Parrots of Australasia.
Melbourne: N. H. Seward, 1949. Small quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy, lacks dustwrapper. More
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Melbourne: N. H. Seward, 1949. Small quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy, lacks dustwrapper. 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
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1992. Quarto, colour photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. National Photographic Index, number seven. More
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999. Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Each species account includes sections on field identification, habitat, distribution and population, movements and migration, food, social organisation, social behaviour, voice, breeding, plumage and morphology, and references. This volume completes the Non-passerines and covers Cockatoos..... More
London: Dean and Son, [c1870]. Octavo, uncoloured plates, coloured boards, advertisement endpaper detached, scarce. Dean Pratical Guide Books. The plates, originally hand coloured, are taken from the 1833 Lauder and Brown The miscellany of natural history, volume one: parrots. Nine Australian species are figured. More
Chatswood: New Holland, (2018. reprint). Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Fact panels throughout cover a wide range of topics. The pages are alive with entertaining and informative text accompanied by exciting action photography. Other green guides in the series are frogs, mammals, spiders, birds, snakes and other reptiles, and sharks..... More
Sydney: F W White, 1891. Octavo, signature of Cecil Rix with annotations, paper boards and cloth spine, title page laid down. PROVENANCE: the copy of Cecil Rix (1905-1997), a stalwart of South Australian ornithology and regular contributor to The South australian Ornithologist (Obituary, volume 33, 1998). More