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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
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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
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, dustwrapper, 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 bush..... 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
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
Audubon's Quadrupeds of North America.
Secauacus: Wellfleet Press, 1989. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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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
The porcelain art of Edward Marshall Boehm.
New York: Harrison House, 1988. Oblong format, colour and black and white plates, upper hinge starting, otherwise very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The life of Joseph Wolf, animal painter.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1895. Octavo, frontispiece, uncoloured plates. Publisher's cloth, small tear to top of spine, owner's inscription, bookplates, scarce. More
The Dodo and the Solitaire: a natural history.
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. Octavo, colour and black and white illustrations, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. A comprehensive book about these two famously extinct birds. It contains all the known contemporary accounts and illustrations of the dodo and solitaire, covering their history after extinction and discussing..... More
Marianne North: a very intrepid painter.
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, (2016. second edition). Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. This is the story of Marianne North, an unmarried middle-aged Victorian lady of comfortable means, set off in 1871 on her first expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants of the world. Marianne produced..... More
Troubled waters: trailing the albatross an artist's journey.
Peterborough: Langford Press, 2012. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The world's great oceans are largely beyond most people's experience and imagination. But for the last three decades or more, a tragedy has been unfolding out of sight on the open ocean. Hundreds of thousands of seabirds, albatrosses especially..... More
Nature classics: a catalogue of the E. A. McIlhenny natural history collection at Lousiana State University.
Baton Rouge: Freinds of the LSU Library, 1987. Quarto, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, the bookplate of Margaret Stones, signed by Perrauly, Kathryn Morgon (Preface) and David Lank (Introductory essay). More
Art and architecture of insects.
Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2014. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. A photographic tribute to the microscopic insects that share our gardens, floorboards, and bedsheets. Clad in spiked and scaled armor, lance-like pincers at the ready, Phillips explores the hidden beauty of insect anatomy. Drawing on his..... More
And clouds flying: a book of wild fowl.
London: Faber and Faber, 1947. first edition). Octavo, colour plates by Peter Scott and text illustrations. Some foxing and torn dustwrapper. Illustrations from paintings and drawings by Peter Scott. More