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The History of Malvern: From its First Settlement to a City (First Edition)
John Butler Cooper
Described by Malvern's own historical society as "a pioneering local history". Compiled directly at the...
$150.00
The History of Prahran 1836-1924: From its Settlement to a City (Revised Edition)
John Butler Cooper
A companion civic history to Cooper's better-known History of St Kilda, and still a directly...
$200.00
The History of St Kilda: From its First Settlement to a City and After, 1840–1930 (First Edition)
John Butler Cooper
The official, council-commissioned civic history of one of Melbourne's most storied bay side suburbs, still...
$300.00
Life in Victoria, 2 volumes (First Edition, Fine Binding)
William Kelly
A first-hand account of the Victorian gold rush by one of the rare few observers...
$120.00
Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes (First Limited Edition, Signed)
Marjorie Tipping & Eugene von Guérard
A pioneering scholarly monograph, by the first woman to be awarded a Doctor of Letters...
$1,200.00
The Chronicles of Early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852: Historical, Anecdotal and Personal (First "Centennial" Edition)
Garryowen [Edmund Finn]
An eyewitness chronicle of colonial Melbourne's earliest years, urged into being by one of nineteenth-century...
$500.00
Victoria and its Metropolis: Past and Present (First Edition)
Alexander Sutherland, et al.
A monumental and richly illustrated Victorian-era survey of colonial Victoria at the peak of its...
$1,500.00
The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, 3 volumes (First Edition)
Andrew Garran
One of the most ambitious and historically significant illustrated publishing projects ever undertaken on Australian...
$500.00
A Treatise on Astronomy (New Edition)
William Herschel
A foundational nineteenth-century work of popular science, by the man later hailed as the founder...
$1,250.00
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (First Edition, Third Issue)
Charles Darwin
The book in which the word "evolution" appears for the very first time anywhere in...
$1,250.00
Voyages and Travels in the Levant in the years 1749, 50, 51, 52 (First English Edition)
Fredrik Hasselquist
The first systematic natural history of the Holy Land, and the poignant final testament of...
$500.00
Nicoll's Birds of Egypt, 2 volumes (First Edition)
Richard Meinertzhagen
A significant and comprehensive early study of Egyptian ornithology — though one whose completing author's...
$1,500.00
La Vita di Torquato Tasso. Seconda Edizione Corretta ed Accresciuta.
Pierantonio Serassi
The authoritative eighteenth-century biography of Tasso, expanded and revised, and the very book that sent...
$250.00
Drawing from Nature (First Edition)
George Barnard
Drawing from Nature, published in 1865, followed two of Barnard's earlier and equally practical instructional...
$300.00
The Book of Florence (Limited Deluxe Edition)
Harry Bee & Sir Harold Acton
A beautiful journey through Florence; it's people, culture, and history as portrayed through a series...
$220.00
The Cockatoos and Nestors of Australia and New Zealand (Limited Deluxe Edition, Signed)
Gracius J. Broinowski
Facsimile edition of the original 1888 publication. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies, this being...
$1,800.00
The Ornithology of Australia & The Birds of Australia, 6 volumes (Limited Facsimile Edition)
Sylvester Diggles & Gregory M. Matthews
Samuel Albert White (1870–1954) was a distinguished South Australian ornithologist and conservationist whose lifelong fieldwork...
$500.00
The Bird Paintings of Henry Jones (Limited Deluxe Edition, Signed)
Bruce Campbell (illus. Henry Jones)
Among the finest bird illustrations from the Zoological Society of London. A mainstay of the...
$250.00
Atlas of the World (Limited Special Edition)
THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (preface Ian Cameron; maps John Bartholomew & Son Ltd.)
A beautiful celebration of the work of the Royal Geographical Society. The Times Atlas of...
$500.00
The Paintings of Norman Lighton for "Roberts Birds of South Africa." (Limited Deluxe Edition, Signed)
Norman Lighton (ed. A. V. Bird)
A fine copy of Lighton's greatest works of ornithological painting. Norman C. K. Lighton's paintings...
$250.00
The Bird Paintings of C. G. Finch-Davies (Limited Deluxe Collector's Edition)
Claude Gibney Finch-Davies
This 1984 publication reproduces ninety-nine of Finch-Davies finest paintings in full colour, each paired with...
$300.00
Rails of the World: A Monograph of the Family Rallidae (Limited Deluxe Edition, Signed)
S. Dillon Ripley & J. Fenwick Lansdowne (illus.)
Sidney Dillon Ripley (1913–2001) was one of the most significant American ornithologists of the twentieth...
$1,500.00
The Endemic Flora of Tasmania, 6 volumes (First Edition)
Curtis Winifred & Margaret Stones (illus.)
Among the most comprehensive works on Tasmanian natural history. This immense work was conceived and...
$300.00
Portraits of the New Zealand Maori Painted in 1844 (Limited Facsimile of First Edition, Signed)
George French Angas
In July 1844, George French Angas (1822–1886) arrived in New Zealand and spent six months...
$650.00
South Australia Illustrated (Limited Facsimile of First Edition, Signed)
George French Angas
This work was originally published in 1847 in ten monthly parts before being issued as...
$2,200.00
Book of Common Prayer (Presentation Copy)
Various
Sir William Thomas Denison (1804–1871), KCB, was one of the most consequential vice-regal figures in...
$250.00
Turkey and Russia (Victorian Leatherbound Edition)
Robert Gossip
This substantial Victorian popular history addresses two of the defining nineteenth-century conflicts between the Russian...
$280.00
The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amun (First Folio Society Edition)
Howard Carter
Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings on...