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Prints and Print Makers of Australia (1788-1850) – the Antipodes Observed – Cedric Flower.

This is the hard back version of the very good compilation of key prints and their makers in the years up to 1850. Published by MacMillan, Melbourne in 1975. Landscape quarto, 139 pages heavily illustrated, obviously! Pretty good condition in a complete protected dust jacket.

And what an extraordinary record they are … where would we be with only the narrative? Every State and subject is covered selecting the very best items.

The images that go with the story!

$40.00

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Tasmanian Photographer ( Beattie) – Margaret Tassell and David Wood – 1981

Published by Macmillan in Australia. Quarto, 155 pages heavily illustrated, as you would expect. Good dust jacket and generally a very good copy.

The first name that springs to mind when it turns to photography in Tasmania.

A well put together collection by Tassell and Wood published in 1981. Many examples of his better work categorised into – Historic; Industrial and Scenic, and Norfolk Island for a broader interest in that association. Some of the “originals” clearly showing their age but the subject matter and technique still very worthy.

Beattie Photographic Imagery – Defining Tasmania

$60.00

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The Adventures of an Emigrant in Van Diemen’s Land – William Thornley

Published in Australia by Rigby in 1973. Octavo, 171 pages with plates. A fine copy.

Edited from the account of Charles Rowcroft published originally in 1843. Rowcroft was a settler near Bothwell in the 1820’s. Makes for a very readable story of early life in Tassie. Nicely illustrated.

Early settlers account

$30.00

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Ghost Towns of Australia – George Farwell

Published by Rigby, Adelaide in 1965. Octavo, 247 pages with plates and map end papers. Minor ageing with relevant article glued in at end. A Very good copy.

Australia has its fair share of towns no longer up to their former glory … indeed many completely gone. That is the nature of pioneering existence whether mineral or agricultural or some other purpose.

Interesting images of once glorious places

$30.00

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The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body – William Cruikshank

This is a superb facsimile of the original edition published in 1790. A special issue by Classics of Medicine published in 1991. Bound in full slate coloured grained leather with sumptuous gold embossing all page edges gilt. Small quarto, 214 pages in vary good near fine condition. Very good plates some double folding.

A facsimile of the second edition as it was “considerably enlarged, and illustrated additional plates”. Comes with the original small explanatory booklet.

William Cruikshank (1745-1800) established the modern understanding of human lymphatics. William Hunter began this work, but it was Cruikshank who produced the definitive account … After Hunter’s death Cruickshank and Hunter’s nephew, Matthew Baillie carried on the famous anatomy school. Nelson was one of Cruickshank’s patients as well as Samuel Johnson

Cruikshank understood the lymphatic system

$60.00

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Lectures on the Comparative Pathology of Inflammation – Metchnikoff

This is a superb facsimile of the original edition published in 1893. A special issue by Classics of Medicine published in 1991. Bound in full tan grained leather with sumptuous gold embossing all page edges gilt. Very good near fine condition.

Elias Metchnikoff was the Head of the Pasteur Institute. The translation was completed by F.A. and E.H. Starling. The book contains 65 figures in the text, many of which are coloured and 3 full page coloured plates at the rear

Metchnikoff a leader in Comparative Pathology

$50.00

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