Item 1235Kanguro Lanuto
C1837. Copper-line engraving. C1837. 220mm by 135mm (platemark). Italian engraving from 'Enciclopedia Italiana Illustrata'. Faint handling creases below image and title area, exaggerated in the scan."
Animals
Item 1023Perameles nasuta Geoffr. (Long-Nosed Bandicoot)
C1775. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. C1775. 290mm by 220mm (sheet). German copper-line engraving from the German naturalist Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber's (1739-1810) 'Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen' ['Mammals Illustrated after Nature with Descriptions'] published from 1774 onwards. Wove paper. "
Item 1242Hunter's Wombat, Stubb's Kangaroo and others
C1815. Copper-line engraving. C1815. 260mm by 210mm (sheet). Depicts : Petaurine Opossum - Fenner Wombat - Common Opossum - Kanguroo - Squirrel- Jackal - Wolf.'Engraved for the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia by J Moffat, Edin'.The Edinburgh Encyclop_dia was an encyclopaedia in 18 volumes, printed and published by William Blackwood and edited by.....
Item 1445Ornithorhynque (Platypus)
1837. Wood-engraving with original hand-colouring. 1837. 280mm by 180mm (sheet). From Guerin-Meneville's 'Dictionnaire Pittoresque D'histoire Naturelle Et Des Phenomenes De La Nature'. Guerin Menevile (1799-1874) was a French entomologist and naturalist.
Item 1240Potoroo
1839. Wood-engraving with original hand-colouring. 1839. 305mm by 190mm (sheet). From Guerin-Meneville's 'Dictionnaire Pittoresque D'histoire Naturelle Et Des Phenomenes De La Nature'. Guerin Menevile (1799-1874) was a French entomologist and naturalist."
Item 3577Le Peramele Bougainville (Bandicoot)
C1840. Engraving with original hand-colouring. C1840. 155mm by 255mm (sheet). French 19th century engraving of a bandicoot. "
Item 995Spotted-Tail Quoll and Platypus
C1815. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. C1815. 235mm by 185mm (platemark). From 'Bilderbuch Zum Nutzen und Vergnugen Der Jugend' by Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747-1822), an encyclopaedic collection of Interesting Animals, Plants, Flowers, Fruits, Minerals, Costumes, Antiquities and other Interesting Objects published in multiple volumes between 1801 and 1815. The images.....
Item 3497'Green Peach Aphis' (Myzus?)
1895. Chromolithograph. 1895. 215mm by 135mm (sheet). Chromolithograph, with gum Arabic highlights, printed by Sands & McDougall, from Charles French's 'A Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria', 1891-1900. Accompanied by original descriptive sheet. Charles Clifton Brittlebank was an Australian plant pathologist, mycologist, scientific illustrator, university lecturer and farmer. ".....
Item 1619Black Tree Kangaroo
1936. Colour halftone lithograph. 1936. 330mm by 255mm (sheet). 'Dendrolagus ursinus (Type of D. Leucogenys Matschie)' Native of New Guinea.From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, published in 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London', 1936. This was the first comprehensive taxonomy of the species.Lionel.....
Item 1625Dendrolaugus Inustus Inustus
1936. Colour halftone lithograph. 1936. 330mm by 255mm (sheet). 'Dendrolaugus Inustus Inustus (Type of D Maximus Rothschild)' Native of New Guinea.From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, published in 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London', 1936. This was the first comprehensive taxonomy of the.....
Item 1617Dendrolaugus Inustus Keiensis
1936. Colour halftone lithograph. 1936. 330mm by 255mm (sheet). 'Dendrolaugus Inustus Keiensis (Type)' Native of Kei Island, South Molucca, Indonesia. From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, published in 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London', 1936. This was the first comprehensive taxonomy of the.....
Item 1623Dendrolaugus Inustus Keiensis (Tring Museum Specimen)
1936. Colour halftone lithograph. 1936. 330mm by 255mm (sheet). 'Dendrolaugus Inustus Keiensis (Tring Museum Specimen)' Native of New Guinea.From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, published in 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London', 1936. This was the first comprehensive taxonomy of the species.Lionel Walter.....
Item 1620Doria's Tree Kangaroo
1936. Colour halftone lithograph. 1936. 330mm by 255mm (sheet). 'Dendrolaugus Dorianus Dorianus' Native of New Guinea.From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, published in 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London', 1936. This was the first comprehensive taxonomy of the species.Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron de.....
Item 1624Doria's Tree Kangaroo
1936. Colour halftone lithograph. 1936. 330mm by 255mm (sheet). 'Dendrolaugus Dorianus ab. loc. Aureus' Native of New Guinea.From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, published in 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London', 1936. This was the first comprehensive taxonomy of the species.Lionel Walter Rothschild.....
Item 1622Finsch's Tree Kangaroo
1936. Colour halftone lithograph. 1936. 330mm by 255mm (sheet). 'Dendrolaugus Inustus Finschi (Cyclops mountains specimen. Tring Museum)' Native of New Guinea.From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, published in 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London', 1936. This was the first comprehensive taxonomy of the.....
Item 1616Goodfellow's Tree Kangaroo
1936. Colour halftone lithograph. 1936. 330mm by 255mm (sheet). 'Dendrolaugus Goodfellowi Goodfellowi (Type)' Native of New Guinea. Named after British zoological collector Walter Goodfellow.From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, published in 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London', 1936. This was the first comprehensive.....
Item 1621Grizzled Tree Kangaroo
1936. Colour halftone lithograph. 1936. 330mm by 255mm (sheet). 'Dendrolaugus Inustus Inustus (Type of D Maximus Roth' Native of New Guinea.From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, published in 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London', 1936. This was the first comprehensive taxonomy of the.....
Item 1618Shawmayer's Tree Kangaroo
1936. Colour halftone lithograph. 1936. 330mm by 255mm (sheet). 'Dendrolaugus Goodfellowi Shawmayeri (Co-type)' Native of New Guinea.From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, published in 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London', 1936. This was the first comprehensive taxonomy of the species.Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron.....
Item 993The Greater Flying Phalanger (Didelphis Petaurus)
C1827. Copper-line engraving. C1827. 210mm by 130mm (sheet). Copper-line engraving. Published by G & WB Whittaker, 1825. From Edward Griffith's English edition of Baron Cuvier's 'Animal Kingdom', 1827.
Item 990Long-nosed Bandicoot
C1827. Copper-line engraving. C1827. 130mm by 210mm (sheet). 'The Long-Nosed Pouched badger (Perameles Nasuta)(Long-nosed Bandicoot)' Copper-line engraving. Published by G & WB Whittaker, 1825. From Edward Griffith's English edition of Baron Cuvier's 'Animal Kingdom', 1827."
Item 1247Dasyures devour a seal
C1835. Steel-engraving. C1835. 135mm by 185mm (sheet). 'Dasyures deverent un Phoque' Half-page illustration from Jules Dumont D'Urville's 'Voyage pittoresque autour du monde', published in Paris 1834 / 1835."
Item 2477Fossil Remains
1839. Lithograph. 1839. 220mm by 135mm (sheet). Description (not accompanying the lithograph) : PLATE 49:FIGURES 1 AND 2: FOSSIL REMAINS OF THE DIPROTODON.FIGURES 3, 4, 5, 6, AND 7: FOSSIL REMAINS OF THE Dasyurus laniarius.From 'Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; With Descriptions Of the Recently Explored Region.....
Item 2478Fossil Remains
1839. Lithograph. 1839. 220mm by 135mm (sheet). Description (not accompanying the lithograph) : Plate 51 :FIGURE 1: FOSSIL REMAINS OF THE RADIUS AND ULNA OF A KANGAROO.FIGURE 2: OF THE FOOT OF A DASYURUS.FIGURES 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, AND 11: VARIOUS TEETH OF ANIMALS UNKNOWN.ALL THESE.....
Item 2479Fossil Remains
1839. Lithograph. 1839. 220mm by 135mm (sheet). Description (not accompanying the lithograph) : FIGURES 1, 2, AND 3: FOSSIL REMAINS OF A NEW SPECIES OF HYPSIPRYMNUS.FIGURES 4, 5, AND 6: OF Phascolomys mitchellii.FIGURE 7: A SECTION OF THE TEETH OF THE SAME FOSSIL SPECIES OF WOMBAT.From 'Three Expeditions into the.....
Item 2476Fossil Remains and Recent Specimens
1839. Lithograph. 1839. 220mm by 135mm (sheet). Description (not accompanying the lithograph) : PLATE 47: FOSSIL REMAINS AND RECENT SPECIMENS:FIGURE 1, BELONGING TO Macropus atlas, ANDFIGURE 2, TO THE LARGEST RECENT SPECIMEN.FIGURES 3, 4, AND 5, TO Macropus titan.FIGURE 6, THE INCISOR OF A FOSSIL KANGAROO.FIGURE 7, THE INCISOR OF.....