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There are 169 books in this catalogue.
Forest Trees of Australia. Over 200 of Australia's most important native trees described & illustrated.
Boland, D.J. M.I.H. Brooker, G.M. Chippendale, N. Hall, B.P.M. Hyland, R.D. Johnston, D.A. Kleinig and J.D. Turner
Book Number: 68171
ISBN: 0170062643
Publisher: CSIRO. , New Edition 1987.
4to. hardcover. 687pp. index, b/w & colour illus. very good, light spots on top edge of text-block. / very good d/w with tiny tears on top edge and rubbing on front edge.
Price: $40.00


A Research on the Pines of Australia.
Baker, Richard T. & Smith, Henry G.
Book Number: 58934
ISBN: 
Publisher: Technological Museum, New South Wales., Sydney, 1910.
4tol blue cloth hardcover. 458pp. colour & b/w illus. Good- Very good, some insect damage to cover. Very good inside.
Price: $95.00


A Research on the Eucalypts, especially in regard to their Essential Oils.
Baker, Richard T., and Smith, Henry G.
Book Number: 67937
ISBN: 
Publisher: Government of New South Wales Sydney 1920,
4to. hardcover. 471pp. index, colour plates, b/w illus. Poor, spine spilt at sides and missing piece at top(repaired). Good inside with some foxing.
Price: $45.00


Bush Food : Aboriginal food and herbal medicine
Isaacs, Jennifer
Book Number: 67911
ISBN: 0725408340
Publisher: Ure Smith Sydney 1992
4to hardcover 256pp index, colour illus. Very good+, owner's inscription on half-title. / very good d/w. Contents includes, Naturalists, Hunters and Gatherers, Seasons and the Australian Environment, People, Plants and Animals, Cooking Techniques, Fruit, Nuts, Roots, Tubers, Corms and Bulbs, Seeds and Damper, Green Vegetables, Honey, Gum and Nectar, Land Animals, Marine Animals and Fish, Shellfish, Billabong and Swamp animals, Insects and Grubs, Herbal Medicine, Table of Plant Foods, Table of Herbal Medicines, Index, colour illus.
Price: $30.00


The Bushfood Handbook: How to Gather, Grow, Process & Cook Australian Wild Foods
Cherikoff, Vic
Book Number: 67910
ISBN: 0646154966
Publisher: Cherikoff Pty Ltd, Australia 2000.
4to. softcover. 208pp. colour illus. Near Fine.
Price: $110.00


Wildlife in the suburbs
Clyne, Densey
Book Number: 30412
ISBN: 0195543866
Publisher: Melbourne Oxford University Press 1982
8vo softcover 205pp b/w illus. very good, bookplate inside front cover.
Price: $5.00


Green Glory The Story of the Forests of the World
Baker, Richard St. Barbe
Book Number: 67618
ISBN: 
Publisher: Lutterworth Press, London, 1948
8vo. hardcover. 239pp. index, b/w plates. Very good., light foxing to endpapers.
Price: $12.00


The Best of Wildlife in the suburbs
Clyne, Densey
Book Number: 67620
ISBN: 0195535944
Publisher: Melbourne Oxford University Press 1993.
8vo softcover 224pp b/w illus. Very Good, index tipped-in inside rear cover.
Price: $6.00


More Wildlife in the suburbs
Clyne, Densey
Book Number: 67619
ISBN: 0207149526
Publisher: Melbourne Oxford University Press 1984.
8vo softcover 224pp b/w illus. Good, corerc bumped.
Price: $6.00


Leaves from the Forest: Stories from the Lives of West Australian Foresters
Underwood, Roger (editor)
Book Number: 67632
ISBN: 
Publisher: Roger Underwood, 1987.
8vo. softcover. 119pp. b/w illus. Good, top corner bumped.
Price: $10.00


THE MAMMALS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA - Part 1: The Monotremes and the Carnivorous Marsupials (The Ornithodelphia and the didactylous Didelphia); Part 2: The Bandicoots and the Herbivorous Marsupials (The syndactylous Didelphia); Part 3: The Monodelphia.
Jones, Frederick Wood
Book Number: 67597
ISBN: 
Publisher: R. E. E. Rogers, Government Printer, Adelaide, 1923, 1924, 1925.
8vo. softcovers. 48pp. index, b/w illus. Good, toning to covers, owner's name on covers. Crease to tip of top corner of volume 2.
Price: $30.00


Stratigraphy of the Mesozoic sequence in the Warialda-Goondwindi area
Bourke. D. J.
Book Number: 67584
ISBN: 
Publisher: NSW Dept of Mineral Resources and Development, 1980.
8vo. softcover, 79pp., b/w illus., 2 folding maps loose in rear pocket. Very good. Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, vol. 19, part 1, 1980.
Price: $20.00


Comparative Foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Santos Oodnadatta no. 1 section, South Australia
Scheibnerova, Viera
Book Number: 67583
ISBN: 
Publisher: NSW Dept of Mineral Resources and Development, 1980.
8vo. softcover, 140pp., b/w plates. Very good+. Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, vol. 19, part 1, 1980.
Price: $20.00


The Invertebrata : A Manual for the Use of Students. Third (3rd) Edition, Revised.
L. A. Borradaile, F. A. Potts, L. E. S. Eastham and J. T. Saunders. Third Edition revised by G. A. Kerkut.
Book Number: 67575
ISBN: 
Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press., 1959.
8vo. hardcover. 795pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, foxing to endpapers, owner's and small remnants of label on fep. / good d/w.
Price: $35.00


The Australian Museum Magazine. Volume VI. 1936-1938
Anderson, M. A. (Edited by)
Book Number: 67569
ISBN: 
Publisher: Trustees of the Australian Museum, Sydney, 1936 - 1938
4to. hardcover. 435pp. index, b/w illus. 12 magazines bound with covers + title, contents and index. Very good.
Price: $160.00


The Australian Museum Magazine. Volume VII. 1939 - 1942
Edited by The Director
Book Number: 67566
ISBN: 
Publisher: Trustees of the Australian Museum, Sydney, 1939 - 1942
4to. hardcover. 437pp. index, b/w illus. 12 magazines bound with covers + title, contents and index. Very good, foxing to endpapers, minor insect damage to cover.
Price: $150.00


The Australian Museum Magazine. Volume V. 1933-1935
Anderson, M. A. (Edited by)
Book Number: 67568
ISBN: 
Publisher: Trustees of the Australian Museum, Sydney, 1933 - 1935
4to. hardcover. 436pp. index, b/w illus. 12 magazines bound with covers + title, contents and index. Very good.
Price: $160.00


The Natural History of Selborne; with observations on various parts of nature; and the Naturalist's Calendar. With additions and supplementary notes by Sir William Jardine.
White Gilbert. Edited by Edward Jesse.
Book Number: 67564
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Henry G. Bohn 1851
8vo. hardcover. 416pp. index, colour plates. Good, foxed, stain on verso of frontis, front hinge neatly repaired with paper, spine re-backed.
Price: $25.00


Useful Wild Plants in Australia.
Cribb, A.B.&.J.W.
Book Number: 67555
ISBN: 0006363970
Publisher: 1982 Fontana, Australia.
8vo. Softcover. 269pp. + colour plates. Index. Near Fine.
Price: $25.00


The Australian Museum Magazine. Volume IX. 1946-1949
Walkom, A. B. (edited by)
Book Number: 67565
ISBN: 
Publisher: Trustees of the Australian Museum, Sydney, 1946 - 1949
4to. hardcover. 427pp. index, b/w illus. 12 magazines bound with covers + title, contents and index. Very good, toning to pages of no.2. foxing to endpapers, some insect damage to cover.
Price: $150.00


A FIELD GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN TREES
Holliday, Ivan & Ron Hill
Book Number: 67556
ISBN: 0851796273
Publisher: Rigby 1975.
Small 8vo. hardcover. 230pp. colour illus. Very good+. / Very good d/w.
Price: $12.00


The Australian Museum Magazine. Volume IV. 1930-1932
Anderson, M. A. (Edited by)
Book Number: 67567
ISBN: 
Publisher: Trustees of the Australian Museum, Sydney, 1930 - 1932
4to. hardcover. 435pp. index, b/w illus. 12 magazines bound with covers + title, contents and index. Very good, minor insect damage to cover.
Price: $180.00


WHAT FLOWER IS THAT?
Macoboy, Stirling
Book Number: 66362
ISBN: 1863020438
Publisher: Lansdowne Press 1995.
4to. hardcover. 455pp. index. Over 1600 photographs in full colour. Very good. / Very good, faded d/w.
Price: $20.00


Wild Flowers of New South Wales Vol. I.
Sulman, Florence
Book Number: 66688
ISBN: 
Publisher: Angus & Robertson, London 1913
8vo. hardcover. 208pp. index, colour & b/w illus., folding map Good, tape marks & foxing on endpapers. Map creased on edge, rear hinge cracked (repaired).
Price: $25.00


Wildmen: Yeti, Sasquatch and the Neanderthal Enigma
Shackley, Myra
Book Number: 46243
ISBN: 0500012989
Publisher: Thames and Hudson 1983
8vo. hardcover. 192pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, stamp on fep. / Very good d/w.
Price: $12.00


Wild Life In A Southern County.
Jefferies, Richard
Book Number: 67236
ISBN: 023900180x
Publisher: Moonraker Press, U.K. 1978
8vo. hardcover. 365pp. B/w wood engravings by C. F. Tunnicliffe. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00


The Crustaceans of South Australia. Part I & II
Hale, Herbert M.
Book Number: 67161
ISBN: 
Publisher: Harrison Weir, Government Printer 1927, 1929.
8vo. printed wraps. 380pp. b/w illustrations. Good, Part II staples rusty. Covers toned.
Price: $25.00


The Reptiles and Amphibians of South Australia.
Waite, Edgar R.
Book Number: 67160
ISBN: 
Publisher: Harrison Weir, Government Printer 1929.
8vo. printed wraps. 270pp. 192 b/w illustrations. Very good, cover chipped at spine ends, crease on rear bottom corner. Covers toned.
Price: $125.00


Madam How and Lady Why; Or First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children
Kingsley, Charles
Book Number: 67085
ISBN: 
Publisher: Macdonald, London, 1893
8vo. hardcover. 270pp. 47pp., ads, index, b/w illus. Good, pencil drawings on front pastedown & endpaper, some foxing, wear to cover. Previous owner has pasted in an copy of a letter from Kingsley to Darwin on the last page before ads. Botttom cover front corner bumped.
Price: $25.00


The Victorian Naturalist Vol. 74 May, 1957 to April, 1958
Court, A. B. (Hon. editor)
Book Number: 67091
ISBN: 
Publisher: Brown, Prior, Anderson Pty. Ltd. Melbourne.
8vo. hardcover. 194pp. index, b/w ilus. Very good.
Price: $75.00



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