calaby john editor (4 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. Illustrated with 100 colour plates, small quarto, pp 251, paperback, a very slight wave to the pages and cover, personal inscription on front endpaper, very slight fading to the spine, otherwise a very good copy. [From the library of the botanical artist Wendy Page, with her blind-stamp on the title page.] VERY SCARCE {A HEAVY BOOK - EXTRA SHIPPING MAY BE REQUIRED}.

4to, 251pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good paperback copy.

Paperback. Condición: Fine. Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1989 (first softcover edition)/ 1989. Quarto, [viii], 251 pages with 13 illustrations (4 in colour) and 100 colour plates. Colour-pictorial card covers; a fine copy. An extensively annotated facsimile edition of John Hunter's original sketchbook compiled between 1788 and 1790, containing 100 watercolour drawings of 'many of the birds, flowers, fishes and people found in and around Sydney and on Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands. The facing page for each sketch carries a thoroughly researched commentary by one of six distinguished scientists covering the historical background to the discovery and identification of the new species' (from the original prospectus).

By Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet ; general editor John Calaby. Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1988. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. [viii], 251, illustrated with exquisite paintings recording the fauna and flora around Sydney and on Norfolk Island.