Grass Trees of Western Australia, Blackboys & Black Gins
Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1978. 1st ed., royal octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 64. Wraps lightly rubbed, o/w very good condn.
Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1978. 1st ed., royal octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 64. Wraps lightly rubbed, o/w very good condn.
Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1978. 1st ed., royal octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 64. Previous owner's inscription. Related newspaper clippings loosely inserted. Very good condn. Photographic study of the xanthorrhoea species.
Alice Springs: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, 1980. 1st ed., quarto, wraps, b&w illus, pp 32. Near fine condition. Rare Conservation Commission Technical Bulletin ; no. 3.
Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens, 1944. Roy. 8vo, pp. 116, b/w fronts., b/w photos, dec eps., orig cloth backed bds., edges rubbed, v.g, in d.j chipped and worn Charming book filled with the photographs of Monro, who was an official war photographer during WWII.
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2001. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, dutjacket, colour plates, b&w illus, illus endpapers, pp 226, sl. canted otherwise near-fine condition. 'The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World'. A biological riddle that confounded scientists for nearly ninety years, challenging theories of creationism, evolution.....
Melb. Govt Printer, 1883. 1st ed., quarto, pp. 23, plates, nr fine in or. wraps. Ferdinand von Mueller was a German-Australian Botanist who named fossil seeds and plants which were excavated in old gold mining sites in Victoria, Australia.
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1936. after Francis L Jacques (illus). 1st ed., two volumes, quarto, original cloth boards with gilt titles and blind-stmaped decoration, b&w illus, colour plates, pp 1245. Two previous owner's bookplates. Near-fine condition. Extremely heavy, please inquire regarding postage. Plates from the paintings of Francis L......
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1928. 1st ed., original cloth boards, pp. 173, b&w plates, maps. Very good condition. Travels through the Great Barrier Reef in the 1920s.
Perth: Department of Agriculture, 1990. Quarto, wraps, colour and b&w illus, pp 95. Mark to front wrap, good condition.
London: William Heinemann, 1952. illustrated with wood engravings by Barbara Greg. 8vo, pp. (ii) 116, b/w fronts., b/w plates, b/w ills., orig cloth, nr fine, in d.j chipped and torn top edge, protected. Naturalist observations by the author. Beautiful wood-engraving illustrations.
Perth: Journal of Royal Society Western Australia, 1924. 1st ed thus, 8vo, pp. (91) - 104, b/w ill., wraps, stapled spine, few creases. Paper originally publised in Journal of Royal Society WA, Vol. X, No. 13.
Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1992. 1st ed., cloth boards with the artist's picture of a banksia inset, gilt title, gilt spine, picture of a banksia on the recto of each page, unpaginated (pp. 50). Near-fine condition. Signed by the author to the title page in the year of publication.....
Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2014. Small quarto, original pictorial boards, colour plates. Near fine condition in like d.j. Full-page colour illustrations by the renowned botanical illustrator, with accompanying text. First published as "Banksia menziesii" in 1992: this is the first edition under the Firewood Banksia title.
Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000. Original cloth boards, dustjacket, ribbon marker, unpag. (110 pp.). Colour plates. Near-fine condition in like d.j. Full page colour plates of Western Australian wildflowers, with accompanying text.
Fremantle: Fremantle Press, 2012. 1st ed., oblong quarto., pp.66, profusely illus by Philippa Nikulinsky, landscapes by Alex Nikulinsky, pictorial eps., or. bds.,near fine in near fine d.j. Stunning large format botanical and landscape images from the south coast of Western Australia with Philippa's meticulous, watercolour paintings of plants, birds, insects.....
Fremantle: Fremantle Press, 2012. 1st ed., oblong quarto., pp.66, profusely illus by Philippa Nikulinsky, landscapes by Alex Nikulinsky, pictorial eps., or. bds.. Related clippings loosely inserted. Near-fine condition in like d.j. Stunning large format botanical and landscape images from the south coast of Western Australia with Philippa's meticulous, watercolour paintings.....
Sydney: F.W. White, 1901- 1914. after Neville Cayley (illus) . Photos by H.Barnes. 2nd edition, quarto, 4 volumes (bound into 6), Vol.I: (Parts 1 & 2), pp.1-120 (pages in facsimile only), Vol.I(b): (Parts 3 & 4): pp.vii, 121-366; Vol.II: pp.vii, (1)-380; Vol.III: pp.vii, (1)-362; Vol.IV: pp.viii, (1)-96, (201)-472, incl Index;.....
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1989. 4to, original cloth boards with gilt decoration, dustjacket, many colour illus, pp 240. Previous owner's signature, very good in like d.j. An abridged edition of Marianne North's "Recollections of a Happy Life", first published 1893. Published in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Profusely.....
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1986. Quarto, original cloth boards with gilt decoration, dustjacket, many colour plates, endpaper maps. pp 240. Previous owner's address label. Near-fine condition in like protected d.j. An abridged edition of Marianne North's "Recollections of a Happy Life", first published 1893. Published in collaboration with the Royal.....
London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1936. Illustrated by Kurt Wise. 1st UK edition, 8vo, pp. 224, colour frontis, colour plates, b/w ills., pictorial endpapers, award plate front pastedown, faint tanning endpapers, original blue cloth boards, spine slightly yellowed, edges a little rubbed, gilt school emblem front board (Wesley College.....
Melbourne: The Macmillan Company, 1986. Translated from the German by Sylvia Furness. Square 4to, pp. 231, Index, col and b/w photos many full-page, b/w ills and maps, pictorial eps., prev owner's signature, orig cl bds., nr fine, in d.j. few tears edges now repaired, cnrs worn, protected. Comprehensive survey of.....
Melbourne: The Bird Observors Club, 1969. illustrations by Peter Slater and maps by Alex Stirling. Roy. 8vo., pp. 111, Index, col plates, b/w maps, ep maps, bookplate, prev owner's inscr., orig cloth, v.g., in d.j rubbed, rear cover creased, top edge frayed and chipped Covers species distribution, habitat, and behaviour.....
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, pictorial boards, dustjacket, colour plates, bibliography, index, pp 227. Near fine condition. Charts the lives and works of Australian bird artists Neville Henry Cayley (1854 - 1903) and his son Neville William (1886 - 1950). Biographical essays and over 100 colour plates of.....
London: Paul Elek, 1950. Editor S. Lilley. 8vo., pp. 140, Index, b/w photos., b/w text ills., ex-lib, stamps throughout, remnants lib sleeve rear pastedown, offsetting eps., orig cl bds., marked spine Part of the Science In Action Series, science for children.
Missouri: Chinese-American Ginseng Co., 1901. 12mo., pp.56, text illus., map, orig stiff wraps, little loss to lower spine with some rubbing surrounding title on front cover and a faint price stamp, binding has been reinforced with card along inner spine. A very clean copy otherwise of this rare pamphlet, near.....