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New England: Australasian Raptor Association, 435801980-1985. Quarto, typescript, binder's cloth. More
New England: Australasian Raptor Association, 435801980-1985. Quarto, typescript, binder's cloth. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Octavo, photographs, map, fine copy in dustwrapper New Guinea is famous for its spectacular bird fauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Of the nearly 800 species of birds recorded from New..... More
Canberra: Australasian Seabirds Group RAOU, 1972-1975. Octavo, typescript, binder's cloth. More
Sussex: The Sea-Bird Group, 1965-1969. Folio, roneoed typescript, scarce. Numbered one to seven, but lacking issue number six. More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson's unpublished drawings for the nine-volume American Ornithology, Edward Burtt and William Davis illustrate Wilson's pioneering and often underappreciated achievement as the first ornithologist to describe the birds..... More
London: New Holland, 2009. Octavo, colour illustrations, bookplate, laminated boards. More
London: Dulau and Co., 1913. Octavo, tables. Publisher's blue cloth, floral endpapers, sunned, few flecks, a good copy. More
Cambridge MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2008. Octavo, black and white photographs, publisher's cloth. A series of essays by prominent ornithologists about Australasian ornithology. This book includes chapters on Gould's collector John Gilbert; ornithology at the Auckland Museum, the Western Australian Museum, and CSIRO; systematics and biogeography in Australian ornithology; the..... More
Cambridge MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2012. Octavo, photographs,text illustrations, publisher's cloth. Nuttall Ornithological Club Memoir No. 18. The second of a projected three volumes on the history of Australasian ornithology, is an important contribution to the field. It contains chapters on the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (including: Birds Australia, and..... More
Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1937. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 81, number one. More
New York: W. H. Freeman, (1995. Small quarto, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Covers evolution; development of anatomical features (feathers, bills, wings), social and reproductive behaviour, survival methods, communication, and conservation. More
London: Grafton & Co., 1951. Octavo, publisher's cloth, sunned spine, a good copy. More
Anchorage: BP Exploration (Alaska) Ltd., [1989. second edition). Octavo, coloured map, a fine copy. More
Sydney: Reed, 1980. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. More
Washington, DC: American Ornithologists Union, 1991. Octavo, wrappers, minor blemishes, a fine copy. More
Hitchin: Wheldon and Wesley, (1986. facsimile). Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
London: The Willughby Society, (1882. facsimile). Small quarto, publisher's printed red wrappers, some wear, partly unopened. Originally published in 1786. More
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1983. Octavo, illustrations, maps. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1934. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, colour plates. Publisher's green pebble-grained cloth lettered in silver, a contemporary ink inscription dated October 1934, a very good copy. The first true bird field guide and one of the most influential natural history books of all time. This copy is..... More
Mansfield: Maurizio Martino, [1995]. Octavo, uncoloured frontispiece, publisher's boards. First published Yale University Press, 1961. More
Wellington: Ornithological Society of New Zealand, 1999. Octavo, text illustrations, maps, signature, softcover. Notornis, journal of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand, Volume 46, part 1. More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs. WAS $70. The Flight of the Emu is a history of Australian birding in the twentieth century. The Emu of the title comes from the hundred-year old journal of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union (later Birds Australia), but the book is much..... More
Sydney: Collins, (1975. first edition). Octavo, photographs, inscription, very good copy in dustwrapper. An excellent summary of Australian ornithology and still useful. More
Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2014. Quarto, paperback, photographs, maps. The first synthesis of current knowledge of forest and wetland birds in the world's southernmost forests, this book contains both original work by Rozzi and Jimenez and the results of a decade of research conducted by the scientists associated..... More
London: The Willughby Society, (1880. facsimile). Octavo, publisher's printed red wrappers, some wear, partly unopened. Originally published circa 1830. More