Verlag: Miegunyah / Melbourne University Press (MUP) / State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW), Melbourne / Sydney, 2011
ISBN 10: 0522861172 ISBN 13: 9780522861174
Anbieter: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australien
Reprint ed. Hardback oblong quarto, pictorial covers, very good condition, colour & black & white & a few sepia (brown-tinted) photos, minimal edgewear. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 275 pp. This fascinating book is about the secret histories of the Macquarie and Dixson Galleries collectors chests. The Macquarie collectors' chest is an enigmatic wooden cabinet filled with painted panels and exotic treasures, created in Australia for Governor Lachlan Macquarie around 1818. It was taken to the United Kingdom, and left forgotten and unnoticed in a Scottish castle until it was rediscovered in the late 1970s. The Mitchell Library of New South Wales acquired the chest, and its remarkable similarity to the Dixson Galleries collectors chest, acquired by the Library in 1937, raised questions about the cabinets creators, owners and purpose. The chest is filled with more than 150 stunning photos and paintings. This beautiful book tells the story of these unusual chests.
Verlag: The Miegunyah Press / State Library of New South Wales, Melbourne / Sydney, 2004
ISBN 10: 0522851339 ISBN 13: 9780522851335
Anbieter: Lectioz Books, Gloucester, NSW, Australien
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Jacket has light general wear and no tears. Book very clean. Binding tight. 239pp Size: 250mm x 310mm. Book.
Verlag: Miegunyah Press / Melbourne University Press / State Library of New South Wales, Melbourne / Sydney, 1994
ISBN 10: 052284474X ISBN 13: 9780522844740
Anbieter: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australien
Hardback large heavy octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white & colour photos, minor foxing edges, some foxing reverse side jacket (minor edgewear). Heavy (1.5 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 539 pp. This book is the journal of Baron Charles von Hugel, who was an Austrian diplomat, army officer and courtier. He was celebrated across Europe, during the mid-19th century for his amazing gardens and his cultivation of exotic plants, including 'New Holland plants'. During several years of travelling the world, he spent most of 1834 in the young Australian colonies of Swan River, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Norfolk Island and New South Wales, looking at the flora and collecting the seeds for his gardens. Translated into English for the first time and edited by Dymphna Clark from a 2000-page manuscript, this special book is an insightful record of the flora he found and the interesting people he met. Hugelâs botanical influence is still evident also in a number of Australian plant names, such as 'Acacia huegelii' and 'Hardenbergia' (named after his sister Countess von Hardenberg). His observations of Australian plants greatly influenced botanist Ferdinand von Mueller. (Number 17 in the lavish Miegunyah Press series.).