London: Bombay Natural History Society, (1921. second edition). Tall octavo, 30 coloured plates by Gronvold, Lodge and Keulemans. Publisher's half morocco, slight wear and a few spots. The stamp "Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales" on the endpapers, half title and the verso of plates; inscribed "A. J. Basset... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Seawatching is the challenging act of identifying waterbirds in flight. Since more than one hundred different species can fly past an observation point, often at great speed or in tightly packed, mixed-species flocks, identification of these distant shapes can be a.... More
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1946. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
London: Croom Helm, 1986. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: T & A D Poyser, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour and black and white photographs, line drawings, graphs. PoyserA distinctive, handsome black-and-white bird, The Barnacle goose gets its name from a mediaeval myth that the birds hatched from barnacles - how else to explain their sudden appearance each autumn in... More
Poole: Blandford Press, 1982. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper. More
Edinburgh: Stationery Office, 2006. Quarto, laminated boards, illustrations. Waterbirds are one the world's most attractive group of birds and among the most threatened. These include albatrosses, flamingos, swans, geese, ducks, cranes, waders, gulls, terns and auks... They share a dependency on the world's wetlands-seas, coasts, estuaries, lagoons, lochs, rivers, marshlands... More
London: T & A D Poyser, 2003. Large octavo, dustwrapper, text illustrations, colour photographs. An in-depth look at the Whooper Swan, investigating its biology, migratory habits, courtship and breeding behaviour and its role in the folklore and legend of the many countries where it occurs. More
Vancouver: UBC Press, 1996. Octavo, photos., maps. With a chapter by Robert Bateman on the artist's view of nature. More
Washington: Stone Wall Press, (1980. reprint). Octavo, photographs, fine copy, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Watercolour on paper, signed "Neville Cayley" More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Octavo, owner's own signature. More
Melbourne: ICI Australia, (1978. third edition). Octavo, photographs, paperback. More
Melbourne: Imperial Chemical Industries, (1966. first edition). Octavo, photographs, paperback. More
New York: Times Books, 1980. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
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London: Country Life, (1956. first edition). Octavo, colour plates by Peter Scott, very good copy in dustwrapper, owner's signature on endpaper. More
London: Hamlyn, (1973. reprint). Quarto, 66 colour plates by Peter Scott, distribution maps. Later publisher's decorated cloth, each volume in a glassine wrapper, owner's sticker, a fine set. More
The Hague: Wetlands International, 2010. Oblong format, paperback, colour photographs. This booklet summarises what is known about the status of waterbird populations in different parts of the world, shows how numbers and population trends compare from region to region, and how they changed between the 1970s and the 2000s. The... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1981. Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: Random House, 1941. Quarto, colour plates, bookplate of Roy Cooper, a good copy in dustwrapper. More
Ottawa: Canadian Wildlife Service, Monograph Series No. 4, 1971. Octavo, photographs, graphs, line drawings. More
London: Picador, 2002. Octavo, dustwrapper, Snow geese spend their summers in the Canadian Arctic, on the tundra. Each autumn they migrate south, to Delaware, California and the Gulf of Mexico. In the spring, they fly north again. William Fiennes decided to go with them and to write about his travels... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Small quarto, dustwrapper, text illustrations, colour photographs, colour illustrations, maps. A new volume in the Bird families of the world series. Provides the most comprehensive and up to date information on this fascinating group of birds. Species accounts are accompanied by a distribution map. This... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1967. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Blandford Press, 1965. Octavo, text illustrations and colour plates, dustwrapper. More