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1. ADAMS BRIAN The Flowering Of The Pacific. Being an account of Joseph Banks' travels in the South Seas and the story of his  Florilegium. profusely illus. with plates t/out.  some full page & col. pub. Syd. William Collins 1986 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.194. The story of Banks' travels with Captain Cook in the Pacific (1768-1770) and his work on a Florilegium of Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, Society Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, New Holland (Australia) and Java (1771-1820) as well as subsequent attempts to publish its 743 drawings. Fine.   Price: $65.00

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2. AUDAS  JAMES  WALES The Australian Bushland.  illus.  with numerous b/w. text plates t/out., frontis. & 8 colour plates from paintings (one of Cassowary, others of flowers), and illustrations from photos, maps, glossary, index. pub.  Melb.  Robertson  & Mullens  1950  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.712. Dustwrapper slight chipping otherwise near fine.   Price: $65.00   Convert Currency
3. AUDAS  JAMES WALES Native Trees Of Australia. illus.  with frontis.  & many dwgs. photo plates t/out. some  col.  pub. Melb.  Whitcombe  & Tombs nd.193-?  or.dk.blu.cl.  roy.8vo. pp.296. spine sl sunned else fine.    Price: $75.00
4. AUDAS  JAMES WALES Native Trees Of Australia. illus.  with frontis.  & many dwgs. photo plates t/out. some  col.  pub. Melb.  Whitcombe  & Tombs nd.1950? 'New and Enlarged Edition'
   or. cl. d/w.  roy.8vo. pp.396. Dustwrapper little chipped otherwise very good.   Price: $65.00

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5. BANCROFT JOSEPH Pituri And Duboisia. Paper Read Before The Queensland  Philosophical Society by Joseph Bancroft,  M.D. illus.  with 3 full page dwgs. two by A.V. Thomas  (lith.) pub.  Brisb.  Govt. Printer 1877 or. plain  grn.wps.  8vo. pp.16. lacks small corner piece to front wp. (about 4cms.)    Price: $175.00   Convert Currency
6. BARKHUIZEN B.P. Succulents Of Southern Africa. With Specific references to the succulent families found in the Republic of South Africa and South West Africa. profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page & col. pub. Cape Town Purnell 1978 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.222.    Price: $100.00
7. BARRETT CHARLES `The Sun Tree Book. Sun Nature Book No.8. profusely  illus.  with plates t/out. many full  page  pub. Melb. Sun Newspaper nd.193-? or.illus.wps. 4to. pp.44. very good copy.    Price: $25.00

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8. BARRETT C. The Australian Bush. Profusely illus. with places t/out. pub. Cassell 1943 1st ed. (Melbourne 1943). Sm.4to. or. limp boards in d/w. tape marks to spine & to edge of d/w. otherwise fine.    Price: $25.00
9. BEARD J.S. Ed. by. Descriptive Catalogue Of West Australian Plants.  illus. with 16 full page col. plates t/out. &  one map  pub. W.A. Soc. for Growing Aust. Plants  nd.196-?  or. col.illus.wps. 8vo. pp.122. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, else very good copy.   Price: $25.00
10. BEAUGLEHOLE  A.C.  The Distribution And  Conservation  Of Vascular  Plants In The Corangamite-Otway  Area,  Victoria. with  text illus., folding map in pocket at rear pub.  Vic. Portland Western Victorian Naturalists Clubs & Assoc.  1980 or. card wrappers 8vol.obl. pp.108. Fine.   Price: $55.00

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11. BEAUMARIS  TREE  Preservation Society. Native  Plants  And Seaside  Gardens.  illus. with one full page plate  &  dwg. pub. Melb. 1954 or.grn.wps. 8vo. pp.16. sl. faded to  front wp. & tear at spine.    Price: $15.00

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12. BECKER LUDWIG Ludwig Becker. Artist & Naturalist with the Burke & Wills Expedition. Edited & with an Introduction by Marjorie Tipping. illus. with 70 plates from Becker's watercolours & drawings (coloured & tinted), biographical essay, notes, Becker's letter & reports & notes thereon, 6 appendices, bibliography, index; original crash canvas; pub. (Carlton); Melbourne University Press on behalf of the Library Council of Victoria; 1979 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to, pp.XIV.224,2 (blank); Heinrich Becker (1808-1861) was a German painter who came to Australia in 1851 and perished with the Burke and Wills expedition. A fine copy with dustwrapper in original slightly chipped acetate slipcase; finely printed on good quality textured paper.   Price: $300.00  Convert Currency
13. BENNETT G. Gatherings Of A Naturalist In Australasia; 1860. Being observations principally on the animal and vegetable productions of New South Wales, New Zealand, and some of the Austral Islands. illus. with col. fronts. 7 full-page col. plates, and 24 woodcuts in the text. Originally pub. Lond: John Van Voorst, 1860. This facsimile ed. Sydney Currawong Press 1982 or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.XII.456. Fine.   Price: $50.00
14. BISSET  JOHN  (catalogue) Orchids. illus. with  b/w.  text plates  t/out. pub. N.S.W. Abbotsford nd.194-?  or.brn.wps. 8vo.  pp.70. rear e/paper sl. silverfished to top  of  page else fine, does not intrude into text     Price: $50.00
15. BISSET JOHN    A Handbook On Orchids. illus. with 35 plates; pub. Sydney Abbotsford: John Bisset, n.d. ab.1950 or illus. stiff boards, d/w. 8vo. pp.114. with illustrations, festivals and shows of Australian orchard societies.    Price: $30.00
16. BLACK  J.M. Flora Of South Australia. Part 1  Cyathealeae-Orchidaleae. illus. with plates pub. Adel 1960 Handbook  of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia or.wps. 8vo. pp.254. Little browned to spine else v/good.   Price: $25.00

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17. BLAKELY W.F. A Key To The Eucalypts. with descriptions of 522 species and 150 varieties. illus. with several pages of dgms. pub. Canberra Forestry and Timber Bureau 1955 Second Edition (corrected and expanded edition). or. cloth-backed printed boards 8vo. pp.360. Very good copy.   Price: $65.00

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18. BLOMBERY ALEC & TONY RODD Palms. An informative, practical guide  to palms of the world: their cultivation,  care  and landscape  use.  profusely  illus. with  col.  text  plates t/out.  pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1984 or.cl.  d/w.  4to. pp.200.    Price: $40.00
19. BOND  RICHARD  W. and CHARLES  BARRETT  Victorian  Ferns. descriptions  of  all the Species occurring  in  the  State. illus.  with col. frontis. & 13 full page plates  t/out.  2 col. text dwgs. or. b/w. pict.wps. pub. Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 1934 8vo. pp.64. holed near spine, was in two prong folder. fine otherwise.    Price: $45.00

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20. BOSWELL ANNABELLA Life in the 1830'3 and 1840's Annabella Boswell's Journal. Australian Reminiscences Illustrated with her own Watercolours and Contemporary Drawings and Sketches. illus. with col. botanical plates, plates pub. Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1987 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.XX.222. Annabella Innes was born near Bathurst, New South Wales in 1826, and went to school in Sydney in 1834, when her journal begins. In 1843 she moved to Port Macquarie, and married Patrick Charles Douglas-Boswell in 1856 at Newcastle. In the 1860s' they moved to Scotland where Annabella died in 1916. Fine.   Price: $40.00
21. BREAKWELL E. The Grasses And Fodder Plants Of New South Wales. Profusely illus. with many full page drawings and numerous b/w. photographs t/out. pub. Syd. Govt. Printer 1923 or. maroon cl. 8vo. pp.370. Contents include 8 sections on various types of grasses; lucerne; sorghum; clovers; medics, trefoils, crowfoots; vetches and tares. Lacks rear e/paper, sl. rubbed else good copy.   Price: $65.00
22. BRICKELL C.D. & Brian Mathew   Daphne: The genus in the wild and in cultivation. An Alpine Garden Society guide illus. with colour and b/w. plates, drawings; pub. London The Alpine Garden Society 1976 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.194. Fine copy.     Price: $45.00

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23. BRITTON N.L. and J.N. ROSE The Cactaceae. Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family. 4 Vols. All profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page one col. & folding. pub. U.S.A. The Cactus And Succulent Society of America 1931,1935,1937,1937. or.grn.cl. 4to. pp.approx. 240 per vol.Near fine set. Also supplement: Cactaceae With illustrated Keys of all Tribes, Sub-Tribes and Genera. Written by W. Taylor Marshall and Thor Methven Bock. (Supplementing the work of Doctors Britton and Rose, this volume describes all of the acceptable New Genera and the species since 1919 and the changes in classification necessitated by recent discoveries). This vol. also profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page, & dwgs. pub. U.S.A. Abbey Garden Press 1941 or. brn.cl. glt.ltg. to spine faded else fine- 4 Vols. & Supplement.   Price: $350.00   Convert Currency
24. BROOKER M.I.H. and D.A. KLEINING Field Guide To Eucalypts. South-eastern Australia. Volume 1 profusely illus. with col.  plates t/out.,  many  maps in text pub. Melb.  Inkata  Press  1990 revised edition or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.300. Nearly 240 Eucalypts of south eastern Australia are described and illustrated. Distinctive features are identified, and 1500 photos show the tree and its bark, buds and fruit. Fine copy.   Price: $80.00

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25. BUREAU Of Flora And Fauna, Canberra. Zoological  Catalogue Of Australia. Vol.1. Amphibia and Reptilla. illus. with map pub. Canberra 1983 or.blu.cl. 4to. pp.VI.314.   Price: $60.00
26. BURBIDGE NANCY T. Australian Grasses. Vol.I. Australia's Capital Territory and Southern Tablelands of New South Wales. illus. with line dwgs. t/out. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1966 1st.ed. or. green cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.158. Ink writing across cloth of front panel, dustwrapper little chipped to edges else very good.   Price: $35.00

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27. CALDER WINTY Peninsula Perspectives. Vegetation on the Mornington Peninsula Victoria. illus. with 15 maps inc. 6 folding, text plates pub. Melb. 1975 or.illus.wps. 4to. pp.138.    Price: $35.00
28. CENSUS  Of The Plants Of Victoria-A. With  their  Regional Distribution  and  the Vernacular Names as adopted  by  the Plant  Names  Committee of the Field Naturalists'  Club  Of Victoria.  illus.  with  2 folding maps  pub.  Melb.  Field Naturalists'  Club  Of  Vic. 1923  or.  lt.brn.  cl.  12mo. pp.XVI.94. Slightly frayed to spine, slight shelf wear, otherwise v/good.   Price: $35.00

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29. CHIPPENDALE  G.M.  Ed.  by. Eucalyptus  Buds  And  Fruits. Illustrations  of the buds and fruits of the genus  with  a list  of authentic specimens from which the  drawings  were made.  illus.  with  dwgs. t/out.  mostly  full  page  pub. Canberra  Forestry  and  Timber  Bureau  1968  or.cl.  d/w. cr.4to. pp.96. Fine copy.  Price: $45.00
30. CLARKE G.H. Important Weeds Of South Australia Bulletin No. 406. illus. with some full page colour plates and other b/w illustrations pub. Adelaide Department of Agriculture of South Australia 1949 reprinted from The Journal of Agriculture of S. A. or. card wrappers, 4to. pp.120. Fine copy.   Price: $50.00

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31. COATES PETER Flowers In History. Evolution of flowers. illus. with examples of flowers and plants from paintings, watercolours, photographs, some full page and col. pub. N.Y. Viking Press 1970 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.264 Price: $75.00
32. CONNELL MARGARET Where the Wild Flowers Bloom. An Artist’s Outback Journey. illus. with 43 coloured drawings t/out. illus. e/papers; mostly full page; pub. Sydney Kangaroo Press 1990 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.80. Drawings by the author. Fine copy.   Price: $50.00
33. COSTERMANS L. Native Trees and Shrubs of South-Eastern Australia. illus. with numerous illus. many in col., text-illusts., and maps. pub. Sydney Lansdowne 1984 revised reprint or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.VIII.426. A comprehensive coverage of 900 species. Short closed tear to d/w. else very good copy.   Price: $45.00   Convert Currency
34. COLEMAN  EDITH   Come Back In Wattle Time.  An  Illustrated Handbook  on  the Australian Wattles. illus. with  6  full page  plates t/out. 16 half-tone plates & 2  dgms.  showing seed  formation  pub. Melb. Robertson &  Mullens  1943  or. lt. yell. & grn. illus.wps. cr.8vo. pp.40. sl.  silverfished to top corner else v/good Price: $20.00

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35. COSTIN  A.B.  M.  Gray, C.J.  Totterdell  &  D.J.  Wimbush Kosciusko  Alpine  Flora. illus. with col.  plates  t/out. many full page bibliography, glossary, index; pub. Syd. Collins & C.S.I.R.O. Melbourne 1979  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.408. Draws on over a century of research to present a comprehensive account of the Kosciusko high mountain environments & the plants, which live there. Near fine copy.   Price: $45.00
36. CREMER  K.W. Ed. by. Trees For Rural Australia.  profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page & col. b/w. line drawings, diagrams, graphs, append., index. pub.  Melb. &  Syd.  Inata  Press 1990  or.cl.  d/w.  4to.  pp.XII.456. A tree planter's manual for rural Australia, covering selection, planting plans and environmental benefits. From regeneration to timber production; erosion and weed control to fire and pests. Fine copy. Price: $95.00   Convert Currency

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37. CURTIS  WINFRED  M. The Students' Flora Of  Tasmania.  two vols. illus. with dgms. t/out. pub. Tas. 1956 or.bds.  8vo. pp.Vol.I.XLVIII.240. Vol.II.250.    Price: $75.00
38. DARWIN CHARLES The Various Contrivances By Which Orchids Are Fertilised By Insects. illus. with 38 woodcuts pub. Lond. Murray 1904 Seventh Impression Of The Second Edition. Popular Edition. or green cloth gilt to spine, 8vo. pp.XVI.300,IV advts. Slight foxing to e/papers and page edges else very good copy.   Price: $175.00   Convert Currency
39. DICKINS  HERBERT P. with the collaboration of  J.W.  AUDAS Victorian  Orchids.  With Botanical and  Vernacular  Names. collected  and Lithographed by author illus. with  17  full page  dwgs.  t/out. pub. Melb. 1948 2nd.ed.  or.crm.  stiff card  wps.  with past down col. plate of  orchid  on  front cover  cr.8vo. pp.32. rear wp. and some pages little  water stained else v/good.    Price: $25.00

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40. D'OMBRAIN A.    A Gallery Of Gum Trees  profusely illus. with plates t/out. full page & col. (tipped-in) pub. Sydney Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Glebe, NSW. 1938. or. cream bds. d/w. 4to. pp.54 The author and the artist, Tydfyl Evans, have presented a series of portraits on the main varieties of that distinctive family of trees, the genus Eucalyptus. Sl. shelf wear to dustwrapper else fine copy.     Price: $55.00  
41. DOUGLAS  JOHN G. The Mesozoic Floras Of Victoria.   illus. with  18 full page plates t/out. & many illus. 5 full  page maps. pub. Melb. 1973 Geological survey of Victoria  Memoir 29 or. beige cl. 4to. pp.186. fine.    Price: $50.00
42. DUCKER  SOPHIE C. Ed. by. The Contented Botanist. Letters of  W.H. Harvey about Australia and the Pacific. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. of which 12 are col. 9 maps, biographical notes, plants mentioned in the letters, subscription prospectus, habitat localities of Harvey's Australian algae, provenance of the letters, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index; pub.  Melb. M.U.P. 1988 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.XVI.414. William Henry Harvey (1811-1866) was a Professor of Botany from Dublin, Ireland who visited Australia in 1854-55. Fine copy.   Price: $70.00
43. EWART  ALFRED A . J. and J.R. Tovey, Ferdinand Von Mueller. Proclaimed Plants Of Victoria. illus. with 32 full page col. plates t/out. (lithographs) pub. Govt. printer August 1906 February 1909 or. green cl. 8vo. pp.476-720, 25-272, 351-740, 31-268.. Bound with Illustrated Description Of Thistles Etc. Included within the provisions of the Thistle Act Of 1890. illus. with 9 full page plates (lithographs); pub. Govt. Printer 1893 pp.20,9 plates. The photolithographic plates appeared originally in monthly issues of the Journal of the Department of Agriculture. Very good copy.   Price: $200.00   Convert Currency
44. EWART  ALFRED ALFRED  J. Assisted by J. R. Tovey. The Weeds. Poison Plants, And Naturalized Aliens Of Victoria. Part I Poisonous Injurious, and Proclaimed weeds (Native and Introduced) With the coloured plates. Part II Census of the Naturalized Aliens and Introduced Exotics. illus. with 33 full page colour plates (lithographs), index; pub. Govt. Printer 1909 or. green cl. 8vo. pp.110. Closed tear to front free e/paper, lower hinge little weak else very good.   Price: $150.00   Convert Currency
45. EWART  ALFRED  J. and J. R. Tovey.  Contributions To The Flora Of Australia. Read 9^th October 1919 illus. with one drawing, pub. Royal Society of Vic. Reprinted from Roy. Soc. Vol.XXX!! (New Series) Part I. Issed Sept. 1920. or. grey/orange wrappers, roy.8vo. pp. from 189-212 (23) very good condition.   Price: $25.00
46. EWART  ALFRED  J. Handbook Of Forest Trees  For  Victorian Foresters. Profusely illus. with text drawings t/out.  pub. Melb. Govt. Printer 1925 or. dk. green cl. roy.8vo. pp.524. sl. sunned to spine else v/good copy.   Price: $125.00
47. FIELD  NATURALISTS'  Club  Of Victoria. A  Census  Of  The Plants  Of Victoria. With their Regional  Distribution  and the Vernacular  Names  as  Aupdated 2004dopted  by  the  Plant   Names Committee of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria.  1928 illus. with 2 maps, one folding or. stiff brn.wps. cr.12mo. pp.94. fine.    Price: $35.00

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48. FLORA Of Melbourne. A guide to the Indigenous Plants of the Greater Melbourne Area. profusely illus. with botanical line drawings, 6 full page col. plates, maps; pub. Melbourne, Society for Growing Australian Plants Maroondah, Inc. 1991. or. col. illus. stiff wrappers, 4to. pp.X.336. Fine copy.   Price: $50.00
49.  FOREST TREES Of Australia. illus. with 91 halftone plates & 11 plates in col. map endpapers, index; pub. Canberra Forestry and Timber  Bureau Dept. of Interior C. of A. 1957 or. blk.cl. with silver stamping d/w. 4to. pp.230. Each species is identified with pictures of the tree, the fruit, various stage leaves and bark. Very good copy.   Price: $65.00
50. FORESTS COMMISSION of Victoria. Handbook Of Forestry In Victoria. Empire Forestry Conference Australia and New Zealand 1928. illus. with photo plates t/out. pub. Forests Commission of Victoria. 1928 or. card boards, black binding tape to spine, 8vo. pp.118. sl. browned otherwise good copy.    Price: $40.00

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51. FRANCIS W.D.  Australian Rain-Forest Trees Including Notes on some of the Tropical Rain Forests and Descriptions of many Tropical Species illus. with frontis. & profusely illus. with b/w. plates t/out. some full page, index. pub. Canberra Forestry and Timber Bureau, Australia 1970 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.468. First published in 1929. Third edition, new and revised edition. Slight shelf wear else near fine.   Price: $125.00
52. GALBRAITH JEAN Wildflowers Of Victoria introduction by J.H Willis illus. with 174 black and white photo plates, and line illustrations decorated tinted end-papers; preface by author, glossary, list of protected Plants, classification, plants characteristic of various areas, photographic supplement, index, pub. Melbourne Colorgravure nd. 1951 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.224. Dustwrapper little chipped otherwise very good.   Price: $25.00
53. GALBRAITH JEAN   Wildflowers Of Victoria  introduction by J.H Willis illus. with 174 black and white photo plates, and line illustrations; preface by author, glossary, list of protected Plants, classification, plants characteristic of various areas, photographic supplement, index. pub. Melbourne Longman’s 1967 3^rd revised ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.164. Near fine copy.   Price: $30.00
54. GARDNER  C.A. Wildflowers Of Western Australia.   illus. with frontis. map of Western Australia, 80 colour plates reproduced from the original paintings by Edgar Dell and 51 colour plated from photographs by C.A.Gardner, glossary and index of botanical and common names of plants. pub.  Perth W.A.  Newspapers  Ltd.  1948, first published in 1935. or. illus. wrappers   4to. pp.164. Documents the extraordinary variety of Western Australia's unique wildflowers. Near fine copy.   Price: $35.00

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55. GARNET J. ROS. The Wildflowers Of Wilson's Promontory National Park. illus. with colour frontis. eight colour plates and over one hundred other line drawings and tables, pub. Melbourne. Lothian in conjunction with the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVIII.192 Wildflowers of the southern promontory of the Australian mainland. Slight sunning to d/w. at spine else very good.  Price: $35.00
56. GARNET  J.  ROS Wildflowers  Of  South-Eastern  Australia. illus.  with 80 reproduced paintings by Elizabeth  Conabere pub.  Melb. Greenhouse Pub. 1987 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp. 192. Near fine copy.   Price: $40.00
57. GILBERT LIONEL The Orchid Man. The Life Work and Memoirs of the Rev. M.H.R. Rupp 1872-1956. frontis. & profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. and many of Rupp's fine line drawings of orchids; pub. Melb. Kangaroo Press 1992 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp. 248. An Anglican minister by profession, Rudd was an avid botanist and collector. In 1924 he decided to specialise and spent the next 30 years of his life studying orchids. He published over 200 papers, mainly on orchids, in which he described four new genera and over seventy new species.  Price: $45.00
58. GILBERT  LIONEL William Woolls. 1814-1893. `A Most  Useful Colonist.'  illus.  with  frontis. & 10  full  page  plates t/out.  text dwgs.  pub.  Canberra  Mulini   Press   1985 or. blue cl. cr.4to. pp.VIII.138. Biography of the former Rector of Richmond and keen amateur botonist who eagerly investigated the vegetative environment of NSW and wrote many pioneering works on Australian plants.   Price: $35.00
59. GILLIES WILLIAM First Studies In Plant Life In  Australia. With  numerous questions for outdoor work, and drawing  and composition  exercises. Book for boys & girls beginning  the study of plant life. (juvenilia) illus. with frontis. & text dwgs.  t/out.  pub. Melb. Whitcombe & Tombs  Ltd.  nd.190-? or.illus. moss green cl. 12mo. pp.VIII.178. v/good copy.    Price: $35.00
60. GOLDIN  PENELOPE  A. & Christopher The  Dandenong  Ranges Report.  illus.  with text plates maps. t/out.  pub.  Melb. Monash Uni. Interest Research Group 1974 or.illus.wps. 4to. pp.X.271.    Price: $20.00

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61. GRIEVE B. J. (Edited by.) & BLACKALL W.E. How to Know Western Australian Wildflowers. A Key to the Flora of the Temperate Regions of Western Australia. 2 vols. profusely illus. with plates & dwgs. t/out. some full page & col. pub. Perth Uni. of  W.A.  Press Part 1 1959 Part 2 1956 1st. ed. or.cl.  d/w.'s  8vo.  pp. Part 1 XC.322. Part 2 LVI.138. Very fine set.   Price: $75.00
62. GRIEVE B. J. and BLACKALL W.E.. Foreword by R. F. Whelan. How to Know Western Australian Wildflowers Part IV illus. with frontis. colour plates b/w. line diagrams throughout; glossary & index. pub. Perth, Uni. of Western Australia Press, 1982 second ed. with updating supplement; or. illus. boards 4to. pp.500. 'A key to the flora of the extratropical regions of Western Australia'. Detailed botanical guide to native plants of the region.   Price: $40.00
63. GUILFOYLE W. R. Australian Botany Specially Designed for the Use of Schools. illus. with .b/w. frontis., five b/w plates and some other sketches; including an ninety-seven page glossary of plants and Australian flora.. pub. Melbourne. George Robertson. 1884 2nd ed or. blue cloth, gilt flower on front board, gilt to spine, 8vo. pp.XII.222 From the designer of the Botanical Gardens in Melbourne. Presentation copy signed by author. Slight shelf wear, otherwise near fine.   Price: $200.00
64. GUILFOYLE  W.R. Australian Plants. Suitable  for  Gardens, Parks,  Timber Reserves etc. profusely illus.  with  plates t/out. many full page & col. pub. Melb. Whitcombe &  Tombs. nd.192-?  or. decorated cl. 8vo. pp.480. Spine sl. rubbed, little rubbed to extremities otherwise very good.   Price: $50.00
65. HALL  N., R.D. JOHNSTON and ROSEMARY MARRYATT The  Natural Occurrence Of The Eucalypts. Leaflet No.65 illus. with  map pub. Canberra, Commonwealth of Aust. Department of National Development, Forestry and Timber Bureau, 1963 or. grey wps. 8vo. pp.122.    Price: $40.00
66. HALL NORMAN & several contributing authors. The Use Of Trees And Shrubs In The Dry Country Of Australia. with e/paper maps col. frontis. & 96  plates, fig.,  tables, maps pub. Canberra Aust. Pub.  Service  1972 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.558. Principals of soil erosion and its prevention; an outline of the environment in the arid and semi arid zones; shade and shelter on the farm; the role of trees and shrubs for honey production; the use of tree species; nursery raising and tree establishment with 177 species noted. Fine copy.   Price: $45.00

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67. HANNAFORD SAMUEL Jottings In Australia: Notes On The Flora And Fauna Of Victoria. Catalogue of the more common plants, their  habitats, and dates of flowering. pub.  Melb.  James Blundell  1856 1st.ed. or.blk. calf 16mo. glt.ltg  to  front bd. pp.100. almost fine copy.    Price: $350.00   Convert Currency
68. HARDEN  GWNE  J. Ed.  Flora Of New South Wales.  One vol. illus. with 30 full page plates t/out. two  maps many text dwgs. Vol.I  pub. N.S.W. Uni. Press 1990 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.Vol.I.XVIII.602..  Fine.     Price: $100.000
69. HARRIS THISTLE Y. Wild Flowers Of Australia. illus. with 60 full page col. dwgs by Adam Forster (3 or 4 to a page). Glossary of Botanical Terms. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1939 or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.XVIII.198. Chipped d/w. lacks piece at lower spine, else near fine.   Price: $50.00
70. HARRIS THISTLE Y. Wild Flowers Of Australia. illus. with 60 full page col. dwgs by Adam Forster (3 or 4 to a page). Glossary of Botanical Terms. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1951 or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.XVIII.198. Near fine copy.   Price: $40.00

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71. HARRIS  THISTLE Y. Alpine Plants Of  Australia.  Including subalpine  and  montane plants. Part I. General  survey  of Alpine  habitats  Part  II.  Descriptive  list  of   Alpine species.  illus. with 28 full page plates t/out. some  col. many line dwgs. by Linda Turna. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.194. Fine copy.   Price: $35.00
72. HEARNE D.A. Photography by S.J. Rance Trees For Darwin And Northern Australia. illus. with 44 full page plates  t/out. of which 8 are col. pub. Canberra Aust. Govt. Dept. of Agriculture, Forestry and Timber Bureau.1975 or.grn.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.172. Information for successful establishment of trees in gardens, parks and streets in tropical Australia to provide shade and shelter. Near fine copy.   Price: $35.00

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73. HENNESSY E.F. & T.A. Hedge  The Slipper Orchids illus. with frontispiece, 2 distribution maps, 104 colour plates, line drawings, pub. South Africa Randburg Acorn Books 1989 or. green cloth gilt, d/w. roy.4to. pp.264 Selenipedium, Phragmi-pedium, Criosanthes, Cypripedium, Paphiopedilum. Very slightly sunned to spine else fine copy.    Price: $175.00
74. HENTY E. E. Editor. Handbooks Of The Flora Of Papua New Guinea, volume two. illus. with 62 line drawings pub. Melbourne Melbourne University Press, 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.X.276. Focus on the Elaeocarpaceae family of trees, widespread in the region. Treats the Loranthaceae parasitic group which is assoc. with birds and butterflies. Bump to corner else fine copy.    Price: $50.00
75. HIONE  A.A.  Protective And Aesthetic  Plantings  In  The Country  Districts Of Victoria. illus. with folding map  at rear  pub.  Melb.  1931  or.wps.  4to.  pp.58.  lacks  rear wrapper, otherwise v/good. Typed manuscript.   Price: $35.00
76. HODGSON MARGARET and Roland Paine.     A Field Guide To Australian Wildflowers. 2 vols. illus. with colour plates t/out. mostly full page, 4 flower plat4es to a page, b/w. illus. leaf descriptions and fruiting bodies. pub. Adelaide: Rigby, 1987 or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp. 254 approx. per vol. Fine set in dustwrappers.    Price: $45.00
77. HUNTER JOHN The Hunter Sketchbook. Birds & Flowers Of New South Wales drawn on the Spot in 1788,89, & 90 by Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet. With commentaries by John Calaby, Helen Hewson, Andrew Sayers and others. illus. with 100 col. plates, birds, flowers, aboriginals, hand bound in quarter goatskin and marbled bds. buckram slip-case, pub. Canberra Nat. Library of Canberra 1989 4to. pp.252. Original in Nat. Library of Australia. Award winning design by Alison Forbes fine col. printing by Owen King. Limited to 500 numbered copies of which this is No.139.   Price: $400.00  Convert Currency
78. JACOBS M.R. Growth Habits Of The Eucalypts. illus. with text plates diagrams t/out. pub. Commonwealth of Australia, Forestry and Timber Bureau Dept. of the Interior 1955 or. light brown cloth 8vo. pp.262. Fine copy.   Price: $75.00

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79. JAMES H.R. & CO. Published by.  The Majesty And Beauty Of The Australian Gums illus. with 16 two-tone photo plates of Australian Gum Trees. pub. Adel. nd. Circa 1929 or. beige wrappers, 8vo. pp.32. oblong, fine condition.     Price: $20.00
80. JONES DAVID Palms In  Australia. Over 300 Native and Exotic Species; profusely  illus. with plates, t/out. many col., text  line dwgs. pub. Syd. Reed 1988 revised ed. or.cl.  d/w. 4to. pp.364. Dustwrapper slightly faded to spine otherwise near fine.  Price: $40.00
81. JONES  D.L.  &  S.C. Clemesha Australian  Ferns  And  Fern Allies.  With notes on their cultivation. profusely  illus. with text dwgs. & full page col. plates pub. Syd. Reed 1976 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.294. Fine copy.   Price: $40.00

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82. JONES DAVID L. Ornamental Rainforest Plants In  Australia. profusely  illus. with plates t/out. many full page &  col. text  line dwgs. pub. Syd. Reed 1986 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. 4to. pp.364.    Price: $65.00
83. JONES  DAVID L. Encyclopaedia Of Ferns. An Introduction  of Ferns,  their  Structure,  Biology,  Economic   Importance, Cultivation  and  Propagation. profusely illus.  with  text plates,  dwgs., t/out. many col. pub. Melb.  Lothian  1987 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.XVIII.434. Fine.   Price: $180.00   Convert Currency
84. JONES DAVID  Exotic Orchids In Australia . profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. photography by Ron Tunstall pub. Sydney, Currawong Press 1994 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.168 fine copy.    Price: $35.00
85. KELLY  STAN  Text  by  C.M.  Chippendale  and  R.D.  Johnston    Eucalypts. illus. with col.  258  col. illus. t/out.  mostly  full page pub.  Melb.  Nelson  1976 (1^st. pub. 1969) or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.XI.258 plates, 82 text.    Price: $65.00

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86. KESSELL S.L. Key To The Eucalypts Of Western Australia With Descriptive and Botanical Notes concerning all Aborescent Species of Eucalyptus known to be Indigenous to Western Australia. (June, 1924). illus. with black and white photographs t/out. pub. Perth. Government Printer, Forests Department Bulletin No. 34, 1924. or drk blue cl. 8vo. pp.128. Little fading to spine else very good copy. Signed by author on f/free e/paper.    Price: $125.00   Convert Currency

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87. KUPPER WALTER; Pia Roshardt; translated and edited by Vera Higgins;    Cacti illus. with 60 fine color plates from paintings. pub. Edinburgh Nelson, 1960, 1st. ed. in English. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.128; clean fine copy. Most of the cacti illustrated are flowering. An authoritative treatment with descriptions of all of the species illustrated. Slightly chipped d/w. else fine.    Price: $40.00
88. LAMP  C.A., S.J. FORMES & J.W. CADE Grasses  Of  Temperate Australia. A Field Guide. illus. with e/paper maps,  dgms., text  maps, & many full page dwgs., some col. pub. Melb.  & Syd. Inkata Press 1990 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.X.310. Describes and illustrates 100 species that one is likely to see, on roadsides, in the garden or in pastures. Both native and introduced species are covered, and comments are given on their use and weediness. Each species is illustrated with a line drawing detailing recognition features. Some species are also illustrated in colour. Fine.   Price: $60.00

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89. LEIGH J.H. and W.E. MULHAM Pastoral Plants Of The Riverine Plain. illus. with text plates, dwgs. t/out. some col. glossary, descriptions of species, bibliography, index; pub. Brisb. CSIRO 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to.  pp.XXX.154. Produced to help graziers identify native pastoral flora and so utilise and protect it. Dustwrapper covered in clear plastic else very good copy.   Price: $45.00
90. LANGLEY  JEAN Australian Bush Flowers.  profusely  illus. with full page col. dwgs. of bush flowers by author inc.  4 loosely  enclosed ready for framing, in dustwrapper pocket at rear. pub.  Melb.  Lansdowne Press 1970 1st.ed. or.grn.dec.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.94. Drawn mainly from southern Australia, the flowers are reproduced in the natural size of the specimen and the plates are anotated with their botanical and common names and details of size, appearance and distribution. Fine copy signed by author.   Price: $125.00   Convert Currency

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91. LOTHIAN  NOEL  Text.  A collection  of  paintings  by  Rosa Fiveash. Australian Orchids. illus. with 100 full page col. dwgs.  by  Rosa Fiveash pub. Adel. Rigby 1982  or.cl.  d/w. 4to. pp.150. fine.     Price: $45.00
92. LUKE R.H. & A.G. McARTHUR Bushfires In Australia. profusely illus. with plates dgms. t/out. some full page & col. pub. Canberra Aust. Pub. Service 1978 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.360. fine.    Price: $100.00  Convert Currency
93. LYTE  CHARLES Sir Joseph Banks. illus. with 22  full  page plates  t/out. some col. bibliography, index. pub. Lond. 1980 or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.248. Biography of Banks, the important scientific patron, who accompanied James Cook in 1770. Fine copy.   Price: $40.00

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94. McALPINE The Rusts Of Australia. Their Structure nature and Classification. illus. with 55 plates inc. 366 figures, patterned endpapers, pub. Melb. Govt. Printer (Dept. of Agriculture) 1906 or. maroon cl. glt.ltg. to spine, 8vo. pp.350. Cloth with gilt text on very sunned spine, otherwise very good.   Price: $65.00
95. McALPINE The Smuts Of Australia. Their Structure Life History Treatment and Classification. with 312 illus. figures, pub. Melb. Govt. Printer (Dept. of Agriculture) 1910 or. brown cl. glt.ltg. to spine, 8vo. pp.288. Very good copy.   Price: $65.00
96. McARTHUR  KATHLEEN Queensland Flowers. A  selection.  with illus.  e/papers  frontis. & 10 full page dwgs.  by  author some col. pub. Brisb. Jacaranda Press nd.196-? or.cl.  d/w. 4to. pp.26.    Price: $25.00
97. McARTHUR  KATHLEEN The Bush in Bloom. A Wildflower Artist's Year in Paintings & Words. illus. with col. frontis., col. title-page illus., 60 full-page col. plates, text-illus., and illus. end-papers, all by the author. pub. Sydney Kangaroo Press 1982 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.144. Fine.   Price: $35.00 0

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98. McMINN  W.G.  Allan  Cunningham.  Botanist  and  Explorer. illus.  with 4 full page plates t/out. & 5 maps, appendix, abbreviations, references, bibliography, index; pub.  Melb. M.U.P. 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.148. Allan Cunningham arrived in Australia in the early 1800s; one of the most accomplished of the botanists sent out from Kew Gardens during the golden age when Sir Joseph Banks was director. He travelled tirelessly over much of south-eastern Australia between the 1817 to 1828, making significant collections of Australian flora, and thereby contributing hugely to the advancement of botany and agriculture in Australia's early years. Slight fading to d/w. at spine else near fine.   Price: $40.00
99. McTAGGART ALEXANDER Plant Immigrants And Stowaways.  Their Romantic  Story. pub. Melb. Lothian Pub.  1945  or.brn.wps. 12mo. pp.62. v/good copy.    Price: $30.00
100. MACK  AMY  E. Bush Days. illus. with frontis.  &  numerous plates  t/out. some full page, illustrations from photographs by J. Ramsay and L. Harrison; pub. Syd. Angus  &  Robertson 1911 or.illus.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.132. Celebrating the Australian flora and fauna. Slightly chipped d/w. otherwise near fine.   Price: $45.00

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101. MAIDEN J.H. The Useful Native Plants Of Australia (Including Tasmania) pub. Melbourne: Compendium 1975, Originally published 1889. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.696. Sections cover human foods and food adjuncts; forage plants; drugs; gums, resins, and kinos; oils; perfumes; dyes; tans; timbers; fibres; and plants having miscellaneous uses not before enumerated. Fine copy.   Price: $125.00  Convert Currency
102. MANN JAMES Australian Timber Its Strength, Durability and Identification. Introduction by W. C. Kernot. illus. with frontis. index. Illus. & tables. Patterned e/ps pub. Walker, May & Co. Melbourne, 1900 1st ed. gilt-dec. black/moss green cloth cr.8vo. pp.XVI.148. Detailed study of a wide variety of Australian timbers. Little browned to spine else very good.   Price: $100.00
103. MANN JAMES Australian Timber. Its Strength, Durability and Identification. Introduction by W. C. Kernot. illus. with frontis. index. Illus. & tables. Patterned e/ps pub. Walker, May & Co. Melbourne, 1900 1st ed. gilt-dec. black/moss green cloth cr.8vo. pp.XVI.148. Detailed study of a wide variety of Australian timbers. Several library stamps throughout from 'Public Health Dept." otherwise very good.   Price: $60.00
104. MEIER LEO & PENNY FIGGS     Rainforests Of Australia profusely illus. with plates t/out. mostly full page & col. index. pub. Sydney: Ure Smith, 1989 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.264. sl. chipped d/w. else fine.    Price: $35.00
105. MILLER  JONATHAN and KEITH TARLO Forest Industry  Strategy For  Tasmania: Protecting Jobs and Forests. illus.  with  2 full  page plates t/out., frontis. & several charts &  maps pub.  Aust. Conservation foundation and  Tas.  Conservation Trust 1985 or.wps. 4to. pp.64.      Price:$15.00

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106. MITCHELL JACQUI & Leveda Lynch     The World Of Herbs Growing and Using Herbs in Australia profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Melbourne Macmillan, or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.138. Chapters include; Growing Herbs, Companion Planting; Herbs for Health & Beauty; Cooking with Herbs; Wine Marking with Herbs; Crafting with Herbs. Two short closed tears to d/w. else very good copy.     Price: $30.00
107. MORLEY B D and H R TOELKEN editors. Flowering Plants in Australia profusely illus. with 230 plates throughout, some full page and col. With accurate descriptions of over 250 families of flowering plants with glossary of botanical terms and comprehensive index. pub. Adelaide, Rigby, 1983 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp. 4to. pp.416 Over 70 contributors to this comprehensive survey of flowering plants in Australia. Australian and exotic. Fine copy.   Price: $80.00
108. MOULDS FRANCIS ROBERT The Dynamic Forest A History Of Forestry And Forest Industries In Victoria. illus. with pictorial end-papers, black and white plates, index, pub. Melbourne Lynedoch Publications, 1991 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.234. The history of the logging industry in the state of Victoria, Australia. This is the story of the development of forestry, the changes that have happened, and the steps taken to protect the future of our forests and endangered habitat. Fine copy. Presentation copy signed by Author.   Price: $40.00
109. MOULEN FRED Orchids In Australia illus. with 100 colour plates; pub. S. A. Lausanne Edita 1958 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.148. Text and a selection of 100 color photographs of the most popular Cymbidiums, Cattleyas, Vandas, Cypripediums, Dendrobiums, Miltonias, Odontoglossums etc. Fine copy.   Price: $45.00
110. MUDD CHRIS. Whys And Ways Of The Bush and Guide to Bush Plants or In Nature's School. (Peregrinator) Botanist To King Edward, illus. with line drawings, b/w. photographic plates, including index; pub. Melbourne Spectator Publishing, c. 1905 green cloth 12mo. pp.180. Cloth faded to spine otherwise very good copy.   Price: $35.00
111. NICHOLLS W.H. with D.L. JONES and T.B. Muir (eds.)    Orchids Of Australia. The Complete Edition Drawn in Natural Colour by W.H. Nicholls with Descriptive Text. illus. with 476 full-page colour plates. pub. Melbourne, Thomas Neslon 1969. Original full gilt decorated leather, folio pp.XXII.142,476 (plates) Special limited edition of 150 copies, this copy unnumbered. Fine copy.     Price: $750.00
112. NICHOLLS W.H. with D.L. JONES and T.B. Muir (eds.)    Orchids Of Australia. The Complete Edition Drawn in Natural Colour by W.H. Nicholls with Descriptive Text. illus. with 476 full-page colour plates. pub. Melbourne, Thomas Nelson 1969. Or. maroon cl. folio pp.XXII.142,476 (plates) chipped and slightly worn d/w. Very good copy.    Price: $300.00
113. NORTH  MARIANNE  A Vision Of Eden. The Life and  Work  of  Marianne North. Victorian lady of comfortable means who set off  to  record tropical and exotic  plants.  with  e/paper illus. col. plates t/out. many full page pub. Lond. Webb  & bower 1980 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.240. Marianne North visited Australia and some of the paintings she executed while here are pictured. First collection of Marianne North's fabulously detailed and exotic botanical paintings, also contains excerpts from her autobiography and vivid travel memoirs (first published in 1893 under the title Recollections of a Happy Life). Near fine copy.   Price: $35.00

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114. PARHAM J.W. Plants Of The Fiji Islands. illus. with col. frontis. & many b/w. plates, drawings t/out. 3 col. pub. Fiji, Authority of Govt. Printer Suva 1972 revised ed. or. green cl. 4to. pp.XVI.462,28 Fine copy.  Price: $100.00   Convert Currency
115. PATTON REUBEN T. Know Your Own Trees. A Short Introduction to the Study of Our Common Eucalypts. illus. with 4 photo plates and line drawings; pub. Melbourne Uni Press 1948 or, brown cloth, papered wrappers, cr.8vo. pp.48. Very good copy.   Price: $15.00
116. PESCOTT  EDWARD  EDGAR The Native  Flowers  Of Victoria. illus. with frontis. & 3 col. tipped-in plates by Herbert Dickens dated 1914;   & 56 b/w photo plates   pub.  Melb.  George  Robertson  &  Co.  nd.1920s?  or. moss green cl. d/w. (which has re-produced colour flower plate, dated 1914) 12mo. pp.118. Slight chip to d/w. at top of spine else near fine.   Price: $100.00
117. PESCOTT  EDWARD  EDGAR The Native  Flowers  Of Victoria. illus. with frontis. & 3 col. tipped-in plates by Herbert Dickens dated 1914;  & 56 b/w photo plates glossary, index;   pub.  Melb.  Robertson  &  Co.  nd.1921?  or. lt. green cl.  title on spine and front board in black, 12mo. pp.118. Definitive work on the plants of the state, includes wattles, eucalypts, and flowering plants. Little spotting to edges of  pages else fine.   Price: $40.00

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118. PESCOTT  E.E. The Orchids Of Victoria. illus. with  photo plates  by  author one col. pub.  Melb.  The  Horticultural Press 1928 or. khaki cl.bds. 8vo. pp.92. Near fine copy.  Price: $60.00
119. PESCOTT E.E. The Dahlia In Australia. illus. with  frontis. &  6 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Whitcombe  &  Tombs (Australian  Practical Handbooks Series)  nd.192-?  or.col. illus.wps. 12mo. pp.122,2 advts. The history, types and cultivation of the Mexican flower. Slightly browned to spine little chipping else v/good copy.   Price: $40.00
120. PRYOR L.D. Trees In Canberra. illus. with many b/w. text plates t/out. pub. Canberra Aust. Nat. University 1968 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.200. The story of the planting of Canberra, Australia's capital city, includes: natural vegetation, exotic vegetation, plan of description, description of species, street tree index. Light edgewear, else near fine.   Price: $35.00

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121. RAWE ROLF Cacti In The Southern Hemisphere. illus. with 30 full page plates t/out. of which 7 are col. pub. Syd. Reed 1966 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.176.    Price: $45.00
122. RICHARDS P. W.   The Tropical Rainforest.  An Ecological Study. numerous  b/w. plates, 43 textual figures and 25 monochrome plates. pub. Cambridge at the University Press 1957 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.450 Includes sections on Structure and physiognomy, regeneration, microclimates, soil conditions, floristic composition of communities, and the impact of humans.     Price: $55.00
123. RICHARDSON  IDA Flowers Of Western Australia. illus.  with 22  full page photo plates of col. oils by author  (single-sided).  pub.  Perth  Ida Richardson 1950  or.crm.  &  grn. illus.wps. 4to. pp.unnumbered (50) fine.    Price: $20.00
124. RITCHIE  ROD  Seeing  The  Rainforests.  In 19th-Century Australia.  profusely illus. with plates t/out.  many  full page & col. pub. Syd. Rainforest Pub. 1989 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.172. fine.    Price: $50.00

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125. RODWAY LEONARD Trees And Shrubs Of Tasmanian Forests Of The Order Myrtaceae. illus. with 22 plates (single sided) by A. Conlon pub. Tas. Hobart Govt. Printer 1907 or. cream wrappers cr.8vo. pp.30.22 plates, fine copy.    Price: $75.00
126. ROGERS  R.S.  An  Introduction  to  the  study  of   South Australian  Orchids. illus. with many plates t/out. 2  full page  &  col.  pub. Adel.  Govt.  Printer  1911  or.lt.blu. cl.wps. 8vo. pp.64. v/good copy.   Price: $45.00
127. ROWAN ELLIS The Flower Hunter. The adventures in Northern Australia and New Zealand, of flower painter Ellis Rowan. with 10 full page plates t/out. text illus. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson nd. 198-? or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.216.    Price: $40.00
128.  ROWAN ELLIS Flower Paintings of Ellis Rowan From the Collection of the National Library.. Beautiful collection of the work of Ellis Rowan (1848-1922), the botanical artist, naturalist and explorer. With biographical introduction, and discussion of each flower painting. With an introduction by Margaret Hazzard and notes. Canberra 1982. Folio orig. qtr. Buckram, spine gilt. In slip-case. pp.X44. (20 full-page col. plates each with a page of descriptive text). Fine.   Price: $125.00
                      
129. SAMUEL H.J.  Wild Flower Hunter  illus. with coloured reproduction of a Rowan flower painting as frontispiece, black & white title page vignette and text drawings (some full page) by Maie Casey, full page map, bibliography; pub. London ; Constable, 1961 1st. ed. or. maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; d/w. 8vo. pp.152 The story of Ellis Rowan. Biography of wildflower artist. Born in Melbourne in 1848 she painted in America, Western Australia, North Queensland and New Guinea. One short closed tear to d/w. else near fine copy.   Price: $45.00
130. SHARP  W. WATSON Australia's Native Orchids.  illus.  with dwgs.  plates  t/out. pub. Syd. Murray Pub. Co.  Ltd.  1977 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.144. A general guide to growing & collecting Australian native orchid species. Includes a chart of flowering times to make observation in the wild easier. Fine copy.   Price: $35.00

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131. SIMMONS MARION Acacias Of Australia. Two vols. illus. with 64  full page plates t/out. & many full page dwgs. line illustrations  t/out. flowers, foliage, and pods, pub. Melb. Nelson 1981 1st.ed. & Viking O'Neil 1988  or.cl. d/w.'s 4to. pp.326. & 320. Fine set.   Price: $125.00   Convert Currency
132. SIMMONS MARION Acacias Of Australia. illus. with 32  full page plates t/out. & many full page line dwgs. flowers, foliage, and pods  t/out. pub. Melb. Nelson 1982 vol.I  or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.326. Fine copy.   Price: $55.00
133. STEAD DAVID G. The Tree Book. illus. with title vign. and numerous b/w. text illus. pub. Sydney Shakespeare Head Press Ltd. 1933 or. grey card wrappers, 12mo. pp.108. previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, else fine.   Price: $35.00

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134. STEVENS  JEAN The Iris And Its Culture. illus.  with  col. frontis.  & 6 col. plates, 30 b/w. pub. Melb. Lothian  Pub. nd.195-? or. green cl. black titles cr.4to. pp.168. Very good copy.   Price: $45.00
135. STEWART JOYCE    Orchids Of Africa A select review. illus. with 50 colour plates and 8 detailed b/w. drawings, by E. F. Hennessy glossary, bibliography, pictorial endpapers. pub. London Macmillan, 1981 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. folio pp.XII.160 Part 1 contains a comprehensive review of the African orchids south of the Sahara. In Part 2, 50 selected species are illustrated by full page, full colour detailed paintings and described in detail. (Shows species of Disa. Satyrium. Bulbophyllum. Angraecum. Aerangis. Polystachya. Eulophia etc), Very fine.   Price: $75.00
136. VADER  JOHN Red Cedar. The Tree  Of  Australia's History. illus.  with  frontis. & 18 full page col.  plates  t/out., b/w.  text plates pub. Syd. Reed Books 1987 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.204.  The story of the exploration for and the felling of this fine timber, and its eventual passing from the coastal and hinterland landscape. It is a tale of pioneering days and the degradation of one of Australia's finest forest timbers.    Price: $200.00
137. VICTORIA   Forestry   Commission-Of. Empire    Forestry Conference.  Australia  and New Zealand  1928  Handbook  of Forestry in Victoria. pub. Melb. 1928 or.bds. 8vo.  pp.118. repaired  to  spine with brown paper, partly  covering  the front & rear bds. Some repairs with tape internally.   Price: $45.00

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138. VICTORIA-Royal  Society  Of.  Proceedings  of  the   Royal Society of Victoria. Vol.XXI. Containing papers read before the  society during the months of March to July  1908  inc. the subjects `The Longevity of Seeds.' by Alfred J.  Ewart. Tertiary Polyzoa of Vic. Geology of Nillahcootie-Rocks near Heathcote. New species of Vic. Mollusca etc. illus. with 22 full  page plates t/out. & dgms. 1 folding pub. Melb.  1908 or.prnt.wps.  8vo.  pp.404. small piece  lacking  to  f/wp. otherwise good.    Price: $100.00   Convert Currency
139. WALLIS NORMAN K. Australian Timber Handbook. illus. with frontis. line drawings, 33 black-and-white text photographs, and numerous tables and charts.pub. Sydney Timber Development Association of Australia, 1956 or. green cl. 8vo. pp.392. Designed to assist the producers and users of timber by submitting in concise form the more important features affecting wood in its various stages of manufacture and use. Very good copy.   Price: $40.00

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140. WALSH N.G. and T.J. ENTWISLE, D.B. FOREMAN Ed.by. Flora Of Victoria. 2 Vols. Vol.l Introduction Vol.II Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons. profusely illus. with dwgs., maps t/out. col. text plates in Vol.I pub. Melb. Inkata Press 1994.    Price: $300.00
141. WALSH N. G. and D.B. FOREMAN (edited by) Flora Of Victoria Volume 1. Introduction. profusely illus. with plates t/out. colour and black and white, line drawings, endpaper map of natural Regions of Victoria, index. pub. Melbourne: Inkata Press 1993 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.VIII.320. Fine copy.   Price: $160.00
142. WEST  AUSTRALIAN  Newspapers  Ltd.  West  Australian  WildFlowers.  With  descriptions  by  C.A.  Gardner.  profusely illus.  with plates of flowers t/out. all full page &  col. pub. Perth 1943 or. beige pict.wps. roy.4to. pp.116.  lacks f/free e/paper otherwise fine.    Price: $25.00

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143. WILLIS  JAMES  H. Victorian Fungi. A  Key  and  Descriptive Notes to 120 different Toadstools (Family Agricaceae), with remarks  on  several other families of  the  Higher  Fungi. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. 3 col. text  plates &  dwgs.  pub.  Melb.  field  Naturalists'  Club  of   Vic. or.ornge. purple & white wps. 8vo. pp.72. fine.   Price: $45.00  Convert Currency
144. WILLIS J.H B.A Fuhrer; E.R Rotherham Field Guide To The Flowers & Plants Of Victoria illus. with 428 colour plates, glossary and index. pub. Sydney: Reed 1975 or. laminated illustrated boards 8vo. pp.304 Plants are grouped in sections for easy reference according to their most common habitats. Fine copy.   Price: $30.00
145. WITHERS R.M. Liliums In Australia. illus. with frontis. 12 full page plates t/out., e/paper maps, & folding chart at rear, pub. Melb Aust. Lilium Soc. 1967 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.252. Fine in the torn & repaired d/w.  Price: $65.00    Convert Currency

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146. WOLLASTON TULLIE C. Our Wattles illus.  t/out. with colour illustrations pub. Melbourne: Lothian Book Publishing nd. c.192-? early edition or. illus. wrappers 8vo. pp.76 spine chipped, sl. foxing to e/papers, lacks small piece to one corner of front wrapper, contents fine.   Price: $45.00
147. WOLLASTON TULLIE C. Our Wattles With Preface by Will. J. Sowden, Federal and State President of The Australian Wattle Day League. illus. t/out. twelve colour plates of wattle, all have their original tissue guards, pub. Melbourne Lothian Book Publishing nd. c.192-? cream cloth (rebound?) 8vo. pp.76 Little foxing to edges. No titles to spine or front board, (coloured plate mounted on upper front cover lacking). little browned to spine, else very good.   Price: $45.00
148. WOMERSLEY JOHN S. & E.E. Henty (Edited By) 2 Vols. Handbooks Of The Flora Of Papua New Guinea. illus. with 2 folding maps, b/w illustrations throughout, glossary, appendix, index, pub. Melbourne University Press On Behalf Of The Government Of Papua New Guinea 1978, 1981 1st. ed.'s or.cl. d/w.'s 8vo. Vol.I pp.XVII.278. Vol.II.X.276. Covering Amaranthaceae, Combretaceae, Corynocarpaceae, Datiscaceae, Eupomatiaceae, Himantandraceae, Magnoliaceae, Meliaceae, Myristicaceae, Ochnacea and Polygonaceae. Focus on the Elaeocarpaceae family of trees, widespread in the region. Treats the Loranthaceae parasitic group which is assoc. with birds and butterflies. Very fine.   Price: $100.00
149. WOODRUFF  UNA (Compiler). Amarant. The Flora and Fauna  of Atlantis  by  a Lady Botanist. illus. with many  full  page col.  dwgs. by Lady Elizabeth Hurnshaw pub.  N.Y.  Putnam's 1981 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.128. The curious drawings reproduced, taken from the notebooks of a 17th century artist who specialized in botany - Lady Elizabeth Hurnshaw 1651-1703 - includes a biography of her on pages 11-26. Lady Elizabeth Hurnshaw takes botanical illustration into a magical realm. Near fine copy.   Price: $40.00
150. WOODWARD PENNY An Australian Herbal. A Practical Guide  to Growing  and  Using Herbs in Temperate  Australia and  New Zealand.  illus. with 10 full page col. plates t/out. many dwgs. pub.  Melb. Hyland House 1991 or.cl.  d/w. roy.8vo. pp.190.    Price: $45.00
151. Wrigley John W.  Australian Native Plants. A Manual for Their Propagation, Cultivation and Use in Landscaping. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. Photographs and illustrations by Murray Fagg. Selected Geographic Data for Australia. Glossary. References. Index. pub. Sydney Collins, 1989 3rd Edition or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.624. Short closed tear to rear of d/w. else fine.   Price: $50.00
152. ZACHARIN  ROBERT  FYFE Emigrant Eucalypts.  Gum  Trees  as Exotics. illus. with col. frontis. & numerous plates, dgms. t/out.  pub.  Melb. M.U.P. 1978 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  4to. pp.138. Fine copy.    Price: $55.00
153. ZACHARIN  ROBERT  FYFE Emigrant Eucalypts.  Gum  Trees  as Exotics. illus. with col. frontis. & numerous plates, dgms. t/out.  pub.  Melb. M.U.P. 1978 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  4to. pp.138.Gift inscription to f/free e/paper. Signed by author on title-page. Fine copy. Price: $50.00