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The Color Printer: A Treatise on the Use of Color in Typographic Printing
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn F. Earhart
Cincinnati: Earhart & Richardson, 1892.A detailed manual on the use of colour in typography printing, demonstrating how to achieve over 1,000 colours and tints from just 12 inks. The plates illustrate practical applications of colour mixing and showcase examples typographic colour effects. Widely regarded in printing history, typography, and colour theory. The first and only edition, with the signed leaf.
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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.