The birds of paradise and bower birds.
Sydney: Collins, (1977. first edition). Folio, colour plates. Publisher's slipcase and dustwrapper, a few minor blemishes, otherwise a very good copy. More
Sydney: Collins, (1977. first edition). Folio, colour plates. Publisher's slipcase and dustwrapper, a few minor blemishes, otherwise a very good copy. More
Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1929. Octavo, photographs, signature, bookplate, publisher's cloth. More
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 233, 1963. Octavo, wrappers, a very good copy. United States National Museum Bulletin 233. More
Anchorage: "The Feathered World", Monograph No. 12, 1973. Octavo, wrappers, one colour plate. More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations. Signature, tapemarks, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1976. Quarto, three colour plates, illustrations, slightly rubber dustwrapper, otherwise a fine copy. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), (1986. second edition), Quarto, colour plates by Robert Gillmor, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Ithaca: Comstock Publishing, 1976. Quarto, three colour plates, illustrations, signature, good copy in chipped dustwrapper (not as pictured). More
St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1977. Quarto, colour plates by Robert Gillmor, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Ithaca: Comstock Publishing, 1976. Quarto, three colour plates, illustrations, inscribed for William and Wendy Cooper by Cliff and Dawn Frith. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Octavo, colour plates. A classic account of evolutionary biology. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Octavo, paperback, colour plates. A detailed and careful examination of behavior and ecology in the wild. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, (1979. reprint). Quarto, colour plates by John Henry Dick, signature, chipped dustwrapper. Revised and updated by Edgar M. Reilly, Jr. More
London: Helm, 1996. Octavo, colour plates, maps, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. Covers all 110 of the world's tits, nuthatches and treecreepers. The Paridae ('true' tits), Remizidae (penduline tits) and Aegithalidae (long-tailed tits) form the bulk of the book (78 species), with a further 24 species of nuthatch and..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2000. Octavo, 41 colour plates by Kim Franklin, maps, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first book to cover the identification, biology, and relationships of all true shrikes, bush-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, wood-shrikes, the closely related flycatcher-shrikes, philentomoas, batises and wattle-eyes. All species are portrayed in..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2000. Octavo, 41 colour plates by Kim Franklin, maps, signature, otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper. The first book to cover the identification, biology, and relationships of all true shrikes, bush-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, wood-shrikes, the closely related flycatcher-shrikes, philentomoas, batises and wattle-eyes. All species are..... More
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1950. Quarto, 33 colour plates by Lilian Medland. Publisher's quarter morocco, bookplate, very good copy in worn dustwrapper (piece missing from spine). More
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1950. Quarto, 33 colour plates by Lilian Medland. Publisher's quarter morocco, lacks dustwrapper, otherwise a very good copy. More
London: Helm, 1999. Octavo, 39 colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. New World Blackbirds is a comprehensive guide to the 103 members of the family Icteridae, also known as the icterids or troupials. A diverse family, the icterids range throughout the Americas, from Alaska to Cape Horn, and including the..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2010. Octavo, colour illustrationsand photographs, owner's sticker, fine copy in dustwrapper. This remarkable book covers the identification of 112 species of Reed and Bush warblers (families Lucustellidae and Acrocephalidae) in astonishing detail with an emphasis on identification down to the subspecies level and the..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. Quarto, colour photographs, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
College Station: Texas A & M UP, 1997. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. More
London: Methuen, (1956. first edition), Octavo, text illustrations, owner inscription, preliminaries browned, slightly chipped dustwrapper. David Lambert Lack (1910-973) was one of the twentieth century's greatest ornithologists. 'Swifts in a tower' was a pioneering study of the European Common Swift at Oxford University. More
Mountfield: Pica Press, 1997. Octavo, 16 colour plates, maps, fine copy in slightly sunned dustwrapper. The 'true' shrikes occur throughout most of the Old World and North America. Covers 31 species. More
London: Poyser, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More