Andrew Isles Natural History Books

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We are the leading natural history specialist bookshop in Australia. Established in 1981, we hold a world class inventory in new, secondhand and rare antiquarian books and wildlife art. Rare natural history books are our specialty and we ship books to anywhere in the world. Our books are sourced from publishers and suppliers worldwide. We have large stocks of books on birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, invertebrates, botany, ecology, palaeontology, insects, marine, biology, aviculture, fossils, entomology and conservation. Our natural history stock covers books for Australia, Antarctica, America, Britain, Africa, Europe and Asia. Our wildlife art gallery regularly offers original paintings by Neville Cayley (junior and senior), Sarah Stone, William T. Cooper, Raymond Ching and Peter Schouten.

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Flora Australasica; or a selection of handsome or curious plants, natives of New Holland, and the South Sea Islands
$6500
Sweet, Robert. London: James Ridgway, [1827-1838]. Octavo, 56 handcoloured engraved plates with accompanying leaves and interleaving. Modern half morocco with gilt spine and cloth covered boards, a handsome crisp copy. One of the most attractive of all Australian botanical books and the first to use live specimens for illustration instead of dried plants or field sketches. The species depicted were all grown from seed in London nurseries.
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Catalogue of shield reptiles in the collection of the British Museum, part one: Testudinata (tortoises)
$4000
Gray, John Edward. London: British Museum, 1855. Quarto, 82 pp., 42 uncoloured lithographs. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, some blemishes, top edge gilt, a presentation copy dated 1885 from P. L. Sclater to the Rev. G. R. Fisk, small neat library stamps on title page and plates, a fine copy.
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A descriptive catalogue of rocks, minerals, and fossils, illustrative of the geology, mineralogy and mining resources of Victoria, exhibited for and on behalf of the Government
$1200
Langtree, Charles W. Melbourne: Government Printer, 1886. Octavo, 56 pp. Contemporary crimson morocco ornately gilt, gilt edges, a very handsome copy with an inscription on the front endpaper by James McEwan, founder of the famous Melbourne firm of ironmongers.
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Thomas Watling: Limner of Dumfries
$1200
Gladstone, Hugh S. Sydney: Reprinted for private circulation, from the Transactions of the Dumfrieesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 1938. Large octavo, 76 pp., uncoloured plates. Publisher's green cloth, inscribed "To D. Dickison with regards K. A. Hindwood 4/7/1958," scarce. Fifty copies were printed. Keth Hindwood distributed the book in Australia. PROVENANCE: Dudley Dickison (1896-1967) was a well known Melbourne bibliophile who assembled one the finest ever collections of Australian ornithology.
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First book. Australian botany: specially designed for the use of schools
$800
Guilfoyle, W. R. Sydney: S. Mullen, 1878. Octavo, 110 (last blank), ii (errata) folding frontispiece, 4 uncoloured plates. Handsome decorated publisher's cloth in gold and green. "To the Hon. Graham Berry M. P. Services- Treasurer of Victoria with the authors kindest regards 8 August 1878". Also the signatures of Charles French and R. T. M. Prescott, a wonderful association copy.
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Bush wanderings of a naturalist; or, notes on the field sports and fauna of Australia Felix.
$850
[Wheelwright, H.W]. London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, (1861 first edition). Octavo, 272 pp. Publisher's mauve cloth,, Lengthy insciption "H. W. Wheelright to his old friend Caspar Lexow", then presented through other hands and ultimately to Dr R. Soderberg. The first edition does not have plates, they appeared with the second edition.
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A complete set of the Australian John Gould folios
$1125000
The set is comprised of: Birds of Australia, 8 volumes; the rare Cancelled Parts; The Mammals of Australia, 3 volumes; A Monograph of the Kangaroos.
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