London: Collins, 1980. Octavo, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in laminated boards. A very useful and intelligent book, well written and recommended for anyone who wants to make better use of their birdwatching hobby. More
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Octavo, photographs, map. New Guinea is famous for its spectacular bird fauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Of the nearly 800 species of birds recorded from New Guinea, more than..... More
London: The Sea-Bird Group, 1965-1969. Folio, roneoed typescript, scarce. Numbered one to seven, but lacking issue number six. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2008. Large octavo, fine copy in laminated boards. Includes the standard Australian bird checklist and covers the systematics and taxonomy of the Australian avifauna. An essential reference for all seriously interested in the subject. A major revision of the previous checklist published in 1994. Lists those species..... More
London: Dulau and Co., 1913. Octavo, tables. Publisher's blue cloth, floral endpapers, sunned, few flecks, a good copy. More
Cambridge MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2008-2012. Octavo, photographs, a fine set in publisher's cloth. Nuttall Ornithological Club Memoir No. 18. The first two volumes in a series of essays by prominent ornithologists about Australasian ornithology. This book includes chapters on Gould's collector John Gilbert; ornithology at the Auckland Museum, the..... More
Cambridge MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2012. Octavo, photographs,text illustrations, publisher's cloth. Nuttall Ornithological Club Memoir No. 18. The second of a projected three volumes on the history of Australasian ornithology, is an important contribution to the field. It contains chapters on the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (including: Birds Australia, and..... More
Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1937. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 81, number one. More
Canberra: Australian Academy of Science, 1976. Octavo, illustrations. Publisher's cloth, very good copy. More
New York: W. H. Freeman, (1995. second edition). Small quarto, text illustrations, very good copy in laminated boards. Covers evolution; development of anatomical features (feathers, bills, wings), social and reproductive behaviour, survival methods, communication, and conservation. More
London: Grafton & Co., 1951. Octavo, publisher's cloth, sunned spine, a good copy. More
Sydney: BP Exploration (Alaska) Ltd., [1989. second edition). Octavo, coloured map, a fine copy. More
Sydney: Reed, 1980. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. More
New York: American Ornithologists Union, 1991. Octavo, wrappers, minor blemishes, a fine copy. More
Codicote: Wheldon and Wesley, (1986. facsimile). Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
Sydney: The Willughby Society, (1882. facsimile). Small quarto, publisher's printed red wrappers, some wear, partly unopened. Originally published in 1786. More
New York: Royal Ontario Museum, 1983. Octavo, illustrations, maps. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1934. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, colour plates. Publisher's green pebble-grained cloth lettered in silver, a contemporary ink inscription dated October 1934, a very good copy. The first true bird field guide and one of the most influential natural history books of all time. This copy is..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This book - a visual guide to the structure and anatomy of birds - is one of the most heavily illustrated ornithology references ever written. A concise atlas of avian anatomy, it contains more than 200 specifically..... More
Staten Island: Maurizio Martino, [1995]. Octavo, uncoloured frontispiece, publisher's boards. First published Yale University Press, 1961. More
Nelson: Ornithological Society of New Zealand, 1999. Octavo, text illustrations, maps, signature, softcover. Notornis, journal of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand, Volume 46, part 1. More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs. WAS $70. The Flight of the Emu is a history of Australian birding in the twentieth century. The Emu of the title comes from the hundred-year old journal of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union (later Birds Australia), but the book is much..... More
London: Collins, (1975. first edition). Octavo, photographs, inscription, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. An excellent summary of Australian ornithology and still useful. More
Johannesburg: The Willughby Society, (1880. facsimile). Octavo, publisher's printed red wrappers, some wear, partly unopened. Originally published circa 1830. More
Paris: The Willughby Society, (1883. facsimile). Octavo, publisher's printed red wrappers, some wear, partly unopened. Originally published in 1816, text in French. More