A biology of acacias: a new source book and bibliography for biologists and naturalists.
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1984. Octavo, text illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. More
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1984. Octavo, text illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. More
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1984. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, sunned dustwrapper, scarce. More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, lavishly illustrated, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first and only proper biography of both Cayleys. This skillfully researched and handsomely produced book charts the lives and works of this Australian father-and-son pair of bird artists. Neville Henry, peripatetic, often impecunious and with a...... More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Octavo, colour illustrations, inscribed by the author for William and Wendy Cooper, softcover. Around 1870, Ferdinand von Mueller, the greatest Australian botanist of the nineteenth century, began to advertise in several newspapers across Australia for ‘lady’ plant collectors. Of Mueller’s astounding 3,000-strong network of..... More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. Large octavo, colour illustrations, dustwrapper. From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. The Arcana or Museum of Nature ran to 22 monthly parts, with 84 extraordinary hand-coloured plates and over 300 text..... More
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2010. Octavo, colour illustrations, inscribed by the author, softcover. When Silvester Diggles arrived in 1855 there was little artistic or scientific talent in the small frontier town of Brisbane. By the time of his death in 1880, his paramount legacy was a large book on Australian birds..... More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, (1983-1990. reprint). Octavo, very good set in dustwrappers. Freight will be extra. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Robbins considers nearly every aspect of France's obsession with exotic fauna, from the vast literature on exotic animals and the inner workings of the oiseleurs' (birdsellers') guild to how the animals were transported, housed and cared for... More
London: Collins, 1983. Octavo, colour and text illustrations by the author, faded title, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Collins, (2005. reprint). Quarto, unpaginated, colour plates. 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
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979. Quarto, colour plates, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, colour illustrations, signed by all three authors, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Scone: Seven Press, 2007. Quarto, photographs, limited edition of 300 numbered and signed copies, a fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. Limited edition of 300 numbered and signed copies. Henry Luke White assembled the best ever collection of Australian birds' eggs as well as a fine bird skin collection. He also..... More
Sydney: Royal Australasian Historical Society, 1933. Octavo, binder's cloth, stiff wrappers retained. More
Perth: Paterson Brokensha, 1954. Small quarto, illustrations. Binder's cloth, a fine copy. The standard bibliography of Australian ornithology with an elegant and useful introductory essay. More
Mansfield: Maurizio Martino, 1994. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, fine copy. An excellent facsimile (easier to use than the original) of Whittell's classic bibliography of Australian ornithology. Limited to 100 copies. More