My foreign doves and pigeons.
London: "The Feathered World" [1911]. Octavo, uncoloured frontispeice, photographs. Publisher's green cloth, a handsome copy of a scarce book. More
London: "The Feathered World" [1911]. Octavo, uncoloured frontispeice, photographs. Publisher's green cloth, a handsome copy of a scarce book. More
London: Reaktion Books, 2009. Octavo, illustrations, bookplate, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. An exploration of the natural and cultural history of the pigeon, and the evolution of its relationship with humanity through the ages. Written out of love and fascination with a humble yet important bird, "Pigeon" relates its cultural significance..... More
London: Academic Press, 1986. Quarto, colour plates, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1992. Quarto, colour photographs, inscription pointing out error on page 286, fine copy in dustwrapper. National Photographic Index, number seven. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1992. Quarto, colour photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. National Photographic Index, number seven. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2015. reprint). Quarto, oblong format, colour illustrations. This reprint uses a heavier paper stock and includes an In Memoriam celebrating the life of the artist William T. Cooper (1934-2015). In 1973 Joseph Forshaw and William Cooper published to great acclaim their first collaboration, Parrots of the World..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2015. reprint). Quarto, oblong format, colour illustrations, signed bookplate by the author and artist, fine copy in dustwrapper. This reprint uses a heavier paper stock and includes an In Memoriam celebrating the life of the artist William T. Cooper (1934-2015). In 1973 Joseph Forshaw and William Cooper..... More
Adelaide: Rigby, 1982. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. An excellent treatment on the subject. The author as director of CSIRO Wildlife Division maintained an extensive collection of Australian pigeons and doves in Canberra. More
Adelaide: Rigby, 1982. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, stamp, very good dustwrapper. with an excellent chapter by David Rushton on the aviculture of pigeons and doves. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), (1970. second edition). Quarto, illustrations, maps, signature, very good copy in slightly chipped dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, maps, fine copy in slightly spine-sunned dustwrapper. Each species account includes sections on field identification, habitat, distribution and population, movements and migration, food, social organisation, social behaviour, voice, breeding, plumage and morphology, and references. This volume covers Snipe, Godwits, Curlews..... More
Cambridge: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Co., 1988. Quarto, text illustrations, softcover and spiral bound. More
Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1976. Folio, colour plates and text illustrations. Full brown calf, limited to 500 copies numbered and signed, a fine copy. More
Cape Town: David Philip, 1983. Octavo, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1893. Octavo, 14 chromolithograph plates. Publisher's brown cloth, partly unopened, apart from a library pocket and a small paper library stamp on the bottom of the spine, a near fine copy. Volume 21 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British..... More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1893. Octavo, 14 chromolithograph plates. Publisher's brown cloth, bookplate, a near fine copy. Volume 21 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. Wood p. 548; Zimmer p. 540. More
London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848. Quarto, hand coloured frontispiece. Handsome publisher's blind-panelled cloth, front cover with gilt Dodo vignette, bookplate, tipped in a separately published lithographic portrait of Strickland, a fine copy,very scarce in this condition. Anker 486; Fine Bird Books (reprint) p. 145; Nissen IVB 900; Wood p...... More
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More