b'1701161PAINTINGS & OTHER ARTWORKS 1162JOHANN CHRISTIAN DANIEL von SCHREBER 1159 (1739-1810),WILLIAM DAMPIER (1651-1715), Lipurus cinereus [Koala],Three copper engraved plates from A Voyage to Newhand-coloured lithograph,Holland [1703]: Plants found in Brasil, Plants found in24 x 19cm.New Holland & Timor and Plants found in ye Sea neer Newfrom Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Guinea, all approx. 19 x 12cm (sheet size). (3 items). Beschreibungen published by Wolfgang Walther, Erlangen: $1502001775-1792.The multi-volume set of books entitled Die Sugethiere in 1160 Abbildungen., focused on the mammals of the world. Many of the animals included were given a scientific name for the Franois VALENTIJN (1666-1727), first time, following the binomial system of Carl Linnaeus. ANTHONY van DIEMENS LAND, 1724, From 1791 until his death in 1810, von Schreber was president copper plate engraving by Frederick Ottens, of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He was 13 x 16cm (image) overall sheet 33 x 20cm. elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1787 and in April 1795, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal This remarkable engraving is from Francois Valentijns Oud enSociety in London.Nieuw Oost Indien. The work was published in Amsterdam$250300between 1724 and 1726 and described the history of the Dutch East India Company and the territories of the Far East1163including Australia, Ceylon, India, China, and Japan. Valentijn was a Dutch minister and naturalist. He was employed as aSYDENHAM EDWARDS (1768-1819), minister of the East Indies at 19, and also served as an armyafter Ann Latham,chaplain on an expedition in east Java. He then returned toBankian Cockatoo Variety.,Holland and completed this work. The work is still consideredcopper-line engraving,as the most comprehensive work on Asia published infrom The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay by Arthur Europe during the early colonial period (Landwehr). Phillip, [Thomas Stockdale, 1789.],The Dutch East India Company (or V.O.C. - Verenigde Oost- 27 x 20cm (sheet size).Indische Compagnie) guarded their maps and geographic$150200 information during most of their dominance in the spice trade. They usually prohibited any former employees from publishing1164anything about the region, thus it is very fortunate Valentijns work was published at all. SYDENHAM EDWARDS (1768-1819), $300500after Ann Latham, and others,Wattled Bee Eater, White Gallinule, Caspian Tern, 1161 Red Shouldered Parrakeet, Norfolk Island Petrel, and GEORGE STUBBS (after) Kangaroo copper engravingWhite Fronted Heron,from Hawkesworths account of Cooks Voyages, 1st editioncopper-line engravings, (6 different),published in 1773, plate 20. Being the first known rendering offrom The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay by Arthur a kangaroo in Britain. Phillip, [Thomas Stockdale, 1789.],23 x 27cm, 48 x 61cm overall 27 x 20cm (sheet size). (6 items).$250350 $500600 '