Sidney William Jackson, Signed (3 results)

4to, 135pp. A very good hardback copy in dust jacket with faded spine. Signed by the author. Limited edition, #79 of 500.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 135pp, index, sources, appendices, num bw photographs, chronology. Black cloth in jacket. Boards slightly bowed, very light edge wear to jacket. Edition limited to 500 copies of which this #150, numbered and SIGNED by author on half-title/limitation page. Jackson's place in the history of Australian ornithology is assured-his important egg collection was absorbed by the larger HL White collection, his pioneering collecting trips and subsequent accounts in the literature of the day, particularly articles for the premier ornithological journal The Emu. His skill as a photographer is not as well known. Brings together Jackson's photographs and his life- as well as the wider story of the role of naturalist in shaping scientific thought in Australia. Size: 4to. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Scone, The Seven Press, 1991. Large quarto (290 × 250 mm), 135 pages with over 100 illustrations (mainly high-quality full-page reproductions of Jackson's superb photographs). Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Number 408 of only 500 copies signed by the author. Loosely inserted is a vintage gelatin silver photograph (155 × 205 mm) by Jackson, from his negative #133 (in reverse in the bottom left-hand corner of the print). The photograph is reproduced on page 61 of the book. On the verso of the original is his ink stamp and the following caption in pencil (in his hand): 'Austn Abo. scarifying Moreton Bay Chestnut seeds with shell of scrub snail (Helix pachystyla) for food, after elimination of poisonous properties'. Jackson has also written the word 'unique'. White's lengthy caption in the book expands on the basic description, notes that the photograph was taken at Jackson's camp at Tinaroo [jungle, North Queensland, in the third quarter of] 1908, and makes the following intriguing comment: 'This negative is very unique and was lent to Mr E. Banfield of Dunk Island'. [2 items]. Signed.