Linnaeus: progress and prospects in Linnean research.
Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1980. Octavo, publisher's printed cloth. More
Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1980. Octavo, publisher's printed cloth. More
Adelaide: Rigby, 1984. Quarto, colour illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. A very useful account of the early exploration of Australian natural history and a solid reference for anyone interested in the subject. The author was the recipient of the Museum of Victoria's Science and Humanities Scholarship. More
New York: Abbeville Press, (1987. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1967. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, some wear, softcover. More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1964. reprint). Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Suffolk: Halesworth Press, 1980. Quarto, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1998. Octavo, softcover. More
New York: Mayflower Books, 1978, Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: John Murray, 1928. Octavo, maps, minor foxing confined to preliminaries and edges, bookplates, publisher's cloth, fine copy. More
London: Portman Books, (1989. reprint). Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Adelaide: South Australian Government Printer, 1989. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) was the son of Samuel White (1835-1880) of "Reedbeds" South Australia. He was a prominent ornithologist of his day and organised many scientific expeditions around the turn of the twentieth century. This is..... More
Adelaide: South Australian Government Printer, 1989. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) was the son of Samuel White (1835-1880) of "Reedbeds" South Australia. He was a prominent ornithologist of his day and organised many scientific expeditions around the turn of the twentieth century. This is a...... More
[Melbourne]: Melbourne Council of the National Museum of Victor, 1975. Octavo, wrappers, plus folding chart. More
London: Academic Press, 1998. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This book examines the history and uses of bird skins and is a very useful for anyone interested in the history of ornithology. There are 160 period photographs showing famous collectors and ornithological expeditions. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Quarto, colour photographs and illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Philadelphia developed the most active scientific community in early America, fostering an influential group of naturalist-artists, including William Bartram, Charles Willson Peale, Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon, whose work has been addressed by many..... More
Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 1985. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Octavo, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums' shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Robbins considers nearly every aspect of France's obsession with exotic fauna, from the vast literature on exotic animals and the inner workings of the oiseleurs' (birdsellers') guild to how the animals were transported, housed and cared for... More
London: H F & G Witherby, (1990. second edition). Quarto, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. First published 1953 in folio and one of the best bird book bibliographies. This smaller format second edition has an additional appendix by Handasyde Buchanan on printing techniques and is a lot easier..... More
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988. Small folio, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This volume contains many little-known works of art from the voyage of the first fleet and from the early years of settlement, selected from more than 600 drawings and paintings of Australian subjects held in the British Museum..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sheringham: Wren Publishing, 2002. Quarto, illustrations, a fine secondhand copy in dustwrapper. A biography of the acclaimed bird artist and field ornithologist, Richard Richardson, who lived at Cley between 1949 and 1977, This beautiful book also contains many excerpts from his personal bird diaries, which he kept from 1949 to..... More
London: Christopher Helm, 2003. Octavo, colour illustrations, dustwrapper. The first modern history of ornithology, tracing its development from the seventeenth century. Includes reference to the lives and works of such people as Linnaeus, Darwin and Wallace, as well as many other lesser-known figures. More
New York: St Martin's Press, 1981. Octavo, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. Published in collaboration with the Gilbert White Museum. More
Sydney: Royal Australasian Historical Society, 1933. Octavo, binder's cloth, stiff wrappers retained. More