Upton, Sydney.

Australia’s Empty Spaces.

First Edition. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1938. 21 x 14 cm. 288 pages with a frontispiece and other B&W photographs. Original cloth in original dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Minor browning/foxing to some pages. Dust jacket edge worn and dust dulled. Minor fraying to tail end of spine.

Various Authors.

Nursing Notes. A Practical Journal for Nurses. Being the Journal of the Workhouse Infirmary Nursing Association and the Midwives’ Institute and Trained Nurses’ Club.

[First Edition]. Volume X. No. 109 to 120. Strand, Workhouse Infirmary Nursing Association, January to December 1897. 27 x 21 cm. (2), 168 pages. Original dark cloth with gilt title and volume number on front board. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped, stained and age darkened. Front joint started to crack. Spine ends frayed. Edges and end papers age darkened. First two pages with tape repairs. A few dog ears and minor tears. Internally clean.

Virtanen, Artturi I.

Cattle Fodder and Human Nutrition – With Special Reference to Biological Nitrogen Fixation.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1938. 22.4cm x 14.4cm. VI, 108 pages. With tables, diagrams and photograms. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear on the cover.

Von Michaelis, H. (Heinrich) / Allan Bird.

Our Birds. 8 Colour Plates.

Second Series. First Printing. Cape Town, ABC Press, Not dated (ca. 1960). 35 x 25 cm. A set of eight colour plates, mounted on stiff grey paper sheets. Together with a four page Introduction and Explanation. Plates and Introduction inside decorated cardboard presentation folder. Folder in plastic cover, as published. Very good condition. Some rubbing, dusting and age darkening to outer presentation folder. Colour plates are as new.

Waddington, C.H [Conrad Hal].

Organisers & Genes.

First Reprint 1947. Cambridge, at the University Press, 1947. 21.5 x 14 cm. x, (2), 160 pages with Illustrations and two Plates – complete. Original green cloth with silver title on spine. Inside original price-clipped dust jacket, now inside archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Boards mildly faded. Dust jacket a little age darkened with short closed tear to top of spine. See images. Series: Cambridge Biological Studies.

Wallop Brabazon (Author) / Cooper, William (Illustrations).

The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland, with Suggestions for the Working of a Fishing Company. Dedicated by Permission to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland.

First Edition. Dublin, London, Derby, James McGlashan et al, 1848. 22 x 13.5 cm. x, 111 pages. Complete with 21 Plates, including 8 folding plates (see images). Later attractive quarter calf over marbled boards. Gilt title and blind line decorations on spine. New plain end papers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Text block dust dulled with occasional mild foxing. See images

Walsh, Wendy (art work) / Nelson, Charles (text) / Ross, Ruth Isabel (introduction volume 1).

An Irish Florilegium 1 & 2. Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland. Watercolour Paintings by Wendy Walsh. Introduction by Ruth Isabel Ross. Notes on the Plates by Charles Nelson.

Two First Editions. Two Volumes. London, Thames and Hudson, 1983 & 1987. 36 x 29 cm. 1: 224 pages with 48 tipped in Plates. Losely inserted bookmark listing the Plates. Losely inserted advertising sheet for the second volume of the Florilegium. / 2: 216 pages with 48 colour plates. Original cloth. Gilt titles. Inside original decorated dust jackets, now inside archival jackets. Fine in fine dust jackets. Minor shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean. A lovely set.

White, Gilbert.

A Naturalist’s Calendar. With Observations in various Branches of Natural History; extracted from the Papers of the late Rev. Gilbert White, M.A. of Selborne, Hampshire. Senior Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.

First Edition. London, Printed for R. and J. White, 1795. 19 x 12 cm. iv, 170 pages plus six pages TOC. One coloured plate. Half calf over marbled boards. Gilt decorations and title on spine. Coloured end papers. Very good condition. Serious rubbing and bumping to corners, boards and spine. Age darkened and foxed throughout, some knicks and small tears, minor paper losses. Generally still a nice copy. Two Ex Libris on front paste down: Robert Wakefield and Alan Francis Brooke.

[Wilson].

The Post Chaise Companion or Traveller’s Directory through Ireland. Containing a new & accurate Description of the direct and principal Cross Roads, with particulars of the Noblemen & Gentlemen’s Seats, Cities, Towns, Parks, Natural Curiosities, Antiquities, Castles, Ruins, Manufactures, Loughs, Glens, Harbours &c &c. Forming An Historical & Descriptive Account of the Kingdom, to which is added a Travelling Dictionary, or Alphabetical Tables, showing the Distances of all the Principal Cities, Boroughs, Market & Sea Port Towns in Ireland from each other. The 3rd Edition, corrected and enlarged, with an entire new set of Plates.

Third Edition. Dublin, Printed & Published by J. & J.H. Fleming, 1803. 20 x 12 cm. xxvii, 660 pages, (19) [Index]. With a frontispiece, a map and four additional plates, some folding. Modern quarter morroco. Gilt title and decorations to spine. Spine label. New end papers. Speckled edges. Very good condition. Sound new binding with minor shelf wear. Overall age darkened. Some foxing/browning. Map in poor condition. Overall a very good, complete copy of this reference book.

Wolf, Joseph (Illustrator).

Feathered Favourites. Twelve Coloured Pictures of British Birds from Drawings by Joseph Wolf.

First Edition. London, Thomas Bosworth, 1854. 25 x 18 cm. (6), 54 pages. Illustrated with 12 colour plates. Dark green Morocco with extesive gilt and blind decorations to boards and spine. Gilt title on front board and spine. Bevelled boards. All edges gilt. In custom-made clamshell box with paper label. Very good condition. Boards, corners and spine rubbed and bumped. Minor fraying to spine ends. Dust dulled. Occassional some mild browning / foxing. Internally clean. All 12 plates with tissue guards.