna; F. A. Schrambl; 1795]. ***Comprising Volumes 21 and 22 of the "Magazin von merkwurdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen. Aus fremden Sprachen ubersetst und mit erlauternden Anmerkungen begleitet. Wien, gedruckt und verlegt ben F. A. Schrambl. 1795." The second volume contains three related materials including extracts from Governor Phillip's despatches, King's account of Norfolk Island and Forster's translation of George Hamilton's account of the Pandora voyage: [1] Arthur Phillips Tagebuch wahrend seines Ausenhaltes in Neu-Sudwallis. [2] Lieutenant Kings Nachrichten von der Norfolk-Insel. [3] Reise um die Welt in der konigl. Fregatte Pandora, unter Anfuhrung des Kapitans Edwards, wharend der Jahre 1790, 1791 und 1792. Nebst Entdeckungen in der Sudsee n. f. w. Beschrieben von Georg Hamilton. [Ferguson 223 -- National Library of Australia the only complete set listed]. For full description and picture please click here. #41815 | A$1950.00 | 838 Click HERE to order |
Hunter, Captain John.
AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS AT PORT JACKSON AND NORFOLK ISLAND, Med. 4to, Facsimile of First Edition, engr. title (with vignette), pp. [ii], [xviii], 584(last blank); portrait, 5 charts & plans (2 folding & 3 full-page), & 10 plates, list of subscribers; original quarter leather; a fine copy. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1968]. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 148 (702 copies only). First published London, Stockdale, January 1, 1793. Pages 549-551 contain a list of the first settlers (both free men and convicts) and their grants of land; and the plate at Page 77 - View of the Settlement in Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, 20 August, 1788 - is the earliest view of the settlement. For full description and picture please click here. #6498 | A$325.00 | 839 Click HERE to order |
Huntford, Roland.
THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH. Originally published under the title Scott and Amundsen. Thick med. 8vo, First Edition under this title, being the Fourth Impression of the original work; pp. xxii, 666(last blank); 13 maps (including 2 double-page), 32 plates, notes, sources, index; original cloth-grained papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; a nice copy in dustwrapper; scarce. London; Hodder and Stoughton; (1985). ***See Renard 760, wherein another imprint is erroneously described as the first edition under this title. For full description and picture please click here. #67360 | A$135.00 | 840 Click HERE to order |
Huntford, Roland.
SHACKLETON. Thick med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xx; 774, [6](blank); endpaper maps, 7 full-page & 2 smaller text maps, 24 plates, appendices, notes, sources, index; original light blue cloth-grained papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; a nice copy in dustwrapper; scarce. London; Hodder and Stoughton; (1985). ***Renard 761. For full description and picture please click here. #12772 | A$275.00 | 841 Click HERE to order |
Hurley, Captain Frank.
ARGONAUTS OF THE SOUTH: Being a Narrative of Voyagings and Polar Seas and Adventures in the Antarctic with Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton. With 75 illustrations and maps. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii](blank), xvi, 290, [2](blank); 2 folding maps, 70 plates containing 75 illustrations; pictorial endpapers; top edge gilt, others uncut; original green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front board; (spine ends a little worn; gilt on top edge rubbed); a very good copy, internally fine and clean; scarce. New York and London; G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press; 1925. ***Spence 615; Renard 768: Rosove 178.A1. For full description and picture please click here. #4040 | A$1350.00 | 842 Click HERE to order |
Hutchinson, Horace G.
LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK. Lord Avebury. In two volumes. First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [ii], xiv, 338, [2](adv.); 3 plates; Vol. II, pp. [ii], x, 334, [2](adv.); 2 plates, bibliography, index; original cloth (very slightly marked); a nice set; scarce. London; Macmillan & Co. Limited; 1914. For full description and picture please click here. #46824 | A$125.00 | 843 Click HERE to order |
Hutner, (Martin &) Kelly, (Jerry).
A CENTURY FOR THE CENTURY. Fine Printed Books from 1900 to 1999. Roy. 4to, First Trade Edition; pp. lxiv, 112(incl 100 fine coloured & b/w. plates); bibliography, index of authors & titles, index of designers and presses; original cloth; a fine copy in very slightly creased dustwrapper. (Jaffrey, New Hampshire); The Grolier Club & David R. Godine; 2004. ***First published by the Grolier Club in 1999, this first trade edition is "revised and enlarged". From the Foreword: "This survey includes only books printed from the greco-roman alphabets in Europe and America .... We have, however, considered the book as a whole - with all the elements - from typography and paper through presswork and binding - taken into account .... On the following pages are some of the most beautiful, finely printed books produced during the twentieth century arranged in chronological order." Each of the one hundred books chosen is represented with a fine illustration and a commentary on the basis for its inclusion. For full description and picture please click here. #17219 | A$60.00 | 844 Click HERE to order |
Hutt, Allen.
FOURNIER. The compleat typographer. Cr. 4to, First U.S. Edition; pp. xiv, 90(last blank); portrait frontispiece, 16 illustrations, index; original cloth, gilt; (a little foxing at start); a nice copy. Totowa, NJ.; Rowman and Littlefield; 1972. ***A volume in the Ars Typographica Library, edited by James Moran. For full description and picture please click here. #36339 | A$45.00 | 845 Click HERE to order |
Hutton, R. B. M.; B.A.
THROUGH TWO CENTURIES. An account of the origin and growth of Fulneck School 1753 - 1953. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 52; several illustrations, list of former pupils of the last 65 years; original papered boards; a very good copy; scarce. (Leeds; Fulneck School Bicentenary Memorial Committee); [1953]. ***With some related correspondence loosely inserted, particularly in relation to Charles Joseph LaTrobe, a former pupil and later Governor of Victoria. For full description and picture please click here. #67578 | A$50.00 | 846 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Julian S.
PROBLEMS OF RELATIVE GROWTH. With 105 illustrations. First U.S. Edition; pp. xx, 276; frontispiece, 104 figures, Erratum slip, bibliography, addenda, index of authors, subject index, index of organisms; original cloth (spine a little marked); a very good copy. New York; Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press; MCMXXXII [1932]. For full description and picture please click here. #66675 | A$60.00 | 847 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Julian; Edited by.
THE NEW SYSTEMATICS. First Edition, Third Impression; pp. viii, 584(last blank); numerous figures, several tables, references, index of names, index of subjects; original cloth; a very good copy. (London); Oxford University Press; (1945). For full description and picture please click here. #50241 | A$30.00 | 848 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Leonard.
LIFE AND LETTERS OF THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. By his son Leonard Huxley. 3 vols., cr. 8vo, Second Edition, Second Impression; Vol. I, pp. xii, 464(last blank); portrait frontispiece; Vol. II, pp. [ii], vi, 476; portrait frontispiece; Vol. III, pp. [ii], vi, 502(last blank), [2](adv.); portrait frontispiece, 2-page facsimile letter to his grandson Julian Huxley, 4 appendices, index; original cloth (a little rubbed; six leaves in Vol. I creased & with repaired tears); a very good set; scarce. London; Macmillan and Co., Limited; 1908. ***Volumes X, XI, XII in the Eversley series of the Life and Works of Thomas Henry Huxley, and first published in this form in 1903, somewhat enlarged and revised from the two-volume first edition of 1900. For full description and picture please click here. #66003 | A$120.00 | 849 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Leonard; Ll.D.
Life-Stories of Famous Men. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. A Character Sketch. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. viii, 120; 4 plates; original cloth; a nice copy. London; Watts & Co.; 1920. For full description and picture please click here. #60181 | A$45.00 | 850 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Thomas Henry.
EVIDENCE AS TO MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE. First Edition; pp. vi, 160(last blank); frontispiece & 32 illustrations; contemporary half morocco, with cloth sides; (some partial browning of first few leaves from previously inserted clippings); a very good copy; scarce. London; Williams and Norgate; 1863. ***Includes references to Australian skulls. For full description and picture please click here. #65989 | A$650.00 | 851 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Thomas H.
AMERICAN ADDRESSES, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology. First Edition; pp. viii, 164, 24(inserted adv.); original cloth (spine ends a little worn); a nice copy; scarce. London; Macmillan and Co.; 1877. For full description and picture please click here. #65996 | A$65.00 | 852 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Thomas H.
A MANUAL OF THE ANATOMY OF INVERTEBRATED ANIMALS. First Edition, later impr.; pp. 596(last blank), 16(inserted adv., dated November, 1887); 158 figures, index; original cloth (a nail-hole to spine; small rectangle cut from top of title-page); uncut; a very good copy; scarce. London; J. & A. Churchill; [1877]. For full description and picture please click here. #66004 | A$45.00 | 853 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Professor [Thomas Henry].
HUME. By Professor Huxley. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. viii, 208, [4](adv.); original cloth (slightly marked); a nice copy; very scarce. London; Macmillan and Co.; 1879. ***English Men of Letters, Edited by John Morley. For full description and picture please click here. #66009 | A$85.00 | 854 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, T. H.; Romanes, G. J.; Geikie, Archibald; and Dyer, W. T. Thiselton.
Nature Series. CHARLES DARWIN. Memorial Notices reprinted from "Nature.". Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 82, [2](adv.); portrait frontispiece; original cloth, spine gilt; a nice copy; rare. London; Macmillan and Co.; 1881. ***Comprising Introductory Notice by Huxley; Life and Character, Work in Zoology, and Work in Psychology by Romanes; Work in Geology by Geikie; and Work in Botany by Dyer. For full description and picture please click here. #65664 | A$350.00 | 855 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Thomas Henry.
SCIENCE AND CULTURE and Other Essays. First Edition; pp. [ii], x, 350(last blank), [2](adv.); original cloth (spine spotted & ends a little worn; some occasional light foxing); a nice copy; scarce. London; Macmillan and Co.; 1881. ***With a nice association: W. Baldwin Spencer's copy, with his signature in full on first blank. For full description and picture please click here. #65999 | A$125.00 | 856 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Thomas H.
EVOLUTION & ETHICS and Other Essays. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 334, [2](adv.), [2](blank); original cloth; uncut; (spine slightly rubbed; some minor soiling); a very good copy. London; Macmillan and Co., Limited; 1894. ***Volume IX in the Eversley series of the Life and Works of Thomas Henry Huxley. Essays on Evolution, Science, Sociology, etc. For full description and picture please click here. #66008 | A$75.00 | 857 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Thomas H.
HUME: With Helps to the Study of Berkeley. Essays. Cr. 8vo, First Edition (in this form); pp. xvi, 320(last blank), [2](adv.); original cloth; uncut; (spine a little faded & slightly marked; a few light pencilled marks in margins only); a very good copy; scarce. London; Macmillan and Co.; 1894. ***Volume VI of the Collected Essays in the Eversley series of the Life and Works of Thomas Henry Huxley. W. J. Heslop's copy, with his attractive bookplate. For full description and picture please click here. #66039 | A$65.00 | 858 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Thomas H.
SCIENCE AND HEBREW TRADITION. Essays. Cr. 8vo, Second Impression; pp. xvi, 372, [2](adv.); 9 figures; original cloth; uncut; (small nail hole in edge of rear board, just affecting edge of last few leaves); a very good copy. London; Macmillan and Co., Limited; 1895. ***First published in 1893. Volume IV of the Collected Essays in the Eversley series of the Life and Works of Thomas Henry Huxley. Essays on Science, Palaeontology, Evolution, Theology and Anthropology. For full description and picture please click here. #66006 | A$45.00 | 859 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Thomas H.
SCIENCE AND CHRISTIAN TRADITION. Essays. Cr. 8vo, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. xxxvi, 420, [2](adv.); 9 figures; original cloth; uncut; (spine a little faded); a very good copy. London; Macmillan and Co.; 1895. ***First published in 1894. Volume V of the Collected Essays in the Eversley series of the Life and Works of Thomas Henry Huxley. Essays on Science, Pseudo-Science, Agnosticism, Christianity, etc. For full description and picture please click here. #66038 | A$45.00 | 860 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Thomas H.
METHOD AND RESULTS. Essays. Cr. 8vo, Third Impression; pp. viii, 430, [2](adv.); original cloth; uncut; a very good copy. London; Macmillan and Co., Limited; 1898. ***First published in 1893. Volume I in the Eversley series of the Life and Works of Thomas Henry Huxley. Essays on Science, Life, Reason, Sociology and Politics. For full description and picture please click here. #66005 | A$50.00 | 861 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Thomas H.; LL.D., F.R.S.
LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY PHYSIOLOGY. F'cap 8vo, Fourth Edition, Tenth Impression; pp. xx, 404; folding frontispiece, 113 figures, appendix, index; original cloth (a little flecked; some minor foxing & soiling and mild waterstain towards end). London; Macmillan and Co., Limited; 1899. For full description and picture please click here. #66035 | A$25.00 | 862 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Thomas H.
SCIENCE & EDUCATION. Essays. Cr. 8vo, First Edition, Third Impression; pp. x, 452(last blank), [2](adv.); original cloth (spine slightly spotted); uncut; a very good copy. London; Macmillan and Co., Limited; 1899. ***First published in 1893. Volume III of the Collected Essays in the Eversley series of the Life and Works of Thomas Henry Huxley. Essays on Science, Education, Medicine and Biology. For full description and picture please click here. #66037 | A$75.00 | 863 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Thomas H.
DISCOURSES: Biological & Geological. Cr. 8vo, Fourth Impression; pp. xvi, 388, [4](adv.); original cloth; uncut; (library marks on endpapers & a few stamps); a very good copy. London; Macmillan and Co., Limited; 1908. ***First published in 1894. Volume VIII in the Eversley series of the Life and Works of Thomas Henry Huxley. Essays on Geology, Palaeontology, Oceanography, Evolution, Zoology and the Challenger Expedition. For full description and picture please click here. #66007 | A$35.00 | 864 Click HERE to order |
Huxley, Thomas Henry:
SUPPLEMENT TO NATURE. No. 2897. May 9, 1925. The Centenary of Huxley. 4to; pp. [697]-752; 7 illustrations; printed in double -column; papered boards; a very good copy; scarce. [Edinburgh; R. & R. Clark, Limited]; 1925. ***With contributions by twenty-two illustrious authors. For full description and picture please click here. #66014 | A$120.00 | 865 Click HERE to order |
Hyamson, Albert M.
A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL BIOGRAPHY of all Ages and of all Peoples. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. xii, 744; original cloth; a very good copy. London; George Routledge & Sons Ltd; 1916. ***Brief entries, BUT, the Author states that the work deals with "more individuals than the aggregate of any score of other works". A rough calculation establishes 95,000 entries (necessarily brief, but identifying and dating the persons named). Random tests suggest useful accuracy. For full description and picture please click here. #34324 | A$50.00 | 866 Click HERE to order |
Illustrated [Magazine]:
ANTARCTIC TRIUMPH: Three consecutive issues of ILLUSTRATED (May 10, 17 & 24, 1958) including the "first magnificent colour pictures of the Commonwealth expedition" comprising eleven pages in all (seven in colour) with accompanying text celebrating the successful crossing of Antarctica; complete issues; very good. [London; Odhams Press]; 1958. For full description and picture please click here. #38218 | A$35.00 | 867 Click HERE to order |
Impey, Chris.
HOW IT ENDS. From You to the Universe. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 352; several figures, glossary, notes, references, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; W. W. Norton & Company; (2010). ***An interesting account of the ends of things from individual people (death) to humanity (extinction), the biosphere (mass extinction), the solar system (its eventual decay) and beyond. For full description and picture please click here. #64898 | A$25.00 | 868 Click HERE to order |
Independent Order of Oddfellows.
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS OF THE LOYAL STANLEY LODGE, of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, Friendly Society. Med. 4to; pp. [4]; lightly folded; a very good copy. [Kings Lynn]; Stanley Lodge; 1918. For full description and picture please click here. #68529 | A$25.00 | 869 Click HERE to order |
Ingamells, Rex; Prepared by.
HANDBOOK OF AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE. 4to, First Edition; pp. [vi], 26(last blank); original stiff wrappers; a nice copy; scarce. Melbourne; Jindyworobak; 1949. For full description and picture please click here. #68479 | A$35.00 | 870 Click HERE to order |
Invasion of Europe:
GREAT FORCES LANDED. An 8-page section (outer leaves) of The Argus for Wednesday, June 7, 1944 announcing the commencement of the invasion to re-take Europe. Tabloid format; pp. [8]; map & several illustrations; in very good condition. Melbourne; The Argus; 1944. For full description and picture please click here. #16996 | A$20.00 | 871 Click HERE to order |
Irvine, William.
APES, ANGELS, AND VICTORIANS. A Joint Biography of Darwin and Huxley. First Edition; pp. xiv, 402(last 3 blank); 8 plates; original cloth; (inscriptions on endpaper); a very good copy in slightly defective dustwrapper. London; Weidenfeld and Nicolson; (1955). For full description and picture please click here. #53666 | A$45.00 | 872 Click HERE to order |
Irving, Washington.
RIP VAN WINKLE. By Washington Irving. Cr. 8vo (approx.); pp. [vi], iv, 54(last 5 blank); colour-illustrated title-page & 7 colour-illustrated initial letters, plus final b/w. illust.; original decorated cloth with art. leather spine; clear plastic jacket (slightly chipped); a fine copy. (Printed in Alhambra California; by the Private Press of C F Braun & Co); [1972]. *** "This edition of 1000 copies is published for private distribution to friends of our Company. John G Braun". Most attractively printed by letterpress in red, black & yellow. For full description and picture please click here. #67618 | A$25.00 | 873 Click HERE to order |
Jacka, Fred and Jacka, Eleanor.
MAWSON'S ANTARCTIC DIARIES. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. l, 414; 6 maps, 12 coloured & 48 b/w. plates (including numerous photographs by Frank Hurley and others, facsimile reproductions of the diaries, daily work rosters, poems, etc.), 5 appendices, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Sydney; A Susan Haynes Book, Allen & Unwin Australia; (1988). ***Renard 789. The diaries cover all four trips made by Mawson to Antarctica, "and it is as a result of these trips that Australia's claim to 40% of the Antarctic is largely based". For full description and picture please click here. #21671 | A$275.00 | 874 Click HERE to order |
Jackomos, Alick and Fowell, Derek.
LIVING ABORIGINAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. Stories in the Oral Tradition. 4to, First Edition; pp. 204(last blank); 2 maps, very numerous photographic illustrations; original stiff pictorial wrappers; a fine copy. Melbourne; Cambridge University Press; (1991). ***"a corroboree in print". This copy signed by Alick Jackomos. For full description and picture please click here. #67760 | A$45.00 | 875 Click HERE to order |
Jackson, Carmault B.
[America's First Manned Venture Into Space]. THE FLIGHT OF FREEDOM 7. [and] THE PILOT'S STORY: A PERSONAL REPORT by Alan B. Shepard. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 416-431, 432-444; numerous coloured illustrations; contained in The National Geographic Magazine, September, 1961; original wrappers. Washington; National Geographic Society; 1961. For full description and picture please click here. #16002 | A$25.00 | 876 Click HERE to order |
Jackson, Holbrook.
THE READING OF BOOKS. First Edition; pp. 292; notes, index; original cloth (slightly marked); a very good copy. London; Faber and Faber Limited; (1946). For full description and picture please click here. #16275 | A$45.00 | 877 Click HERE to order |
Jackson, M. H.
GALAPAGOS. A Natural History Guide. Med. 8vo, First Edition, Fifth Impression; pp. [ii], xiv, 288(last 5 blank); double-page map, 16 coloured plates, numerous text illustrations & maps, bibliography, 3 appendices, general index, species index; original stiff pictorial wrappers; a nice copy. (Calgary); The University of Calgary Press; (1991). ***First published 1985. For full description and picture please click here. #65515 | A$25.00 | 878 Click HERE to order |
Jacobs, M. R.; Director-General.
Commonwealth of Australia. FORESTRY AND TIMBER BUREAU. List of Publications. Roy. 8vo; pp. 18(last blank); original wrappers; a fine copy. [Canberra]; Forestry and Timber Bureau; 1961. For full description and picture please click here. #68472 | A$15.00 | 879 Click HERE to order |
Jaeger, Gustave; M.D.
PROBLEMS OF NATURE, Researches and Discoveries. Selected from his Published Writings. Edited and translated by Henry G. Schlichter, D.Sc. First Edition; pp. [ii], viii, 262, [2](adv.); folding map, 3-page facsimile letter from Charles Darwin, glossary, index; original cloth (a little marked; title-page browned); a very good copy; scarce. London; Williams and Norgate; 1897. For full description and picture please click here. #66585 | A$45.00 | 880 Click HERE to order |
Jaguar Cars Limited:
SPARE PARTS CATALOGUE FOR JAGUAR MARK V. 2 1/2 / 3 1/2 Litre Models. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. [224](pagination irregular); numerous plates showing exploded diagrams of all parts of the vehicle, index; original post & hole binding, lettered in gilt; a fine copy; very scarce. No Imprint [Melbourne; Jaguar Car Club of Victoria; c. 1978]. ***First published in 1949, this is a facsimile of the Revised Second Edition of 1958. Only about 50 copies of this facsimile of an invaluable guide for the Jaguar enthusiast were done. For full description and picture please click here. #64535 | A$135.00 | 881 Click HERE to order |
Jahme, Carole.
BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS. Woman, Ape and Evolution. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 406; endpaper map, 45 illustrations on 16 plates, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London; Virago Press; 2000). ***An interesting account of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas and several other notable female researchers into the great apes. For full description and picture please click here. #38554 | A$35.00 | 882 Click HERE to order |
James, John Stanley ('The Vagabond', 'Julian Thomas').
THE VAGABOND PAPERS. Edited and with an Introduction by Michael Cannon. Med. 8vo; pp. xii, 274, [2](blank); frontispiece, 43 illustrations, bibliography, index; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. (Melbourne); Melbourne University Press; (1969). ***An abridged edition of the 5 volumes originally published in 1877-78 by George Robertson. For full description and picture please click here. #5192 | A$30.00 | 883 Click HERE to order |
James, Wendy; Baumann, Gerd; and Johnson, Douglas H.; Editors.
JUAN MARIA SCHUVER'S TRAVELS IN NORTH EAST AFRICA 1880-1883. First Edition; pp. cviii, 392, [4](blank); portrait frontispiece, 18 figures (maps & illustrations including 2 coloured maps), 8 appendices, bibliography, list of primary & secondary sources, index; original cloth, gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; The Hakluyt Society; 1996. ***Hakluyt Society Second Series, Volume 184. For full description and picture please click here. #63450 | A$45.00 | 884 Click HERE to order |
Jarman, Robert.
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS, IN THE "JAPAN," 8vo, Special Limited New Edition; pp. XII, vi, 242, [243]-318; portrait, introduction, extensive notes, chronology, references and index; fully section-sewn on tapes and finely hand-bound in full grey goatskin, all edges dyed, with marker ribbon, housed in a buckram slipcase with title labels. Melbourne; Edition Renard; 2009. For full description and picture please click here. #27822 | A$625.00 | 885 Click HERE to order |
Jarman, Robert.
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS, IN THE "JAPAN," 8vo, Deluxe Limited New Edition; pp. XII, vi, 242, [243]-318; portrait, introduction, extensive notes, chronology, references and index; fully section-sewn on tapes and hand-bound in original half grey goatskin with black moire cloth sides, top edge dyed, and marker ribbon. Melbourne; Edition Renard; 2009. For full description and picture please click here. #27823 | A$325.00 | 886 Click HERE to order |
Jarman, Robert.
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS, IN THE "JAPAN," 8vo, Limited New Edition; pp. XII, vi, 242, [243]-318; portrait, introduction, extensive notes, chronology, references and index; fully section-sewn on tapes and hand-bound in full linen, with printed labels on spine and front board; top edge dyed, marker ribbon. Melbourne; Edition Renard; 2009. For full description and picture please click here. #27824 | A$195.00 | 887 Click HERE to order |
Jennett, Sean.
THE MAKING OF BOOKS. First Edition; pp. 480(last 6 blank); 199 illustrations (many full-page, incl 4 coloured & many b/w. plates), bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in slightly defective dustwrapper. (London); Faber & Faber; (mcmli) [1951]. For full description and picture please click here. #16062 | A$75.00 | 888 Click HERE to order |
Jobson, Richard.
THE DISCOVERY OF THE RIVER GAMBRA (1623). Edited, with additional material, by David P. Gamble and P. E. H. Hair. Super roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 344(last 3 blank); coloured frontispiece, 4 maps, 8 plates (containing 13 photos.), 1 coloured and 13 b/w. text illustrations, 2 appendices, bibliography, notes, index; original cloth, gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; The Hakluyt Society; 1999. ***Series III, Volume 2, the second of a fine new series in slightly larger format than Series I & II. The additional material in Part II (pp. 239-312) comprises other early sources on the now-called River Gambia. For full description and picture please click here. #63374 | A$50.00 | 889 Click HERE to order |
Johansen, Hjalmar; Lieutenant in the Norwegian Navy.
WITH NANSEN IN THE NORTH. A Record of the Fram Expedition in 1893-96. Translated from the Norwegian by H. L. Braekstad. First Edition in English; pp. viii, 352(last blank); 8(adv.); full-page map & 15 plates printed in green ink, 49 text illusts; entirely uncut in the original gilt-decorated cloth (slightly rubbed); a nice copy; scarce. London; Ward, Lock and Co. Limited; 1899. ***Arctic Bibliography 8185. In the slightly larger format, with all edges uncut; there is another issue in similar but smaller binding with cut edges. For full description and picture please click here. #3913 | A$375.00 | 890 Click HERE to order |
Johnson, Allen [& Malone, Dumas]; Editors.
DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. New York; Charles Scribner's Sons; (1964). For full description and picture please click here. #19273 | A$400.00 | 891 Click HERE to order |
[Johnson, A. F. and Scholderer, Dr. V.].
SHORT-TITLE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS AND BELGIUM and of Dutch and Flemish Books Printed in Other Countires from 1470 to 1600 now in the British Museum. First Edition; pp. viii, 276(last blank); index of Printers and Publishers; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Trustees of The British Museum; 1965. For full description and picture please click here. #16052 | A$65.00 | 892 Click HERE to order |
Johnson, Arthur W.
THE THAMES AND HUDSON MANUAL OF BOOKBINDING. With 270 illustrations, in colour and black and white. Med. 8vo, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. 224; 8 coloured plates, 258 text illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index; original pictorial stiff wrappers; a nice copy. (London); Thames and Hudson; (1981). For full description and picture please click here. #49366 | A$30.00 | 893 Click HERE to order |
Johnson, Clive.
LAND OF THE ICE KING. 4to, First Edition; pp. 160; endpaper map, lavishly illustrated with fine coloured photos.; bibliography; original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Shrewsbury); Swan Hill Press (An imprint of Airlife Publishing); (1990). ***Renard 812. For full description and picture please click here. #43734 | A$110.00 | 894 Click HERE to order |
Johnson, George.
MACHINERY OF THE MIND. Inside the New Science of Artificial Intelligence. Med. 8vo, First Paperback Edition; pp. xiv, 336, [2](blank); several figures, references, notes, bibliography, index; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (Redmond, Washington); Tempus; (1986). For full description and picture please click here. #67201 | A$25.00 | 895 Click HERE to order |
Johnson, Stanley.
ANTARCTICA. The Last Great Wilderness. Foreword by Sir Peter Scott. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 206, [4](blank); 2 full-page maps, bibliography, index; original blue cloth-grained papered boards, spine lettered in silver; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Weidenfeld and Nicolson; (1985). ***Renard 813. For full description and picture please click here. #19888 | A$60.00 | 896 Click HERE to order |
Johnson, Steven.
EMERGENCE. The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software. First U.K. Edition; pp. 288; a few figures, notes, bibliography, index; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (London); Allen Lane, The Penguin Press; (2001). ***First published in the U.S. by Scribner in the same year. For full description and picture please click here. #50137 | A$25.00 | 897 Click HERE to order |
Johnston, Sir Harry.
PIONEERS IN CANADA. With Eight Plates in Colours by E. Wallcousins. First Edition; pp. 328; 3 full-page maps, 8 coloured & 8 b/w. plates; original quarter leather, with cloth sides; a fine copy. London; The Gresham Publishing Company; N.D. [c. 1910]. ***Great Travellers and Explorers series. For full description and picture please click here. #12778 | A$60.00 | 898 Click HERE to order |
Johnstone, R. W.
WILLIAM SMELLIE. The Master of British Midwifery. First Edition; pp. viii, 140(last blank); coloured portrait frontispiece, 30 b/w. plates, index; original buckram; a very good copy. Edinburgh and London; E. & S. Livingstone Ltd; 1952. ***With some interesting correspondence concerning the portrait loosely inserted. For full description and picture please click here. #15731 | A$45.00 | 899 Click HERE to order |
Joline, Adrian Hoffman.
EDGEHILL ESSAYS. First Edition; pp. [ii], 226, [4](blank); original papered boards, top edge gilt, others uncut; a nice copy. Boston; Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press; 1911. ***On collecting autographs, biography, history, etc. With, loosely inserted, two holograph letters, signed, from the Author to a Mr. O'Donnell concerning the book and various autographs. For full description and picture please click here. #67986 | A$65.00 | 900 Click HERE to order |
Joline, Adrian H.
RAMBLES IN AUTOGRAPH LAND. Illustrated with many portraits and facsimiles. First Edition; pp. xvi, 334, [6](adv.); photogravure portrait frontispiece with titled tissue, 76 plates (7 double-sided), index; original cloth, top edge gilt; a very good copy. New York and London; G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press; MCMXIII [1913]. ***Including a chapter on facsimiles and forgeries. For full description and picture please click here. #67930 | A$65.00 | 901 Click HERE to order |
Jones, Colin.
THE VOYAGE OF THE COLONIAL SHIP VICTORIA. Roy. 8vo; pp. 179-188; 1 illust., sources; original wrappers; a fine copy. London; reprinted from The Mariner's Mirror, Vol. 72, No. 2; May 1986. ***The beginnings of the Australian navy. For full description and picture please click here. #30747 | A$15.00 | 902 Click HERE to order |
Jones, Colin.
WINGS AND THE NAVY. [1947 - 1953]. First Edition; pp. 128(last blank); 2 maps, 16 plates, glossary, appendix, bibliography, notes, index; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (Kenthurst, NSW); Kangaroo Press; (1997). ***Inscribed and signed by the Author. Together with two Draft Copies of the same work, with suggestions for corrections/amendments. For full description and picture please click here. #32505 | A$50.00 | 903 Click HERE to order |
Jones, Herbert.
STANLEY MORISON DISPLAYED. An Examination of his Early Typographic Work. Foreword by Sir William Emrys Williams, CBE DLitt. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 128(last blank); 96 illustrations, many being reproductions of Morison's typography, appendix, index; original papered boards; (lower corners slightly bumped); a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Frederick Muller Limited; 1976. ***A volume in the Ars Typographica Library, edited by James Moran. For full description and picture please click here. #27278 | A$65.00 | 904 Click HERE to order |
Jones, Martin.
FEAST. Why Humans Share Food. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 364, [6](blank); 3 maps, 33 illustrations, notes, references, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Oxford); Oxford University Press; (2007). For full description and picture please click here. #33097 | A$35.00 | 905 Click HERE to order |
Jones, Phyllis Mander.
A CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA (South Australian Branch) Inc. Compiled by Phyllis Mander-Jones. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. x, 54; 15 illustrations, index; original papered boards; a fine copy. Adelaide; Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australian Branch) Inc.; 1981. ***Including 179 items, many of exploration and Aboriginal interest. For full description and picture please click here. #18895 | A$45.00 | 906 Click HERE to order |
Jones, Steve.
ALMOST LIKE A WHALE. The Origin of Species Updated. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxx, 402; bibliography, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. London; Doubleday; (1999). For full description and picture please click here. #16093 | A$40.00 | 907 Click HERE to order |
Jones, Theodore.
LEARN TO SAIL. Med. 8vo, Third Impression; pp. 72; several illustrations & figures; original illustrated boards; a nice copy. Chicago; Rand McNally & Company; (1973). For full description and picture please click here. #26558 | A$15.00 | 908 Click HERE to order |
Joppien, Rudiger & Smith, Bernard.
THE ART OF CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES. Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771. Super roy. 4to, First Edition; pp. [xvi], 248(last blank); several hundred illustrations in coloured & b/w.; bibliography; index; original papered boards; a fine copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. Melbourne; Oxford University Press; (1985). ***A substantial and important work - many of the illustrations are previously unpublished. For full description and picture please click here. #41253 | A$175.00 | 909 Click HERE to order |
Joppien, Rudiger & Smith, Bernard.
THE ART OF CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES. 2 vols., super roy. 4to, First U.S. Edition; Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771; pp. [xvi], 248(last blank); Volume II: The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775; pp. [xiv], 274; in total nearly 1200 illustrations in coloured & b/w.; bibliography and index to each vol.; original papered boards (rear board to the second volume severely abraded, but contents unaffected); a very good set in torn dustwrappers. New Haven and London; Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press; (1985). For full description and picture please click here. #22496 | A$110.00 | 910 Click HERE to order |
Jordan, David Starr and Kellogg, Vernon Lyman.
EVOLUTION AND ANIMAL LIFE. An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes, Laws and Theories Relating to the Life and Evolution of Animals. First Edition, late impression; pp. xii, 492(last 3 blank); 3 coloured plates, numerous text figures, appendix, index; (one text leaf a little stained, otherwise a very good copy); very scarce. New York; D. Appleton and Company; 1919 (Copyright 1907). For full description and picture please click here. #9826 | A$40.00 | 911 Click HERE to order |
Jose, Arthur Wilberforce and Carter, Herbert James; Edited by.
THE ILLUSTRATED AUSTRALIAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA. 2 vols., impl. 8vo, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. x, 768, [6](blank); double-page coloured map, 11 coloured plates (4 double-page), 15 b/w. plates; Vol. II, pp. [viii], 750(last colophon), [2](blank); 1 double-page & 6 full-page coloured maps, 7 b/w. full-page maps, several maps in text, 13 (of 14) coloured plates (1 double-page), 14 b/w. plates, Errata slip to Vol. I; original green cloth, gilt; a very good set. Sydney; Angus & Robertson; 1925-26. ***Presentation copy inscribed to Johannes C. Andersen from Angus & Robertson and with typed letter, signed, from Arthur Jose to Andersen tipped in at front of Volume I, together with printed sheet requesting corrections, this having several manuscript entries by Andersen. Lacking the plate of Parrots at Page 284 of Volume II. For full description and picture please click here. #493 | A$75.00 | 912 Click HERE to order |
Joyce, Ernest.
THE SOUTH POLAR TRAIL. By Ernest E. Mills Joyce (Albert Medal). The Log of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. With an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc., LL.D. First Edition; pp. 220; full-page chart of journey, 32 plates, notes; original cloth; a nice copy; very scarce. London; Duckworth; 1929. ***Spence 642; Renard 821/2. For full description and picture please click here. #14717 | A$850.00 | 913 Click HERE to order |
Jubak, Jim.
IN THE IMAGE OF THE BRAIN. Breaking the Barrier between the Human Mind and Intelligent Machines. Med. 8vo, Paperback Edition; pp. xx, 348; several figures, notes, bibliography, index; original stiff wrappers; a nice copy. (Chippenham, Wiltshire); The Softback Preview; (1994). ***First published in the U.S. in 1992. For full description and picture please click here. #57622 | A$25.00 | 914 Click HERE to order |
Judd, Bernice.; Bell, Janet E.; Murdoch, Clare G.; compiled by.
HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE IMPRINTS, 1822-1899. A Bibliography. First Edition; pp. xxx, 248(last blank); several illustrations, notes, sources, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy. Honolulu; The Hawaiian Mission Children's Society & The University Press of Hawaii; (1978). For full description and picture please click here. #33287 | A$65.00 | 915 Click HERE to order |
Judd, John W.; F.R.S.
VOLCANOES. What they are and what they teach. With 96 illustrations. Fourth Edition. Cr. 8vo, Fourth Edition; pp. xvi, 382, [2](blank); 95 figures including 11 plates, index; original red cloth, decorated in gilt & black; uncut; a nice copy; very scarce. London; Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co; 1888. ***The International Scientific Series, Vol. XXXV. For full description and picture please click here. #65809 | A$85.00 | 916 Click HERE to order |
Jukes, J. Beete; M.A. F.G.S., Naturalist to the Expedition, [etc.].
NARRATIVE OF THE SURVEYING VOYAGE OF H.M.S. FLY, commanded by Captain F. P. Blackwood, R.N., in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other Islands of the Eastern Archipelago, during the Years 1842-1846: Together with an Excursion into the Interior of the Eastern Part of Java. 2 vols., First Edition; Vol. I, pp. 4(inserted adv.), xiv, 424(last blank), [2]+8(all inserted adverts.); folding map, 10 plates & 15 text illustrations; Vol. II, pp. [iv](inserted adv.), [ii](inserted adv., verso blank), viii, 362, 8(inserted adv.); folding map, 9 plates & 3 text illustrations, 10 appendices (including 2 on linguistics); some occasional mild foxing to some plates, but generally clean, uncut in the original binding of blue cloth (spines faded & some very light rubbing); a fine set; scarce. London; T. & W. Boone; 1847. ***Ferguson 4549; Hill, p. 159; Wantrup 92a; Not in Abbey, though it clearly qualifies. The advertisements are similar in number and content to those noted by Wantrup for the first issue but with some minor variations as to placing, etc. Of the plates, 4 are lithographs of natural history subjects, 3 are wood engravings and the remaining 12 are fine aquatints by Harden S. Melville. This was an important voyage, undertaken to survey the north-eastern parts of Australia, Torres Strait and New Guinea. The Great Barrier Reef was surveyed in considerable detail and Jukes's observations on its natural history and geology are of great importance and were strongly supportive of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation. The Fly River in New Guinea was discovered on this expedition and there are important accounts of Timor, Dutch Java, Bali, Singapore & Malacca. The appendices include important papers on the languages of Torres Strait and the Oceanic peoples. For full description and picture please click here. #68043 | A$4800.00 | 917 Click HERE to order |
Kaplan, Gisela and Rogers, Lesley.
ORANG-UTANS IN BORNEO. Photography by Gisela Kaplan. 4to, First Edition; pp. xii, 196; 12 maps & figures, numerous coloured illustrations, 7 tables, 4 appendices, bibliography, index; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Armidale, NSW); University of New England Press; (1994). ***An excellent book, apparently issued only in softcover. With a chapter on orang-utan brains in comparison to humans. For full description and picture please click here. #57036 | A$45.00 | 918 Click HERE to order |
Karlen, Arno.
BIOGRAPHY OF A GERM. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], vi, 182(last 3 blank); original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; Pantheon Books; (2000). ***A very well-written account of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterial cause of the tick-borne Lyme's disease, and it's ecology. For full description and picture please click here. #34880 | A$30.00 | 919 Click HERE to order |
Kastner, Joseph.
A WORLD OF WATCHERS. With illustrations from the work of Louis Agassiz Fuertes. [An informal history of the American passion for birds--from its scientific beginnings to the great birding boom of today]. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], x, 244; 8 coloured plates, several illustrations, bibliography, index; original quarter cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; Alfred A. Knopf; 1986. ***Bird watchers of North America. For full description and picture please click here. #15889 | A$35.00 | 920 Click HERE to order |
Kauffman, Stuart A.
AT HOME IN THE UNIVERSE. The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. Med. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. xii, 324(last 3 blank); several figures, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Viking; (1995). ***An important work on the mathematical basis of biological complexity. For full description and picture please click here. #26876 | A$35.00 | 921 Click HERE to order |
Keain, Maurice B.
FROM WHERE THE BROUGHTON FLOWS. A History of the Spalding District. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 214, [2](blank); several maps, numerous illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Spalding and Mount Summit; Published at the request of the District Council of Spalding by Keain Publications; (1976). ***Signed by the author. For full description and picture please click here. #38899 | A$35.00 | 922 Click HERE to order |
Keesing, Roger M. [and] Corris, Peter.
LIGHTNING MEETS THE WEST WIND. The Malaita Massacre. First Edition; pp. xvi, 220(last blank); endpaper maps, 2 full-page maps, 16 plates, epilogue, notes, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Melbourne; Oxford University Press; (1980). ***Malaita in the Solomon Islands, 1927. For full description and picture please click here. #10174 | A$25.00 | 923 Click HERE to order |
Keeton, Kathy.
WOMAN OF TOMORROW. [By] Kathy Keeton with Yvonne Baskin. Med. 8vo, First Australian Edition; pp. xx, 316(last 3 blank); 2 appendices, source notes, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Sydney; Lansdowne Press; (1986). ***First published in the U.S. in the previous year. An interesting look at future trends in biology, technology and work and women's role in these and other fields. For full description and picture please click here. #54635 | A$25.00 | 924 Click HERE to order |
Keith, Sir Arthur.
ESSAYS ON HUMAN EVOLUTION. Demy 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 224, [2](blank); appendix, index; original cloth; a very good copy. London; Watts & Co.; (1946). ***With several chapters on war. For full description and picture please click here. #26441 | A$25.00 | 925 Click HERE to order |
Kellogg, Vernon L.
DARWINISM TO-DAY. A discussion of present-day scientific criticism of the Darwinian selection theories, together with a brief account of the principal other proposed auxiliary and alternative theories of species forming. First Edition; pp. xiv, 404(last blank); index; original cloth (rubbed; rear joint worn); scarce. London; George Bell and Sons; 1907. For full description and picture please click here. #66748 | A$30.00 | 926 Click HERE to order |
Kemp, Peter; Edited by.
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO SHIPS & THE SEA. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. viii, 972; numerous illustrations & figures including 4pp. coloured illustrations, 5 appendices; original cloth; (corner cut from front endpaper); a very good copy in slightly torn dustwrapper. London; Oxford University Press; 1976. ***A highly useful reference. For full description and picture please click here. #16041 | A$30.00 | 927 Click HERE to order |
Kenealy, Edward Vaughan:
THE MAIL. Special Edition. Reprinted from The Times. Price One Halfpenny. THE KENEALY DEBATES. Broadsheet; pp. 4; lightly folded, in fine condition. London; Francis Goodlake [at The Times Office]; 1875. ***Printed on good quality paper watermarked McMurray Maker 1875. A special edition reprinted from the "Times" covering the parliamentary proceedings of the Kenealy debate on the 23rd April and earlier. "Dr. Kenealy studied law at Dublin and was called to the English Bar in 1847. He was leading council [counsel] in the Tichborne claim which became the longest case on record. His conduct during and after the trial brought him before a professional tribunal and he was eventually debarred. He was elected as representative for Stoke on 14 Feb. 1875 and took his seat on the 18th. He moved for a Royal Commission into the conduct of the Tichborne trial on the 23rd and was defeated 433 votes to 1. He wrote an eight volume folio of a nine volume work on the Tichborne trials before his defeat at the 1880 elections and subsequent death." - National Library of Australia. For full description and picture please click here. #16568 | A$35.00 | 928 Click HERE to order |
Keogh, Colonel E. G.
SUEZ TO ALEPPO. By Colonel E. G. Keogh, E.D., Editor of the Australian Army Journal. With an Introduction by Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney Rowell, K.B.E., C.B., Chief of the General Staff. Maps drawn and Illustrations arranged by Miss Joan Graham. First Edition; pp. [viii], 268; 30 maps (mostly coloured), several illustrations, appendix (chronology); original cloth; a nice copy. [Melbourne; Military Board, Army Headquarters; 1955]. For full description and picture please click here. #51076 | A$60.00 | 929 Click HERE to order |
Keown, Damien.
A DICTIONARY OF BUDDHISM. Contributors Stephen Hodge, Charles Jones, Paola Tinti. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 358(last blank); 3 full-page maps, 3 other appendices including chronology; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Oxford); Oxford University Press; (2003). For full description and picture please click here. #65035 | A$40.00 | 930 Click HERE to order |
Kerner, Dr. A.
FLOWERS AND THEIR UNBIDDEN GUESTS. With a Prefatory Letter by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.s. The Translation Revised and Edited by W. Ogle, M.A., M.D. With Illustrations. First Edition; pp. xvi, 164, 32(inserted adv.); 3 tinted litho. plates, 118 illustrations, index; original cloth, gilt, (spine a little worn); a very good copy; scarce. London; C. Kegan Paul & Co.; 1878. ***Freeman 1318. For full description and picture please click here. #66299 | A$135.00 | 931 Click HERE to order |
Keyes, Roger.
THE NAVAL MEMOIRS OF ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET SIR ROGER KEYES. [Vol. I] The Narrow Seas to the Dardanelles 1910--1915. [Vol. II] Scapa Flow to the Dover Straits 1916--1918. 2 vols., First Edition; Vol. I, pp. 538, [6](blank); 12 maps (5 folding), 16 plates, appendix, index; Vol. II, pp. 416; 13 folding maps, 12 plates, 11 text figures, 4 appendices, index; original cloth; (spine to Volume I faded; slight damp-mark at foot of front board to Volume II, with a single stamp on title-page & endpaper, but both volumes internally very fine and clean); a nice set; scarce. London; Thornton Butterworth, Ltd.; (1934-35). ***Includes Gallipoli, etc. For full description and picture please click here. #22688 | A$145.00 | 932 Click HERE to order |
Keynes, Richard; Edited by.
CHARLES DARWIN'S ZOOLOGY NOTES & SPECIMEN LISTS FROM H.M.S. BEAGLE. 4to, First Paperback Edition; pp. xxxiv, 430, [4](blank); numerous figures, sources of references, index of animals and plants, index of people, ships and places; original pictorial stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (Cambridge); Cambridge University Press; (2005). ***First published in 2000. For full description and picture please click here. #66352 | A$135.00 | 933 Click HERE to order |
Khalfa, Jean; Edited by.
WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE? The Darwin College Lectures. Roy. 8vo, First Paperback Edition; pp. vi, 210(last 3 blank); several figures, references, index; original stiff wrappers; a very good copy. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press; (1996). ***Chapters by Richard Gregory, Roger Penrose, Daniel Dennett and others. For full description and picture please click here. #67184 | A$25.00 | 934 Click HERE to order |
King, Hazel.
ELIZABETH MACARTHUR AND HER WORLD. First Edition; pp. xii, 228(last blank); 4 plates, appendix, bibliography, index; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Sydney); Sydney University Press; (1980). For full description and picture please click here. #21758 | A$45.00 | 935 Click HERE to order |
King, J. W.
THE WAR-SHIPS AND NAVIES OF THE WORLD, 1880 Thick med. 8vo, Facsimile Edition; pp. [xx], [iii]-xvi, 620(last 3 blank); 66 plates, numerous tables, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper (spine slightly faded). Greenwich; Conway Maritime Press; (1982). ***First published in 1880. For full description and picture please click here. #46809 | A$60.00 | 936 Click HERE to order |
King, Phillip Parker.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. London; John Murray; 1827. ***Ferguson 1130; Wantrup 84b; Abbey 573. Inserted before the half-title in Volume I is an unrelated 16-page publisher's catalogue from Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, dated January 1827. This is the second issue of this work, as usually found, with the cancel title-pages. A very few copies were issued with the date 1826; these are of the greatest rarity. The work is of great importance: Phillip Parker King (the son of Governor Philip Gidley King) was born at Norfolk Island, and became one of Britain's leading hydrographers. His work considerably furthered the geographical knowledge of the Australian coasts. His charts were very accurate and his extensions and additions to those of Flinders on the Northern and Western coasts of Australia were for many years in practical use by the Admiralty (well into the twentieth century). He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1824. For full description and picture please click here. #43380 | A$4500.00 | 937 Click HERE to order |
King, Captain Phillip P.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. Performed between the Years 1818 and 1822. With an Appendix, containing Various Subjects relating to Hydrography and Natural History. 2 vols., Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. [ii], xl, [ii](Errata to both vols.), 452; folding chart, 7 plates, 5 text illustrations; Vol. II, pp. [ii], viii, 638; folding chart, 6 plates (including 1 folding), 3 text illustrations, 4 appendices (including natural history, geology & native language); original vinyl; (slight foxing of edges, but a fine set); scarce. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1969]. ***First published at London by John Murray in 1827, with a few very rare copies dated 1826. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 30 - only 457 sets were printed. For full description and picture please click here. #12911 | A$550.00 | 938 Click HERE to order |
King-Hele, Desmond.
ERASMUS DARWIN. [Grandfather of Charles Darwin. A New Biography of the Great Scientific and Literary Genius of the Eighteenth Century]. First U.S. Edition; pp. viii, 184(last blank); portrait frontispiece, full-page sketch map, notes, bibliography, index; original cloth; a nice copy in worn dustwrapper. New York; Charles Scribner's Sons; (1963). For full description and picture please click here. #52467 | A$45.00 | 939 Click HERE to order |
Kingsley, Henry.
THE RECOLLECTIONS OF GEOFFREY HAMLYN. With a Memoir by Clement Shorter. Cr. 8vo; pp. xxx, 468, [4](adv.); 4 plates, 6 illustrations in text (2 full-page); original cloth; a very good copy. London; Ward, Lock & Co., Limited; N.D. [c. 1910]. ***A fine Australian novel, first published in 1859, by the younger brother of the better-known Charles Kingsley. Henry arrived in Australia in 1853 and spent some time in the Australian bush, notably on the Victorian goldfields. For full description and picture please click here. #67549 | A$35.00 | 940 Click HERE to order |
Kinser, Samuel; Edited by.
THE MEMOIRS OF PHILIPPE DE COMMYNES. 2 vols., super roy. 8vo, First Edition; Vol. 1, pp. xvi, 368; full-page map, 6 full-page illustrations, chronological table; Vol. 2, pp. xvi, 369-668; 2 maps, 6 full-page illustrations, 3 appendixes, list of errata, index; original cloth, with illustrated endpapers; a nice set in slightly silverfished dustwrappers. Columbia, South Carolina; University of South Carolina Press; (1969). For full description and picture please click here. #40281 | A$95.00 | 941 Click HERE to order |
Kitson, Arthur.
THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. The Circumnavigator. Post 8vo, Second Edition, Second Impression; pp. [viii], 336(last blank), [8](adv.); portrait frontispiece, index; original cloth, gilt; (spine faded & a little worn; foxed). London; John Murray; 1912. ***Beddie 2071. Apparently issued without the folding map usually present. For full description and picture please click here. #42391 | A$25.00 | 942 Click HERE to order |
Klein, George.
THE ATHEIST AND THE HOLY CITY. Encounters and Reflections. translated by Theodore and Ingrid Friedmann. foreword by Lewis Thomas. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 226(last 3 blank); notes, index; original cloth; a nice copy in very slightly defective dustwrapper. Cambridge, Massachusetts; The MIT Press; (1990). ***Interesting and well-written essays by an innovative cancer researcher and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, including very clear descriptions of viral infection processes. For full description and picture please click here. #65058 | A$25.00 | 943 Click HERE to order |
Klickmann, Flora; Edited by.
The Home Art Series. THE CULT OF THE NEEDLE. Third Impression. [Giving Directions for Bulgarian, Catalan, Hungarian and Baro Embroidery, Amager Work, Hemstitching, Netting, Wool-Work, Bohemian, Carrickmacross, Innismacsaint and Reticella Lace, and other forms of Needlecraft]. First Edition, Third Impression; pp. [iv], 114, [2](adv.); numerous illustrations, index; original printed papered boards (spine a little worn, but sound); a very good copy; scarce. London; The Office of "The Girl's OWn Paper & Woman's Magazine"; N.D. [c. 1910]. For full description and picture please click here. #65385 | A$45.00 | 944 Click HERE to order |
Knight, David M.
NATURAL SCIENCE BOOKS IN ENGLISH 1600-1900. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. x, 262; 4 coloured plates, 96 illustrations, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; B. T. Batsford Ltd; (1972). For full description and picture please click here. #19208 | A$110.00 | 945 Click HERE to order |
Knight, Stan.
HISTORICAL TYPES. From Gutenberg to Ashendene. [Foreword by James Clough]. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. 104; frontispiece, numerous illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index of names, index of places, index of call numbers; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. New Castle, Delaware; Oak Knoll Press; 2012. ***Includes enlarged images of historically significant types: "Each typeface is accorded a double-page spread that shows it from three perspectives: in the context of a full page, in detail at original size, and enlarged" [wrapper blurb]; the book, is for this reason a very useful and informative work. For full description and picture please click here. #38410 | A$65.00 | 946 Click HERE to order |
Kolff, D. H.; Jun.
VOYAGES OF THE DUTCH BRIG OF WAR DOURGA, First Edition in English; pp. xxiv, 366, [2](adv.); 1 folding & 1 full-page charts; uncut in the original green cloth (a small ink stain on spine); a fine, clean copy; very scarce. London; James Madden; 1840. ***Ferguson 3016. We have seen a number of different original bindings of this work; this one bears the spine title: VOYAGES | TO | NEW GUINEA | AND THROUGH | THE | MOLUCCAN | ARCHIPELAGO. The original owner's inscription on front endpaper is dated December 31st, 1847. For full description and picture please click here. #7827 | A$950.00 | 947 Click HERE to order |
Koppel, Susanne.
BRASILIEN-BIBLIOTHEK der Robert Bosch GmbH. Katalog. Band I. Abgeschlossen zum Jahresende 1983. Bearbeitet von Susanne Koppel. Mit einer Einleitung von Professor Dr. Hanno Beck. 4to, First Edition; pp. xxii, 516; 2 double-page & 14 full-page coloured plates, 1 double-page & 42 full-page b/w. plates, bibliography, 6 indices including extensive index of persons; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Stuttgart; Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt; (1986). ***With detailed bibliographical descriptions, listing 684 works on Brazil published from 1493 to 1919. For full description and picture please click here. #37723 | A$125.00 | 948 Click HERE to order |
Kraus, H. P.
A RARE BOOK SAGA. The Autobiography of H. P. Kraus. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xx, 386, [8](blank); portrait frontispiece, 16 plates, 31 figures & 1 other illust., index; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly worn & faded dustwrapper. New York; G. P. Putnam's Sons; (1978). For full description and picture please click here. #67946 | A$50.00 | 949 Click HERE to order |
Kreamer, Christine Mullen.
ART OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. The Fred and Rita Richman Collection. Photography by John McWilliams. 4to, First Edition; pp. 96(last blank); coloured map, 15 coloured plates, numerous b/w. illustrations, bibliography; original stiff pictorial wrappers; a fine copy. Atlanta; High Museum of Art; (1986). For full description and picture please click here. #67914 | A$35.00 | 950 Click HERE to order |
Krefft, Gerard.
THE MAMMALS OF AUSTRALIA Folio (475 by 380 mm.), Facsimile Edition; pp. [x], 4(Introduction, last blank), [42](explanatory text to the plates, variously paginated), [4](limitation notice and colophon, last 2 blank); 16 fine plates (originally lithographed from photographs by Victor A. Prout); original half leather, with cloth sides (slight foxing of cloth only); a nice copy. [East Melbourne; Lansdowne Editions; 1979]. ***Edition limited to 350 numbered copies signed by B. J. Marlow, Curator of Mammals at the Australian Museum.. For full description and picture please click here. #67487 | A$250.00 | 951 Click HERE to order |
Kriel, T.
MASKEW MILLER'S AFRIKAANS SCHOOL POCKET DICTIONARY. Afrikaans-English and English-Afrikaans. In the latest authorised spelling. Fourth, Revised and Augmented edition. Small pott 8vo (88 x 122 mm), Fourth Edition; pp. 456; original cloth; (name & date [3rd Oct., 1935] of former owner on endpaper and a preliminary page); a very good copy. Cape Town; Maskew Miller Ltd.; N.D. [c. 1935]. For full description and picture please click here. #16135 | A$35.00 | 952 Click HERE to order |
Kummer, Hans.
IN QUEST OF THE SACRED BABOON. A Scientist's Journey. Translated by M. Ann Biederman-Thorson. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], xxiv, 342(last 5 blank); double-page map, 8 coloured plates, 49 figures, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Princeton, New Jersey); Princeton University Press; (1995). For full description and picture please click here. #58193 | A$30.00 | 953 Click HERE to order |
Kurzweil, Raymond.
THE AGE OF INTELLIGENT MACHINES. 4to, First Edition; pp. xiv, 570(last 5 blank); numerous illustrations (some coloured), chronology, notes, bibliography, glossary, index; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly torn dustwrapper. [Cambridge, Massachusetts; The MIT Press]; (1990). ***The classic work in the field including seminal papers from some of the great researchers and thinkers and including an historical overview. For full description and picture please click here. #16042 | A$165.00 | 954 Click HERE to order |
Kurzweil, Ray.
THE AGE OF SPIRITUAL MACHINES. When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence. Med. 8vo, First Australian Edition; pp. xii, 388; a few illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, index; original stiff wrappers; a nice copy. (St Leonards); Allen & Unwin; (1999). For full description and picture please click here. #67200 | A$30.00 | 955 Click HERE to order |
Ladd, Harry S. and Brown, Roland W.
FOSSILS LIFT THE VEIL OF TIME. [and] "ROCKHOUNDS" UNCOVER EARTH'S MINERAL BEAUTY. By George S. Switzer. Two extracts from National Geographic Magazine, super roy. 8vo; pp. 363-386 and pp. 631-660; numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations; binder's quarter cloth; a fine copy. [Washington; National Geographic Society]; N.D. [c. 1960]. For full description and picture please click here. #38357 | A$15.00 | 956 Click HERE to order |
Lafargue, Paul.
THE EVOLUTION OF PROPERTY FROM SAVAGERY TO CIVILIZATION. F'cap 8vo, First (?) U.S. Edition; pp. 160; original cloth; a very good copy. Chicago; Charles H. Kerr & Company Co-operative; N.D. [c. 1910]. For full description and picture please click here. #65479 | A$35.00 | 957 Click HERE to order |
La Fleur, J. D.; Translator and Editor.
PIETER VAN DEN BROECKE'S JOURNAL OF VOYAGES TO CAPE VERDE, GUINEA AND ANGOLA (1605-1612). Super roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 144(last 5 blank); coloured frontispiece, 7 full-page maps, full-page b/w. illust, 3 appendices, bibliography, 3 indices; original cloth; gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; The Hakluyt Society; 2000. ***Another fine production from the Hakluyt Society in the handsome new livery of the Third Series of which this is Volume 5. For full description and picture please click here. #64323 | A$65.00 | 958 Click HERE to order |
Lagrange, Fernand.
PHYSIOLOGY OF BODILY EXERCISE. Fourth Edition. Cr. 8vo, Fourth Edition; pp. xvi, 396(last blank); original cloth, uncut; a fine copy. London; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.; N.D. [c. 1890]. ***The International Scientific Series Volume LXVII. For full description and picture please click here. #65802 | A$50.00 | 959 Click HERE to order |
Landsborough, William:
JOURNAL OF LANDBOROUGH'S EXPEDITION from Carpentaria, in Search of Burke & Wills. With a Map Showing his Route. Melbourne: Wilson & Mackinnon, Printers, 78, Collins Street East. 1862. First Edition; pp. [iv], 128; large folding map (this, unusually, in very good state), frontispiece (portraits of the members of the expedition); original printed pink-papered thin boards & quarter cloth (stained & a little worn; about half of frontispiece also stained; otherwise internally clean); a very good copy; scarce. Melbourne; Wilson & Mackinnon; 1862. ***Ferguson 11329; Wantrup 174a. With the blind stamp of F. F. Bailliere, Publisher, on the Preface leaf (as often). From the libraries of W. P. Hurst (with his bookplate on verso of Preface) and Mabel Brookes (with her bookplate loosely inserted). For full description and picture please click here. #40186 | A$650.00 | 960 Click HERE to order |
Landsborough, William:
JOURNAL OF LANDSBOROUGH'S EXPEDITION from Carpentaria, in Search of Burke & Wills. Facsimile Edition, Second Impression; pp. [ii], [iv], 128; large folding coloured map, frontispiece; original vinyl; a nice copy. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1971]. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 17 (566 copies printed including the first impression of this facsimile [1963]). First published in Melbourne in 1862, by F. F. Bailliere; the original edition is not recorded by Ferguson, but see F. 11329. For full description and picture please click here. #5156 | A$120.00 | 961 Click HERE to order |
Lang, Andrew.
SOCIAL ORIGINS. [and] PRIMAL LAW by J. J. Atkinson. First Edition; pp. [ii], xviii, [ii], xviii, 208(last blank), [209]-312(last blank), 4(adv.), 40(inserted adv., dated 1/03); 2 appendices, index; original cloth (slightly marked); a very good copy; scarce. London; Longmans, Green, and Co.; 1903. ***Atkinson's work was posthumously edited and annotated by Lang. The two works include much on the Arunta and other Australian aboriginal and Melanesian tribes and critical analysis of the work and theories of Fison, Spencer & Gillen, Frazer, Herbert Spencer, Max Muller, Durkheim, Lewis Morgan, Westermarck and many others. In this copy the preliminary pages have been repeated, but nothing is omitted. For full description and picture please click here. #65436 | A$185.00 | 962 Click HERE to order |
Langdon, Robert.
THE LOST CARAVEL. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 368; 24 maps, 24 plates, 14 text illustrations, 6 appendices, bibliography, index; original papered boards; (a few soft pencilled lines & occasional notes in margins); a nice copy in dustwrapper. Sydney; Pacific Publications; (1975). ***The influence of Spanish castaways on the history and culture of the Pacific peoples, and the possibilities of inter-breeding. For full description and picture please click here. #2313 | A$65.00 | 963 Click HERE to order |
Langdon, Robert.
THE LOST CARAVEL RE-EXPLORED. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. x, 302(last 3 blank); 16 maps (2 double-page), numerous illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, references, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper; scarce. Canberra; Brolga Press; (1988). ***A sequel to/rewriting of the author's important book "The Lost Caravel". For full description and picture please click here. #19534 | A$85.00 | 964 Click HERE to order |
Langton, Christopher G. and Shimohara, Katsunori; edited by.
ARTIFICIAL LIFE V. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. xii, 530, [2](blank); 4 coloured plates, numerous figures, references, author index; original stiff wrappers; a nice copy. Cambridge, Massachusetts; A Bradford Book, The MIT Press; (1997). ***A magnificent collection of papers on a variety of subjects in biology, artificial life and intelligence, and much more, issued only in softcover. For full description and picture please click here. #65076 | A$45.00 | 965 Click HERE to order |
WITH THE VERY RARE LIST OF CHARTS AND PLATES La Perouse, J. F. G. de:
A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, London; G. G. and J. Robinson [etc.]; 1798-99. For full description and picture please click here. #67358 | A$20,000.00 | 966 Click HERE to order |
La Perouse, J. F. G. de.
A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, London; J. Johnson; 1799. ***Ferguson 289; Hill 2, 974; Sabin 38963. One of four translations (one being an abridgement in one volume, 8vo only) published in London in 1798, here reprinted in 1799. Ferguson calls for an atlas of 44 plates, but it is doubtful that this was issued with this edition-- his entry for the first edition (1798) of this version (F. 270) makes no mention of an atlas -- probably it was only a binding variation with the plates in a separate atlas rather than bound up in the text volumes as directed by the publisher (one of the charts in Vol. III is in two sheets, which would account for the discrepancy in numbers). The voyage aroused intense interest but the ships were not heard of after leaving Botany Bay in 1788 and their fate was not positively determined until Peter Dillon discovered the wrecks at Vanikoro over 30 years later. For full description and picture please click here. #12603 | A$2250.00 | 967 Click HERE to order |
Larson, Edward J.
EVOLUTION'S WORKSHOP. God and Science on the Galapagos Islands. Med. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. xii, 320, [4](blank); 16 plates, several illustrations, appendix, notes, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (London); Allen Lane, The Penguin Press; (2001). ***First published in the U.S. in the same year. For full description and picture please click here. #9492 | A$30.00 | 968 Click HERE to order |
Lasseter, Lewis Hubert:
LASSETER'S DIARY. [A facsimile of the original manuscript diary now in the Mitchell Library, Sydney]. Small 8vo, First Edition; pp. [96](last blank); several illustrations; original stiff wrappers, rounded corners; a fine copy. [Sydney]; Angus & Robertson Publishers; 1986. ***Lasseter claimed to have discovered a rich gold reef in central Australia. For full description and picture please click here. #18819 | A$50.00 | 969 Click HERE to order |
La Trobe, Charles Joseph.
LETTERS OF CHARLES JOSEPH LA TROBE. Edited by L. J. Blake. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. x, 96, [2](blank); 4 b/w. & 8 coloured plates, 16 b/w. illustrations, notes, sources & references; index; original cloth; a very good copy in dustwrapper. (Melbourne); The Government of Victoria; (1975). ***Victoriana Series No. 1. For full description and picture please click here. #43575 | A$35.00 | 970 Click HERE to order |
La Trobe University.
OPENING CEREMONY AND INAUGURAL LECTURES 1967. Oblong 8vo, First Edition; pp. 62, [2](blank); double-page illust.; original stiff wrappers; a nice copy. No Imprint [Bundoora; La Trobe University; 1968]. ***Together with similar 4th and 5th Annual reports, pp. [ii], 78(last blank) and pp. [ii], 68, [2](blank) respectively, each with several illustrations (1970 & 1971). For full description and picture please click here. #67587 | A$25.00 | 971 Click HERE to order |
Laughlin, Austin.
BOOTS AND ALL. The Inside Story of the Secret War. First Edition; pp. 208; 17 plates; original cloth; a very good copy in repaired dustwrapper. (Melbourne); A Colorgravure Publication; [1951]. ***Postwar espionage from an Australian point of view. For full description and picture please click here. #35260 | A$45.00 | 972 Click HERE to order |
Lavery, Brian.
Anatomy of the Ship. THE COLONIAL MERCHANTMAN SUSAN CONSTANT 1605. Oblong 4to, First Edition; pp. 120; very numerous photos. & detailed drawings; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Conway Maritime Press; (1988). ***"A complete anatomy of the ship in words, photographs and drawings, accurate, visually exciting and totally comprehensive, offering ship buffs, historians and modelmakers a novel insight into the technicalities of each ship type covered". For full description and picture please click here. #24057 | A$60.00 | 973 Click HERE to order |
Law, Phillip & Bechervaise, John.
ANARE. Australia's Antarctic Outposts. Demy 4to, First Edition; pp. xxiv, 152; endpaper & other maps, numerous illustrations (many full-page & some coloured); appendix, index; original cloth; (tiny hole in pp. 63/4 with trifling loss); a very good copy in stained & repaired dustwrapper. Melbourne; Oxford University Press; 1957. ***Spence 692. For full description and picture please click here. #42148 | A$65.00 | 974 Click HERE to order |
[Lawlor, Patrick A.]:
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTORS' MONOGRAPHS, Nos. 1-6, complete. Edited by "Shibli Bagarag". Wellington; Beltane Book Bureau; [1947]-1948-1948-1951-1951. ***All published. For full description and picture please click here. #33352 | A$175.00 | 975 Click HERE to order |
[Lawrence, Lillian].
THE LIVE STEAM BOOK. By "L.B.S.C." Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xiv, 200; 5 full-page plates, 177 text illustrations (many full-page); original cloth (spine dull). London; Percival Marshall; (1950). ***Lillian "Curly" Lawrence (September 27, 1883 - November 4, 1967), known as LBSC, was one of Britain's most prolific and well known model or scale-steam-locomotive designers. LBSC were the initials of Britain's London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. For full description and picture please click here. #13641 | A$45.00 | 976 Click HERE to order |
Lawrence, T. E.:
THE LETTERS OF T. E. LAWRENCE. Edited by David Garnett. Thick med. 8vo, Third Impression; pp. 896; 4 maps (2 folding), 16 plates, index; original cloth; a fine, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. London; Jonathan Cape; (1938). ***First published November 1938 (two impressions); this impression December 1938. O'Brien A202. For full description and picture please click here. #47922 | A$160.00 | 977 Click HERE to order |
[Lawrence, William.
LECTURES ON PHYSIOLOGY, ZOOLOGY, AND THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MAN, Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons]. Demy 8vo, Early Edition; pp. [iii]-xx(LACKING title-page), 526; 12 engraved plates (7 folding); binder's cloth, with leather spine labels; (LACKING title-page; some worming, mostly to inner margins, with minimal loss of a few letters on several pages; a corner torn from pp. 259/60 with loss of portions of about 20 lines); a good, sound copy; scarce. [London; J. Smith; 1822]. ***First published in 1819. The plates in this copy show the full imprint: "Published by J. Smith 163 Strand 1822". An important work setting out Lawrence's ideas rejecting Lamarckian inheritance and prefiguring some of Darwin's insights. For full description and picture please click here. #65485 | A$65.00 | 978 Click HERE to order |
Laws, Richard.
ANTARCTICA. The Last Frontier. Post 4to, First Edition; pp. 208; endpaper map, a few text maps, numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, references, index; original dark blue cloth-grained papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Anglia Television Limited, Boxtree; (1989). ***Renard 895. For full description and picture please click here. #27681 | A$30.00 | 979 Click HERE to order |
Lawson, Alexander.
ANATOMY OF A TYPEFACE. Med. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. 432(last blank); title-page in red & black, very numerous illustrations & type specimens, bibliography, index; original cloth; minor tape-marks on endpapers, otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Hamish Hamilton; (1990). ***Claimed to be the first full-scale investigation of typefaces since Updike. First published in the same year by David R. Godine, Boston. Useful and informative. For full description and picture please click here. #66244 | A$75.00 | 980 Click HERE to order |
Layton, Robert.
ULURU. An Aboriginal history of Ayers Rock. Oblong demy. 4to, First Edition; pp. x, 142(last 3 blank); several coloured illustrations, figs, tables, 3 appendices, references, index; Errata slip; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Canberra; Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; 1986. For full description and picture please click here. #17968 | A$75.00 | 981 Click HERE to order |
Lazare, Edward; Editor.
AMERICAN BOOK-PRICES CURRENT. Index 1945-1950. Compiled from the Annual Volumes and edited by Edward Lazare. Thick 8vo; pp. lxii (including adv.), 1406(last blank); original cloth; a fine copy. New York; R. R. Bowker Company; (1951). ***Containing over 75,000 entries, with prices. For full description and picture please click here. #20063 | A$50.00 | 982 Click HERE to order |
(Leab, Katharine Kyes [and] Leab, Daniel J.; Managing Editors).
AMERICAN BOOK PRICES CURRENT. 1981. Volume 87. The auction season September 1980--August 1981. Thick 8vo; pp. xxxii(including adv.), 1022(last 3 blank); original cloth; a fine copy. New York; Bancroft-Parkman, Inc.; 1982. ***Containing many thousands of entries, including autographs & manuscripts, with prices. For full description and picture please click here. #68876 | A$45.00 | 983 Click HERE to order |
(Leab, Katharine Kyes; Leab, Daniel J.; Frings, Marie-Luise; Mallison, Jane; Editors).
AMERICAN BOOK PRICES CURRENT. 1990. Volume 96. The auction season September 1989--August 1990. Thick 8vo; pp. [xxvi](adv.), xxii, 1036(last 5 blank); original cloth; a fine copy. [New York]; Bancroft-Parkman, Inc.; 1990. ***Containing many thousands of entries, including autographs & manuscripts, with prices. For full description and picture please click here. #68877 | A$45.00 | 984 Click HERE to order |
Leahy, Michael J.
EXPLORATIONS INTO HIGHLAND NEW GUINEA. 1930-1935. Edited by Douglas E. Jones. Foreword by Jane C. Goodale. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 256(last 2 blank); full-page map, several illustrations, index; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Bathurst; Crawford House Press; (1994). ***The diary of the often controversial Leahy, recording his five years spent in the pursuit of gold in the New Guinea highlands, and the human discoveries he made there. Leahy's encounters with the Highlanders in the 1920s and '30s, and his often extraordinary photographs of them provide a broad and rich contribution to world enthnography. For full description and picture please click here. #49231 | A$95.00 | 985 Click HERE to order |
Leeper, G. W.; Editor.
THE EVOLUTION OF LIVING ORGANISMS. A Symposium to mark the Centenary of Darwin's 'Origin of Species' and of the Royal Society of Victoria held in Melbourne, December 1959. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 460(last blank); 7 plates, numerous figures & tables, references to each paper, index; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. (Melbourne); Melbourne University Press; (1962). ***Thirty-six papers, mainly by Australian and New Zealand scientists. For full description and picture please click here. #16171 | A$60.00 | 986 Click HERE to order |
Lees, James.
THE MASTING AND RIGGING OF ENGLISH SHIPS OF WAR, 1625-1860. Super roy. 4to, First Edition; pp. xii, 196; 93 illustrations on 48 plates, very numerous figures, appendix, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Conway Maritime Press; (1979). For full description and picture please click here. #56669 | A$65.00 | 987 Click HERE to order |
Lefevre, Andre.
RACE AND LANGUAGE. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii], [iv](adv.), [iii]-viii, 424; original cloth (a little marked); uncut; a nice copy; scarce. London; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co. Ltd.; 1894. ***The International Scientific Series, Vol. LXXVI. For full description and picture please click here. #56674 | A$65.00 | 988 Click HERE to order |
Lehmann, Professor C. G.
PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY. Translated from the second edition by George E. Day, M.D., F.R.S. 3 vols., First Edition in English; Vol. I, pp. xii, 456; Vol. II, pp. xii, 466, [2](blank), 8(Report of the Cavendish Society, last blank); Vol. III, pp. xii, 580(last blank); appendix, index; original cloth; uncut & partially unopened; (upper portion of spine to Vol. I missing & hinges to this volume weak, but sound; small unobtrusive blind-stamp on a few leaves at start of Vols. II and III, and numbers & other marking on spines); otherwise a fine, clean set; scarce. London; Printed for the Cavendish Society; MDCCCLI [-LIII, LIV 1851-53-54]. ***A valuable and important contribution to the chemical workings of the body in health, disease and digestion. An excellent set which would repay rebacking, all other library marking being confined to the endpapers. For full description and picture please click here. #66314 | A$65.00 | 989 Click HERE to order |
Leichhardt, Dr. Ludwig.
JOURNAL OF AN OVERLAND EXPEDITION IN AUSTRALIA, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845. 2 vols., Facsimile Edition; pp. [ii], xx, 544; 6 plates (1 folding), 7 text illustrations, appendix; plus folder containing a large coloured map in three folding sheets showing Leichhardt's route; original vinyl; (edges foxed); a nice set. [Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1964]. ***Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 16 - 818 sets only were printed (including a 1967 reprint of 294 sets). Originally published in 1847. The original folder of maps was separately published by Arrowsmith, and is very rare. For full description and picture please click here. #14995 | A$350.00 | 990 Click HERE to order |
Leichhardt, Dr. Ludwig.
JOURNAL OF AN OVERLAND EXPEDITION IN AUSTRALIA, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845. Facsimile Edition; pp. xx, 544; 5 plates, 8 illustrations, appendix; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. No Imprint [Sydney; Doubleday; 1980]. ***Originally published in 1847. For full description and picture please click here. #5011 | A$95.00 | 991 Click HERE to order |
Leighton, Clare.
WOOD-ENGRAVING AND WOOD-CUTS. "How to Do It" Series No. 2. Cr. 4to, Second Edition, Second Impression; pp. vi, 96; numerous illustrations including 10 photos. of method & many examples of wood-engraving & woodcuts; original cloth; a very good copy with remains of dustwrapper. London and New York; The Studio Publications; (1948). ***First published in 1932. For full description and picture please click here. #24945 | A$40.00 | 992 Click HERE to order |
Le Maire, Jacob.
MIRROR OF THE AUSTRALIAN NAVIGATION. F'cap folio, First Edition; pp. 32, [102], 64, [2]; 3 double-page coloured maps, smaller coloured map on facsimile title-page & 7 full-page coloured illustrations; original quarter goatskin & marbled boards; a fine copy; scarce. (Sydney); Hordern House; (1999). ***Australian Maritime Series Number Five. Edition limited to 950 copies. For full description and picture please click here. #63498 | A$225.00 | 993 Click HERE to order |
Lenain, Thierry.
MONKEY PAINTING. [With an Introduction by Desmond Morris]. First Edition; pp. 208(last blank); 16 coloured plates, notes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Reaktion Books; (1997). ***A revised and expanded edition of "La peinture des singes" first published in Paris in 1990. For full description and picture please click here. #64356 | A$30.00 | 994 Click HERE to order |
Letourneau, Ch.
PROPERTY: Its Origin and Development. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [ii](adv.), xii, 402(last blank), [16](adv.); index; original cloth, gilt; (covers flecked); scarce. London; Walter Scott; 1892. ***The Contemporary Science Series, Edited by Havelock Ellis, Volume XVIII. For full description and picture please click here. #65843 | A$35.00 | 995 Click HERE to order |
Letts, Malcolm; Editor.
PERO TAFUR. Travels and Adventures 1435-1439. Translated and Edited with an Introduction by Malcolm Letts. First Edition; pp. xvi, 264(last 3 blank); double-page map, 8 plates, notes, index; title-page in red & black; original cloth (slightly worn; name stamp of former owner at foot of a couple of pp.); a very good copy; scarce. New York and London; Harper & Brothers; (1926). ***The Broadway Travellers Edited by Sir E. Denison Ross and Eileen Power. Travels in Southern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. For full description and picture please click here. #31950 | A$50.00 | 996 Click HERE to order |
Letts, Malcolm; F.S.A.
THE PILGRIMAGE OF ARNOLD VON HARFF, KNIGHT from Cologne, through Italy, Syria, Egypt, Arabia, Ethiopia, Nubia, Palestine, Turkey, France and Spain, which he accomplished in the years 1496 to 1499. Translated from the German and edited with notes and an introduction. First Edition; pp. xxxvi, 328(last 3 blank); 47 attractive illustrations (several full-page), bibliography, index; original cloth, gilt; (top of spine a little worn); a nice copy; scarce. London; Printed for the Hakluyt Society; 1946. ***Hakluyt Society Second Series No. XCIV. For full description and picture please click here. #34109 | A$75.00 | 997 Click HERE to order |
Levey, George Collins.
HUTCHINSON'S AUSTRALASIAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA. Comprising a Description of all Places in the Australasian Colonies, an Account of the Events which have taken place in Australasia from its Discovery to the Present Date and the Biographies of Distinguished Early Colonists. Post 8vo, First Edition; pp. [iv], 440, 16(adv.); large folding map; original quarter roan (spine ends worn & back-strip repaired; some inked annotations - principally headlines and other finding aids); a very good copy; scarce. London; Hutchinson & Co.; 1892. ***The work is strong on Australian and New Zealand geographical place names. For full description and picture please click here. #20037 | A$125.00 | 998 Click HERE to order |
Lewin, Evans; Librarian.
SUBJECT CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE ROYAL EMPIRE SOCIETY. [Facsimile Edition]. With a New Introduction by Donald H. Simpson. (London); Dawsons of Pall Mall for The Royal Commonwealth Society; 1967. For full description and picture please click here. #19887 | A$450.00 | 999 Click HERE to order |
Lewin, John William.
PRODROMUS ENTOMOLOGY. Or, a Natural History of the Lepidopterous Insects of New South Wales. Illustrated with Nineteen Plates. By John William Lewin, A.L.S. First published in 1805, re-issued in 1822 and now re-published by Edition Renard Melbourne 2007. Melbourne; Edition Renard; 2007. ***One of 100 numbered copies (within a total edition of 212 copies) bound in the style of the first issue of the second edition of 1822. This is the sixth publication from Edition Renard. Both the first and second editions of the original work are very rare, with only about 50 copies in total so far recorded. For full description and picture please click here. #30288 | A$660.00 | 1000 Click HERE to order |
Lewin, John William.
PRODROMUS ENTOMOLOGY. Or, a Natural History of the Lepidopterous Insects of New South Wales. Illustrated with Nineteen Plates. By John William Lewin, A.L.S. First published in 1805, re-issued in 1822 and now re-published by Edition Renard Melbourne 2007. Melbourne; Edition Renard; 2007. ***One of 70 numbered copies (within a total edition of 212 copies) bound in an exact facsimile binding in the style of the later superior issue of the second edition, complete with plain interleaves and hand-marbled sides. This is the sixth publication from Edition Renard. Both the first and second editions of the original work are very rare, with only about 50 copies in total so far recorded. For full description and picture please click here. #30148 | A$925.00 | 1001 Click HERE to order |
Lewin, Roger.
BONES OF CONTENTION. Controversies in the Search for Human Origins. Med. 8vo, First U.S. Edition, Second Impression; pp. 348, [4](blank); 41 plates (included in pagination), a few figures, notes, index; original quarter cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. New York; Simon and Schuster; (1987). For full description and picture please click here. #35180 | A$25.00 | 1002 Click HERE to order |
Lewis, David.
FROM MAUI TO COOK. The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific. Drawings by Walter Stacpool. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [x], 214(last blank); endpaper maps, 1 double-page & 3 full-page maps, numerous drawings (some full-page), bibliography; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. Sydney; Doubleday; (1977). ***Nicely printed in green and black. An interesting account of the settlement of the Pacific by Polynesian peoples, the coming of the Spanish and the subsequent arrival of the English, and the various clashes of cultures that ensued. For full description and picture please click here. #9272 | A$40.00 | 1003 Click HERE to order |
L'Heritier de Brutelle, Charles-Louis.
SERTUM ANGLICUM 1788. Facsimile with Critical Studies and a Translation. Med. 4to, Facsimile Edition; pp. c, [iv], 36, [14](last 2 blank); 35 plates (including 8 double-page), 1 text & 3 full-page illustrations, index to Latin names & general index; attractive original papered boards, with marbled sides; a fine copy. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; The Hunt Botanical Library; 1963. ***This Edition Limited to 2000 copies. First published in Paris, 1788. For full description and picture please click here. #32718 | A$95.00 | 1004 Click HERE to order |
Lhotsky, Dr. John.
A JOURNEY FROM SYDNEY TO THE AUSTRALIAN ALPS undertaken in the months of January, February and March, 1834 by Dr. John Lhotsky. Edited by Alan E. J. Andrews. First Edition; pp. 280; 5 maps (on 2 folding sheets), frontispiece, 8 plates, bibliography, index; original cloth; (neat name on endpaper); a fine copy in dustwrapper; scarce. Hobart; Blubber Head Press; 1979. ***Edition limited to 530 numbered copies, signed by the editor. The first publication of the Blubber Head Press and a fine production, reproducing the text of Lhotsky's account first published between 1834 and 1836 and one of the fabled rarities of Australian exploration, together with manuscript notes held in the British Library. For full description and picture please click here. #5147 | A$250.00 | 1005 Click HERE to order |
Library Week Committee of Victoria:
LIBRARY WEEK 1964. Thirteent |