Robert Brain (23 results)
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Published by Robert S. Brain, Government Printer: Melbourne 1890 / 1891., 1891
- Softcover
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Seller: Antiquariat Carl Wegner, Berlin, B, GermanyAntiquariat Carl Wegner
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Add to basketSoftcover. 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 -- Sommer in Berlin! Sie brauchen Lektüre? Wir haben sie. Kommen Sie in unser Ladengeschäft zum Stöbern! -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! K00616-103919.
Published by Robert S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1901
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, U.S.A.Valley Books
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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.
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 584 pages. 8.98x5.94x1.14 inches. In Stock.
Published by Robert S. Brain, 1893
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United KingdomCotswold Internet Books
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Add to basketPart 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 - Goo…d. Good hardback in green cloth.
Published by Robert S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne, c. 1922., 1922
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Seller: Camberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd, HAWTHORN EAST, VIC, AustraliaCamberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd
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Add to basket88 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.
Published by Robert S Brain Government Printer, Melbourne, 1900. 1st ed., 1900
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Add to basketLeather binding, marbled boards, 24.5x17cm, 1300 pages excluding index of 72 pages, scuffs to edges and corners, showing some foxing, dog ears to front and back covers.
Published by Robert Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne, Vic, Australia, 1888
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Seller: Arete Books, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaArete Books
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Add to basketHardcover. 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.
Published by Robert S Brain Government Printer, Melbourne, 1897. 1st ed., 1897
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Add to basketLeather binding, marbled boards, 24.5x17cm, 1263 pages excluding index of 68 pages, scuffs to edges and corners, showing some foxing, dog ears to front and back covers.
Published by Robert S Brain Government Printer, Melbourne, 1894. 1st ed., 1894
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Add to basketLeather binding, marbled boards, 24.5x17cm, 1472 pages excluding index of 59 pages, scuffs to edges and corners, showing some foxing, dog ears to front and back covers.
Published by Robert S Brain Government Printer, Melbourne, 1897. 1st ed., 1897
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Add to basketLeather binding, marbled boards, 24.5x17cm, 1207 pages excluding index of 68 pages, scuffs to edges and corners, showing some foxing, dog ears to front and back covers.
Published by Robert S Brain Government Printer, Melbourne, 1897. 1st ed., 1897
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Seller: Page After Page, Box Hill, VIC, AustraliaPage After Page
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Add to basketLeather binding, marbled boards, 24.5x17cm, 918 pages excluding index of 24 pages, scuffs to edges and corners, no free end paper, showing some foxing, dog ears to front and back covers and some ledges.
Published by Robert S Brain Government Printer, Melbourne, 1898. 1st ed., 1898
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Seller: Page After Page, Box Hill, VIC, AustraliaPage After Page
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Add to basketLeather binding, marbled boards, 24.5x17cm, 1419 pages excluding index of 60 pages, scuffs to edges and corners, showing some foxing, dog ears to f/c.
Published by Robert S Brain Government Printer, Melbourne, 1891. 1st ed., 1891
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Seller: Page After Page, Box Hill, VIC, AustraliaPage After Page
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Add to basketLeather binding, marbled boards, 24.5x17cm, 1152 pages excluding index of 67 pages, scuffs to edges and corners, showing some foxing, dog ears to some ledges.
Published by Robert S Brain Government Printer, Melbourne, 1898. 1st ed., 1898
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Seller: Page After Page, Box Hill, VIC, AustraliaPage After Page
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Add to basketLeather binding, marbled boards, 24.5x17cm, 1237 pages excluding index of 60 pages, scuffs to edges and corners, showing some foxing.
Published by Robert S Brain Government Printer, Melbourne , 1893. 1st ed., 1893
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Add to basketLeather binding, marbled boards, 24.5x17cm, 1515 pages excluding index of 85 pages, scuffs to edges and corners, showing some foxing, dog ears to covers and some ledges.
Published by Robert S Brain Government Printer, Melbourne, 1897. 1st ed., 1897
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Seller: Page After Page, Box Hill, VIC, AustraliaPage After Page
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Add to basketLeather binding, marbled boards, 24.5x17cm, 1192 pages excluding index of 40 pages, scuffs to edges and corners, showing some foxing, dog ears to some ledges.
Published by Robert S Brain Government Printer, Melbourne, 1897. 1st ed., 1897
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Seller: Page After Page, Box Hill, VIC, AustraliaPage After Page
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Add to basketLeather binding, marbled boards, 24.5x17cm, 1021 pages excluding index of 40 pages, scuffs to edges and corners, no free end paper, showing some foxing, dog ears to front and back covers and some ledges.
Published by Robert S Brain, Melbourne, 1898
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Seller: Arete Books, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaArete Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Red quarto leather with Morocco boards. Missing maps. Worn edges . Stamp from internal affairs office to ffep. Lots of illustrations.
More imagesPublished by Robert S. Brain, Melbourne, 1890
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Seller: Hordern House Rare Books, Potts Point, NSW, AustraliaHordern House Rare Books
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Add to basketCondition: A very good set, finely bound. Two volumes, thick octavo, with all 20 "decades", 200 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 beautifull…y 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. The splendid series of 200 illustrations ranges between technical zoological depictions and more charming studies of animals in habitat. Of note are the 11 lithographs contributed by Ludwig Becker: Southern Right Whale; Common Death Adder; Common Yabby; Murray River Crayfish; Barracouta and Southern Bluefin Tuna; Australian Fur Seal / Sea-Bear; Common Seadragon and Shorthead Seahorse; Long-snouted Flutemouth / Tobacco-pipe Fish; Murray Cod; Broad-snouted Seven-gill Shark; Sunfish. These were published posthumously: Becker had died while travelling as artist on the Burke and Wills expedtion. .
Published by Robert S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne, Australia, 1898
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller, Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.John R. Sanderson, Bookseller
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Add to basketOriginal Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 195 pp and with two folding maps. An excellent copy. Booking Agency stamps on several pages.
Published by Robert S. Brain, Acting Government Printer, Melbourne, 1881
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, AustraliaMichael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB
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Add to basketCondition: 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 excellen…t 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"'.
[Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; medicine, architecture] Final General Report on Hospital Construction and Management. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by His Excellency's Command.
Professor H. B. Allen, M.D. [Sir Harry Brookes Allen (1854-1926)] [Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; medicine, architecture]
Published by . Victoria. By Authority: Robert. S. Brain Government Printer Melbourne, 1891
Seller: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, United KingdomRichard M. Ford Ltd
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Add to basketFolio (34 x 21 cm): 32 pp. With all eighteen foldout plans. Unbound and stapled. Text and plans clear and complete. In fair condition, with slight rust to staples and the last leaf (carrying Plan XVIII) loose. The report is addressed to 'The Honorable the Premier of the Colony of Victoria', and dated 'University of Melbourne, 2n…d November, 1891. This is, as Allen sets out his aims in the first paragraph, explaining that he is submitting 'the Third and Final General Report concerning my visit to Great Britain and the Continent of Europe. I shall in the first place describe briefly modern methods of hospital construction, equipment, and administration; secondly, I shall examine the condition of the Metropolitan Hospital of Melbourne, and make recommendations in relation thereto; and, thirdly, I shall add some brief remarks concerning the management of hospitals.' The plans range from 'The Old General Hospital at Hamburg' to 'Alternative Plan for New Hospital [in Melbourne] on the Site of the Horse, Cattle, and Pig Market.' Uncommon: no copies in the British Library or on COPAC, and only four copies (all in Australian libraries) on WorldCat.
Published by Robert S. Brain, Government Printer, [Melbourne], 1900
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, AustraliaMichael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB
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Add to basketCondition: 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 conditi…on. Contemporary newspaper accounts record that the concert was 'in aid of the Patriotic and Bushmen's corps funds'.
