Notes on the Botany of Pitcairn Island. by MAIDEN,, J.H

Sydney: George Stephen Chapman, Acting Government Printer, 1891. viii, 79, 10 b/w plates. . PB. Vg. Technical Education Series No. 6. Second edition..

Sydney: G.S. Chapman, Government Printer, 1891. . 8vo, 24.4cm. Pp. viii,79, 10 pls. of Acacia species, tabs., notes, detailed index. Orig. printed wrappers, Very good. - Dealing with 44 species of Acacia with special regard to the exploitation of their bark which contains large amounts of tannins and condensed tannins that historically found use as pharmaceuticals and preservatives.

Syd. William Applegate Gullick. 1920.. 1920. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. 139pp. Part I. 1st Ed. colour & b/w illus. Or. green cloth. Very good,light wear to spine ends. .

Sydney: Government Printer, 1892. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney, Government Printer, 1892. Octavo, (viii), 61 pages. Card covers very slightly sunned, chipped and creased; bottom edge of first few leaves and top and bottom edges of front cover with a few very small tears (front cover repaired with tape); a very good copy. Technical Education Series, No. 10. In categories, such as Food (6 pages), Drugs (7 pages) and Timbers (7 pages).

Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Sydney, William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1920. Large octavo, [iv], 141 pages with numerous illustrations plus 15 colour plates and an errata slip tipped in on the title page. Cloth lightly worn at the extremities; minimal ownership details on the front endpaper; a few marginalia in pencil; a very good copy (internally fine).

William Applegate Gullick, Sydney. 1909. 8vo, 244pp, with black and white illustrations, maps, facsimile letters, some fold-out. Two large fold-out maps to rear, each with a closed tear to lower right corner. A good hardback copy in bevilled blue cloth with general light wear and with gold-embossed illustration to front. Mildly tanned fore edges and endpapers. Presentation bookplate with pencil notation to inside front cover. Rear endpaper is heavily edgeworn.

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd., 1909. Hardback in good minus condition. Includes several fold out maps.. Hardcover. Good.

Sydney: W.A. Gullick, Government Printer, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Sydney, W.A. Gullick, Government Printer, 1916. Octavo, xx, 216 pages. Quarter cloth and flush-cut boards a little nibbled, marked and nevenly tanned; mild signs of handling (including an ink ownership name to the top edge, and a few ink and pencilled annotations from pages 60 to 63); overall a very good copy. Offered together with G.I. Playfair: 'Supplement I: Fresh-water Algae' (Sydney, W.A. Gullick, Government Printer, 1917. Octavo; quarter cloth and flush-cut boards. [ii], 217-264 pages. Covers discoloured with signs of use and age; minor signs of handling; ownership signature on the front flyleaf; a presentable copy. With the very faded ownership stamp, and contemporary ink ownership signature of Sydney botanist John McLuckie (1890-1956) on the front cover. [2 items].

Sydney; London: William Applegate Gullick; Trench & Co., 1909. Leather. Near Fine. 9" by 6". Unamed. A fascinating insight into one of the most important figures of the colonisation of Australia. Illustrated, with 64 illustrations, including five folding plates. Written by Joseph Maiden, a botanist who made a major contribution to the knowledge of Australian flora. He was the Government botanist of New South Wales and Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Prior owner was C J B Proudman of Brislington, Bristol. Loosely inserted is a receipt from the purchase of this book from Bibliophile, Sydney, dated 17/03/1994. This is a comprehensive biography of Sir Joseph Banks, a British naturalist, botanist and patron of natural scientists. He took part in James Cook's first great voyage (1768-1771) and some of the plates to this volume are Cook's charts. Banks advocated British settlement in New South Wales and the colonisation of Australia. He also established Botany Bay, as a place for the… Read More