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
Berlin: Rugult Schulkes Verlag, (1895. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, modern binder's cloth, scarce. Text in German. More
London: Random House, 2008. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. Author Bruce Barcott chronicles Sharon Matola's inspiring crusade to stop a multinational corporation in its tracks. Ferocious in her passion, she and her confederates - a ragtag army of courageous locals and eccentric expatriates - endure slander and reprisals and take..... More
Melbourne: N. H. Seward, 1949. Small quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy, lacks dustwrapper. 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
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
London: Academic Press, 1988. Quarto, colour plates, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1938. Octavo, eleven colour plates, photographs, text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, embossed stamp and the signature of Norman Wettenhall, a very good copy. One of the better twentieth century Australian bird books. All parrot book collectors need a decent copy. More
Brisbane: Dove, 1985. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. With an introductory chapter followed by chapters covering the non-passerine orders and a bibliography. More
Brisbane: Dove, 1985-1990. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, signatures of Mike Carter, a very good set in dustwrappers. One of the better modern New Guinea bird books, the photographs of the Birds of Paradise are spectacular. With introductory chapters and a bibliography. More
Bedford: The Parrot Society, 1967-1982. Octavo, photographs. Binder's cloth, some extra unbound volumes, scarce. One of the better avicultural magazines with quality articles by well known aviculturists such as George Smith, the Stoodleys and Rosemary Low. PROVENANCE: The set of Stan Sindel. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1992. Quarto, colour photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. National Photographic Index, number seven. More
Richmond: Denlinger's, 1952. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
London: The Budgerigar Society, (c1960. third edition), Octavo, softcover. More
Camarillo: Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, 1994. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, softcover. Proceedings of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, vol.5 no.4, May 1994. More
Leiden: E J Brill, 1867-1868. Tall octavo, 14 handcoloured lithographed bird plates; uncut in later boards mounting the front printed wrapper. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2017. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, maps. Parrots are among the most distinctive and beautiful birds in the world. They are also among the most endangered bird groups, threatened by habitat loss through land clearance, the trapping of adults, and the taking of chicks from the nest for..... More
Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, (1973. first edition). Folio, colour plates, maps, inscription (birthday presant) on front endpaper with a few flecks, slightly worn and sunned dustwrapper (NOT AS PICTURED). One of the great twentieth century bird books and a central work for anybody seriously interested in parrots. More
Brisbane: Alexander Editions, (2002. third revised edition). Quarto, colour plates by William T. Cooper, a fine copy in dustwrapper. Australian Parrots was first published in 1969 with tipped-in photographs by Len Robinson was an immediate success. A second edition, with a substantially revised text and illustrated by William T. Cooper..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Quarto, 120 colour plates by Frank Knight, fine copy in dustwrapper. This is a comprehensive handbook for distinguishing some 350 species of parrots from throughout the world. Lavishly illustrated, with more than 120 colour plates and additional illustrations. Arranged geographically the book will prove especially..... More
Bedford: The Parrot Society, [no date]. Octavo, colour photographs, printed wrappers. More
Melbourne: Hill House, (1989. facsimile). Folio, 92 colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, fine copy. More