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William Applegate Gullick, Sydney. 1909. 8vo, 244pp, with black and white illustrations, maps, facsimile letters, some fold-out. Two large fold-out maps to rear, each with a closed tear to lower right corner. A good hardback copy in bevilled blue cloth with general light wear and with gold-embossed illustration to front. Mildly tanned fore edges and endpapers. Presentation bookplate with pencil notation to inside front cover. Rear endpaper is heavily edgeworn.

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd., 1909. Hardback in good minus condition. Includes several fold out maps.. Hardcover. Good.

Sydney; London: William Applegate Gullick; Trench & Co., 1909. Leather. Near Fine. 9" by 6". Unamed. A fascinating insight into one of the most important figures of the colonisation of Australia. Illustrated, with 64 illustrations, including five folding plates. Written by Joseph Maiden, a botanist who made a major contribution to the knowledge of Australian flora. He was the Government botanist of New South Wales and Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Prior owner was C J B Proudman of Brislington, Bristol. Loosely inserted is a receipt from the purchase of this book from Bibliophile, Sydney, dated 17/03/1994. This is a comprehensive biography of Sir Joseph Banks, a British naturalist, botanist and patron of natural scientists. He took part in James Cook's first great voyage (1768-1771) and some of the plates to this volume are Cook's charts. Banks advocated British settlement in New South Wales and the colonisation of Australia. He also established Botany Bay, as a place for the… Read More