For our next catalogue list we are delving into the realm of scientific research. Herein you will find books about scientific endeavour, popular science overviews and of course interesting and obscure items of ephemera. There are some definite antiques in this list, which will intrigue collectors, as well as some quite recent thinking that will capture the interest of those who keep a finger on the pulse of the latest scientific developments. Dive right in: if there's something that captures your attention, contact us at moroccobooks1000@gmail.com and we'll answer all your queries!
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(68909) Robert
Boyle, Experimentorum Novorum Physicomechanicorum Continuatio Secunda in qua
Experimenta Varia Tum In Aere Compresso tum in Factitio Instituta, circa Ignem,
Animalia, &c. Una cum Descriptione Machinarum Continentur, Milo Flesher
for Richard Davis, Bibliopola Oxoniensi, London, 1680.
Octavo; hardcover, full calf with gilt spine titles on a red morocco label; 256pp. [i-xx + 1-223 + 4pp. Index + 9pp. of adverts] with five folding engraved plates. Moderate wear; professionally re-backed using much of the original material; boards rubbed and corners lightly bumped; endpapers not replaced; some toning and spotting to the text block edges; a contemporary ink inscription to the text block bottom edge; plates all backed on linen and re-bound; some minor internal tears, all now professionally repaired. Very good.
Robert Boyle's continuing experiments in pressure and heat in liquid and air, including observations of heat flow and arterial compression, all leading to the formulation of Boyle's Law, and the process of blood transfusion.
$6,000
(73637) Max
Muller, Lectures on the Science of Language - Delivered at the Royal
Institution of Great Britain in April, May, & June, 1861., Longman
Green Longman and Roberts, Londion, 1862.
Two volumes: octavo; hardcover, half-bound in red morocco, with gilt spine titles and decorations between five raised bands and marbled endpapers; pp. [420pp. + 600pp.], all edges marbled, with tables and some in-text monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; hinges and corners scraped; some light sunning to the spines and boards; a bump to the fore-edge of the lower board of Volume One; text block top edges dusted; some light foxing to the preliminaries; a couple of instances of contemporary pencilled marginalia. No dustwrappers. Very good.
$180
(73339) Charles
Darwin, Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the
Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. “Beagle” Round the World.
Under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy R.A. (From the Corrected and Enlarged
Edition of 1845). - The Macaulay Library of Great Writers series, Ward Lock
and Co., London, 1891.
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth faux quarter-binding, with gilt spine titles and upper board titles printed in black; 492pp. (+20pp. of adverts.), with a monochrome portrait frontispiece (with tissue guard), 15 plates, and many other diagrams and illustrations likewise. Moderate wear; a little cocked; spine head and heel pulled; boards rubbed with some marks and stains; corners and board bottom edges bumped and rubbed with some fraying; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; offset to the endpapers; mild scattered foxing throughout; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf. No dustwrapper. Very good.
$120
(76735) Curtis
Wilson, William Heytesbury - Medieval Logic and the Rise of Mathematical
Physics, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison WI, 1960.
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles; 219pp. Mild wear; text block edges lightly toned. Price-clipped dustwrapper is mildly rubbed and edgeworn; spine panel sunned; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$85
(68358) Johannis
Kepler (Introduction by Michael Hoskin), Dioptrice - Heffer Scientific
Reprint, W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., Cambridge UK, 1962.
Facsimile reprint: octavo; hardcover, faux vellum parchment boards with gilt spine titles; 100pp., facsimile reproduction with many monochrome diagrams. Mild wear; spine sunned; text block edges lightly toned with some spots. No dustwrapper as issued. Slipcase has been re-furbished. Very good.
$60
(76733)
D.R. Hill (ed. & trans.), Kitab Arshimidas fi'amal al-binkamat (On the Construction
of Water-Clocks) - Turner & Devereux occasional paper No.4, Turner
& Devereux, London, 1976.
Octavo; paperback, stapled booklet; 46pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; covers lightly sunned; text block mildly bent; previous owner's name in pencil to the first page. Very good.
$35
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David G. Stead:
Stead was the foremost scientist in this country at the start of last century. A biologist and ichthyologist, he worked for the Departments of Fisheries and Agriculture in NSW and published many monographs, booklets and pamphlets designed to raise awareness about the biodiversity of this country and to arm farmers and fishers against certain pests and blights which threatened burgeoning industries. He is perhaps better known as the father of Christina Stead, the Australian author, and as the subject of her novel, The Man Who Loved Children. Here at Morocco Books and Collectibles we have a nice trove of Stead material and it is displayed here for your delectation.
(68443) David Stead, Fishes of Australia - A Popular and Systematic Guide to the Study of the Wealth Within Our Waters, William Brooks & Co. Ltd., Sydney NSW, 1906.
Octavo; full cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles and decoration and blind-ruling to the boards; 278pp., with a monochrome frontispiece (with tissue guard), nine plates likewise (without guards) and many other monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; mildly cocked; spine extremities softened; some insect damage to the boards; text block edges toned with some minor spots; offset to the endpapers; some minor ink stains to the front pastedown; previous owner's ink inscription to the verso of the frontis. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good.
$150
(69537) David
Stead, Preliminary Note on the Wafer (Leptoplana australis), A Species of
Dendrocoelous Turbellarian Worm, Destructive to Oysters, Department of
Fisheries New South Wales, Sydney NSW, 1907.
Octavo; stapled pamphlet with printed wrappers; 8pp. (2 blank). Minor wear; covers lightly rubbed and edgeworn. Very good to near fine.
$25
(76729) David
Stead, Additions to the Fish-Fauna of New South Wales (No.1) - Proof Copy,
Department of Fisheries New South Wales, Sydney NSW, 1907.
Marked-up proof copy: octavo; quarter-bound in cloth with printed boards; 28pp., with six monochrome plates. Moderate wear; marginal notations to the covers and contents in pencil and ink; covers lightly rubbed; text block and page edges toned; offset to the preliminaries. Very good withal.
$75
(76728) David
Stead - inscribed by the author, New Fishes from New South Wales (No.1),
Department of Fisheries New South Wales, Sydney NSW, 1908.
Octavo; stapled pamphlet with printed wrappers; 12pp., with five monochrome plates. Moderate wear; disbound; covers lightly rubbed; text block and page edges toned; author's inscription to the first page. Very good withal.
$50
(74208) David
G. Stead, A Brief Review of the Fisheries of New South Wales, Present and
Potential (signed), Department of Fisheries/The Government of the State of
New South Wales, Sydney NSW, 1910.
Octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with printed heavy card boards; 32pp., with 17 monochrome plates. Mild wear; some light rubbing and edgewear to the boards; light spotting to the text block edges and a dark mark to the fore-edge; text block top edge dusted; offset to the inside covers; signed and dated by the author in ink, with a dedication, to the flyleaf. Very good.
$75
(69571)
David G. Stead, The Rabbit Menace in New South Wales - An Abridgement of the
Report by Mr. David G. Stead, who was commissioned, on 30th April, 1925, to
inquire into matters connected with the rabbit menace in New South Wales,
Department of Agriculture NSW, Sydney NSW, 1928.
Octavo; paperback, stapled booklet with printed wrappers; 72pp., with diagrams and many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; covers rubbed and edgeworn; sunned along the spine; light scattered foxing throughout. Very good.
$50
(71847) David G. Stead, The Tree Book, Shakespeare Head Publications/W.E. Smith Ltd., Sydney NSW, nd. (c.1943).
Octavo; paperback, stapled booklet with printed wrappers; 120pp., with diagrams and many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; covers rubbed and edgeworn with some spotting; previous owner's ink stamp to the front cover; sunned along the spine; text block edges toned; previous owner's ink inscription and retailer's ink stamp to the first page. Very good.
$15
(68736) David G. Stead, Sharks and Rays of Australian Seas (signed), Angus and Robertson Ltd., Sydney NSW, 1963.
Royal octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles; 211pp. with 16pp, of monochrome plates. Mild wear; spine extremities softened; shelfwear to the board edges; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; faint offset to the endpapers; previous owner's ink inscription to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; some chipping to the spine panel extremities with associated creasing; some small tears to the panel edges with a few crude tape repairs; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
Signed by the author's wife, the noted botanist Thistle Yolette Stead (nee. Harris).
$100
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William C. Vergara, Science in Everyday Things - The answers to hundreds of
perplexing questions, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York NY, 1958.
Octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in full cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations; 308pp., with monochrome diagrams. Ex-library: moderate wear; shaken; lower hinge cracked (but strong); the usual cancelled library stamps and accoutrements; text block edges toned; light offset and tape stains to the endpapers. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; chipping to the spine panel extremities; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$20
(76021) John
Child, Australia Rocks and Minerals - An Introduction to Geology,
Periwinkle Press, Gladesville NSW, 1963.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with upper board titles and decorations; 74pp, with a monochrome frontispiece, diagrams and many full-colour and monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; boards rubbed and a little scuffed; text block edges toned; retailer's bookplate to the inside front cover; school prize bookplate to the flyleaf; some internal marks; some marginal notations and underlining in ink. No dustwrapper as issued. Very good.
$25
(76020) Frank
Hannan (ed.), Gold, Mineral & Gemstone Localities of New South Wales,
Continental Atlas Agency, Kensington NSW, 1965.
Octavo; hardcover, with upper board titles and board decorations; 130pp, with maps. Moderate wear; boards rubbed and a little scuffed; previous owner's pencilled inscription to the inside front cover; some internal marks. No dustwrapper as issued. Very good.
$100
(72254) Brian
Mason and L. G. Berry, Elements of Mineralogy, W. H. Freeman and
Company, San Francisco CA, 1968.
Reprint: octavo; hardcover, full cloth with upper board titles and endpaper charts; 550pp., with many monochrome diagrams. Moderate wear; boards well rubbed; spine extremities softened; text block edges lightly toned and top edge a bit dusted; old tape stains to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf. Lacks dustwrapper. Good.
$25
(74463)
Charles Laseron (Rudolph Oskar Brunnschweiler, ed.), Ancient Australia - The
story of its past geography and life, Angus & Robertson Ltd., Sydney
NSW, 1969.
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles and endpaper maps; 253pp., 75pp of colour and monochrome plates and a folding geological map. Mild wear; slightly rolled; text block edges toned with some spotting. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; light chipping to the spine panel extremities; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film . Very good.
$40
(75380)
N & R Perry, A Prospector's Guide to Gold in Australia, AH & AW
Reed Pty. Ltd., French's Forest NSW, 1982.
Royal octavo; paperback, with illustrated wrappers; 96pp., with maps and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Very good.
$45
(69905)
Ann Moyal, Clear Across Australia - A history of telecommunications,
Thomas Nelson Australia, Melbourne Vic., 1985.
Reprint: royal octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and decorative endpapers; 437pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; spine extremities a little scraped; text block top edge a little dusted. Dustwrapper a bit rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film . Very good.
$40
(72255)
Brian Harpur, The Official Halley's Comet Book, Hodder and Stoughton,
London, 1986.
First edition: royal octavo; hardcover. with gilt spine titles and endpaper charts; 184pp., with 8pp. of colour plates and many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Dustwrapper a little edgeworn. Very good.
$20
(68722) Edward Ashpole (Foreword by Robert Dixon), The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, Blandford Press/Cassell Ltd., London, 1989.
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 170pp., with diagrams and 16pp. of full-colour plates. Minor wear. Dustwrapper. Near fine.
$20
(72257)
Robert Decker and Barbara Decker, Volcanoes - Revised and Updated Edition,
W. H. Freeman and Company, New York NY, 1989.
Octavo; paperback; 285pp., with a monochrome frontispiece, many diagrams and illustrations likewise and 16pp., full-colour plates. Minor wear; covers a little rubbed and edgeworn. Very good.
$20
(72246)
Harold W. Thurman, Essentials of Oceanography: Fourth Edition, Macmillan
Publishing Company, New York NY, 1993.
Quarto; paperback; 393pp., with many full-colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Near fine.
$20
(72247)
Joan Brown, et al., Ocean Circulation, Pergamon Press Ltd., Oxford
England, 1993.
Reprint: quarto; paperback; 238pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear. Very good.
$20
(68354) Margaret
Wertheim, Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars (signed),
Crown Publishing Group/Random House, London, 1995.
Reprint: octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with gilt spine titles; 280pp. Mild wear; spine heel softened; signed in ink with an inscription by the author to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$30
(72237)
William Glen (ed.), The Mass-Extinction Debates -How science works in a
crisis, Stanford University Press, Stanford CA, 1995.
Reprint: octavo; paperback; 371pp., with diagrams. Minor wear. Very good.
$20
(72780)
Thomas Hager, Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling, Simon &
Schuster Inc., New York NY, 1995.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with gilt spine titles; 721pp., with 8pp. of monochrome plates. Minor wear. Dustwrapper is now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine.
$45
(72242)
Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin, The Sixth Extinction: Biodiversity and its
Survival, Weidenfeld & Nicolson/The Orion Publishing Group, London,
1996.
Octavo; paperback; 271pp., with 8pp,. of monochrome plates. Mild wear; light toning to the pages; previous owner's ink inscription to the inside back cover. Very good.
$20
(72250)
S. Stiros and R. E. Jones (eds.), Archaeoseismology: Fitch Laboratory
Occasional Paper 7, I.G.M.E. - Institute of Geology & Mineral
Exploration/The British School at Athens, Athens Greece, 1996.
Royal octavo; hard over with illustrated boards; 268pp., with many maps, diagrams and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. No dustwrapper as issued. Very good.
$20
(72256) Thomas
J. Crowley and Gerald R. North, Paleoclimatology - Oxford Monographs on
Geology and Geophysics #18, Oxford University Press, New York NY, 1996.
Octavo; paperback; 349pp., with many maps and diagrams. Minor wear. Very good. Laid in: a brochure about paleoclimates.
$25
(73440)
Vernon A. Rosario, ed., Science and Homosexualities, Routledge, New York
NY, 1997.
First edition: octavo; paperback; 308pp., with monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; some lacquer-lift along the spine. Very good.
$30
(77015) Rob DeSalle & David Lindley, The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World; or, How to Build a Dinosaur, HarperCollins Publishers, London, 1997.
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 194pp., with many diagrams and monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; text block and page edges toned. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn. Very good.
$15
(68357) Jennifer Cooke, Cannibals, Cows & the CJD Catastrophe - Tracing the Shocking Legacy of a 20th Century Disease, Random House (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Milson's Point NSW, 1998.
Octavo; trade paperback; 390pp., with 8pp. of monochrome plates. Mild wear; text block and page edges toned. Very good.
$14
(76773)
Stephen W. Hawking (Introduction by Carl Sagan; Ron Miller, illus.), A Brief
History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Bantam Press/Transworld
Publishers (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Moorebank NSW, 1998.
Reprint: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 198pp., with monochrome illustrations. Mild wear. Dustwrapper. Very good.
$20
(76847)
Dava
Sobel & William J.H. Andrewes, The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story
of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time,
Fourth Estate Ltd., London, 1998.
Square quarto; paperback; 216pp., with many full-colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; covers lightly rubbed and edgeworn. Very good.
$25
(72252)
Vincent Courtillot (Joe McClinton, trans.), Evolutionary Catastrophes - The
Science of Mass Extinction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 1999.
Octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles; 173pp., with maps diagrams and monochrome illustrations. Minor Wear. Dustwrapper. Near fine.
$30
(72740) Jean
Galbraith (Anne Latreille. ed., Joan Law-Smith, illus.), Kindred Spirits - A
Botanical Correspondence (signed), Australian Garden History Society, South
Yarra Vic., 1999.
Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 223pp., with a colour frontispiece and many colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; signed by the editor to the title page. Dustwrapper is now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine.
$60
(72937) Dava Sobel, Galileo's Daughter - A Drama of Science, Faith and Love, Fourth Estate Ltd., London, 1999.
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 429pp., with maps and monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; text block and page edges toned; pages tanned; previous owner's ink inscription to the half-title page. Dustwrapper a little rubbed; a patch of lacquer missing from the upper panel. Very good.
$25
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(77020) Edwin A. Abbott & Dionys Burger (Foreword by Isaac Asimov; Cornelie J. Rheinbolt, trans.), Flatland & Sphereland - Two Books in One: A Romance of Many Dimensions & A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe, Quill/HarperResource Books/HarperCollins Publishers, New York NY, 2001.
Octavo; paperback; 329pp. [121pp. + 208pp.], with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Very good.
Edwin Abbott was an American Shakespearean scholar who wrote the world's first mathematical science fiction work, an exploration of life in a two-dimensional reality called "Flatland". Although a work of speculative fiction (before the term was coined), it helped readers to visualise the concepts of different dimensions and to begin to grasp the nature of a quantum reality. It was so popular that many other writers took the concept and extended it using their own researches, creating sequels that moved into non-Euclidean spaces and even higher - and lower - dimensional realties. We're lucky to have a number of the Flatland writings here at the one time for your enjoyment.
$15
(69702) Ian
Stewart, Flatterland - Like Flatland, Only More So, Macmillan/Macmillan
Publishers Ltd., London, 2001.
Octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles; 301pp., with many monochrome diagrams. Mild wear; covers attached upside-down; light spotting to the text block top edge. Dustwrapper a little rubbed; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$25
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(72251)
William A. Cassidy, Meteorites, Ice, and Antarctica - A personal account,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 2003.
Octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles; 349pp., with maps, diagrams and many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine.
$30
(70177)
[Bureau of Meteorology] Drought, Dust and Deluge - A Century of Climate
Extremes in Australia, Dept. of Communications Information Technology and
the Arts, Canberra ACT, 2004.
Landscape quarto; paperback; 78pp., with maps, diagrams and many full-colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; previous owner's name in ink to the first page. Very good.
$20
(70524) Pamela
H. Smith, The Body of the Artisan - Art and Experience in the Scientific
Revolution, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL. 2004.
Square quarto; paperback; 367pp., with 24pp. of colour plates and many other monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Near fine.
$75
(68361) Heidi Grundmann, et.al., Reinventing Radio - Aspects of Radio as Art, Revolver - Archiv fur aktuelle kunst, Frankfurt am Main Germany, 2008.
Square octavo; paperback; 542pp., text block edges dyed red and yellow, with monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; some marks to the text block edges. Dustwrapper. Very good.
$30
(76643)
David M. Friedman, The Immortalists - Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel
and their daring quest to live forever, JR Books, London, 2008.
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 338pp., with 8pp. of monochrome plates. Minor wear; slightly rolled; text block edges mildly toned with some slight spotting. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$30
(69523)
Brian Craven, Shoulders of Giants - Achievements in History's War on
Tuberculosis, Blue Mountains Historical Society Inc., Wentworth Falls NSW,
2010.
Octavo; paperback; 214pp. Minor wear. Near fine.
$20
(67962) Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve - How the World Became Modern, W.W. Norton & Company Inc., New York NY, 2011.
First edition: octavo; hardcover quarter-bound in papered boards with gilt spine titles; 356pp., with 8pp. of full-colour plates. Minor wear. Dustwrapper. Near fine.
$28
(75625)
Tina K. Allen (Foreword by Dame Marie Bashir), Bill Gibson – Pioneering
Bionic Ear Surgeon (signed), NewSouth Books/NewSouth Publishing/University
of New South Wales Press, Sydney NSW, 2017.
Octavo; trade paperback; 292pp., with 16pp. of full-colour and monochrome plates. Minor wear; signed by subject and author to the title page. Very good.
$20
(73091) Donald
R. Prothero, The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries - Amazing fossils
and the people who found them, Columbia University Press, New York NY,
2019.
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles ; 472pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine.
$35
(70648) Sarah Jaquette Ray, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety - How to Keep Cool on a Warming Planet, The University of California Press, Oakland CA, 2020.
Octavo; paperback; 208pp., with monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. New.
$15
(72883) Anna Buckley (Foreword by Jim al-Khalili), The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters - Inspiring stories of scientists as heard on BBC Radio 4, Weidenfeld & Nicolson/The Orion Publishing Group/Hachette UK, London, 2021.
Octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles; 148pp., with monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine.
$17
(76958) Tim Dean, How We Became Human and Why We Need to Change, Macmillan/Pan Macmillan (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Sydney NSW, 2021.
Octavo; paperback; 340pp. Minor wear. Near fine.
$25
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Ephemera:
(76391) J.H.
Maiden, A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus - Parts I & III
(with eight plates), The Government of the State of New South Wales, Sydney
NSW, 1903.
Two volumes, folio; paperback in printed wrappers; 70pp. [i-vipp. + i-iipp. + 1-47pp. + 75-90pp.], with eight monochrome plates. Moderate wear; wrappers a little rubbed and scuffed; chipping to the spine extremities; text block edges toned; some light scattered foxing around the plates; an old library ink stamp to the front cover of Part I. Very good.
$200
(76367) Walter
E. Roth, North Queensland Ethnography - Bulletin No.12 - On Certain
Initiation Ceremonies, From “Records of the Australian Museum”, Vol. vii., No.3,
1909., The Australian Museum, Sydney NSW, 1909.
Octavo; paperback, stab-sewn booklet, with printed wrappers; 22pp., with monochrome illustrations and seven pages of monochrome plates. Moderate wear; spine split at the head and heel; covers rubbed and edgeworn; text block and page edges toned. Very good.
$100
(68176) [AIF
Education Service]/R. Dalrymple Hay/J.H. Maiden/[NSW Forestry Commission], Land
Selection and Improvements/Tree Planting for Fodder, Shelter, and Economic
Uses/Notes on the Commercial Timbers of New South Wales/Forest Fires: Their
Prevention and Suppression - four titles bound together, Education Service
AIF, London, 1919./Office of the Forestry commission, Sydney NSW,
1917./Ministry for Lands, Sydney NSW, 1904./NSW Forestry Commission, Sydney
NSW, 1917.
Royal octavo; hardcover, full blue morocco, with gilt upper board titles, gilt rules and decorations to the boards, two raised bands with gilt rules to the spine, and marbled endpapers with gilt dentelles; 108pp. [48pp. + 10pp. + 44pp. + 6pp.], all edges gilt, with a monochrome frontispiece and 10pp. of plates likewise. Moderate wear; spine well rubbed and hinges scraped; some scuffing to the boards; offset to the endpapers; mild scattered foxing throughout; previous owner's contemporary inscriptions in pencil and ink throughout; tears to the flyleaf and the first page (now professionally repaired). No dustwrapper. Very good.
A private collection of government-issue forest management documents, collected into a sumptuous binding, including one of J.H. Maiden's overviews on the nature and uses of Australian trees.
$750
(71906)
M.L. Augee (ed.), Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales -
Vol. 121, December 1999, Linnean Society of New South Wales, Matraville
NSW, 1999.
Octavo; paperback, stapled book with illustrated wrappers; 204pp., with many monochrome diagrams and illustrations. Minor wear; covers a little rubbed and edgeworn. Very good.
$20
(71907)
M.L. Augee (ed.), Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales -
Vol. 122, December 2000, Linnean Society of New South Wales, Matraville
NSW, 2000.
Octavo; paperback, stapled book with illustrated wrappers; 190pp., with many monochrome diagrams and illustrations. Minor wear; covers a little rubbed and edgeworn; bottom corner of the back cover torn off (no loss of text or images). Very good.
$20
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DVDs
Sometimes, when we take over a collection of books, some DVDs and other odd assortments come along for the ride. In this way, we've amassed a range of recorded media on scientific subjects, mainly of the BBC or Discovery Channel variety. They're priced to clear at $10 each, so if there's something here you like the look of, get in touch!
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NB: All prices are in Australian Dollars (AUD) and DO NOT include postage, which will need to be calculated according to individual circumstances at the time of sale.
Morocco Books and Collectibles is located within the Country of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples.
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