A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus Volumes 1,2, 3, 4 & 6 (lacking a couple of parts) by Maiden, J.H

Sydney: George Stephen Chapman, Acting Government Printer, 1891. viii, 79, 10 b/w plates. . PB. Vg. Technical Education Series No. 6. Second edition..

Sydney: G.S. Chapman, Government Printer, 1891. . 8vo, 24.4cm. Pp. viii,79, 10 pls. of Acacia species, tabs., notes, detailed index. Orig. printed wrappers, Very good. - Dealing with 44 species of Acacia with special regard to the exploitation of their bark which contains large amounts of tannins and condensed tannins that historically found use as pharmaceuticals and preservatives.

Syd. William Applegate Gullick. 1920.. 1920. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. 139pp. Part I. 1st Ed. colour & b/w illus. Or. green cloth. Very good,light wear to spine ends. .

Sydney: Government Printer, 1892. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney, Government Printer, 1892. Octavo, (viii), 61 pages. Card covers very slightly sunned, chipped and creased; bottom edge of first few leaves and top and bottom edges of front cover with a few very small tears (front cover repaired with tape); a very good copy. Technical Education Series, No. 10. In categories, such as Food (6 pages), Drugs (7 pages) and Timbers (7 pages).

Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Sydney, William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1920. Large octavo, [iv], 141 pages with numerous illustrations plus 15 colour plates and an errata slip tipped in on the title page. Cloth lightly worn at the extremities; minimal ownership details on the front endpaper; a few marginalia in pencil; a very good copy (internally fine).

William Applegate Gullick, Sydney. 1909. 8vo, 244pp, with black and white illustrations, maps, facsimile letters, some fold-out. Two large fold-out maps to rear, each with a closed tear to lower right corner. A good hardback copy in bevilled blue cloth with general light wear and with gold-embossed illustration to front. Mildly tanned fore edges and endpapers. Presentation bookplate with pencil notation to inside front cover. Rear endpaper is heavily edgeworn.

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd., 1909. Hardback in good minus condition. Includes several fold out maps.. Hardcover. Good.

Sydney: W.A. Gullick, Government Printer, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Sydney, W.A. Gullick, Government Printer, 1916. Octavo, xx, 216 pages. Quarter cloth and flush-cut boards a little nibbled, marked and nevenly tanned; mild signs of handling (including an ink ownership name to the top edge, and a few ink and pencilled annotations from pages 60 to 63); overall a very good copy. Offered together with G.I. Playfair: 'Supplement I: Fresh-water Algae' (Sydney, W.A. Gullick, Government Printer, 1917. Octavo; quarter cloth and flush-cut boards. [ii], 217-264 pages. Covers discoloured with signs of use and age; minor signs of handling; ownership signature on the front flyleaf; a presentable copy. With the very faded ownership stamp, and contemporary ink ownership signature of Sydney botanist John McLuckie (1890-1956) on the front cover. [2 items].

Sydney; London: William Applegate Gullick; Trench & Co., 1909. Leather. Near Fine. 9" by 6". Unamed. A fascinating insight into one of the most important figures of the colonisation of Australia. Illustrated, with 64 illustrations, including five folding plates. Written by Joseph Maiden, a botanist who made a major contribution to the knowledge of Australian flora. He was the Government botanist of New South Wales and Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Prior owner was C J B Proudman of Brislington, Bristol. Loosely inserted is a receipt from the purchase of this book from Bibliophile, Sydney, dated 17/03/1994. This is a comprehensive biography of Sir Joseph Banks, a British naturalist, botanist and patron of natural scientists. He took part in James Cook's first great voyage (1768-1771) and some of the plates to this volume are Cook's charts. Banks advocated British settlement in New South Wales and the colonisation of Australia. He also established Botany Bay, as a place for the… Read More

Beautiful Flowers Complete Guide, an Island Heritage Book 1989, all pages clean and unmarked

Spore Prints. Very Good+. 1984. First Edition. Softcover. 0961202009 . Very light shelfwear, slight toning to top page ends; drawings and b/w photos; 302 pages .

Instituto de Botanica, Saõ Paolo, 1947; First Edition; Quarto, 113 pages. Detailed monograph of the family Onagraceae covering the genera Jussiaea, Oocarpon, Epilobium, Oenothera, and Fuchsia. Vol. XLI, I of the prodigious series edited by Frederico Carlos Hoehne, director of the Instituto de Botanica at Saõ Paolo, Brazil from 1940 to 1959. Authored by distinguished American botanist/taxonomist Philip A Munz. Sixty-two pages of text in Portuguese accompanied by 51 finely detailed full-page illustration plates, forty-nine in b&w and two in color, covering 5 genera and 45 species of Onagraceae. Very Good, in printed stiff wraps. A few small closed splits in the paper covering of the spine panel. Custom engraved bookplate of Pasadena, California horticulturist Charlotte Hoak on the verso of the front wrap.

Krauss, Ruth: The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers FIRST EDITION. States 1945 on the title page. Beige Boards. USED. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. 6 X 8 ¼. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something, or the basis of knowledge"

Hanover, NH: Self Published. Good with no dust jacket; Call letters on spine, spine darkened by . shellac, corners bumped, edges rubbed, binder's label on inside of front . cover, front endpaper detached, endpapers toned, one page with small fold . and tear.. 1891. Hardcover. Green decorated cloth. vi, 91pp. Fold-out map, indexes. A highly detailed natural history study of this New Hampshire community undertaken and presented by a Dartmouth college professor. Inscribed and dated, with compliments of the author card tipped in. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag, 1986. Usual library marks. 515 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Vienna: Schrämblischen, 1817. Image is 8 1/8 inches by 6 1/4 inches on a sheet that is 9 1/16 inches by 7 1/8 inches. Drawn and engraved by pharmacist turned naturalist Ferdinand Vietz ((1772-1815) and published in volume 7 of Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum, edited by J. L. Kerndl and published by Schrämblischen in Vienna in 1818. Original hand-coloring. Like all the plates from Vietz's classic work on medicinal uses of plants, this is a lovely original print on high-quality watermarked laid paper. Condition is very good: clean and bright. Binding edge is untrimmed. This original engraving is guaranteed to be more than 200 years old.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good+. Illus. by Ferdinand Vietz. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Art Print.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Read More

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, 1974. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. 8vo. Pp. xxii; 263. Abridged and Edited by Frederick Ungar, with a several-page introduction by him. With a critical analysis by Franz H. Mautner. Bound in red cloth with lettering stamped in black and yellow on spine. Price-clipped dust jacket with a dime-size chip to front panel and slight edge-wear. Else Fine. This edition, in hardcover with jacket, is somewhat scarce. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

Vienna: Schrämblischen, 1818. Image is 6 1/4 inches by 2 3/4 inches on a sheet that is 9 inches by 7 inches. Drawn and engraved by pharmacist turned naturalist Ferdinand Vietz ((1772-1815) and published in volume 7 of Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum, edited by J. L. Kerndl and published by Schrämblischen in Vienna in 1818. Original hand-coloring. Like all the plates from Vietz's classic work on medicinal uses of plants, this is a lovely original print on high-quality watermarked laid paper. Condition is very good: clean and bright. Binding edge is untrimmed. This original engraving is guaranteed to be more than 200 years old.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good+. Illus. by Ferdinand Vietz. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Art Print.