Adventures with the zoo man.
London: Pitman Publishing, (1935. first edition). Octavo, More
London: Pitman Publishing, (1935. first edition). Octavo, More
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1949. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper. David Seth-Smith (1875–1963) was the curator of mammals and birds for the Zoological Society of London, long term editors the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, the Avicultural Magazine and a regular BBC broadcaster. He visited Australia twice..... More
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1937. first edition). Octavo, photographs, text illustations, bookplate, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper. David Seth-smith was curator of birds at London Zoo at the turn of the twentieth century. He was also the foundation editor of the Avicultural Society Journal. He visited Australia twice..... More
London: Lutterworth Press, 1951. Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, corner of endpaper removed, chipped dustwrapper. More
Topsfield: Salem House, 1986. Oblong format, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Topsfield: Salem House, 1986. Oblong format, colour plates, a very good copy in slightly sunned dustwrapper. More
Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia, (1998. facsimile). Quarto, twelve colour plates. Publisher's decorated cloth, the standard edition limited to 500 copies. With Introductions by Valmae Hankel and Ed McAlister. The first book devoted exclusively to Australian fauna, published in 1794, with the first descriptions of the..... More
London: George Kearsley, 1809. Octavo, Publisher's boards, uncut, paper spine label, a fine copy. Without the engraved plates. Shaw delivered twelve lectures to the Royal Society and this is how the book is arranged. Various Australian animals are discussed including Echidna, Platypus (Lecture three, pp. 75-81); Kangaroo, Greater Glider, Pygmy..... More
Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2016. Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations, maps. George Goyder was the first European explorer to see great salt lakes in the inland in flood and to witness the amazing transformation that follows the breaking of drought. His experience put him decades ahead of his contemporaries in understanding..... More
London: Collins, (2005. reprint). Quarto, unpaginated, colour plates. More
East Grinstead: RD & AS Shepherd, (2005. reprint). Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. A stunning collection of the best of David's wildlife art. More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Hutchinson, 1976. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
London: B T Batsford, 1939. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: H F & G Witherby, (1990. second edition). Quarto, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. First published 1953 in folio and one of the best bird book bibliographies. This smaller format second edition has an additional appendix by Handasyde Buchanan on printing techniques and is a lot easier..... More
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988. Small folio, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This volume contains many little-known works of art from the voyage of the first fleet and from the early years of settlement, selected from more than 600 drawings and paintings of Australian subjects held in the British Museum..... More
Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. When the British first arrived on Australia's shores at the end of the eighteenth century, it was not only the potential of its space that tantalised them, but the extraordinary living things that they found there. Every European collector desired..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs and illustrations. A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings. Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship..... More
Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, [1963]. Octavo, color illustations by Deirdre East, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Perth: Western Australian Museum, 2003. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Reproduces in facsimile, John Mawe's first shell collecting guide of 1804, together with his complete edition of 1821, The voyager's companion or shell collector's pilot. More
London: B. and J. White, 1794. Quarto, engraved frontispiece. Quarter calf and speckled boards, a fine copy. More
London: The Ibis, 1962. Octavo, folding map, photographs. Handsome binder's quarter cloth and marbled boards, a fine copy. The Ibis volume 103b, number two. Also the subject of a popular book published 1960. More
New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2012. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: John Van Voorst, 1855. Octavo, Publisher's cloth, some wear, the signature and book plate of H. M. Whittell, scarce. More