Preliminary list of works and papers relating to the Mammalian orders Cete and Sirenia (1495-1840) [facsimile].
Hythe: A. D. Lilly, (1977. facsimile). Octavo, softcover. First published 1881. More
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Bird books and bird art. An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology [facsimile].
Amsterdam: Junk, 1973. Quarto, uncoloured illustrations. More
Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia.
Milson's Point: Currawong Press, (1982. facsimile). Octavo, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. First published 1860. An important early work on the Platypus. Bennett sent specimens, plus his own observations, to Richard Owen and the mystery was finally solved. More
A general history of quadrupeds: the figures engraved on wood.
London: Ward Lock Reprints, (1970. facsimile). Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. First published in 1790. "Such animals as I knew, I drew from memory on the wood; others which I did not know were copied from 'Dr Smellie's Abridgement of Buffon,' and other naturalists, and also from the..... More
The Skottowe manuscript: select specimens from nature of the birds, animals etc etc. of New South Wales.
Sydney: David Ell Press, 1988. Octavo, 27 full-page watercolours. Publisher's cloth and slipcase, limited to 550 copies, a fine copy. The manuscript, now held in the Mitchell Library, was created in 1813 by the colonial official Thomas Skottowe, using the illustrations of the convict artist Robert Browne. More
![Stock ID 5493 The Cockatoos and Nestors of Australia and New Zealand [facsimile]. Gracius J....](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5493.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1667264444)
The Cockatoos and Nestors of Australia and New Zealand [facsimile].
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Small folio, 13 plates and accompanying text leaves, two appendices (one by Keith Hindwood). Black full morocco, limited edition of 500 copies, signed and numbered by a Broinowski descendant, a fine copy. With two useful appendices. Apendix A: Table of nomenclature. Appendix B: Gracius Joseph Broinowski;..... More
The Platypus.
Adelaide: Rigby, (1974. facsimile). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The Batrachia of North America.
Ashton: Eric Lundberg, (1963. facsimile). Octavo, illustrations. More
Coursing and falconry.
Southampton: Ashford Press, (1986. facsimile). Octavo, More
Travels in New Zealand: with contributions to the geography, geology, botany and natural history of that country.
London: John Murray, 1843. Octavo, five lithographed plates (four tinted.) Contemporary calf, spines fully gilt with red and green labels, all edges speckled, bookplate, some foxing but otherwise an attractive set. More
![Stock ID 5952 The student's handbook of British mosses [facsimile]. H. N. Dixon, H. G. Jameson](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5952.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1550804640)
The student's handbook of British mosses [facsimile].
Codicote: Wheldon & Wesley, (1970. third edition). Octavo, 63 black and white plates, fine copy. More
The student's handbook of British mosses.
London: Wheldon & Wesley, (1954. third edition). Octavo, uncoloured plates. Publisher's cloth, some wear and owner's inscriptions. More
![Stock ID 11412 Neue classification der reptilien [facsimile]. Leopold Fitzinger](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11412.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669354237)
Neue classification der reptilien [facsimile].
Ithaca: SSAR Publications, 1997. Quarto, cloth, folding table. Introduction by Robert Mertens. More
Thomas Johnson: botanical journeys in Kent and Hampstead. A facsimile reprint with introduction and translation of his Iter Plantarum 1629, Descriptio Itineris Plantarum 1632.
Pittsburgh: Hunt Botanical Library, 1972. Quarto, text illustrations, folding map, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
![Stock ID 3952 The birds of Australia [volume five, the parrot and pigeon volume]. John Gould](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3952.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1637815542)
The birds of Australia [volume five, the parrot and pigeon volume].
Melbourne: Hill House, (1989. facsimile). Folio, 92 colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, fine copy. More
![Stock ID 39570 Birds of Australia, [complete set]. John Gould](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/39570.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1671574656)
Birds of Australia, [complete set]
Melbourne: Hill House, 1989-1996. Folio, colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, a fine set. A complete set of the Hill House facsimile of John Gould's Birds of Australia (1840-1868), and way superior to the Lansdowne facsimile published 1972-1975. Some of the Hill House facsimile volumes were produced in very small numbers..... More
![Stock ID 13996 A monograph of the Macropodidae, or family of kangaroos [facsimile]. John Gould](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13996.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1670029241)
A monograph of the Macropodidae, or family of kangaroos [facsimile].
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Folio, 30 colour plates. Publisher's cloth with locket portrait, limited edition of 750 copies numbered and signed by Joan M. Dixon, a very good copy. This is a facsimile edition of the two-part work, A Monograph of the Macropodidae of Family of Kangaroos, published by John..... More
Musee botanique de M. Bejamin Delessert.
Codicote: Wheldon and Wesley, 1970. Octavo, publisher's cloth, bookplate. with an introduction by F. A. Stafleau. More
![Stock ID 43232 Natural history of parrots [facsimile]. Francois Le Vaillant](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43232.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1671753624)
Natural history of parrots [facsimile].
Sydney: Imprimé, 1989. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in publisher's handsome green cloth, spine slightly creased. This reduced facsimile has a full English translation from the French of the original text. More
A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, collected, engraved, and faithfully painted after nature [facsimile]. Introduction and bibliographical descriptions by Allan McEvey.
Melbourne: Queensberry Hill Press, 1978. Folio, 26 colour plates with single text leaf, followed by an Index of synonymes, the original list of subscribers and a final leaf for the Queensberry Hill Press subscribers. Publisher's handsome brown full calf in a Solander Box (some splitting and bumping), limited to 500..... More
Sertum orchidaceum: a wreath of the most beautiful orchidaceous flowers.
New York: Johnson Reprint, (1973. facsimile). Folio, 49 colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, limited edition of 1000 numbered copies, fine copy. First published 1838. More
![Stock ID 7431 A bibliography of British ornithology [facsimile]. W. H. Mullens, H. Kirke Swann](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7431.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1550831475)
A bibliography of British ornithology [facsimile].
Hitchin: Wheldon and Wesley, 1986. Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
![Stock ID 14310 Elephant hunting in East Equatorial Africa [facsimile]. Arthur H. Neumann](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14310.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1576637175)
Elephant hunting in East Equatorial Africa [facsimile].
Bulawayo: Books of Zimbabwe, 1982. Octavo, photographs. Torn dustwrapper. More
Scopoli's ornithological papers from the delicae florae et faunae insubricae (Ticini: 1786-1788).
London: The Willughby Society, (1882. facsimile). Small quarto, publisher's printed red wrappers, some wear, partly unopened. Originally published in 1786. More
The biology of the amphibia.
New York: Dover Publications, (1954. facsimile). Octavo, paperback, text figures. Some shelf wear, otherwise a good copy. Reprint of the standard work on the natural history and biology of frogs, toads and salamanders. More