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Tweed Heads: Australian Birdkeeper, 1987. Quarto, colour photographs, the first six issues. More
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Tweed Heads: Australian Birdkeeper, 1987. Quarto, colour photographs, the first six issues. More
St Kilda: Exacto Press, 1967. Octavo, some spotting on cover, wrappers. More
St Kilda: Exacto Press, 1958. Octavo, wrappers, very scarce. More
London: Cage Birds, [c1960]. Quarto, ten printed colour plates by R. A. Vowles in publisher's printed folder. More
St Ives: Colourmaster International, [no date]. Small octavo, colour photographs,softcover. More
London: "The Feathered World" [1911]. Octavo, uncoloured frontispeice, photographs. Publisher's green cloth, a handsome copy of a scarce book. More
London: Collins, 2002. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Hindhead: Saiga, 1981. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Melbourne: N. H. Seward, 1949. Small quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy, lacks dustwrapper. More
Fond du Lac: All-Pets Books, 1954. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, publisher's cloth with the Glossy Black Cockatoo blindstamp of Sir Edward Hallstrom. More
Garden City: New York Zoological Society, (1931. first edition). Quarto, colour plates by Lodge and others, a fine set in publisher's cloth. The reduced format version of Beebe's monumental 'A monograph of the pheasants', 1914-1918. More
Liss: Nimrod Book Services, 1985. Small quarto, photographs, text illustrations bookplate,, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1961. Octavo, colour illustrations, lacks dustwrapper. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., [1878]. Large quarto, 56 chromolithographs and numerous wood-engravings. Publisher's (?) contemporary half morocco and morocco grained cloth, gilt spine, all edges gilt, hefty owner's inscriptions on upper blank endpaper, a very good copy. More
Keston: Keston foreign bird Farm, 1934-1938. Octavo, coloured and uncoloured plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt cockatoo, a very good set, scarce. The Keston Bird Farm, established by Edward Boosey in the 1920's was a very successful operation until World War Two and beyond. Although the business imported birds its..... More
London: Rockliff, 1956. Octavo, photographs, lacks dustwrapper. Edward Boosey was the head birdkeeper for the Duke of Bedford, after leaving his employ he set up the Keston Bird Farm in the 1930's. His two best known books, the other being foreign Bird keeping, are entertaining and well written. More
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Small folio, 13 plates and accompanying text leaves, two appendices (one by Keith Hindwood). Black full morocco, limited edition of 500 copies, signed and numbered by a Broinowski descendant, a fine copy. With two useful appendices. Apendix A: Table of nomenclature. Appendix B: Gracius Joseph Broinowski;..... More
Wisconsin: All-Pets Books, 1955. Octavo, text illustrations, inscription, grubby publisher's cloth otherwise a good copy. More
Alton: Nimrod Press, 1991. Octavo, More
London: The Feathered World, [1907]. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, slightly rubbed, very scarce. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1938. Octavo, eleven colour plates, photographs, text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, embossed stamp and the signature of Norman Wettenhall, a very good copy. One of the better twentieth century Australian bird books. All parrot book collectors need a decent copy. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1935. second edition). Octavo, coloured frontispiece, chipped and dust stained dustwrapper (NOT AS PICTURED), some spotting. The dustwrapper spine has 'second edition'. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1933. first edition). Octavo, uncoloured frontispiece (the second edition has a coloured frontispiece), colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, bookplate, scarce. Neville Cayley illustrated the first standard for Australian show budgiergars and was very involved in the promotion of the hobby of Budgerigar breeding. This book is..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1933. first edition). Octavo, uncoloured frontispiece (the second edition has a coloured frontispiece), colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, owner's florid signature on endpaper, also his signature on title page, tipped in the upper dustwrapper and a newspaper cutting describing a substantial collection in Geelong, scarce. Neville..... More