Secrets of the nest: The family life of North American birds.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. paperback, illustrations. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. paperback, illustrations. More
Scarborough: Cerebrus Publishing, 1977. Small folio, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Uppsala: Bokförlaget Carmina, 1981. Octavo, oblong format, illustrations, laminated boards, slight wear. Text in Swedish. More
London: Country Life Books, 1976. Quarto, colour plates by Audubon, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1943. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, colour plates by Ennion. More
Cambridge: [Cambridge] University Press, 1903. Octavo, Publisher's cloth, library stamps and signature on title page. More
Wellington: Bock & Cousins, 1889. Large quarto, 40 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's embossed green cloth, gilt edges, a fine copy. One of the finest of all works on New Zealand botany. A further two volumes were planned but never published. It was available in the publisher's cloth for 10 shillings or..... More
Johannesburg: Winchester Press, 1984. Folio, colour plates by C. G. Finch-Davies. Publisher's cloth and slipcase, the subscriber's issue, a fine copy. More
Johannesburg: Winchester Press, 1986. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in slipcase, the subscribers' edition. More
Pretoria: Author, 1956. Small folio, two watercolour title pages, 26 numbered interleaved leaves with typed text (verso only) on clear parchment paper, 21 signed and dated watercolours; the titlepages and watercolours all approximately 36cm by 25cm and individually mounted on a larger leaf of rag paper 41 cm by 34..... More
London: British Library, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. With their fascinating plumage, behaviour and power of flight, birds have captured people's imagination since earliest times. In this beautifully and unusually illustrated book, Celia Fisher traces the remarkable breadth of ways in which artists, writers and storytellers have depicted the enduring..... More
Wellington: Nova Pacifica, 1982. Small folio, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1951. Quarto, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: Abbeville Press, (1987. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1967. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, some wear, softcover. More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1965. reprint). unoloured plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1964. reprint). Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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
Sydney: Collins, (1977. first edition). Folio, colour plates. Publisher's slipcase and dustwrapper, a few minor blemishes, otherwise a very good copy. More
Malanda: Frith and Frith, [2008]. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $80. Bowerbirds are fascinating because of their unusual behaviour involving building complex structures, called bowers. Some bowers are like miniature buildings and are artistically decorated with flowers, fruits, bones, shells, feathers and much more, including numerous human artefacts..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. Quarto, 200 colour plates, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Every aspect of the Great Auk's natural - and unnatural - history is covered, with special chapters devoted to its life cycle and the years during which it dwindled to extinction. Other chapters concern..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. Quarto, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Victor Gollancz, (1981. first edition). Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Bunny Bird Fine Art, 1986. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2019. Quarto, colour illustrations. Compact edition. Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage round the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia and Java..... More