My foreign doves and pigeons.
London: "The Feathered World" [1911]. Octavo, uncoloured frontispeice, photographs. Publisher's green cloth, a handsome copy of a scarce book. More
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A monograph of the weaver-birds, Ploceidae, and arboreal and terrestrial finches, Fringillidae.
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
Parrots and related birds.
Neptune City: TFH, 1969. Octavo, ccolour photographs, fine copy in laminated boards. More
A monograph of the pheasants.
New York: New York Zoological Society, 1918-1922. Folio, 90 coloured plates by Thorburn, Grönvold, Lodge and others, 88 photographs, map. Handsome red publisher's cloth, limited to 600 numbered copies, a very good set with a few light blemishes and a small worm hole to the first few leaves of volume..... More
Pheasants: their lives and homes.
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
The Ostrich communal nesting system.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The illustrated book of canaries and cage-birds, British and foreign.
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., [1880]. Large quarto, 56 chromolithographs and numerous wood-engravings. Publisher's (?) contemporary half morocco and morocco grained cloth, gilt spine, all edges gilt, owner's inscriptions on upperblank ednpaper, a very good copy. More
Starlings of Africa.
Alton: Nimrod Press, 1991. Octavo, More
Foreign finches in captivity.
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
How to sex cage birds (British and foreign).
London: The Feathered World, [1907]. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, slightly rubbed, very scarce. More
The magazine of The Parrot Society, volumes 1-16.
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
Traditional British poultry breeds.
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
The pheasants of the world.
Surrey: Spur Publications, (1982. second edition). Quarto, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Widely acclaimed as the most comprehensive and authoritative work published on pheasants. Covers 49 species of pheasant and includes life habits and distribution as well as breeding information. First published in 1951. More
Australian parrots.
Brisbane: Alexander Editions, (2002. third revised edition). Quarto, colour plates by William T. Cooper. Handsome red full calf and cloth-backed slipcase, limited to 95 numbered copies signed by both author and artist. The deluxe edition, originally priced at $850. We also have stocks of the trade edition [stock record 35064]..... More
Australian parrots.
Brisbane: Alexander Editions, (2002. third revised edition). Quarto, colour plates by William T. Cooper, a fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $180. Australian Parrots was first published in 1969 with tipped-in photographs by Len Robinson and was an immediate success. A second edition, with a substantially revised text and illustrated by..... More
Parrots of the world.
Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1978. second edition). Small folio, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. A smaller format version of the original, with revisions. More
Australian parrots.
Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1980. second edition). Folio, colour plates. Publisher's full green calf, limited to 1000 copies numbered and signed by author and artist; a fine set in a fine (the box is often a little tired) publisher's solander box. More
Australian parrots.
Sydney: Lansdowne Editions, (1981. second edition). Small folio, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Australian parrots.
Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1980. second edition). Folio, two volumes, colour plates. Publisher's full green calf, limited to 1000 copies numbered and signed by author and artist; a fine set in a very slightly rubbed and faded (typical) publisher's solander box. More
Pheasants: including their care in the aviary.
London: Blandford Press, 1961. Octavo, colour plates, dustwrapper. More
Instructions to young ornithologists, part six: domestic birds.
London: Museum Press, 1965. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
What parrot is that?
Victoria: Gould League of Victoria, 1996. Octavo, photographs, wrappers. More
Bird hybrids: a check-list with bibliography.
Farnham Royal: Farnham Royal Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, 1958. Quarto, fine copy in dustwrapper, bookplate of Roy Cooper. More
Parrots in captivity.
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, a very good crisp set. The first book devoted exclusively to parrots in captivity and with much of Australian interest. Occasional contributions were made..... More
Doing bird: a chicken keeper's year.
London: Constable and Robinson, 2013. Octavo, paperback, This book tells you what it's really like to keep chickens, charting the highs and lows in the year of an amateur hen keeper and his flock. Split into months and seasons, this book brings out the characters and idiosyncrasies of the birds..... More