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
Melbourne: Hill House, (1989. facsimile). Folio, 92 colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, fine copy. More
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
Melbourne: Hill House, 1988. Folio, 56 colour plates. Publisher's red cloth, a fine copy. The Bird of Paradise volume. More
South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1977. Folio, colour plates, fine copy in cardboard slipcase. More
Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1972. Octavo, Quarter morocco and cloth, with labels, a fine set. PROVENANCE: The specially bound set of Terry Greenwood, the publisher of Lansdowne Press and the originator of this facsimile. More
London: Author, 1865. Octavo, Publisher's handsome decorated cloth, front endpaper of volume one marked, otherwise a near fine copy. The Handbook is a significant elaboration of the text of Birds of Australia and Gould's final contribution to Australian ornithology. It is still a useful book in any working collection of..... More
London: Author, 1865. Octavo, Handsome publisher's blindstamped cloth with a gilt Lyrebird on upper boards and a decorative gilt design of a Bowerbird at its bower on the spines, a fine copy, very scarce in this condition. The Handbook is a significant elaboration of the text of Birds of Australia..... More
London: Author, 1848. Octavo, two wood-engraved illustrations, very good copy in publisher's cloth, inscribed "Nelson Matcham with the author's compliments Dec 14th 1869". "The Preface and Introduction to my Birds of Australia having been set up in small type for facility of correction, I have had a limited number of..... More
London: Author, 1848. Octavo, two wood-engraved illustrations. Publisher's cloth, substantial wear and blemishes. "William Sheridan Wall esq with the compliments of the author John Gould London Dec 28th 52". "The Preface and Introduction to my Birds of Australia having been set up in small type for facility of correction, I...... More
London: Author, 1863. Octavo, Publisher's cloth, slight wear and cracking to top of spine, inscribed "To R. Drummond esq. presented by the author May 7th .63" More
Melbourne: Macmillan, 1973. Folio, colour plates, Publisher's cloth and slipcase. More
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
Melbourne: Macmillan, 1976. Folio, colour plates, fine copy in slipcase. More
London: Author, 1837-1838. Large octavo, 73 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after Elizabeth Gould, with accompanying letterpress. A single leaf printed prospectus for this work and a single leaf printed prospectus for the 'Birds of Europe' at the front of part one. 8pp. appendix 'Description of New Species of Australian..... More
London: Author, 1837-1838. Large octavo, 73 finely coloured lithographed plates by Elizabeth Gould. Contemporary publisher's half green morocco and morocco-grained cloth, elaborate gilt-decorated spine, all edges gilt, the contents clean and crisp and the plates beautifully coloured, a fine copy. THE SECOND AND STANDARD ISSUE, in a 'Gould' binding with..... More