Peterborough: Langford Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white illustrations. Part of a series (WAT) of books in which masters of wildlife art share many of their techniques. In this volume John Busby explains by examples how important it is to gather information direct from birds in the..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations, photographs. While highly finished drawings and paintings feature in histories of botanical art, the preparatory sketches, first impressions and creative thoughts behind them are rarely seen and have often remained hidden and locked away. Botanical Sketchbooks brings these personal and..... More
Melbourne: Naturalistes et Chasseurs, 2014. Quarto, paperback. photographs, colour illustrations, limited to 200 copies. Drawing on over 30 years of research, this monograph presents artworks produced by Neville Henry Cayley whilst living in Victoria. More
London: Country Life, (1979. reprint). Quarto, colour illustrations by Basil Ede, dustwrapper. More
Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1983. Oblong format, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Portland OR: Pomegranate Communications, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Charley Harper and Edie McKee met on the first day of school at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1940. They studied together, fell in love, survived World War II, married, and embarked on successful careers in art. Today, Charley's work..... More
Watercolour on paper, signed "Neville Cayley" More
Watercolour and pencil 44.2 cm by 57.5 cm. Signed indistinctly. Also inscribed "Male Bird 18 [half] inches" and "Female smaller and plumage dull black. Male has s(?) glossy brown blue-lovely form" Provenance: Pointer Collection; Falcon Galleries; Peter Webb Galleries, Auckland. More
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Small folio, colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's full grey calf and Solander box, edition limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, a fine copy. Raymond Harris-Ching is one of the great modern wildlife artists and Studies and Sketches is one of his best..... More
New York: Christie, Manson and Woods International Inc, 1993. Quarto, colour illustrations, publisher's cloth binding, very good. Auction catalogue. More
Cambridge: Cambridge Library Collection, 2014. Octavo, paperback, black and white line drawings. Written and richly illustrated by the Derby-born artist Ernest Ellis Clark (1869-1932), this guide was originally published in 1904 to demonstrate the decorative possibilities of certain plants, mainly English wild flowers, to art students sitting examinations in plant..... More
London: Collins, 1981. Folio, 24 colour plates by Maurice Pledger, fine copy in dustwrapper and slipcase. More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, line drawings, maps. This beautifully illustrated field guide covers 504 of the most common fruiting plants found in Australia's eastern rainforests, as well as a few species that are rare in the wild but generally well-known. These spectacular plants can be seen..... More
New York: E P Dutton, 1935. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Bracken Books, (1981. reprint). Quarto, colour plates, dustwrapper. First published 1978 as 'The art of natural history: animal illustrators and their work'. More
London: Country Life, 1978. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in slipcase. More
London: Studio Editions, 1991. Small folio, colour plates, very good in dustwrapper. More
London: Studio Editions, 1990. Small folio, colour plates, a very good copy, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
[1986]. Pastel, 38 cm by 44 cm, signed J N Davies, framed. Plate 19 from Lane Shorebirds of Australia 1987 featuring, Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis, Little Curlew N. minutus and Whimbrel N. phaeopus. More
Marum: Art Revisited, 2003. Octavo, colour illustrations, laminated boards. More
Old Greenwich: Devin-Adair, 1979. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Perth: The Western Mail, 1983. Large oblong folio, tipped in coloured illustrations. Publisher's leather backed canvas boards, slipcase, limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by the author and artists. This copy has an extra dedication on the title page by Clifton Pugh which reads "for Victoria with affection at a...... More
Haarlem: Teylers Museum, 2013. Quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. A very useful account of Redoute and his illustrations. More
Portland OR: Timber Press, 2013. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Robert Llewellyn's intricate photographs illuminate the amazing beauty of everyday flowers in this companion to "Seeing trees". Teri Dunn Chace discusses the unique characteristics of each flower family. This combination delivers a fresh perspective on familiar garden flowers. For "Seeing..... More
