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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
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, softcover. A photographic identification guide to tanagers, cardinals, and finches. The photographs illustrate age, seasonal, and sexual variation in the species found north of Mexico, including introduced species and vagrants. It is designed to introduce the biology, identification, molts, vocalization, and..... More
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1961. Octavo, colour illustrations, lacks 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: Christopher Helm, (1993. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, distribution maps, owner's sticker, near fine copy in dustwrapper. Describes and illustrates in colour for the first time the plumages and most distinctive races of all 290 species in the Fringillidae, Carduelidae, Estrildidae and Passeridae families. Colour distribution maps are used..... More
Johannesburg: Winchester Press, 1984. Folio, colour plates by C. G. Finch-Davies. Publisher's cloth and slipcase, the subscriber's issue, a fine copy. More
Johannesburg: Winchester Press, 1986. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in slipcase, the subscribers' edition. More
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1930-1937. Octavo, coloured frontispeice, original wrappers, partially uncut,showing wear to extremities, library stamps of the RAOU, otherwise a good clean set. United States National Bulletin 153. Part 1: Non-passerines. Part 2: Passerines. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Octavo, colour plates. A classic account of evolutionary biology. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Octavo, paperback, colour plates. A detailed and careful examination of behavior and ecology in the wild. More
London: L. Upcott Gill, [1891]. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's red gilt cloth, a good copy. More
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2006. Quarto, 54 colour plates, text illustrations, maps, mint set in publisher's mailing carton. POSTAGE AN EXTRA $20 WITHIN AUSTRALIA. 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..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Octavo, laminated boards, graphs, illustrations. A study of the house finch, detailing the function and evolution of colorful plumage. More
Leiden: Brill, 1956. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Barron's, Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. More
London: Collins, 1957. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, owner's stamp, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, scarce. New Naturalist Monograph Number 15. More
Mountfield: Pica Press, 1996. Octavo, colour plates by the author, maps, owner's sticker, very good copy in dustwrapper. Covers a single genus (Lonchura) with 40 species of seed-eating passerines. Most are found in Asia and Australia, but six species occur in Africa and others have colonised various Pacific islands. The..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Large octavo, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. This projected four-volume series seems to have been abandoned after the publication of volume two. More
Oxford: University of Texas Press, 1989. Large octavo, colour plates, maps, slight blemishes, dustwrapper. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1888. Octavo, 16 handcoloured plates by Hart. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume twelve from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1890. Octavo, 15 chromolithographic plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume 13 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1890. Octavo, 15 colour plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, fine copy. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1996. Quarto, colour photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. National Photographic Index, number ten. More
Lusaka: Government Printer, 1963. Octavo, limp plastic, creases and tears to wrappers, rust marks over stapled binding, sound inside, very good copy. More