Bird drawings by C. F. Tunnicliffe, RA.
Royal Academy of Arts, 1974. Octavo, colour plates, softcover. More
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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
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
The home-life of the Osprey.
London: Witherby & Co, 1911. Quarto, 32 pages of tipped-in photographs, stamp, publisher's cloth, some wear. 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 your garden: how to attract Australian native birds to your garden.
Sydney: Weldon, (1989. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. More
The complete guide to Australian birds.
Australia: Viking Books, 2018. Octavo, softcover, colour photographs, distribution maps. A very useful bookand very good value. With over 1400 photographs, divided into 27 chapters discussing common and scientific names, size, description, behaviour, preferred habitat, feeding habits, voice, status and breeding. Distribution maps are arranged next to each photographed species..... 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
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 the ocean: a handbook for voyagers, containing descriptions of all the sea-birds of the world, with notes on their habits and guides to their identification.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1928. first edition). Octavo, photographs, signatures, publisher's cloth, worn. One of the great classics of twentieth century ornithology and essential to any collection of modern bird books. 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