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Handbook of Australian Fungi
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. C. Cooke
London: Williams and Norgate for the Departments of Agriculture in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobarton, 1892.The first monograph on Australian fungi by English botanist and mycologist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914). Containing descriptions of 2079 species of macrofungi, microfungi, and slime moulds (or myxomycetes), of which 377 figures are illustrated across 36 plates. The samples which the handbook are based on were supplied by Ferdinand von Muller, Flora Martin, F. M. Bailey, Sven Berggren, and others, and shipped to Cooke in England. This distance limited the accuracy of the work, nevertheless, as the first volume devoted to the subject its historical import cannot be understated and remains a key work in any Australian mushroom collection.
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Wine and Wine Countries; A Record and Manual for Wine Merchants and Wine Consumers
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Tovey
London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1862.On wine and related beverages around the world, including a section on the burgeoning Australian winemaking trade. This copy with the bookplate of Australian winemaker Max Lake.
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My Fourth Tour in Western Australia
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert F. Calvert
London: William Heinemann, 1897.The first edition of Calvert’s fourth tour of Western Australia. An early travelogue with hundreds of illustrations by Walker Hodgson, from photographs, and with a folding colour map showing the gold field regions. FERGUSON 7823.
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The Law of Sinai, and Its Appointed Times
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMoses Angel
London: William Tegg & Co., 1858.Headmaster of the Jewish Free School, London, Moses Angel was a significant figure in 19th century Anglo-Jewish religious and secular education, ‘The Law of Sinai, and Its Appointed Times’ aimed to promote better understanding between Jewish and Christian peoples. This copy with the bookplate of Australian rabbi Leib Aisack Falk, and the binder’s ticket of Westley’s & Co., London.
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The State of Religion and Education in New South Wales
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Westbrooke Burton
London: J. Cross and Simpkin and Marshall, 1840.This copy from the collection of Melbourne bibliophile Rollo Hammet, with his label, and the ownership signature of W. Champion Hackett. FERGUSON 2943.
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The Universal Family Bible: or a Complete Exposition and Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, Containing the Sacred Text of the Old and New Testaments;
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Cookson
London: For the Author, and Sold by W. Nicoll, 1784.With the Apocyrypha at Large Illustrated with Notes and Observations, Theological, Critical, Moral, Historical, Practical, Chronological, and Explanatory. The first edition of the Rev. James Cookson’s folio Family Bible, illustrated with 30 engravings. At the time of publicatoin Cookson had recently become master of Churcher’s College, Petersfield. “He was of eccentric habits, and is said once to have announced in church, ‘I have forgotten my sermon, but I will read you a true account of the battle of Waterloo.’ In 1814 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.” (Dictionary of National Biography). This copy with the family ownership markings of the Robbins and then Gilbert families, the latter being a theatrical family, relatives to W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan, then the Ripper, and finally McCarthy family, 1784-2010.
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The Garden of Adonis
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOliver Hill
London: Philip Allan & Co., 1923.The Arcadian, Uranian photography of architect Oliver Hill presented alongside quotes from the Romantic poets. The first of several lavish productions by Philip Allan of Hill’s Pictorialist images of children. This copy inscribed by Oliver Hill for Sidney Smith and dated September 1927, undoubtedly Witney blanket man Sidney Smith, Hill having designed Merryfield House for him and gifted upon the completion of construction.
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Mushrooms, Moulds and Miracles: The Strange Realm of Fungi
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLucy Kavaler
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1967. -
Murder by Witchcraft
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDonald McCormick
London: Arrow Books, 1969.A study of the Lower Quinton and Hagley Wood murders.
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Lost – But Not For Ever. My Personal Narrative of Starvation and Providence in the Australian Mountain Regions
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. W. Vanderkiste
London: James Nisbet & Co., 1863.The account of a reverend lost in the Dungog and Maitland districts while on a missionary tour.
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An Account of the Settlement at Sullivan Bay, Port Phillip, 1803
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Pascoe Crook
London: The Colony Press, 1983.Limited to 185 numbered copies.
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The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMark Roseman
London: The Folio Society, 2012.A reconsideration, with a new foreword by the author. FORD-SMITH 1782.
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Manas Manna
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Venosa
London: Big O Publishing, 1978.Monograph of the visionary and fantastic realist painter Robert Venosa (1936-2011).
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The Golden Age of Hispanic Silver, 1400-1665
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Oman
London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1968.In original Victoria and Albert Museum carton.
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Provincial Silversmiths of Moray and Their Marks
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartG. P. Moss
London: Quartet Books, 1994. -
A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThomas H. Huxley
London: J. & A. Churchill, No date.Early reprint.
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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation [AND] Explanations: A Sequel to (2 Volumes)
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Robert Chambers]
London: John Churchill, 1846-1860.Vestiges, published anonymously, 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 the 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. // 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. Explanations 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.
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The Evolution of Man: A Popular Scientific Study (2 Volumes)
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErnst Haeckel
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1906.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.
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The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Darwin
London: John Murray, 1888.FREEMAN 808.
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Questions About the Breeding of Animals
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Darwin
London: Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 1968.