Curiosities

Playing Cards Depicting Maps of the British Isles, and of English and Welsh Counties – Map Collectors’ Circle – Mann and Kingsley

The Map Collectors’ Circle publication published No 87 by Sylvia Mann and David Kingsley. Published 1972. A very good copy carrying Australian cartographic expert T.M. Perry’s stamp.

An unusual subject excellently researched and documented by the authors under the watchful eye of Editor in Chief the one only R.V. Tooley.

Usual small quarto perfect bound softcover comprising 35 pages of narrative and much mor than a catalogue this time … significant content. Followed by 21 pages of illustration of cards from the late 16thC onwards.

Playing Cards with Maps .. a rare one and curious.

$30.00

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Mercator’s World – First Six Editions – 1996

The very first group from Vol 1 No 1 to Vol1 No 6 published in 1996 published bimonthly by Astor Publishing by Edward Astor at Astor Publishing. Very good condition.

With an Editorial and Advisory Board to die for including, Robert Clancy, David Woodward and Peter Van Der Kroot.

Each edition approximately 100 pages, heavily illustrated mostly in colour. Content extremely well researched and presented.

By example, the first edition includes … Mythical Seas; Carto controversy; the mapmaker as artist; the Line that Divided the World; the Captain Cook Legacy; the Brilliant Irascible Ferdinand Hassler … and in the second … Cartographic Thievery; Carto philately (love it); Charting Shipwrecks Down Under [New South wales]; the Island of California. Obviously much more.

Mercator’s World – the important first group of six.

$120.00

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Two by Two – Twenty- two Pairs of Maps from the Newberry Library Illustrating 500 Years of Western Cartographic History.

Published in 1993 as an interpretive guide to a major exhibition at the Newberry, which hold one of the world’s great cartographic collection.

Glossy softcover, 48 pages, with very good illustrations, one map per page. An unusual presentation of extremely rare sometimes unique maps an charts.

Beautifully done … intriguing content

$22.00

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Geological Survey Cape York, Horn Island, Possession Island Queensland etc – C.F.V Jackson 1902 – Excellent Maps

Queensland Department of Mines Geological Survey Report No 180.

Report on a Visit to the West Coast of the Cape York Peninsula and Some Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria also, Reports on the Horn Island and Possession Island Gold Fields, and the Recent Prospecting of the Cretaceous Coast of the Cook District.

By C.F.V. Jackson, Assistant Government Geologist.

Octavo, staple bound. 23 pages with images from photographs and four maps, a broader map of the regions and three folding coloured maps of the South Wellesly Islands (Bentick, Fowler and Sweers); the Horn Island Goldfield and Horn Island. Slight browning to map edges, still a very good copy of a scarce item. Good maps.

As often the geologist travels significant ground taking in Cox Creek, Wilkinson range, Mitchell River, Wellesly Islands, Horn Island, Possession Island etc with good detail on the topography of the land and various anthropological finds along the way. He discovered aboriginal middens of enormous proportions estimated to have taken several hundred years to form. He mentions bauxite at Weipa … to become one of the world’s largest deposits of that mineral.

Clements Frederick Vivian Jackson (1873-1955) was a very talented engineer, initially in the Civil file and then Mining. He designed an built bridges over the Bremer River near Ipswich and received the London Institute of Civil Engineers Prize for his bridge over the Burdekin an Charters Towers. He moved into the geology / mining filed and after conducting the work subject to this reports was involved in the geological survey of Western Australia. Returning to Queensland he rose to the highest position, that of State Mining Engineer

Scarce report on important locations with excellent maps.

$120.00

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Antique Microscope Slide – Extra large sized Slide – “Brain Section – Van Gieson”’ – Oct 1906

A fine antique slide roughly twice normal size … double width. Preparer S.J.H. Case a human brain section using the Van Gieson technique. Clearly dated Oct 1906. Very good condition.

Ira Thompson Van Gieson (1866-1913) was an American neurologist. He invented a stain that takes his name, a mixture of picric acid and acid fuchsin it is used in neuro-histology to differentiate between collagen and other connective tissue.

Postage costs will be reduced based on actual to your location.

Excellent historic neuro-histology slide – 1903

$60.00

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Matthew Flinders Medal – Australian Academy of Science

The Australian Academy of Science was formed in 1954 along the lines of the Royal Society, London.

The twenty four founding members included Sir Douglas Mawson, the inaugural President was Sir Mark Oliphant. It is based out of the spectacular Shire Dome, Canberra.

The Matthew Flinders Medal is presented every other year in recognition of scientific research of the highest standard in the physical sciences. To date there have been 31 recipients, the first being J.L. Powsey.

A very interesting medal, 70 mm in diameter weighing 124 gm, copper bronze finish. High relief bust of Flinders with “Australian Academy of Science” and “Matthew Flinders” inside rim. On the reverse a complex high relief image of observers using a telescope and a microscope with a background of planets (including Saturn) and other natural objects with suitable Latin expressions scattered. A little wear to the finish but a very scarce item.

Unusual Flinders Item – Distinguished Awarding Body

$425.00

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Playing Cards Depicting Maps of the British Isles, and of English and Welsh Counties – Map Collectors’ Circle – Mann and Kingsley

Mercator’s World – First Six Editions – 1996

Two by Two – Twenty- two Pairs of Maps from the Newberry Library Illustrating 500 Years of Western Cartographic History.

Geological Survey Cape York, Horn Island, Possession Island Queensland etc – C.F.V Jackson 1902 – Excellent Maps

Antique Microscope Slide – Extra large sized Slide – “Brain Section – Van Gieson”’ – Oct 1906

Matthew Flinders Medal – Australian Academy of Science

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