Australian Birdkeeper, [volume one only].
Tweed Heads: Australian Birdkeeper, 1987. Quarto, colour photographs, the first six issues. More
Tweed Heads: Australian Birdkeeper, 1987. Quarto, colour photographs, the first six issues. More
London: The Avicultural Society, 1894-1921. Octavo, Publisher’s cloth, gilt-decorated in the two later series, the final three volumes in binder’s cloth, most volumes retaining the printed wrappers. The Avicultural magazine was the first journal devoted to cage-birds and, along with Bird notes which it absorbed in 1926, is the finest..... More
St Kilda: Exacto Press, 1967. Octavo, some spotting on cover, wrappers. More
St Kilda: Exacto Press, 1958. Octavo, wrappers, very scarce. More
London: Cage Birds, [c1960]. Quarto, ten printed colour plates by R. A. Vowles in publisher's printed folder. More
St Ives: Colourmaster International, [no date]. Small octavo, colour photographs,softcover. More
London: "The Feathered World" [1911]. Octavo, uncoloured frontispeice, photographs. Publisher's green cloth, a handsome copy of a scarce book. More
London: Collins, 2002. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Hindhead: Saiga, 1981. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Berlin: Rugult Schulkes Verlag, (1895. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, modern binder's cloth, scarce. Text in German. More
Melbourne: N. H. Seward, 1949. Small quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy, lacks dustwrapper. More
Maidstone: Author, 1888. Quarto, [5 parts] in a single volume [all published]. Publisher's brown cloth, 31 (9 handcoloured) plates by F. W. Frohawk. Boards slightly buckled otherwise an excellent copy free of foxing and blemishes, scarce. The only monograph on weavers and sparrows. Copies with all plates handcoloured are rare..... More
Fond du Lac: All-Pets Books, 1954. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, publisher's cloth with the Glossy Black Cockatoo blindstamp of Sir Edward Hallstrom. More
Garden City: New York Zoological Society, (1931. first edition). Quarto, colour plates by Lodge and others, a fine set in publisher's cloth. The reduced format version of Beebe's monumental 'A monograph of the pheasants', 1914-1918. More
Liss: Nimrod Book Services, 1985. Small quarto, photographs, text illustrations bookplate,, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1961. Octavo, colour illustrations, lacks dustwrapper. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., [1878]. Large quarto, 56 chromolithographs and numerous wood-engravings. Publisher's (?) contemporary half morocco and morocco grained cloth, gilt spine, all edges gilt, hefty owner's inscriptions on upper blank endpaper, a very good copy. More
Keston: Keston foreign bird Farm, 1934-1938. Octavo, coloured and uncoloured plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt cockatoo, a very good set, scarce. The Keston Bird Farm, established by Edward Boosey in the 1920's was a very successful operation until World War Two and beyond. Although the business imported birds its..... More
London: Rockliff, 1956. Octavo, photographs, lacks dustwrapper. Edward Boosey was the head birdkeeper for the Duke of Bedford, after leaving his employ he set up the Keston Bird Farm in the 1930's. His two best known books, the other being foreign Bird keeping, are entertaining and well written. More
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Small folio, 13 plates and accompanying text leaves, two appendices (one by Keith Hindwood). Black full morocco, limited edition of 500 copies, signed and numbered by a Broinowski descendant, a fine copy. With two useful appendices. Apendix A: Table of nomenclature. Appendix B: Gracius Joseph Broinowski;..... More
Wisconsin: All-Pets Books, 1955. Octavo, text illustrations, inscription, grubby publisher's cloth otherwise a good copy. More
Alton: Nimrod Press, 1991. Octavo, More
London: L. Reeve & Co., 1894. Quarto, 59 (of 60) handcoloured lithographs by Frohawk, lacks the Painted Finch plate and the Chestnut-breasted Finch/ Three-coloured Mannikin plate is substantially trimmed but not affecting image. Publisher's blindstamped burgundy morocco grain cloth with handsome gilt finch design on upper board, top edge gilt..... More
London: The Feathered World, [1907]. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, slightly rubbed, very scarce. More