Sun Nature Books, numbers one to ten.
Melbourne: Sun Newspaper, [1932-1936]. Quarto, photographs and text illustrations. Binder's cloth, scarce. A complete set of the Sun Nature Books, with Neville Cayley junior illustrations. More
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Melbourne: Sun Newspaper, [1932-1936]. Quarto, photographs and text illustrations. Binder's cloth, scarce. A complete set of the Sun Nature Books, with Neville Cayley junior illustrations. 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
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1933. first edition). Octavo, uncoloured frontispiece, signature, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper (NOT AS PICTURED). The genuine first edition dustwrapper does not have the edition printed on the spine, as with this copy. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1935. second edition). Octavo, coloured frontispiece, signature, a very good copy in slightly chipped dustwrapper. The dustwrapper spine has 'second edition'. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1984. first edition). Quarto, slipcase, numerous colour plates by Neville Cayley, fine good copy in dustwrapper. The large format edition completely revised and updated by Terry Lindsay, with 400 previously unpublished plates and two excellent essays by Arnold McGill and Allan McEvey. More
London: Angus and Robertson, (1983. reprint). Octavo, 13 colour plates by Neville Cayley, stamp, sunned spine, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. A heavily revised re-issue of Neville Cayley's 1938 classic. Alan Lendon was a prominent Adelaide medico and aviculturist who held one of the finest collections of Australian..... More
Melbourne: Bird Observers' Club, 1935-1936. Octavo, two coloured plates by Neville W. Cayley. Publisher's printed wrappers, fine copy, scarce. An early attempt by the Bird Observers' Club to produce a serious journal. There are some quality contributors including Jack Hyett (his first efforts?), Dudley Dickison, A. G. Campbell and Alec..... More
Melbourne: Bird Observers' Club, 1935-1936. Octavo, two coloured plates by Neville W. Cayley. Binder's cloth, wrappers retained. An early attempt by the Bird Observers' Club to produce a serious journal. There are some quality contributors including Jack Hyett (his first efforts?), Dudley Dickison, A. G. Campbell and Alec Chisholm... More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, dustwrapper, lavishly illustrated throughout with colour and black and white illustrations. Personal inscription by author. The first and only proper biography of both Cayleys. This skillfully researched and handsomely produced book charts the lives and works of this Australian father-and-son pair of bird..... More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, lavishly illustrated, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first and only proper biography of both Cayleys. This skillfully researched and handsomely produced book charts the lives and works of this Australian father-and-son pair of bird artists. Neville Henry, peripatetic, often impecunious and with a...... More
Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens, 1936. Large octavo, illustrated by Neville Cayley, photographs. Publisher's printed wrappers, foxed covers, scarce (not as pictured). An important early work on captive budgerigars in Australia with the first standard and show rules. The artwork for the first standard show Australian budgerigar was by Neville W...... More