Board of Agriculture and Fisheries: leaflets (numbers 1 to 100).
London: Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1905. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's quarter cloth and printed boards. More
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The South Australian Ornithological Association Newsletter [numbers 25-122].
[Adelaide]: The South Australian Ornithological Association, 1963-1987. Octavo, Originally roneoed foolscap sheets then changing to a multi-page A4 format. This Newsletter was originally published "so that country members can keep in closer touch with the activities of the Association and become informed of all matters affecting them" More
The Victorian naturalist: the journal and magazine of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria [volumes 1-126].
Melbourne: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, 1885-1989. Octavo, The first 32 volumes bound as single volumes in contemporary half calf, the remaining volumes in modern binder's cloth, an excellent set, rare. The leading names of colonial Australian natural history contributed heavily to "Vic. Nat", the most important of all Australian..... More
Works by Archibald Thorburn from the Thorburn Museum.
Sotheby's, 1993. Octavo, oblong format, colour illustrations, softcover. More
The home-life of the Osprey.
London: Witherby & Co, 1911. Quarto, 32 pages of tipped-in photographs, stamp, publisher's cloth, some wear. More
Gatherings of angels: migrating birds and their ecology.
Ithaca: Comstock Publishing, 1999. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The book features 24 pages of stunning colour photographs with additional black and white photographs throughout. Two chapters of background information on migration precede chapters that focus on different species or groups of birds and the..... More
The genius of birds.
Brunswick: Scribe Publications, 2016. Octavo, text illustrations, paperback. Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative to their size. Although small, bird brains are packed..... More
The Cuckoo and other bird mysteries.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1944. first edition), Octavo, map, bookplate of Dominic L. Serventy, publisher's bright green cloth, a very good copy. More
Birdscaping Australian gardens: using native plants to attract birds to your garden.
Melbourne: Penguin Group, 2015. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, line drawings. A beautifully illustrated how-to book for attracting a wide variety of birds and butterflies to your garden by providing shelter, nesting sites, fruit, seeds, nuts, and nectar. The detailed directory and unique planting calendars included show you how to..... More
Gulls of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East: an identification guide.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Octavo, paperback, photographs, maps. A comprehensive photographic guide to the gull species of the Western Palearctic Gulls occupy a particularly important place in the world of birds. But because they are notoriously difficult to identify, they have been relatively neglected in the ornithological literature. Gulls..... More
A sketch of the natural history of Australia.
London: Macmillan, 1896. Small octavo, text illustrations. Bookplate of John Calaby, the copy of Ellis Troughton, some water damage to front endpapers, binder's cloth. More
Breeding biology of the Adelie Penguin.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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
Ecogeographical variation in size and proportions of song sparrows (Melospiza melodia).
Washington DC: American Ornithologists Union, 1984. Octavo, softcover. More
Birds of Kuwait: a portrait.
Kuwait: Author, 2005. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Species by species portraits of the birds of Kuwait - for each there are Latin and common names. There is also a bird list for Kuwait, a description of important birding sites, an introduction to the Kuwaiti environment and a brief overview of..... More
Handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan: together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Sri Lanka
Delhi: Oxford University Press, (1971- 1982. Octavo, 113 colour plates, very good set in dustwrappers. A mixed set; the first five volumes are second editions (1978-1987), volumes six to ten are first editions (1971-1982). More
Handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan: together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. Volume seven: laughing thrushes to the mangrove whistler.
Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1972. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour plates, dustwrapper. More
Handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan: together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, volume two: megapodes to crab plover.
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1969. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Stalking birds with color camera.
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, (1963. revised edition). Octavo, colour photographs, lacks dustwrapper. More
Falconry in Arabia.
London: Orbis Publishing, 1980. Small quarto, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Birds of the Caribbean.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1962. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Birds of the Caribbean.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1962. Quarto, colour photographs, lacks dustwrapper. More
Pipits and wagtails of Europe, Asia and North America.
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2003. Octavo, dustwrapper, 26 colour plates, 240 colour photographs, maps and text illustrations. The first guide to cover the 26 species of Holarctic pipits and wagtails in detail. The species accounts cover all aspects of identification (taxonomy, size and structure, plumage, geographical variation, anatomical..... More
Check-list of North American birds. The species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian islands.
Lawrence, Kansas: American Ornithologists Union, (1983. sixth edition). Octavo, maps, a fine copy. More
Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West INdies and Hawaiian Islands.
Washington DC: American Ornithologists Union, (1998. seventh edition). Octavo, publisher's cloth, BRAND NEW. Prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union. More