Not as the crow flies: a lifetime of adventure in exotic and untamed lands.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Hutchinson, 1976. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
London: B T Batsford, 1939. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: H F & G Witherby, (1990. second edition). Quarto, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. First published 1953 in folio and one of the best bird book bibliographies. This smaller format second edition has an additional appendix by Handasyde Buchanan on printing techniques and is a lot easier..... More
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988. Small folio, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This volume contains many little-known works of art from the voyage of the first fleet and from the early years of settlement, selected from more than 600 drawings and paintings of Australian subjects held in the British Museum..... More
Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, [1963]. Octavo, color illustations by Deirdre East, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Perth: Western Australian Museum, 2003. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Reproduces in facsimile, John Mawe's first shell collecting guide of 1804, together with his complete edition of 1821, The voyager's companion or shell collector's pilot. More
London: The Ibis, 1962. Octavo, folding map, photographs. Handsome binder's quarter cloth and marbled boards, a fine copy. The Ibis volume 103b, number two. Also the subject of a popular book published 1960. More
London: John Van Voorst, 1855. Octavo, Publisher's cloth, some wear, the signature and book plate of H. M. Whittell, scarce. More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: British Empire Vegetation Committee, 1926. Octavo, illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
New York: Delacorte Press, 2008. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Explores the stories surrounding approximately 30 of the world's best-known species, drawing on traditions from every quarter of the globe. More
London: Henry Sotheran, 1986. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
Sheringham: Wren Publishing, 2002. Quarto, illustrations, a fine secondhand copy in dustwrapper. A biography of the acclaimed bird artist and field ornithologist, Richard Richardson, who lived at Cley between 1949 and 1977, This beautiful book also contains many excerpts from his personal bird diaries, which he kept from 1949 to..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1977. Octavo, photographs, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: The Royal Society, 2002. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Peterborough: Langford Press, 2014. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. John Threlfall lives on the Solway coast of Dumfries and Galloway. Within a few miles either way it is possible to find a range of coastal habitats, from off shore islands to sea cliffs, maritime heath, rocky shores, sandy..... More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979. Quarto, colour plates, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1982. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Upperville: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1997. Quarto, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper, the bookplate of Margaret Stones, tipped in letters including one from the author to Stones. A superb publication. Margaret Stones represented with an entry and two illustrations, pp. 410-410. More
London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Octavo, maps, signature, publisher's cloth. More
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1969. Octavo, text illustrations, blemished, pastedown, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Hoefnagel: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munchen, 1994. Oblong format, facsimile engraved plates, softcover. Text in German and English. More
London: Christopher Helm, 2003. Octavo, colour illustrations, dustwrapper. The first modern history of ornithology, tracing its development from the seventeenth century. Includes reference to the lives and works of such people as Linnaeus, Darwin and Wallace, as well as many other lesser-known figures. More