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
London: Peerage Books, 1981. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1973. Folio, colour plates and text illustrations. Publisher's full brown calf, limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the author, a fine copy. More
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1977. Quarto, colour plates. Publisher's quarter morocco, limited to 350 copies, numbered and signed by the author. More
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
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982. Oblong format, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
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
Johannesburg: Hugh Keartland Publishers, 1965. Small folio, unpaginated, twelve colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2012. Small quarto, colour illustrations, author's inscription, discoloured softcover. In 1813, author, illustrator, printmaker and natural historian, John William Lewin created the first illustrated book ever published in Australia - Birds of New South Wales. Featuring more than 150 exquisite artworks, Neville takes a fascinating look at..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2003. Octavo, text illustrations, laminated boards, More
[London]: Hutchinson, 1979. Quarto, colour plates, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Hutchinson, 1980. Octavo, colour illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Hutchinson, Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. More
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
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
Melbourne: Lothian, 1989. Quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. More
London: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, (1986. reprint). Octavo, colour illustrations, inscription, very good copy in dustwrapper. Marianne North set off in 1871 on her first expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants of the world. The results of her wanderings were her astonishing collection of..... More
Sydney: Cassell, 1979. Oblong format, colour plates by Gladys O'Grady, inscription, very good copy in dustwrapper. An attractive publication and not without its charm. 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
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2022. second edition), Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations. Traces the history of bird art in Australia – from the simple engravings illustrating accounts of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available today. It explores the early European approach, in which naval draughtsmen..... More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2010. Quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. 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
New York: Harrison House, 1988. Oblong format, colour and black and white plates, upper hinge starting, otherwise very good copy in dustwrapper. More
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
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1895. Octavo, frontispiece, uncoloured plates. contemporary full tree calf, raised bands and label, marbled edges, a handsome copy. More
Finland: Finnish Zoological PUblishing Board, 1998. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, laminated boards. Acta Zoological Fennica. More