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Themidore ou Mon Histoire et Celle de ma Maitresse
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartGodard d’Aucourt; Lubin de Beauvais
Paris: Librairie des Amaterus, A. Ferroud, 1907.Extra-illustrated and finely bound copy of Godard d’Aucourt’s libertine novel, first published anonymously in 1745, here published for the first time with 22 colour lithographs by Lubin de Beauvais. One of 120 copies on grand velin a la cuve (from a total edition of 150). This copy with an original drawing for one of the plates in pencil and chalk on brown paper, signed by de Beauvais, and 22 pencil sketches of the illustrations on full-sheet tracing paper, each signed or monogrammed, tipped onto the corresponding plates (two vignettes sharing a single sheet). The lithographs are present in three suites: mounted in the text as issued, a suite on Chine bound facing them, and a further suite, untrimmed, bound at the rear. Bookplate of J. Tessier.
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The Northern Tribes of Central Australia (Walter Roth’s Copy)
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartBaldwin Spencer; F. J. Gillen
London: Macmillan and Co., 1904.Spencer and Gillen’s expeditions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries marked the beginning of modern anthropological fieldwork in Australia. They amassed an enormous collection of notebooks, films, audio recordings, illustrations, and photographs, which are well represented throughout. An important association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by Spencer on behalf of both authors to Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933). The year of publication was the year Roth became Queensland’s Chief Protector of Aboriginals, and the same year his Western Australian royal commission report documented abuses of Aboriginal people in the North-West. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of Aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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Annual Report of the Northern Protector / Chief Protector of Aboriginals, 1903-1909
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth; Richard B. Howard
Brisbane: George Arthur Vaughan and Anthony James Cumming, Government Printers, 1904-1910.Seven consecutive annual reports of the Queensland Protector of Aborigines, running from Walter Roth’s last year as Northern Protector of Aboriginals through his term as Chief Protector and into the first years of his successor, Richard Baron Howard. The 1903 report is the last of the divided system, under which Roth administered the north and Archibald Meston the south; the protectorate of Queensland was reorganised under a single Chief Protector in 1904, with Roth appointed. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of Aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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[Coloured Labour, 1861-1906]
AU$4,500 Read MoreAdd to cartQueensland Government [BLACKBIRDING]
Brisbane: Government Printer, 1861-1906.A substantial collection of Queensland government papers bound together in one volume concerning blackbirding, indentured labour, and migrant Pacific and Asian workers in Queensland. Fifty distinct papers, two present in duplicate, making fifty-two papers in all. Full list of papers: 1. 1861 Asiatic Labor; 2. 1868-9 Polynesian Laborers Act (Petition); 3. 1871 Correspondence Respecting Polynesian Immigration; 4. 1873 Inquiry Into The “Jason” Case (Further Paper and Correspondence Relating to); 5. 1875 Immigration of Chinese and Indian Coolies; 6. 1874 Sugar Manufacture-Claim of John Buhot (Petition); 7. 1874 Coolie Immigration (Petition); 8. 1876 The Case of Mr. Joseph Francis Kelsey. Report from The Select Committee Appointed to Inquire into the Matters in Dispute Between the Public Works Office and Mr. Joseph Francis Kelsey; together with Proceedings of the Committee and Minutes of Evidence; 9. 1876 Polynesian Laborers Bill (Petition from Maryborough); 10. 1876 Alleged Abuses Connected with Polynesian Labor (2 copies); 11. 1876 Polynesian Laborers Not Receiving Their Wages from Mortgagees in Possession; 12. 1876 The Proceedings in the South Seas by W. H. Hayes, a United States Subject (Further Despatch Respecting); 13. 1876 Pacific Islanders’ Protection Act (Despatch Respecting); 14. 1877 Report of Select Committee of 1876 on the Polynesian Labour Question (Despatch); 15. 1877 Mr. Mackay’s Report Upon Sugar Factories, Etc.; 16. 1877 Inquiry into Certain Alleged Illicit Distillation at the Dabilban Distillery, Logan River (Report of Board); 17. 1877 Chinese Immigration; 18. 1877 Resignation by Mr. Sheridan of the Office of Inspector of Polynesians; 19. 1877 Immigration Agent and Polynesian Inspector at Maryborough; 20. 1878 Recruiting Agents and Introduction of Polynesians (2 copies); 21. 1881 Colonial Sugar Refining Company’s Bill. Report from the Select Committee of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company’s Bill; together with the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix; 22. 1882 Coolies from British-India (Correspondence Respecting the Proposed Introduction of); 23. 1882 Proposed Extension of Facilities for Employment of Polynesian Labour (Petition); 24. 1883 Labour Vessel “Heron”; 25. 1883 Labourers from British India (Further Correspondence Respecting the Proposed Introduction of); 26. 1884 The Temporary Closure of the Hospital for Pacific Islanders at Mackay (Correspondence Respecting); 27. 1884 Selection on or Near the Delta of the Burdekin River; 28. 1884 Correspondence Respecting Proposed Introduction of Laborers from British India; 29. 1885 Pacific Islanders Fund (Revenue and Expenditure of the); 30. 1885 Report with Minutes of Evidence taken before The Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Circumstances Under Which Labourers Have Been Introduced into Queensland from New Guinea and Other Islands, etc., together with Proceedings of the Commission, etc.; 31. 1891 Indented Labourers from Germany and Italy (Correspondence Relating to the Emigration of); 32. 1891 Pacific Island Immigration (Annual Report of Department of); 33. 1897 Pacific Island Immigration (Immigration Agent’s Annual Report Upon); 34. 1899 Admission of Japanese into Queensland; 35. 1897 Coloured Population of Queensland; 36. 1899 Departure of Japanese from Queensland. Return Showing the Number of Japanese who have Departed from Queensland Since the Initiation of the Passport System; 37. 1899 Pacific Islanders’ Fund (Report on, for the Year Ended 30th June, 1899); 38. 1901 Death Rate of Polynesians at Fairymead and Bingera Plantations; 39. 1901 Fines Inflicted on Polynesian Islanders in the Cairns District; 40. 1901 Pacific Islands Labourers Bill in the Federal Parliament (Letter, Dated 15th November, 1901, from Premier of Queensland to President and Members of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Australia); 41. 1901 Admission of Japanese into Queensland (Further Correspondence Relating to); 42. 1901 Pacific Island Immigration (Immigration Agent’s Annual Report Upon); 43. 1901 Pacific Islanders’ Fund (Annual Statement of Account); 44. 1903 Pacific Island Immigration (Immigration Agent’s Annual Report Upon); 45. 1904 Pacific Island Immigration (Immigration Agent’s Annual Report Upon); 46. 1905 Pacific Island Immigration (Immigration Agent’s Annual Report Upon); 47. 1905 Bonus for Sugar-cane Cultivated and Harvested by White Labour; 48. 1906 Deportation of Kanakas (Correspondence between the Premier of Queensland and the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth Respecting); 49. 1906 Regulations under “The Pacific Island Labourers Acts, 1880-1892”; 50. 1906 Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into and Report regarding the Number of Pacific Islanders to be Deported from Queensland at the end of the Current Year, the most efficient manner of Repatriating them, with the probable Cost thereof; whether there are in Queensland any Pacific Islanders whose Compulsory Deportation would be inconsistent with humanity or with good faith; and whether Sufficient Labour for carrying on the Queensland Sugar Industry is likely to be available when Pacific Islanders can no longer be lawfully employed, and, if sufficient labour for such purpose is not likely to be locally obtainable, the best means of supplying the deficiency; together with Minutes of Proceedings, Minutes of Evidence taken before the Commission, and Appendices.
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Galante Unterhaltungen zweier Madchen des 19. Jahrhunderts am hauslichen Herd.
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
Rom und Paris: Grangazzo, Vache & Cie, No date.Clandestine German erotica. [Gallant conversations of two girls of the 19th century at the domestic hearth.] PIA 83.
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Die Ueberweiber aller Zeiten [AND] Sie [AND] Das Marchen vom Weibe: Ein Bilderbuch fur grosse Knaben [AND] Lexikon fur Junggesellen [AND] Zur Naturgeschichte des Weibes
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartGottfried Sieben; Adolph Kohut; Hermann Eduard Jahn; Wilhelm Altmann; Art Scheiner
Budapest: Gustav Grimm, 1900-1902.Collection of five fin-de-siecle “Weiber” texts, mock-scholarly-erotic works on women by Sieben, Kohut, Jahn, and Altmann, four illustrated by Viennese artist Gottfried Sieben, the last by Art Scheiner, bound together in a half leather and brokatpapier binding. Combining pseudoscientific and folklore on women with soft erotic illustration, these five works present a broad range of the Weiber text style: historical biography, poetry, fairy tale, definition, and natural history classification.
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Modern Art and Nature
AU$3,500 Read MoreAdd to cartOlga Desmond; Adolf Salge; Otto Skowraneck
[Berlin]: Neue Photographische Gesellschaft, [1908].English issue of 8 plates of Olga Desmond and Adolf Salge from the 1908 series by German photographer Otto Skowraneck printed from the negatives of the Neue Photographische Gesellschaft m.b.H. (NPG). Includes Venus Anadyomene, Veil-Dance, A Question after R. Boeltzig, Prayer, Park-Nymph, Awakening, Adoration after Stephen Sinding, and Love Play. Desmond was a Berlin performer and dancer who co-founded “Evenings of Beauty”, staging nude and body-painted living statues. The performances were controversial though she always defended her performances as high art.
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Exhibition of Female Flagellants Parts I and II; Lady Bumtickler’s Revels
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
London [Tours]: G. Peacock [Imp. E. Arrault et Cie], 1777, 1785, and n.d. [1907].The first three of the seven parts of The Library Illustrative of Social Progress, here reset as a single composite volume. The series was issued clandestinely by John Camden Hotten around 1872, each part under its own false London imprint (1777, 1785, and undated respectively), and a fabricated editorial pedigree: Hotten claimed the texts came “from the original editions collected by” the historian Henry Thomas Buckle. Ashbee in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum disputes this asserting that the volumes had in fact been reprinted, without permission, from a private collection, likely his. This is not Hotten’s printing but a later resetting of these three parts, without plates, continuously paginated where Hotten’s originals are separate. The text carries a false Paris bookselling address on the wrappers but a genuine printer’s mark at the tail of the final page (Imp. E. Arrault et Cie, of Tours, dated 4 March 1907) placing actual production in provincial France some thirty-five years after Hotten’s original printing, behind both an invented London title-page imprint and an invented Paris point of sale. Not in Mendes. Ashbee discusses the constituent texts at length in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, vol. I.
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Le Vice Marin: Confessions d’un Matelot
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Bosc
Paris: Pierre Douville, [1905].A French maritime novel centred on homosexual desire aboard ship, and a notable document in the literary history of same-sex desire. The first part of the story explicitly confronts the “marine vice” of pederasty. The book attracted controversy, prompting later issues to appear under the more discreet title ‘Les Isoles: Moeurs Maritimes’. In a preface to the retitled edition, dated 15 March 1905, Bosc complained that Le Vice Marin had “frightened the bourgeoisie” and that newspaper editors refused even to advertise it, forcing his publisher to disguise a commercially successful book beneath a less provocative title. The episode provides a revealing glimpse of the constraints surrounding the public discussion of homosexuality in Belle Epoque France. The novel prefigures later maritime treatments of adolescent sexuality, including the controversy surrounding James Hanley’s Boy (1931). Its place in the period’s homosexual self-understanding is seen in Georges Portal’s 1936 Un Protestant, whose narrator discovers the book in a shop window and recognises in it a reflection of his own experience. With two illustrations.
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The Callipyges: The Whole Philosophy and Secret Mystery of Female Flagellation now for the first time fully exposed
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartFour English Ladies
London: Privately Printed for Private Subscribers Only, 1903.With Experiments and detailed Instructions as to the Proper Conduct of this noble Pastime. Sidelights on English Society. “This book, which is perfectly new, we venture to predict, be one day recognised as, in a sense, the Bible of Flagellation.” (from Carrington’s prospectus). Printed for Charles Carrington by Veuve Guy. First appearing in 1901, though possibly only the first volume, which was then reprinted for the two volume set as here. “… a translation of the French original: ‘Les Callipyges, ou Les Delices de la Verge, Par E.D… Paris, Chez la Petite Lolotte… 1889 (Brancart, Amsterdam).” (Peter Mendes: Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930) MENDES 137-B.
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The Loan of a Lover; or, Vera’s Flirtation
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartLaura Jean Libbey
London: Milner and Company, No date.English cloth reprint (c. 1900) of a romance from Brooklyn “working-girl” novelist Laura Jean Libbey (1862-1924). Libbey was among the most widely reprinted American writers of dime novel fiction in her day, this work however scarce, with no copies of any edition currently in the trade, and only 5 holdings in OCLC.
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Le Roman de la Momie
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartTheophile Gautier; Alex. Lunois
Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1901.The principal deluxe illustrated edition of Gautier’s 1858 Egyptological romance, centred on the discovery of the mummy of Tahoser and the narrative of her love for a young Hebrew. Illustrated by Alexandre Lunois (1863-1916), who travelled extensively in Egypt and based his compositions on direct observation of ancient architecture, ornament, and costume. One of 50 copies on Japon, issued with a supplementary suite of the illustrations, bound with the original wrappers and prospectus, in a signed, richly tooled Egyptian style binding by Chambolle-Duru.
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Les 120 Journees de Sodome ou l’Ecole du Libertinage par le Marquis de Sade
AU$6,500 Read MoreAdd to cartMarquis de Sade; Eugene Duhren [Iwan Bloch]
Paris: Club des Bibliophiles, 1904.The first printed edition and editio princeps of the text, based on the notorious manuscript written by Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade in the Bastille in 1785. The manuscript, composed in minute script on a continuous paper roll, was long presumed lost following the storming of the Bastille, before resurfacing in the late nineteenth century and coming into the hands of the Berlin physician and pioneering sexologist Iwan Bloch. Bloch prepared the first edition, editing and annotating the text under the pseudonym Eugene Duhren, and issued it via the Berlin bookseller Max Harrwitz, using a fictive Paris imprint to mitigate censorship concerns. In his introduction, Bloch framed the work as a document of scientific and anthropological interest, intended for specialists in sexual pathology, jurisprudence, and cultural history. The text, as here presented, is incomplete and editorially imperfect, deficiencies later addressed in Maurice Heine’s critical edition of 1931-35, prepared from direct examination of the autograph manuscript, yet this remains the foundational printed appearance. One of 200 numbered copies, this being one of 160 printed on laid paper. Together with the rare original subscription prospectus by Max Harrwitz, three leaves (29cm x 11.cm), folded vertically and complete with original cord.
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The Electric Automobile: Its Construction, Care and Operation
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartC. E. Woods
Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1900.One of the earliest monographs devoted to electric vehicles, covering their construction, maintenance, and practical operation at a time when electrics were serious competitors to petrol-powered cars. Clinton Edgar Woods (1863-1927), an electrical and mechanical engineer, founded the Woods Motor Vehicle Company in Chicago in 1896 and was a committed advocate of electric propulsion, anticipating that both electric and gasoline vehicles would displace horse-drawn transport. Writing at a moment when the relative futures of electric and gasoline power remained uncertain (though the limitations of battery range were already apparent) Woods expresses a cautious scepticism that would, for much of the following century, be borne out by the dominance of the internal combustion engine. “Will not a battery some time be made to run a vehicle 100 or more miles on one charge? While this may be possible, the writer hardly thinks it probable.”
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Through Eastern Lands
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartA. M. Snadden
Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1904.Travel account from the UK to Egypt, Sudan, and Palestine, including Mount Sinai, Jerusalem, the Sea of Galilee, and more, before returning through Italy. This copy signed “With the author’s regards” to the front free endpaper, and with the bookplate of tribal art dealer Philip Goldman.
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Orange Blossoms. The Story of A Beautiful Marchioness under the Second Empire
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
Paris: Privately Printed [Charles Carrington], 1903.English translation published by Carrington of, Souvenirs d’une Cocodette, first published in full clandestinely by Jules Gay in Brussels. Edition of 200 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered on thin wove paper in plain brown wrappers, as suggested by Mendes in Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930, Carrington likely ran additional copies beyond the 200 on this thinner paper. MENDES 154(b)(iii).
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Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn T. Gulick
Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1905.Human evolutionary theory by Hawaiian naturalist, missionary, and snail collector John Thomas Gulick (1832-1923). The three colour plates showing numerous shells.
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The Naturalised Flora of South Australia
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. M. Black
Adelaide: J. M. Black, 1909. -
A Digest of All Cases Determined in the Land Appeal Court of New South Wales and of Appeals Therefrom to the Supreme Court from 1895 to 1900
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartG. Herbert Pike
Sydney: C. F. Maxwell (Hayes Bros.), 1901.Inclusive, and Reported in Land Court Cases, Vols. V. to X. and also Notation of Cases with Regard to the Sections of the Acts.
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Darwinism and the Problems of Life
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartConrad Guenther
London: A. Owen & Co., 1906.The First Edition in English translated from the Third Edition by Joseph McCabe.
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Queen of the North: A Jubilee Ode
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cart[George] Essex Evans; Alek Sass [Alexander Phillip Sass]
Brisbane: H. J. Diddams & Co., 1909.Queensland poetry by George Essex Evans illustrated by Alexander Phillip Sass in a mythological medieval style with numerous nude female figures. Queen of the North: A Jubilee Ode has previously been misattributed as a posthumous publication, Evans having died in November of 1909, however this has been proven incorrect, and is actually the final published work.
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The Factory and Shop Acts of the British Dominions. A Handbook
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartViolet R. Markham; H. J. Tennant
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1908].Compiled by Miss Violet R. Markham. Together with a General View of the English Law; and a Preface by Mrs. H. J. Tennant. Issued by the Industrial Sub-Committee of the Victoria League. Covers Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the Cape of Good Hope.
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A Thousand Miles of Miracle in China
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartArchibald E. Glover
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906.A Personal Record of God’s Delivering Power from the Hands of the Imperial Boxes of Shan-si. An account of fleeing China during the Boxer Rebellion by a missionary of the China Inland Mission. The second, or Popular Edition.
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Athletic Queensland: A History of Amateur Rowing, Boxing and Physical Development, Pedestrianism and Cycling, in Queensland
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartW. B. Carmichael; H. C. Perry
Brisbane: H. J. Diddams & Co., 1900.Under the official patronage of the Queensland Rowing Association, Queensland Amateur Athletic Association, Brisbane Gymnasium, Queensland Cyclists’ Union. 4 works in 1 comprising the most detailed history of 19th century sport in early Queensland recorded by . Not only a detailed guide for physical fitness it is an invaluable record of local history. The four works are: 1. Amateur Rowing: By W. B. Carmichael with contributions by R. H. Roe, C. B. P. Bell, and F. W. de Little: Comprising a history of rowing Brisbane, Maryborough, Rockhampton, &c., crew discipline, how to row (with poses), training, &c.; 2. The Art of Boxing: Hints on Its Acquirement – How to Train – History of Amateur Boxing in Queensland by Harry C. Perry. With which is interwoven a detailed History of the Brisbane Gymnasium, the leading institution of its kind in the colony; and A Special Illustrated Article on Physical Culture, by T. Wilkinson, Together with a concise account of every Athletic Display and Boxing Tournament held under its auspices.; 3. Amateur Pedestrianism by W. B. Carmichael. Also an article on Best Methods of Starting, How to Train, &c. by C. Campbell. A Complete Record of All Intercolonial and Pedestrian Events in the Colony since the Year 1873.; 4. Amateur Cycling by Harry C. Perry. Including an Article on Best Methods of Training and Riding by J. A. Smith, also Recollections of the Pioneers by Geo. Tombuco. A Complete Record of All Principal Events, Both Local and Intercolonial. FERGUSON 7958.
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Photographic Portrait of Enid Riding Her Pony
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPhotographer Unknown
[Victoria]: No publisher, No date.Early 1900s photographic portrait or a woman posing atop her horse standing in a creek. Inscribed Christmas greeting by the subject on the verso of the folder to her Dear Auntie and Uncle, the recipients then identifying the pony’s name as possibly Echo.
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Installation Banquet
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartLion and Lamb Lodge
[London]: Lion and Lamb Lodge, No date.Circa 1908. Includes menu, musical entertainments, and list of Past Masters to 1907.
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A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus (75 Parts in 8 Volumes)
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. H. Maiden; Margaret Flockton
Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, John Spence, and Adam James Kent, Government Printers, 1903-1931.A complete set, being 75 parts in 8 volumes, containing over 3000 pages and 304 plates, 12 of which are in colour, and 4 of which are maps, of Joseph Henry Maidens masterpiece in the field of botanical research, and his major taxonomical work alongside his Forest Flora of New South Wales. The set is illustrated chiefly with lithographs by Margaret Flockton, together with several by Matilda Smith, a facsimile of L’Heritier, and 4 maps, as well as a photographic illustration by L. C. Webster, and a photographic portrait of Maiden in one of the posthumous volumes therein also published an obituary by Richard Hind Cambage. The project, which took 28 years to be published, the final parts prepared by Maiden before his death in 1925 and published posthumously edited by Cambage and William Blakely, was an extension of the work started by Ferdinand von Mueller and George Bentham in Flora Australiensis and continued by Mueller in his Eucalyptographia, devising classifications based on the characteristics of the stamens, and remained an important reference for many years. Maidens study of eucalyptus was completed alongside his duties as Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Gardens, which he commenced in 1896. A talented and enthusiastic botanist Maiden established the colony’s first herbarium, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, together with a museum and library. Among his many studies and achievements he was also responsible for the construction of Sydneys first playground and worked tirelessly to develop the educational value of the Botanical Gardens for all Australians.