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    • FITZGERALD: An autograph letter signed by Robert Fitzgerald (1879)
      Apr. 06, 2017

      FITZGERALD: An autograph letter signed by Robert Fitzgerald (1879)

      Est: $150 - $200

      FITZGERALD, Robert David (1830-1892, Australian surveyor and naturalist): An autograph letter signed by Robert Fitzgerald to an unnamed recipient, identifying eight orchids for him. Small octavo, two pages (possibly a leaf torn from a notebook), sent from the Surveyor General's Office [Sydney], 21 October 1879. 'Many thanks for the orchids. No 1 is Caladenia clavigera ...'. Slight loss to the top left-hand edge, affecting a few letters of the species name of the last orchid (these letters have been supplied in another hand, which has also added a few cultivation notes to orchids 6 and 7); light foxing; creased where folded for posting; in very good condition. Notes: Fitzgerald became deputy surveyor general of NSW in 1873. From 1875 he published his monumental work on Australian orchids, unfinished at the time of his death.

      Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
    • FITZGERALD, Robert Desmond (1830-1892).Australian Orchids.Sydney: Thomas Richards, 1875-1894.
      Dec. 04, 2014

      FITZGERALD, Robert Desmond (1830-1892).Australian Orchids.Sydney: Thomas Richards, 1875-1894.

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      FITZGERALD, Robert Desmond (1830-1892). Australian Orchids. Sydney: Thomas Richards, 1875-1894. 12 parts in one volume, 2° (478 x 325 mm). Title, dedication, synopses and introduction to volume I, half-titles to parts 1-7, one uncolored lithographic plate, 118 hand-colored lithographic plates, 10 double-page, 115 printed on thick tinted paper all by A. J. Stopps or Fitzgerald after Fitzgerald. (Title, some text and about 13 plates spotted.) Early 20th-century half pigskin, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and third, top edges gilt (some light soiling and scuffing). FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST STUDIES OF AUSTRALIAN ORCHIDS. "COMPLETE COPIES OF THIS BOOK ARE NOW VERY RARE" (Stafleu). Fitzgerald was a deputy surveyor-general in New South Wales, and a botanical artist, who came to Sydney from Ireland in 1856. His drawings and studies came to the attention of the government of New South Wales, who undertook publication of the work at the Government Printer's. The lithographer Arthur J. Stopps was an employee of the Lands Department. When Fitzgerald died in 1892, the government paid for the continued publication of the work, with Stopps completing the lithography from Fitzgerald's drawings, and the descriptive text supplied by Henry Deane, a botanist and engineer-in-chief of railways in the region, from Fitzgerald's notes and his own botanical observations. Stafleu & Cowan 1799; Nissen BBI 633; Great Flower Books p. 56.

      Christie's
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