Bird books and bird art. An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology [facsimile].
Amsterdam: Junk, 1973. Quarto, uncoloured illustrations. More
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Tadpoles and frogs of Australia.
Sydney: New Holland Publishers, (2026. third edition). Quarto, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps. The first edition of this iconic and ground-breaking book won a Whitley Silver Medal Award for the best Australian book on Zoology in 2013. Due to major recent taxonomic revisions, this Third Edition is a completely updated..... More
Australian birds: their nests and eggs (facsimile edition).
Sydney: Woodslane Press, 2021. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. First published in 1980, this latest edition is a thorough reference guide to nest and egg identification, with all colour plates and much additional material. Shape, size, colour, number of eggs in a clutch - all help identify the bird to which..... More
British birds with their nests and eggs.
London: Brumby & Clarke, [1896-1899]. Quarto, 342 lithographed plates (24 coloured) by Frohawk. Handsome publisher's gilt decorated yellow cloth, all edges gilt, bookplate, some minor wear otherwise a very good set. Anker 88; Nissen IVB 167; Zimmer, p. 119. More
Nests and eggs of the Australian Accipitres, or diurnal birds of prey [drop title].
Sydney: Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1895. Octavo, modern binder's marbled boards. More
Birds of the British Isles and their eggs.
London: Frederick Warne, (1975. second edition), Octavo, colour plates, price clipped dustwrapper. Originally published as a three-volume work. The colour plates are by Archibald Thorburn and others. More
The birds of the British Isles and their eggs.
London: Frederick Warne and Company, (1933. fourth edition). Octavo, photographs and other illustrations, a very good set in chipped, unclipped dustwrappers. More
Bird homes: the nests, eggs and breeding habits of the land birds breeding in the eastern United States, with hints on the rearing and photographing of young birds.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902. Octavo, photographs, signature. More
Eggs and nests of British birds.
London: Hutchinson and Co., [no date]. Small octavo, photographs, inscription, publisher's cloth. More
America's other Audubon.
Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012. Quarto, colour illustrations, photographs, publisher's quarter cloth and printed boards. Chronicles the story of Genevieve Jones, her family, and the making of an extraordinary nineteenth century book, "Illustrations of the nests and eggs of birds of Ohio". At the age of twenty-nine, Genevieve Jones, visited..... More
Passions in ornithology: a century of Australian egg collectors.
Sydney: Author, 2020. Quarto, dustwrapper, photographs, with cd in pocket of rear paste down. Limited to 400 copies. An outstanding reference for anyone interested in Australian ornithology. With 303 detailed biographical entries, complete with portrait photographs and other photographs, of anyone who has been prominent in Australian egg collecting. The..... More
Passions in ornithology: a century of Australian egg collectors. Supplementary edition.
Sydney: Author, 2021. Quarto, paperback. photographs, with cd in pocket of rear paste down. Go to our stock id [41733] for the primary edition. AU$95.00. More
Ootheca Wolleyana: an illustrated catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs begun by the late John Wolley and continued with additions by Alfred Newton.
London: R. H. Porter, 1864-1907. Large octavo, portrait, 37 lithographed plates mostly coloured, folding coloured map. Binder's cloth retaining the two printed front wrappers in each volume, top edges gilt, others uncut, a fine copy, scarce. John Wolley (1824-1859) assembled a fine egg collection and was deeply involved, with his..... More
The pre-egg stage in Buller's Mollymawk.
Sydney: Author? 1949. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, softcover. More
The avian egg.
Sydney: John Wiley and Sons, 1949. Octavo, signature, publisher's cloth, fine copy. More
A history of British birds, with coloured illustrations of their eggs.
London: Author, 1884. Octavo, text illustrations, Publisher's cloth, a few short tears to the spine of volume one. bookplate and owner's blindstamp, a fine set. More
Birds of our country and of the dominions, colonies and dependencies: their life, eggs, nests and identification.
London: Hutchinson, [c1946. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. Originally published as a series of 24 paperbacks from 1939 to 1940. David Seth-Smith (1875–1963) was the curator of mammals and birdirds for the Zoological Society of London and long term editor the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club and the Avicultural Magazine..... More
The White family of Belltrees: 150 years in the Hunter Valley.
Scone: Seven Press, 1981. Large octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. A book of great interest to anyone interested in the history of Australian ornithology. Henry Luke White assembled the best ever collection of Australian birds eggs as well as a fine skin collection. He was also a noted bibliophile..... More
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