robert brain (13 results)

Softcover. 4 ° (30.6 x 24.5 cm). Original booklets containing the tablets XXVI-XXX (ugly), panels XXXI-XL some foxing at the bottom and fungal attack, panels LXXXI-XC at the bottom. The bracketing rusty. Envelopes partly free and partly glued with adhesive. Only on the delivery envelopes with a library stamps. Complete, but not good copy. -- 4° ( 30,6 x 24,5 cm). Beige Originalbroschuren enthaltend die Tafeln XXVI-XXX ( unschön feuchtrandig und sporenspurig), Tafeln XXXI-XL am unteren Rand feuchtrandig und mit Pilzbefall, Tafeln LXXXI-XC am unteren Rand minimal stockfleckig. Die Klammerung rostig. Umschläge teilweise lose, teils mit Tesa geklebt. Nur auf den Lieferungsumschlägen mit einem Bibliotheksstempel. Auf Vollständigkeit überprüft. Befriedigender Zustand. -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Lesen Sie etwas Schönes auf einer Bank in der Frühlingssonne! Wir haben die passende Lektüre. -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! K00616-103919.

Condition: Fair. 1893. Second Session. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Ivory cloth covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1 of 1,000 Copies. Green cloth binidng, 606pp. Conatins all Parts, I-IV. Library bookplate with discard stamp on front endpaper, label and white lettering on spine. Light general wear. Extra postage at exact cost. Photos on request. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 584 pages. 8.98x5.94x1.14 inches. In Stock.

Part II only. Errata slip tipped in ahead of contents page. Remnant of blue label on title page. Owner's name on blank page ahead of title page. Colour plates bright. Slight damage to top edge of last few pages. Free endpapers browned. Green cloth a little worn along spine with gilt lettering on front board and spine. Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth.

88 pp, b&w photographic plates, previous owner's stamp on title page, top right-hand corner of upper wrapper clipped, wrappers loose, wrappers covered in clear laminate, else good copy in limp wrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fifteenth Year of issue heaps of statistics for the Colony with 48 pages of introductory remarks which includes general description of events up until the day Eureka stockade, Gold expenditures, Rainfall , immigration rates, births and deaths, people living in sin ect ect ect.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Red quarto leather with Morocco boards. Missing maps. Worn edges . Stamp from internal affairs office to ffep. Lots of illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First editions. 1903-1905. Three volumes. Octavo's. 25×16cm; (viii),488pp; (xii),204pp; (xviii),104,[6 blank]pp. Blue cloth with gilt titles on spines, blind borders on upper and lower boards. 'Sir Malcolm McEacharn, M.P.' in gilt on upper board of Volume I. Light general wear with some rubbing to edges and corners of boards. Bindings square and tight. Light foxing and soiling to edges. Some foxing to endpapers and neighbouring pages of all volumes but otherwise clean within. Volume II inscribed 'McEacharn' on front endpaper; Volume III inscribed Sir Malcolm McEacharn on front endpaper. A 'Very Good' set. Volume I: The Acts of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia Passed in the First Session of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth: To which is Prefixed the Commonwealth of Australia Act (63 & 64 Vict., Ch. 12) with Indexes Volume II: The Acts of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia Passed in the Session of 1903 Being the Second Session of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth: With Tables and Index Volume III: The Acts of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia Passed in the Session of 1904 Being the First Session of the Second Parliament of the Commonwealth with Tables, Appendix, and Index An interesting set of the Acts of the Australian Parliament formerly belonging to Sir Malcolm McEacharn, M.P., 46th Mayor of Melbourne (1897-1900 and 1903-04) and Member of Parliament for Melbourne between 1901 and 1904. McEacharn was born in London to Scottish parents in 1852. At 21, he established his own shipbroker business which two years later became McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co. The firm established strong trading links with Australia through McIlwraith's brothers. Following the death of his first wife less than a year after marrying, McEacharn travelled to Australia to build the Anglo-Australian refrigerated meat trade. At some point he decided to settle in Australia, buying a shipping company in 1881 and remarrying a year later, which made him the son-in-law of mining magnate John Boyd Watson. In 1891 he incorporated an Australian company separate from London and established a head office in Melbourne. He became a city councillor and then mayor, receiving a knighthood in 1990. He gained the seat for Melbourne in the House of Representatives as a Protectionist candidate in Australia's first federal election of 1901 but lost a by-election in 1904 and left politics altogether. In 1908 he also left Australia and returned with his family to Garlieston, Scotland. He died in France in 1910. His son went on to build Giardini Botanici Villa Taranto at Pallanza, Lake Maggiore.

Condition: A very good set, finely bound. Two volumes, thick octavo, with all 20 "decades", 199 lithographic plates (including one double folding plate), nearly all coloured and some finished by hand; attractively bound in contemporary navy half calf, spines gilt, double labels in maroon and tan. A superb copy of this beautifully illustrated work. McCoy's book has been a somewhat overlooked classic of Australian natural history, representing the culmination of nineteenth-century scholarship in the field. Irish-born Frederick McCoy arrived in Melbourne in 1854 to take up the first Professorship of Natural Science at the newly-formed University of Melbourne. For the next forty years he was at the centre of colonial scientific life. He became the first Director of the newly formed National Museum of Victoria and was responsible for the rapid development of the Museum and its collection. McCoy "built up an outstanding natural history and geological collection. In 1870 the Museum [of Natural and Applied Sciences, Melbourne] was placed under the Public Library trustees. Ever pestering for funds and uncovering trustees' plots to move the museum, he found his best defence and consolation in the popularity and scientific standing of the museum. Annual attendances averaged 53,000 in the 1860s, 95,000 in the 1870s, 110,000 in the 1880s and 108,000 in the 1890s. Painfully he acquired government money to publish serially his Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria (1878-90) and Prodromus of the Palaeontology of Victoria (1874-82)" (ADB). There has been a modern resurgence of interest in McCoy's work, notably with the important 2006 exhibition and online catalogue of the Prodromus, "Caught & Coloured, Zoological Illustrations from Colonial Victoria" at the Melbourne Museum. .

Original Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 195 pp and with two folding maps. An excellent copy. Booking Agency stamps on several pages.

Condition: Very Good. Melbourne, Robert S. Brain, Acting Government Printer, 1881. Foolscap folio, 72 pages with an illustration. Drop-title, stab-sewn as issued, all edges uncut, top edges unopened; edges lightly foxed; thin strip along the top and right-hand margins of the last page a little foxed and dust-stained; an excellent copy. Victorian Legislative Assembly Paper Number C20; one of 775 copies. Hugh McColl (1819-1885), irrigation promoter, 'became secretary in 1874 of the Grand Victorian North West Canal, Irrigation, Traffic and Motive Power Co. Ltd. This visionary project, evolved by Benjamin Hawkins Dods in 1871, was to supply water and provide transport for six million acres (2,428,180 ha) of Victoria's northern plains through a canal running westerly from the Goulburn River near Murchison to the Wimmera; in their enthusiasm the promoters saw it linking the Wimmera with the Murray and even the Gulf of Carpentaria. McColl's "water-on-the-brain" was apparent first in England while secretary of the Tyne Conservancy Committee which advocated navigation improvements and then in the goldfields of northern Victoria where he sought the building of dams for miners and farmers. From 1865 he was honorary secretary of the Sandhurst and Castlemaine Water Supply Committee which supported development of the Coliban River. His fame grew as he stumped the country seeking support for his canal company, preaching the need for water conservation and publicizing overseas projects. Public notice was mostly critical, often derisory. Support came mainly from only five country towns but the government rejected his plea for a grant of three million acres (1,214,070 ha); protection of survey-pegs along the proposed canal-course was granted only in 1877. The promoters were over-optimistic in estimates of rainfall, river-flow and costs, and the canal project gradually fizzled out except for McColl's continued pressure for a canal across the northern plains, later the main feature of the Goulburn irrigation system. When a royal commission on water supply was granted in 1884, it investigated his arguments for government ownership of all watercourses and the development of water resources based on a hydrographic contour survey with canals on high ground irrigating by gravity. He was less of a prophet in dismissing the problem of drainage with irrigation. Although critical of rural waterworks trusts using diversions along effluent watercourses from unregulated rivers, he declared himself satisfied by Deakin's 1883 Water Act. The commission met first only a few days before he died at his home in St Kilda on 2 April 1885. The outcome was the Act of 1886 which laid the foundation for Victorian irrigation development a generation earlier than any other large-scale irrigation in Australia' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). His numerous contributions to this paper readily give life to the ADB's description: 'enthusiastic, irresistible and "perpetually jolly", McColl was a Presbyterian of liberal-radical sentiments to whom "nothing came amiss in the way of enterprise"'.

Condition: Very Good. [Melbourne], Robert S. Brain, Government Printer, 1900. The centrefold of a four-colour pictorial programme printed in gilt on silk, recently mounted and matted (visible image size 260 × 440 mm). The silk is split a little along the central hinge, but overall, this is an attractive item in excellent condition. Contemporary newspaper accounts record that the concert was 'in aid of the Patriotic and Bushmen's corps funds'.