Beginner's guide to birdkeeping.
London: Pelham Books, 1976. Octavo, photographs, signed by the author, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Pelham Books, 1976. Octavo, photographs, signed by the author, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: New Holland, (1984. fifth edition), Octavo, colour plates, signed by the author, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Cape Town: The Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, (1993. sixth edition). Octavo, colour plates, inscription from the author, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Cape Town: The Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, (1993. sixth edition). Octavo, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Canberra: Verity Hewitt Bookshop, 1942. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's wrappers, limited to 200 copies, numbered and signed by the author. More
Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup, 1939. Octavo, wrappers, text illustrations, inscriibed by the author. More
London: Merrell Holberton, 1997. Quarto, 60 colour plates, bookplate of Margaret Stones, tipped in letters from the author on Royal Trust letterhead to Stones, fine copy in dustwrapper. The watercolours in this book were taken from the special edition of Natural history of America purchased by King George III. Natural..... More
Melbourne: Nelson, (1971. first edition). Small folio, colour illustrations by the author, inscription by the author, very good copy in dustwrapper. A handsome book and one of the better Australian butterfly books. The author was the grandson of Frederick McCubbin. More
Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, (1945. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate of Roy Cooper, signed by the autho, fine copy in near fine dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1958. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations. Publisher's wrappers, partially sunned, inscribed by the author to Edgar Riek. University of California Publications in Entomology. Volume 14, Number two. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, [1964. reprint). Octavo, wrappers, photographs, text illustrations. Signed by the author. University of California Publications in Entomology. Volume 38. More
Lawrence: The Geological Society of America, 1969. Octavo, text illustrations, very good in cloth binding, signed by the author for Edgar Riek. More
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1977. Quarto, colour plates. Publisher's quarter morocco, limited to 350 copies, numbered and signed by the author. More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1948. Octavo, photographs, inscription by the author, tape marks, tipped in related ephemera, dustwrapper. More
[Denver]: Colorado Museum of Natural History, 1939. Octavo, photographs, binder's boards, inscribed by the author. More
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. Octavo, colour photographs. Author signatures, a fine copy. More
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1898. Octavo, illustrations, signed by the author, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1889. Octavo, text illustrations, inscribed by the author, publisher's cloth. More
San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1955. Octavo, binders's cloth, original wrappers retained, signed by the author, a fine copy. More
Ottawa: Entomological Society of Canada, 1963. Octavo, Binder's cloth, inscribed by the author to Edgar Riek. The Canadian Entomologist, Supplement Number 30. More
Madison: State Publishing, 1898. Octavo, two chromolithograph plates. Publisher's cloth, some wear and discolouration; pasted an inscription from the author to C. French (Victorian Government botanist). Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Bulletin Number two, Scientific Series Number one. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1957. Large octavo, coloured frontispiece, text illustrations, very good copy in slipcase (slightly flecked), limited to 750 copies, signed by the author. An excellent compilation of essays on birds by the best known names in ornithology. More
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 1995. Octavo, 23 colour paintings by the author, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. A personal and evocative account of one of the world's last great wildernesses, and one of the richest and most complex habitats on earth. More
London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1909. Octavo, inscribed by the author, publisher's cloth. More
London: Author, (1958. first edition). Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers, a fine copy, tipped in a review slip signed by the author. Arthur Prestwich was president of the Avicultural Society and wrote a number of scholarly texts on parrot nomenclature. More