On the Physiological Action of the Venom of the Australian Black Snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus). [Contained in] Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales for 1895 (Volume 29)

First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, [133] pages (being pages 146-277 in over 600 pages). Cloth lightly flecked; leading edges lightly foxed; endpapers offset and foxed; an excellent copy. Offered together with a copy of the Journal and Proceedings ... for 1892 (Volume 26, in similar condition), containing a related article by the same author: The Venom of the Australian Black Snake (25 pages plus an illustration). These volumes also contains other lengthy, interesting and important articles, and would suit any budding polymath. The range includes HARGRAVE, Lawrence: Paper on Aeronautical Works (8 pages plus 9 plates, most of them folding), and another on 'Flying Machine Work' (6 pages); DAVID, T.W.E.: Notes on Antarctic Rocks collected by Mr C.E. Borchgrevink (31 pages plus a plate); ALLAN, Percy: Timber Bridge Construction in New South Wales (19 pages plus 8 plates, most of them folding); FRASER, John: Some Folk-Songs and Myths from Samoa (38 pages in one volume, 28 pages in the other); HAMILTON, Alex: On the Effect which Settlement in Australia has produced upon Indigenous Vegetation (63 pages); and other articles on the languages of Ponape and Hawaii, Oceanic languages, and observations on Shell-heaps and Shell-beds. [2 volumes].