![Monograph of the Pittidae [facsimile]. Gould John](/pictures/thumb/3953.jpg?v=1559349918)
Monograph of the Pittidae [facsimile].
Melbourne: Hill House, 1989. Folio, 9 colour plates and accompanying text leaves. Publisher's blue cloth, fine copy. More
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![The birds of Australia and the adjacent islands [facsimile]. John Gould](/pictures/thumb/8968.jpg?v=1568266232)
The birds of Australia and the adjacent islands [facsimile].
East Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1979. Folio, 20 colour plates. Publisher's decorated cloth, limited edition of 500 copies numbered and signed by Alan McEvey, a fine copy. An excellent facsimile of Gould's rarest folio, with commentaries by Allan McEvey. More
![The birds of Australia, volume five [facsimile, the parrot volume]. John Gould](/pictures/thumb/3952.jpg?v=1559349917)
The birds of Australia, volume five [facsimile, the parrot volume].
Melbourne: Hill House, 1989. Folio, 92 colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, fine copy. More
![The birds of Australia, Volume one [facsimile]. John Gould](/pictures/thumb/3955.jpg?v=1559350822)
The birds of Australia, Volume one [facsimile].
Melbourne: Hill House, 1992. Folio, 36 colour plates. The standard of facsimile printing is very high and all the books in this series are produced to the original folio format. This is a project that will continue for many years and the result will be a complete set of all..... More
![John Gould's Birds [of Great Britain]. John Gould](/pictures/thumb/3470.jpg?v=1559349917)
John Gould's Birds [of Great Britain].
Secauacus: Chartwell Books, 1980. Quarto, colour plates, dustwrapper. With an excellent essay on Gould and his circle by Maureen Lambourne. All the plates from Birds of Great Britain, first published 1862-1873, are figured. More
Larousse animal portraits.
Middlesex: Hamlyn, (1967. first edition). Quarto, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Orchids: from the archives of the Royal Horticultural Society.
London: Scriptum Editions, 2002. Folio, dustwrapper, colour plates. Reproduced here for the first time are the stunning watercolours from the archives of the Royal Horticultural Society of their award-winning orchids from 1897 to today. More
Thornton's Temple of Flora with plates faithfully reproduced from the original engravings.
London: Collins, 1951. Large folio, 31 coloured and uncoloured plates. Publisher's half morocco and slipcase, spine lightly sunned. Limited to 250 numbered copies and signed by the three contributors. More
Decoys of Maritime Canada.
Exton: Schiffer, 1983. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Selected American game birds.
Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, (1980. reprint). Oblong format, 26 full page plates. More
Elephants of Africa.
London: New Holland, 1986. Oblong format, colour plates by Paul Bosman, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Butterflies of North America: Titian Peale's lost manuscript.
New York: Abrams, 2015. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations. The American artist and naturalist Titian Ramsay Peale II (1799-1885) had a passion for butterflies and throughout his long life he wrote and illustrated The Butterflies of North America: Whence They Come, Where They Go, and What They Do, an ambitious..... More
The herons of the world.
London: London Editions, 1978. Folio, colour plates by Robert Gillmor and Peter Hayman, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The art of Raymond Ching.
Auckland: Collins, Small folio, colour plates, very good copy in sunned slipcase. More
Insects and other arthropods of tropical America.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Visitors to tropical forests generally come to see the birds, mammals, and plants. Aside from butterflies, however, insects usually do not make it on the list of things to see. This is a shame. Insects are everywhere, they are often as..... More
Beguiled by the wild: the art of Charley Harper.
Portland OR: Pomegranate Communications, 2016. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Presenting more than 110 serigraphs accompanied by intriguing, pun-filled captions, this new, revised edition pays homage to one of America's most beloved artists. Charley Harper (1922-2007), with his masterly use of simple geometric shapes, patterns, and vivid colors, distilled the essence..... More
Kiwis: a monograph of the family Apterygidae.
Shrewsbury: Swan Hill Press, 1991. Small folio, colour plates and drawings by Ray Harris-Ching, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The history of the birds of Britain.
London: Collins, 1988. Quarto, colour plates and text illustrations by David Reid-Henry, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Women artists: images of nature.
London: Natural History Museum, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Throughout the centuries women have made significant contributions to natural history art, science and education. This stunning collection celebrates the work and lives of women artists spanning the last four centuries and is illustrated with a selection of exquisite artworks from..... More
Audubon's elephant: the story of John James Audubon's epic struggle to publish The Birds of America.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. The author records the genesis and gestation of the double-elephant folio, and uses contemporary sources to illuminate an extraordinary character. More
Audubon's elephant: the story of John James Audubon's epic struggle to publish The Birds of America.
London: Phoenix, (2004. reprint). Octavo, colour illustrations, paperback. The author records the genesis and gestation of the double-elephant folio, and uses contemporary sources to illuminate an extraordinary character. More
A sea of glass: searching for the Blaschkas' fragile legacy in an ocean at risk.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. It started with a glass octopus. Dusty, broken, and all but forgotten, it caught Harvell's eye and inspired one of the greatest adventures of her life. From diving for dangerous jellyfish in the Mediterranean to searching for harpoon-backed sea slugs..... More
A portfolio of New Zealand birds.
Wellington: A H & A W Reed, 1970. Small folio, 25 colour plates by the author, inscription on title page, blemished dustwrapper. More
Flower paintings of Ellis Rowan, from the collection of the National Library of Australia.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, (1982. first edition). Folio, 20 colour plates by Ellis Rowan. Publisher's quarter cloth and canvas boards, slipcase, a fine copy. More
The Peregrine returns: the art and architecture of an urban raptor recovery.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations. Peregrine falcons have their share of claims to fame. With a diving speed of over two hundred miles per hour, these birds of prey are the fastest animals on earth or in the sky, and they are..... More