London: The Avicultural Society, 1894-1921. Octavo, Publisher’s cloth, gilt-decorated in the two later series, the final three volumes in binder’s cloth, most volumes retaining the printed wrappers. The Avicultural magazine was the first journal devoted to cage-birds and, along with Bird notes which it absorbed in 1926, is the finest..... More
London: Colourmaster International, [no date]. Small octavo, colour photographs,softcover. More
Sydney: Saiga, 1981. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Berlin: Rugult Schulkes Verlag, (1895. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, modern binder's cloth, scarce. Text in German. More
London: 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
New York: All-Pets Books, 1954. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, publisher's cloth with the Glossy Black Cockatoo blindstamp of Sir Edward Hallstrom. More
New York: 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
london: C. Arthur Pearson, 1961. Octavo, colour illustrations, lacks dustwrapper. More
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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. One plate has an image of a male Paradise Parrot... More
Sydney: 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
Sydney: Nimrod Press, 1991. Octavo, More
London: L. Reeve & Co., 1894. Quarto, 59 (of 60) handcoloured lithographs by Frohawk, lacks one plate (Painted Finch) and the Chestnut-breasted Finch 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, some light..... More
London: The Feathered World, [1907]. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, slightly rubbed, very scarce. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1933. first edition). Octavo, uncoloured frontispiece (the second edition has a coloured frontispiece), colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, bookplate, scarce. Neville Cayley illustrated the first standard for Australian show budgiergars and was very involved in the promotion of the hobby of Budgerigar breeding. This book is..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1933. first edition). Octavo, uncoloured frontispiece (the second edition has a coloured frontispiece), colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, owner's florid signature on endpaper, also his signature on title page, tipped in the upper dustwrapper and a newspaper cutting describing a substantial collection in Geelong, scarce. Neville..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1933. first edition). Octavo, uncoloured frontispiece, signature, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper (NOT AS PICTURED). The genuine first edition dustwrapper does not have the edition printed on the spine, as with this copy. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1962. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in contacted dustwrapper. Signed by Alec Chisholm at the end of the Foreward. A minor classic of Australian avicultural literature- well published, very readable and still useful. With an excellent Foreward by Alec Chisholm. More
Ramsbury: 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
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Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2010. Quarto, colour plates and photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. FREIGHT WILL BE $18, WITHIN AUSTRALIA. Completed in sixteen volumes, 1992-2013. The eighth passerine volume. Species accounts cover taxonomy, distribution (including subspecies), habitat, feeding, breeding, movements, status and conservation. This volume includes: Weavers, Whydahs and Indigobirds..... More
New York: Denlinger's, 1952. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
Sydney: Frank Ditchfield, [c1960]. Duodecimo, text illustrations, wrappers. Ditchfield's Little Wonder Books, number two. More
Adelaide: Rigby, 1982. Duodecimo, softcover. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1966. Octavo, colour plates, maps, fine copy (mint?) in dustwrapper. More
London: F. V. White, [1920]. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, bookplate, publisher's decorated cloth, slightly grubby, bookplate. The Reverend Farrar's two little books, the other is "Birdroom and aviary", are the wittiest and most enjoyable books ever written on aviculture. More