[PDF] Australian Rare Books 1788 1900 eBook

Author : Jonathan Wantrup
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 2024-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1040289371

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This book is a demonstration of the richness, worth and vitality of Australian documentary record. At the same time, it is an introduction to collecting Australiana for those who, if not already bitten by the book bug, have been dangerously exposed to it. Readers who are immune to the attractions of collecting but who value our past and its books will also find something to interest them in the following pages.

Author : Jonathan Wantrup
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780645615098

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"The first edition of Jonathan Wantrup's 'Australian Rare Books 1788-1900' quickly became the internationally recognised definitive work on collecting rare Australian books of the Colonial Period. Welcoming the book in 1987, Kenneth Hince wrote that the work: . . . at once defines its own scope clearly, and proceeds to cover the ground precisely and accurately. It brings together a mass of material not otherwise available in a single book, and includes an impressive amount of previously unrecorded detail. The perspectives taken of the various subjects are orderly and illuminating . . .This revised and enlarged edition includes five new chapters. It begins with a discussion of the characteristics and techniques of book collecting, followed by a clear description of book manufacture and distribution over the past 200 years. The following chapters offer a comprehensive survey of the major Australian books that illuminate and chronicle our colonial past. Each is placed within its historical context, starting with the foundation years under the First Fleet governors, the era of Bligh and Macquarie, coastal and inland exploration in the century following settlement, and the fine illustrated topographical plate books published throughout the nineteenth century. To close the volume, two new chapters survey the beautiful Australian colourplate natural history books published from the 1790s to the 1890s.Offering a distinctive approach to Australian history and a unique perspective on the development of Australian society, Wantrup has a rare facility for making complicated things simple. Wearing his learning lightly, he writes in an engaging and approachable style that makes this book eminently readable." --Dust jacket gate fold.

Author : Martin Terry
Publisher : Miegunyah Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,77 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780522846881

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Australia presented its early artists with problems and challenges that called for a different approach. As this book reveals, some of the finest works by Australian impressionist painters took as their subjects ships and the sea.

Author : Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 1000897729

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This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from D to L.

Author : Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 1999-11-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780849326776

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This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from M to Q.

Author : Stuart Kells
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1640093826

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A tantalizing true story of one of literature’s most enduring enigmas is at the heart of this “lively, even sprightly book” (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post)—the quest to find the personal library of the world’s greatest writer. Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world’s most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare’s library, is a mystery. For four centuries people have searched for it: in mansions, palaces and libraries; in riverbeds, sheep pens and partridge coops; and in the corridors of the mind. Yet no trace of the bard’s manuscripts, books or letters has ever been found. The search for Shakespeare’s library is much more than a treasure hunt. Knowing what the Bard read informs our reading of his work, and it offers insight into the mythos of Shakespeare and the debate around authorship. The library’s fate has profound implications for literature, for national and cultural identity, and for the global Shakespeare industry. It bears on fundamental principles of art, identity, history, meaning and truth. Unfolding the search like the mystery story that it is, acclaimed author Stuart Kells follows the trail of the hunters, taking us through different conceptions of the library and of the man himself. Entertaining and enlightening, Shakespeare’s Library is a captivating exploration of one of literature’s most enduring enigmas. "An engaging and provocative contribution to the unending world of Shakespeariana . . . An enchanting work that bibliophiles will savor and Shakespeare fans adore." ―Kirkus Reviews

Author : Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 2402 pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
Release : 2006-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 1420003224

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2008 NOMINEE The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Award for a Significant Work in Botanical or Horticultural Literature now we have easier and better access to grass data than ever before in human history. That is a marked step forward. Congratulazioni Professor Quattrocchi!-Daniel F. Austin, writing in Economic Botany &n

Author : Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 4038 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1482250640

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Written as a reference to be used within University, Departmental, Public, Institutional, Herbaria, and Arboreta libraries, this book provides the first starting point for better access to data on medicinal and poisonous plants. Following on the success of the author's CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names and the CRC World Dictionary of Grasses, the author provides the names of thousands of genera and species of economically important plants. It serves as an indispensable time-saving guide for all those involved with plants in medicine, food, and cultural practices as it draws on a tremendous range of primary and secondary sources. This authoritative lexicon is much more than a dictionary. It includes historical and linguistic information on botany and medicine throughout each volume.