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Mendel’s Principles of Heredity – W Bateson

Full red/burgundy leather binding and beautifully gilt embossed all edges richly gilt from the Classics of Medicine Library 1990. Very good condition 296 pages. With coloured plates and figures in the text. A facsimile of the famous 1909 published work by W Bateson.

Mendel understood how it works

$50.00

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S Petri Basilica – Giovanni Faldo – c1670

An original copper engraving by distinguished Italian 17th century architect, draftsman, engraver Giovanni Battista Faldo (1648-1678) published by Giovanni Giacomo De Rosis (1627-1691) a leading publisher in Rome a firm established by his father many years earlier.

A superb example on folio sized hand laid paper. The strong image taking central position measuring 30cms x 17cms.

A lovely early example of St Peter’s Basilica

$120.00

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Plan of Adventure Bay on Van Diemen’s Land – 1777 by Thomas Bowen from Cook’s Third Voyage

An original copper engraved map published by Alexander Hogg (1778-1819) in London c1780. A Plan or Chart of Adventure Bay presented under a View of the South Side of Adventure Bay.

Enhanced with relief shown pictorially and by bathymetric soundings. Fluted Cape, Penguin Island and Grafs Point are named. Fresh water and the best place for gathering wood are clearly identified. A scale in nautical miles provides perspective

33cms x 21 cms to the map border. A good companion map to the Thomas Bowen Chart of Van Diemen’s Land. Framed inside black cored cream mat within Voyager charcoal frame.

SO SORRY SOLD … GET IN TOUCH … WE WILL AHVE ANOTHER ONE

$290.00

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Travels with My Aunt – Graham Greene – First American Edition 1970

Published by Greene’s American publishers Viking in 1970. A pretty good copy.

Surely Graham Greene’s funniest book – as with many of his the basis of a movie success. Parts of this appeared in Playboy!?

First American Edition – Hilarious

$50.00

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The Australian and Californian Gold Discoveries and Their Probable Consequences; or, An Inquiry Into the Laws Which Determine the Value and Distribution of the Precious Metals – Patrick Stirling F.R.S.E

With Historical Notices of the Effects of the American Mines on European Prices in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries.

Published by Greenwood Press of New York in 1969. Facsimile reprint of the 1853 Oliver & Boyd first edition. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. Folding frontispiece of the value of precious metals gained showing the impact great discoveries of the 1840’s.

An important book comprising an economic discourse on gold and the history of coinage, comparison with silver, and the economics effects of the Australian and California gold discoveries.

Important gold book with early Australian content

$40.00

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The Springing of George Blake by Sean Bourke (the Springer)

Published by Cassell London in 1970 a very good copy in a very good dust jacket.

George Blake got 42 years for spying for the Russians. He was sprung from Wormwood Scrubs by an Irishman Sean Burke who wrote the book in Moscow had it confiscated and then later returned to him now back in Dublin.

Sean Burke did it all alone

$40.00

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