Cockatiel colour mutations and their breeding expectations.
Bedford: The Parrot Society, [no date]. Octavo, colour photographs, printed wrappers. 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
London: George Bell and Sons, 1884-1887. Tall octavo, 81 colour-printed wood-engraved plates (chromoxylographs) by Benjamin Fawcett drawn by A. F. Lydon. Publisher's turquoise green blindstamped cloth, bookplate, a very good crisp set. The first book devoted exclusively to parrots in captivity and with much of Australian interest. Occasional contributions were..... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1884-1887. Octavo, three volumes, 81 colour-printed wood-engraved plates (chromoxylographs) by Benjamin Fawcett drawn by A. F. Lydon. Publisher's primary issue dark green blindstamped cloth, a fine set in the best of three variant publisher's bindings, rare in this condition. The first book devoted exclusively to..... More
London: Frank Ditchfield, 1947. Duodecimo, text illustrations, wrappers. Ditchfield's Little Wonder Book, number 19. More
London: Frank Ditchfield, 1947. Duodecimo, text illustrations, wrappers. Ditchfield's Little Wonder Book, number 18. More
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1981. Octavo, photographs, lengthy inscription, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Inkata Press, 1981. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2020. Large octavo, paperback, colour and black and white photographs. Budgies, budgies, budgies. Beautiful and cheeky, delightful and enchanting, wild or tamed budgerigars are Australia's gift to the bird world. They sing and dance, and yawn as contagiously as humans. They are masters of mimicry. They..... More
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2020. Large octavo, photographs, bookplate, softcover. Budgies, budgies, budgies. Beautiful and cheeky, delightful and enchanting, wild or tamed budgerigars are Australia's gift to the bird world. They sing and dance, and yawn as contagiously as humans. They are masters of mimicry. They grasp simple grammar, can..... More
Waterloo: JBAT Publishing, 2006. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. WAS $55. This book offers information on how to breed some of the rare varieties of Budgerigars. It covers many aspects of breeding and keeping Budgerigars as pets and breeding for the show bench. Includes colour photographs of most varieties. The..... More
Prahran: Black Cockatoo Press, 1989. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. More
New York: Atria, 2002. Octavo, colour illustrations, maps, softcover. Describes the desperate race against time to save a rare blue parrot, the Spix's macaw, from extinction, by calling for private collectors to allow their birds to mate with the last wild specimen. Also available in hardcover [stock id 25827]... More
London: Dean and Son, [c1870]. Octavo, uncoloured plates, coloured boards, advertisement endpaper detached, scarce. Dean Pratical Guide Books. The plates, originally hand coloured, are taken from the 1833 Lauder and Brown The miscellany of natural history, volume one: parrots. Nine Australian species are figured. More
Sydney: Imprime, 1989. Elephant folio, 144 loose plates. Publisher's handsome green cloth Solander boxes with coloured label, limited to 200 numbered copies, a fine set. A magnificent modern reproduction of Le Vaillant's great work on parrots. The published price was $20,000. Freight is extra. More
Paris: Editions Boubee, 1962. Tall octavo, eight colour plates by Paul Barruel, a very good copy. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1973. Octavo, 13 colour plates by Neville Cayley, maps, chipped dustwrapper. A heavily revised re-issue of Neville Cayley's 1938 classic. Alan Lendon was a prominent Adelaide medico and aviculturist who held one of the finest collections of Australian parrots post World War Two. More
London: Angus and Robertson, (1983. reprint). Octavo, 13 colour plates by Neville Cayley, stamp, sunned spine, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. A heavily revised re-issue of Neville Cayley's 1938 classic. Alan Lendon was a prominent Adelaide medico and aviculturist who held one of the finest collections of Australian..... More
Chatswood: New Holland, (2018. reprint). Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Fact panels throughout cover a wide range of topics. The pages are alive with entertaining and informative text accompanied by exciting action photography. Other green guides in the series are frogs, mammals, spiders, birds, snakes and other reptiles, and sharks..... More
Neptune: TFH, 1996. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
London: Rodolphe d'Erlanger/Basilisk Press, 1983. Folio, 25 tipped-in plates by Elizabeth Butterworth. Full red silk, all contained in a handsome black Solander box, limited to 515 numbered copies and signed by author and artist on the final leaf, a magnificent association copy inscribed "Rosemary Low- best wishes to Andrew Isles..... More
Poole: Blandford Press, (1984. first edition). Quarto, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Mansfield: Insignis Publications, 2009. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. The author's adventures through South America over the course of 33 years are described in this book highlighting her experiences with parrots and other birds along with the people and the culture of this region. More
Sydney: New Holland Publishers, Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. One third of the world’s nearly 400 species of parrots are threatened with extinction or already close to it. These include some of the most spectacular and iconic bird species on the planet, such as the Hyacinth Macaw from South America, the..... More
London: Cage Birds, [1952]. Small octavo, coloured frontispiece, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More