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Earless or True Seal – Vauthier – 1820

A lovely hand coloured copper engraving of the Earless or True Seal “Phoque de Chris” engraved by Smith after a drawing by Antoine Charles Vauthier and published in Paris circa 1820. A very clean example. Classified by Rene Lesson who participated in the Duperry voyage round the world on board La Coquille.

Price $270.00 framed in Voyager Natural History style ready for hanging …

A real seal from the early 19th century … click on me to see all my earlessness

$140.00

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Java la Grande – Lawrence Fitzgerald

Published in Hobart in 1984 a very good copy in a fine dust jacket.

A useful and easily read book on the Portuguese Discovery of Australia … where else could it be … Brigadier Fitzgerald was well qualified to compile this well illustrated account. A good understanding of the Dauphin map.

Portuguese First … no really they were!

$40.00

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Antique Microscope Slide – Spines of Echinus (Sea Urchin) c1865

Mid 19th Century slide from a quality maker likely Wheeler given the stunning gold and blood red paper cover.

Good example of spines of echinus (sea urchin) in deep mount.

Click on the image to see the whole slide

$40.00

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Bowhead Whale – 1793 (Balaena Mysticetus) – Shaw and Nodder

The Bowhead Whale then known variously as the Great Northern Whale, Toothless Whale, Greenland Whale, Artic Whale etc etc. They grow up to 18 metres and 100 tonnes and have no dorsal fin. It has the largest mouth of any animal. Whilst once endangered a moratorium in 1966 has saved the species which is now no longer under threat.

Copper engraved and hand coloured by Shaw & Nodder and published in London on 1st March 1793 (marked in the plate). Shaw was in charge of the Natural History Department at the British Museum. Frederick Nodder was a natural history artist and worked for Banks on his Florilegium.

Framed in Voyager Natural History style within black cored cream mat and beaded gilt frame.

Early Whale Engraving in fine condition … click on the image to see all my whaliness! … hmmuuuueooowmh

$180.00

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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

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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

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