NH1)
"Stingray":
Plate 103
Original hand coloured copper engraving by Edward Donovan for his folio "Natural History of British Fishes"Information on Donovan
Published London, Dec.1, 1806 by E. Donovan & J. Rivington
Size of image (plate mark)=20cm x 11.5cm
Condition = Excellent
Price=AUD$185 (GST not included)
NH2)
"Plate XlII-Beetles":
1)Gigantic Beetle (Male) 2) Hieroglyphic Beetle
3)Kangaroo B. 4) Macleay's B. 5) Shining B. 6) Prodigal Beetle 7) Gigantic B. (female) 8) Golden B. 9) Elephant B. 10) Peruvian B.
Original hand coloured copper engraving by J. Bishop after J. Stewart
Published by Blackie & Son, London, 1848
Image size=23cm x 14.5cm
Condition = Excellent with no foxing
Price AUD$115 (includes GST)
NH3) "The Wandering Albatross"
Original copper-plate engraving, hand coloured, after work by Comte de Buffon, George -Louis Leclerc (1707-88). French polymath and son of a wealthy lawyer and although studied Law at Dijon, he devoted a greater part of his life to philosophy and science. His "Histoire Naturelle" was begun in 1749 and unfinished at the time of his death. He brought him an immense reputation with his ideas of Mutability of Species, which were examined by Eurasmus Darwin.
Published The Strand, London 1812
Size =18cm x 12cm
Price = AU$105 (includes GST)
Condition = Excellent
NH4) "Mollusques et Zoophytes-Plates 29" 1.PHASALIA Megalista 2.GLAUCUS Eucharis 3.RIZOPUYSA Planestoma 4. PHYSSOPHORA Muzonema 5. STPHANOMIA Amytridis
Original hand coloured engraving by Choubard after the natural history artist on the Baudin Voyage (1800-1804), Charles Alexandre Lesueur. Also have plates 30 and 31 of the mollusques. All are in excellent original condition with acid activity on the far edges of the paper.
Size of plate=23cm x 31cm
price=AU$690 each (incl.GST)
Nicholas Baudin's Voyage ~ Background
NH5)
"Kentish Plover (adult and young)"
Charadrius Cantianus (Lath.)
Original hand coloured Lithograph by Henry Leonard Meyer (flourished in the mid 19th cent.) who specialised in ornitholoical subjects, in this case 'British Birds and their Eggs'
Size of image=26cm x 24cm
Condition excellent with slight discolouration outside the above measurement where matboard has been.
price=AUD$210 (incl.GST)
NH6) "Plate XVII-Squirrels"
1)American Black Sqirrel 2) Chickaree Beetle
3)Grey Squirrel
Original hand coloured copper engraving by J. Bishop after J. Stewart
Published by A Fullarton & Co, London, 1848
Image size=23cm x 14.5cm
Condition = Excellent with no foxing
Price AUD$120 (includes GST)