London: Salamander Books, 1989. Octavo, colour illustrations, laminated boards. More about A Birdkeeper's guide to cockatiels. Practical advice on the care and accommodation of these...
London: Salamander Books, 1990. Octavo, colour illustrations, laminated boards. More about A Birdkeeper's guide to cockatoos: A comprehensive survey of these distinctive birds with...
London: Salamander, 1987. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. More about A birdkeeper's guide to softbills
London: Salamander Books, 1992. Quarto, colour photogprahps, dustwrapper. More about Parrots
London: Cage Birds, [1908]. Octavo, photograph, coloured stiff card wrappers. More about Parrots for pleasure and profit: their breeding and management
London: Bombay Natural History Society, (1921. second edition). Tall octavo, 30 coloured plates by Gronvold, Lodge and Keulemans. Publisher's half morocco, slight wear and a few spots. The stamp "Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales" on the endpapers, half title and the verso of plates; inscribed "A. J. Basset... More about The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon: ducks and their allies (swans, geese and ducks),...
Melbourne: N. H. Seward, 1949. Small quarto, colour plates, photographs, lacks dustwrapper. More about Parrots of Australasia
Maidstone: Author, 1888. Quarto, [5 parts] in a single volume [all published]. Publisher's brown cloth, 31 (9 handcoloured) plates by F. W. Frohawk. Boards slightly buckled otherwise an excellent copy free of foxing and blemishes, scarce. The only monograph on weavers and sparrows. Copies with all plates handcoloured are rare... More about A monograph of the weaver-birds, Ploceidae, and arboreal and terrestrial finches, Fringillidae
Neptune City: TFH, 1969. Octavo, ccolour photographs, fine copy in laminated boards. More about Parrots and related birds
Garden City: New York Zoological Society, (1931. first edition). Quarto, colour plates by Lodge and others, a fine set in publisher's cloth. The reduced format version of Beebe's monumental 'A monograph of the pheasants', 1914-1918. More about Pheasants: their lives and homes
New York: New York Zoological Society, 1926. Quarto, colour plates. Publisher's vellum cloth, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, limited to to 250 numbered copies, signed by the author. First published as A Monograph of the Pheasants 1918-1922, in four folio volumes. The abridged edition was subsequently published as... More about Pheasants: their lives and homes
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about The Ostrich communal nesting system
London: Phoenix, (2004. reprint). Octavo, photographs, paperback. The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990's was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. But the idea of genetic engineering began much earlier. In the 1920's an amateur scientist, Hans Duncker, decided... More about The red canary: the story of the first genetically engineered animal
New York: Grove Press, 2006. Octavo, dustwrapper. Pigeons are athletes of the highest caliber. While racehorses receive all the glory with their 35 mph sprints around a one-mile racetrack, homing pigeons--a mere pound of flesh and feathers--routinely fly more than five hundred miles in a single day at speeds exceeding... More about Pigeons: the fascinating saga of the world's most revered and reviled bird
London: L. Reeve & Co., 1894. Quarto, 59 (of 60) handcoloured lithographs by Frohawk, lacks the Painted Finch plate and the Chestnut-breasted Finch/ Three-coloured Mannikin plate is substantially trimmed but not affecting image. Publisher's blindstamped burgundy morocco grain cloth with handsome gilt finch design on upper board, top edge gilt... More about Foreign finches in captivity
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Octavo, colour and black and white photographs, maps, paperback. WAS $40. This guide provides detailed, factual answers to questions such as what parrots eat in the wild, why so many species live in the Amazon, how intelligent parrots are, and what is the world's... More about Parrots: the animal answer guide
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1932. Octavo, colour plates by the author. Publisher's cloth, a very good copy, scarce in this condition. The scarcest of all Cayley's major works. More about Australian finches in bush and aviary
Sydney: Angus and Robertson limited, 1938. Octavo, eleven colour plates, photographs, text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, bookplate, a very good copy. One of the better twentieth century Australian bird books. All parrot book collectors need a decent copy. More about Australian parrots: their habits in the field and aviary
Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 2015. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. This book provides a rare insight into the far north of Western Australia, the capture of over one million wild finches, their marketing and their distribution around the world. It is the first complete analysis of lawful, and sometimes questionable, trapping and... More about Finch trapping in the Kimberley: a history of commercial finch trapping in the Kimberley division...
South Tweed Heads: Australian Birdkeeper, 2005. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, paperback. Chapters on black cockatoos in captivity include taxonomy, conservation, housing, nestlogs, feeding, breeding, infertility, nest inspection, artificial incubation, handrearing, companion birds and diseases and disorders. The individual species section features all the black cockatoo species and subspecies of the... More about A guide to black cockatoos: as pet and aviary bird
Marlborough: The Crowood Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. A practical guide for both novice and experienced poultry-keeper alike. It identifies the basic British poultry breeds and assesses the qualities of each, explaining their attributes to help today's hobbyist understand which breeds are most suited to their needs. Detailed photographs... More about Traditional British poultry breeds
Neptune City: T.F.H., 1985. Quarto, colour photos graphs, fine copy in laminated boards. More about The world of cockatoos
North Adams: Storey Publishing, 2007. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. The entry for each bird includes a colour photograph, a brief history, and a detailed description. The identifying characteristics included for each breed are: class (standard and bantam); size (for cocks and hens); appearance of comb, wattles, and earlobes; colour (everything... More about Storey's illustrated guide to poultry breeds
New Jersey: Edward Marshall Boehm, 1973. Quarto, photographs, fine copy. A handsome book and a very useful account of keeping softbills. The author was employed by Marshall Boehm. More about Birds of the Edward Marshall Boehm Aviaries: major portion devoted to softbills
Reseda: Bird Haven, [1950]. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations. fine copy in chipped dustwrapper. More about Aviary and cage birds: their care and breeding