British birds: a selection from the original work, edited and with an introduction by Tony Soper.
Exeter: Webb and Bower, 1981. Quarto, colour plates, engravings, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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British birds: a selection from the original work, edited and with an introduction by Tony Soper.
London: Peerage Books, 1981. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
![Birds of the Australian swamps, volume one: grebes [to] cormorants. Frank T. Morris](/pictures/thumb/1788.jpg?v=1575675967)
Birds of the Australian swamps, volume one: grebes [to] cormorants.
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1978. Folio, colour plates. Publisher's quarter brown calf, limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the author. More
![Birds of the Australian swamps, volume two: herons [to] spoonbills. Frank T. Morris](/pictures/thumb/15059.jpg?v=1575675968)
Birds of the Australian swamps, volume two: herons [to] spoonbills.
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Folio, colour plates. Publisher's quarter brown calf, limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the author, fine copy. More
Pencil drawings, 1969-78.
East Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1978. Folio, full-page text illustrations. Publisher's full brown calf with gilt decoration, limited to 500 copies numbered and signed by the artist, fine copy. More
Desert Lake: art, science and stories from Paruku.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2013. Octavo, laminated boards,3133. colour photographs. This book combines artistic, scientific and Indigenous views of a striking region of north-western Australia. Paruku is the place that white people call Lake Gregory. It is Walmajarri land, and its people live on their Country in the communities of Mulan..... More
Edward Lear's Indian journal: watercolours and extracts from the diary of Edward Lear (1873-1875).
London: Jarrolds, 1953. Octavo, colour plates, bookplate of Margaret Stones, chipped dustwrapper. More
Library of dreams: treasures from the National Library of Australia.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2011. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, illustrations. Interprets and celebrates a diverse selection of treasures from the rich and varied collections of the National Library of Australia. The book examines over 50 of the most popular items, page by page, in the Librarys collections, including: James..... More
On the rocks.
Peterborough: Langford Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, photographs. The second in the series "Wildlife and people", this book chronicles Nelson's adventures studying seabirds. Charmingly illustrated by watercolour paintings by John Busby. More
Avifauna Africana: 12 watercolours of South African wild birds.
Johannesburg: Hugh Keartland Publishers, 1965. Small folio, unpaginated, twelve colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Cape Arid.
Fremantle: Fremantle Press, 2012. Oblong format, laminated boards, colour illustrations. Cape Arid National Park is a fascinating and remote area on the far south-eastern coast of Western Australia. Husband-and-wife team Philippa and Alex Nikulinsky travel into isolated outback regions, often staying for months at a time, to paint the Australian..... More
Firewood banksia.
Fremantle: Fremantle Press, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. A dazzling and wondrous celebration of Banksia menziesii (Firewood or Menzies' banksia) by one of Australia's most acclaimed botanical artists. After many field trips and long observation of the species, Philippa Nikulinsky has created a series of detailed drawings and paintings that..... More
Soul of the desert.
Fremantle: Fremantle Press, (2011. second edition). Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. In the tradition of botanical artists Marianne North and Rowan Ellis, Philippa Nikulinsky's exquisite paintings capture the natural wonder and diversity of the Australian desert. More
John Hope (1725-1786). Alan G. Morton's Memoir of a Scottish Botanist.
Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, 2011. Octavo, colour illustrations., softcover. More
American wildlife painting.
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1975. Quarto, colour and black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Examines the work of Fuertes, Audubon, Heade, Wilson, Thayer and Catesby. More
Ferdinand Bauer: the Australian natural history drawings.
Melbourne: Lothian, 1989. Quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. More
Women of flowers: botanical art in Australia from the 1830s to the 1960s.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2009. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. WAS $35. A tribute to the female colonial artists who drew and painted the indigenous wildflowers and plants of Australia. The publication focuses on the rich holdings of albums, sketchbooks and paintings in the Pictures Collection of the National Library..... More
The art of natural history: illustrated treatises and botanical paintings, 1400-1850.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations, colour illustrations. Collection of eleven essays which discuss the relationship between images and text in natural history publications during the years 1400-1850. In particular these essays examine the significance of illustrations as an expression of visual thinking and..... More
The wildfowl paintings of Henry Jones.
London: Threshold/Harrap, 1987. Folio, oblong format, 60 colour plates. Publisher's quarter blue calf and blue cloth, blue cloth case, limited edition of 350 copies signed and numbered by the author of the text, fine copy. More
Cayley and son: the life and art of Neville Henry Cayley and Neville William Cayley.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, dustwrapper, lavishly illustrated throughout with colour and black and white illustrations. WAS $50. 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..... More
An eye for nature: the life and art of William T. Cooper.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, (2015. reprint). Quarto, dustwrapper, colour and black and white illustrations and photographs. Foreword by Sir David Attenborough. A wonderfully produced work on celebrated wildlife artist William T. Cooper. Illustrated with nearly 200 paintings and sketches, including never before published bird and landscape paintings, this biography..... More
Louisa Atkinson's nature notes.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Nineteenth-century writer and journalist Louisa Atkinson was a remarkable woman. She was the author, at the age of 23, of the first novel penned by a native-born woman to be published in Australia. She was also a keen naturalist, whose..... More
Upside down world: early European impressions of Australia's curious animals.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2010. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Eurocentric perceptions of natural history led to the flora and fauna of the new colony of New South Wales being viewed as deficient and inferior. The swans of the colony were black and eagles white..... More
Audubon's Quadrupeds of North America.
Secauacus: Wellfleet Press, 1989. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
![Historical drawings of moths and butterflies [and] Historical drawings of native flowers. Marion Ord](/pictures/thumb/40921.jpg?v=1550919893)
Historical drawings of moths and butterflies [and] Historical drawings of native flowers.
Sydney: Craftsman House, 1988. Folio, colour plates, fine set in publisher's slipcase. Ash Island Series Volume 0ne: Historical Drawings of Moths and Butterflies. Volume two: Historical Drawings of Native Flowers. From the collections of the Mitchell library, Sydney. The boxed set, the individual volumes were also available individually. More