calaby john editor (4 Ergebnisse)

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

Paperback. Zustand: 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).

By Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet ; general editor John Calaby. Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1988. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. [viii], 251, illustrated with exquisite paintings recording the fauna and flora around Sydney and on Norfolk Island.