john calaby hunter (8 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Covers have moderate general wear. Spine moderately sunned and creased. Name and feint pencil mark to top corner of ffep, otherwise internally very clean. Binding good. 251pp Size: 220mm x 290mm. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Covers have light general wear. Spine moderately sunned and creased. Internally clean. Binding good. 251pp Size: 220mm x 290mm. Book.

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

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers As New quarto 251pp., colour & b/w plates, references, index, A reproduction of his original sketchbook pages in facsimile. Well researched commentary on each sketch, covering its subject's discovery & identification.

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers Nice copy large octavo 251pp., colour plates, glossary, references, index, A reproduction of his original sketchbook pages in facsimile. Well researched commentary on each sketch, covering its subject's discovery & identification.

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).

pp.251 with 100 col. & b/w. plates 4to. Fine softback with gently sunned spine. Captain Hunter's drawings, made between 1788 and 1790 are among the earliest made of the birds, flowers, fish and people found in and around Sydney, Norfolk and Lord Howe islands.

8vo, 251pp. Colour illustrations. A near fine hardback copy bound in quarter leather. Lacks slipcase. Limited to 500 numbered copies.