Products | Voyager Rare Books Maps & Prints

The Microscope and Its Revelations – William Carpenter – 1875

William Carpenter was a Fellow of the Royal Society and Registrar to the University of London.

Published by Churchill, London in 1875. A thick book of over 800 pages including index. Complete, re-cased expertly so very solid for a book often broken. An important work on the subject.

This is the fifth edition of his hefty book on the microscope with two thirds of the book being taken up with the preparation and observation of a wide range of microscopical subjects.

Nicely illustrated with twenty-five plates and over four hundred wood engravings

Carpenter was exceedingly comprehensive

$120.00

Updating cart…

Collectable Marine Microscope Slides – From the 1860’s – Prepared by Edmund Wheeler – From a 19th Century Australian Collectionn

Edmund Wheeler was a leading mid Victorian microscope slide preparer now highly collectable – one of this group is dated 1866 and the others of identical preparation must be from around that time. Ernest Wheeler sold his business to Watson & Sons in 1884 and died the following year. So all EW slides must be over 130 years old

This group of five slides are in good condition and carry Wheeler’s distinctive yellow paper covering with burgundy and gold paper front cover with his “EW” monogram. Their condition is near perfect. They are from the collection of John Owen Evans a serious microscopist who lived in Port Fairy, Victoria and prepared slides of local subjects as well as purchasing top class London prepared slides through T Gaunt, Optician, who operated out of the Royal Arcade Melbourne.

The samples comprise:

Shells etc. from Chalk, Strood Hill Kent.
North Atlantic Soundings from 2 Miles deep 1866
Foramenifera from the Adriatic Sea
Foramenifera from the River Suir (Ireland)
Group of Heliopelta for Binocular

All annotated in Wheelers tidy cursive hand and carry the circular Wheeler address label – 48 Tollington Road, Holloway, London

Click on the image to see them all!

A very good Ernest Wheeler Group from an early Australian Collection

$120.00

Updating cart…

The King Fish or Opah – Shaw and Nodder -1793

An original copper engraved and hand coloured image of the strikingly beautiful King-Fish also known as the Opah and Imperial Zeus. It was published by Shaw and Nodder in May 1793.

It was decribed as by far the largest and most splendid in colour of the genus … indeed the most splendid of European fish … so singularly vivid as to surpass all the attempts of art to give an adequate idea of its beauty … (high praise indeed)

George Shaw was in charge of Natural History at the British Museum. Nodder was a natural history artist and worked for Banks on his Florilegium.

Framed in Voyager “Natural History” style in black cored mat and lovely gilt frame.

Click on image to see all my beauty!

King-Fish amongst the most beautiful

$190.00

Updating cart…

New South Wales Harrier – c1826 (Circus Assimulis) Sir William Jardine

An original hand-coloured engraving of the New Holland White Goshawk published in Edinburgh c1826 by Scotland’s greatest naturalist Sir William Jardine (1800-1874). This image is one of the earliest fine engravings of an Australian bird of prey. It was published as part of Jardine’s first great work “Illustrations in Ornithology” a now scarce and valuable collection of bird engravings.

Jardine was the 7th Baronet of Applegirth, Dumfriesshire and founder of the Ray Society. He was a superb artist in his own right but utilised the great illustrators of the day to complete his works including, Edward Lear, Selby, Stewart, Thompson and William Holmes-Lizars

Framed in beaded gilt frame in cream mat with black core … delightful. Unframed $180.00 …. just let us know which

Click on me to see my full image – I am special

$190.00

Updating cart…

Submarine Classic – Take Her Deep – Galantin

Published by Unwin, London 1988. 262 pages with illustrations and end paper charts. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

Galantin perhaps the most courageous submarine Captain in the US Pacific Fleet. His true story is full of the tension of the depth charge attack – Beats “The Hunt for Red October” hands down

Torpedoes away

$50.00

Updating cart…

This Accursed Land – Lennard Bickel

Published by MacMillan, Melbourne 1977. 210 pages with good photographic illustrations and good end paper maps. Very good condition.

Lennard Bickel’s well written account of Mawson’s epic and tragic journey of the “Australian Party” across 600 miles of unexplored frozen waste.

Mawson had declined Scott’s invitation to join the party to the South Pole to lead this eparate expedition. Sadly Ninnis died at the extremity of their effort. Failing supplies required Mawson and Mertz to partly live off their dogs. Mertz died half way back leaving Mawson to complete what Sir Edmund Hillary to later describe as “the greatest story of lone survival in Polar exploration”

Mawson’s epic journey – well documented

$25.00

Updating cart…

All products

The Microscope and Its Revelations – William Carpenter – 1875

Collectable Marine Microscope Slides – From the 1860’s – Prepared by Edmund Wheeler – From a 19th Century Australian Collectionn

The King Fish or Opah – Shaw and Nodder -1793

New South Wales Harrier – c1826 (Circus Assimulis) Sir William Jardine

Submarine Classic – Take Her Deep – Galantin

This Accursed Land – Lennard Bickel

Product Categories