The world of birds: a comprehensive guide to general ornithology.
Sydney: Macdonald & Company, 1964. Quarto, photographs, deluxe edition limited to five hundered number copies signed by both author and artist. More
Sydney: Macdonald & Company, 1964. Quarto, photographs, deluxe edition limited to five hundered number copies signed by both author and artist. More
New York: Crown Publishers, Folio, 50 large posters, softcover. From The original Double Elephant Folio. More
New York: Abbeville Press, (2013. first edition). Folio, colour illustrations, unpaginated, fine copy in dustwrapper and publisher's slipcase.. This outstanding edition of Audubon's Birds of America, with a substantial ornithological revision by Roger Tory Peterson, displays all 435 of Audubon's brilliant handcoloured engravings in exquisite reproductions taken from the original..... More
New York: Abbeville Press, 2023. Quarto, slipcase, colour plates. The Baby Elephant Folio presents all 435 of Audubon’s brilliant hand-coloured engravings in exquisite reproductions derived from the original plates of the National Audubon Society’s archival copy of the rare Double Elephant Folio. Although many attempts have been made to re-create..... More
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1957. Large octavo, coloured frontispiece, text illustrations, very good copy in slipcase (slightly flecked), limited to 750 copies, signed by the author. An excellent compilation of essays on birds by the best known names in ornithology. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. second edition]. Octavo, text illustrations, a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1934. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, colour plates. Publisher's green pebble-grained cloth lettered in silver, a contemporary ink inscription dated October 1934, a very good copy. The first true bird field guide and one of the most influential natural history books of all time. This copy is..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1961. second edition]. Octavo, colour plates by the author, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
london: C Arthur Pearson, 1988. Quarto, colour photographs by Tony Keppelman, fine copy in dustwrapper. More