Sun Nature Books, numbers one to ten.
Sydney: Sun Newspaper, [1932-1936]. Quarto, photographs and text illustrations. Binder's cloth, scarce. A complete set of the Sun Nature Books, with Neville Cayley junior illustrations. More
Sydney: Sun Newspaper, [1932-1936]. Quarto, photographs and text illustrations. Binder's cloth, scarce. A complete set of the Sun Nature Books, with Neville Cayley junior illustrations. More
1897. Octavo, Watercolour on paper, 60cm by 5 cm including mount and frame, signed Neville Cayley 1897. Some foxing. 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
c[1940]. Watercolour on paper 35cm by 52 cm, signed N. W. Cayley. Contemporary frame in a modern mount. Neville William Cayley (1887-1950), son of the bird artist Neville Henry Pennington Cayley, is the best known of all Australian bird artists. If there is one bird book the average Australian can..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1954. reprint). Octavo, colour plates, near fine copy in excellent dustwrapper (some slight tears and chipping.) The first comprehensive Australian bird guide and the most successful Australian natural history book ever published. Probably over a million copies have been sold and it has been continuously in..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1984. first edition). Quarto, numerous colour plates by Neville Cayley, very good copy in slightly spine-sunned dustwrapper. The large format edition completely revised and updated by Terry Lindsay, with 400 previously unpublished plates and two excellent essays by Arnold McGill and Allan McEvey. More
London: Country Life, 1944. Octavo, photographs. The bookplate of Keith Hindwood (designed by Neville William Cayley) and ownership stamp of Harold Tarr (a president of the bird Observers' Club). More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1936. Octavo, very good copy in publisher's cloth, "To M. S. R. S. [Michael Sharland] with compliments and regards K. A. Hindwood April 1947". Also with Hindwood's Neville William Cayley bookplate (one of two known Cayely bookplates). More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1976. reprint). Octavo, 13 colour plates by Neville Cayley, near mint copy in dustwrapper. A heavily revised re-issue of Neville Cayley's 1938 classic. Alan Lendon was a prominent Adelaide medico and aviculturist who held one of the finest collections of Australian parrots post World War Two..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1989. reprint). Octavo, 13 colour plates by Neville Cayley, fine copy in dustwrapper. A heavily revised re-issue of Neville Cayley's 1938 classic. Alan Lendon was a prominent Adelaide medico and aviculturist who held one of the finest collections of Australian parrots post World War Two... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1983. reprint). Octavo, 13 colour plates by Neville Cayley, inscription, a very good copy in dustwrapper. A heavily revised re-issue of Neville Cayley's 1938 classic. Alan Lendon was a prominent Adelaide medico and aviculturist who held one of the finest collections of Australian parrots post World..... More
Sydney: Bird Observers' Club, 1935-1936. Octavo, two coloured plates by Neville W. Cayley. Publisher's printed wrappers, fine copy, scarce. An early attempt by the Bird Observers' Club to produce a serious journal. There are some quality contributors including Jack Hyett (his first efforts?), Dudley Dickison, A. G. Campbell (son of..... More
Sydney: Bird Observers' Club, 1935-1936. Octavo, two coloured plates by Neville W. Cayley. Binder's cloth, wrappers retained. An early attempt by the Bird Observers' Club to produce a serious journal. There are some quality contributors including Jack Hyett (his first efforts?), Dudley Dickison, A. G. Campbell (son of A. J...... More