In quest of bower birds.
Adelaide: Rigby, 1984. Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. Norman Chaffer was an excellent amateur ornithologist and photographer. More
Adelaide: Rigby, 1984. Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. Norman Chaffer was an excellent amateur ornithologist and photographer. More
Sydney: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1956. Octavo, colour frontispiece. Publisher's stiff wrappers, fine copy. "With compliments of Alec Chisholm" [green biro, used by an elderly Alec Chisholm]. Reprinted from The Emu Volume 56. More
Sydney: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1956. Octavo, colour frontispiece. Publisher's stiff wrappers, spine worn. "With compliments Norman Chaffer Sydney June 1956". Reprinted from The Emu Volume 56. More
Sydney: Collins, (1977. first edition). Folio, colour plates. Publisher's slipcase and dustwrapper, a few minor blemishes, otherwise a very good copy. More
Malanda: Frith and Frith, [2008]. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $80. Bowerbirds are fascinating because of their unusual behaviour involving building complex structures, called bowers. Some bowers are like miniature buildings and are artistically decorated with flowers, fruits, bones, shells, feathers and much more, including numerous human artefacts..... More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations. Signature, tapemarks, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1950. Quarto, 33 colour plates by Lilian Medland. Publisher's quarter morocco, bookplate, very good copy in worn dustwrapper (piece missing from spine). More
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1950. Quarto, 33 colour plates by Lilian Medland. Publisher's quarter morocco, lacks dustwrapper, otherwise a very good copy. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, preliminary spots and tape mars, grubby, spotty dustwrapper. More