Some birds and mammals of Africa: with a descriptive text by Hilary Hook.
London: Tryon Gallery, 1979. Folio, 14 colour plates. Publisher's blue quarter calf and marbled boards, slipcase. Limited to 505 copies. More
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The John James Audubon portfolio: a selection of the original drawings and watercolors used in the making of Birds of America accompanied by a choice of Audubon's writings.
Edition de la Main Fleurie, 2004. Quarto, 48 prints. WAS $1,800. Edited with a introduction by Ben Forkner. An edition of high quality reproductions of his original watercolors, along with key notes and correspondence by Audubon and a biographical introduction. Printed in a 14-point font on 200g deckled cream stock..... More
The original water-color paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America.
New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1966. Small folio, 431 colour plates by Audubon, fine copy in very good dustwrapper. The cheaper single volume issue, published the same year as a two volume set in a slipcase. More
A memoir of Thomas Bewick, written by himself.
London: Oxford University Press, 1975. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Originally published 1862. More
Notes by F. G. Stephens on a collection of drawings and woodcuts by Thomas Bewick, exhibited at the Fine Art Society's Rooms, 1880. Also a complete list of all works illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick, with their various editions.
London: The Fine Art Society, 1881. Quarto, 32 illustrations from original wood blocks. Publisher's leather-grained cloth, all edges coloured, a few spots throughout, otherwise a very good copy. More
John James Audubon: the watercolours for The birds of America.
New York: Random House, (2004. reprint). Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. A showcase for Audubon's stunning colour plates, reproduced directly from the surviving original watercolours. More
A flutter of butterflies.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2011. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. A stunning selection of butterfly and moth illustrations held by the National Library of Australia. The works span the years from the 1770s, through the early colonial period to the turn of the twenty-first century. As well as containing a...... More
Birds in art: the masters.
Wausau: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, 1990. Octavo, oblong format, colour plates, text illustrations. Torn dustwrapper. More
The bird in art.
London: Merrell Publishers, 2012. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. There has until now been no proper study of the bird in art, despite our fascination with birds, and despite the wealth of complex meanings associated with them in different cultures. A number of pagan gods are linked with..... More
Sydney Parkinson: artist of Cook's Endeavour voyage.
Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1983. Oblong format, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
John James Audubon and his circle: the collections of Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955) and his son Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966).
New York: Christie, Manson and Woods International Inc, 1993. Quarto, colour illustrations, publisher's cloth binding, very good. Auction catalogue. More
Idlings in Arcadia.
New York: E P Dutton, 1935. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The art of natural history.
London: Bracken Books, (1981. reprint). Quarto, colour plates, dustwrapper. First published 1978 as 'The art of natural history: animal illustrators and their work'. More
The art of natural history: animal illustrators and their work.
London: Country Life, 1978. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in slipcase. More
Classic natural history prints: Birds of prey by Joseph Wolf.
London: Studio Editions, 1991. Small folio, colour plates, very good in dustwrapper. More
Classic natural history prints: Birds.
London: Studio Editions, 1990. Small folio, colour plates, a very good copy, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Other Edens: the sketchbook of an artist naturalist.
Old Greenwich: Devin-Adair, 1979. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The British bird.
London: Oxford University Press, 1943. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, colour plates by Ennion. More
Turner on birds: a short and succinct history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle, first published by Doctor William Turner, 1544
Cambridge: [Cambridge] University Press, 1903. Octavo, Publisher's cloth, library stamps and signature on title page. More
Thorburn's birds.
London: Ebury Press, 1967. Quarto, colour plates, signature, bookplate, dustwrapper. More
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John Gould's Birds [of Great Britain].
Secauacus: Chartwell Books, 1980. Quarto, colour plates, dustwrapper. With an excellent essay on Gould and his circle by Maureen Lambourne. All the plates from Birds of Great Britain, first published 1862-1873, are figured. More
Thornton's Temple of Flora with plates faithfully reproduced from the original engravings.
London: Collins, 1951. Large folio, 31 coloured and uncoloured plates. Publisher's half morocco and slipcase, spine lightly sunned. Limited to 250 numbered copies and signed by the three contributors. More
Decoys of Maritime Canada.
Exton: Schiffer, 1983. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Selected American game birds.
Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, (1980. reprint). Oblong format, 26 full page plates. More
The art of Raymond Ching.
Auckland: Collins, Small folio, colour plates, very good copy in sunned slipcase. More