Australian Flora, Fauna, Animals, Reptiles Etc

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Ramsay Publishing, 1925 Hardcover first edition in blue cloth boards, 128 pages plus index, and additional advertising pages. The book is in good shape, with speckled foxing marks to dust grayed edges. The cover has edge rubbing wear, and corner bumping, firm binding, some fading to gold lettering on spine and cover, and dust graying of blue coloured cloth a fraction. Pages are good, clean, slightly yellowed. Has owners name stamped in small letters on front endpaper. One coloured photo frontispiece, and other black and white photo illustrations, one map, and on black and white drawing. This book describes the Grampians from the keen eye of the author, a botanist, but also highlights the unique features of this pristine environment as a possible tourist destination for visitors at that time of writing. Even today, the beauty of this area is still sublime, and the area is of course now much more visited by thousands of tourists every year. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Adelaide, Australia: Rigby Publishers Limited, 1980 First edition hardcover in brown cloth boards and pictorial jacket. The boards have general wear around edges and foot of spine area. The unclipped jacket similar wear around edges. The jacket has a couple of small half inch tears, and crushing creasing to head of spine area. The jacket has been covered with a plastic type of archival film, preserving the jacket, but also now adhering in parts to the insides of the front and back cover boards. 198 pages including index and black and white photos. This book is a fascinating story of some of Australia's best hardwood forests. A story not just about destruction, but about people, their lives, and livelihood, and the mills that they worked in. These mighty trees once made up the invaluable Karri and Jarrah forests of South West Western Australia, until man made his impact on them. This is the story of Australia's big timber country, now in many ways a small timbered country, now with only a few big trees scattered here and there, among the wastelands. The Big Timber Country of Ausralia's south west is noted world-wide for its tough, enduring hardwood. The tall forests of Karri and Jarrah, with trees reaching almost the height of Victoria's Mountain Ash and California's Redwood, are a valuable resource on a continent with so little forest cover. In this book the author presents the fascinating story of these forests and of man's impact upon them. Some of these trees were hundreds of years old, all felled without a care.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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