C1900. Rotary Photo Postcard. C1900. 135mm by 85mm. Mary Augusta Ward née Arnold (1851 – 1920), was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. She was born in Hobart, Tasmania, into a prominent intellectual family of writers and educationalists. "
C1900. Rotary Photo Postcard. C1900. 135mm by 85mm. Portrait of Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS (1825 -1895) who was an English biologist (anatomist), known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Huxley was made Assistant Surgeon ('surgeon's mate') to HMS Rattlesnake, about to start for.....
1877. Chromolithograph. 1877. 255mm by 350mm (image) 400mm by 480mm (sheet). From 'New Zealand: graphic and descriptive', published in 1877. ""This view is taken on the south bank of the Hokitika River, a few miles above the town, on the opposite side to the Kanieri diggings, looking up the valley.....
1815. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 1815. 220mm by 140mm (sheet). Native of Lucky Bay, Western Australia. Australian native botanical engraving from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. William Curtis (1746-1799) was a trained pharmacist, in London, who maintained a large garden and devoted himself to the study of its flora. He began.....