Plants of North-Western Australia, enumerated by .

MUELLER, Baron Ferdinand von

Published by Richard Pether, Government Printer, Perth, 1881

About this Item

Perth, Richard Pether, Government Printer, 1881. Foolscap folio, 19 pages. Modern cloth (lettered in gilt on the spine) retaining the original olive-green printed wrappers (a little unevenly discoloured, with minor restoration); minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. Western Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 1 of 1880. 'Enumerative Notes of Plants collected during Mr. John Forrest's Trigonometrical Survey of Nickol Bay District during the year 1878' is the heading of the informative three-page introduction by von Mueller, dated Melbourne, December, 1878. A presentation copy, inscribed on the inside front wrapper 'To Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart, D.C.L., L.L.D, &c from the author'. Sir Charles Nicholson (1808-1903), 'statesman, landowner, businessman, connoisseur, scholar and physician . was an unusual combination of man of affairs and scholar. He led a very active social life but was deeply interested in the classics, history and education . By 1845 he had already begun to collect rare books, antiquities, pictures and manuscripts, and was regarded as one of the most cultivated men in the colony. In 1849-50 he joined Wentworth in pressing for the establishment of a university, and in December 1850 was nominated a member of the original senate of the University of Sydney. The Nicholson Museum in the University of Sydney, and the Nicholson pictures there . commemorate his name. He has aptly been described as Australia's first great collector, and he was also a generous patron of the arts and sciences' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Plants of North-Western Australia, enumerated by .
• Publisher: Richard Pether, Government Printer, Perth
• Publication Date: 1881
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Botany & Gardening
  • Natural History
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  • Exploration
  • Australia