Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More

London: Academic Press, (1983. second edition). Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Handsomely produced and illustrated, this excellent series is the standard work on the birds of Africa. More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1986. reprint). Quarto, colour plates, maps, other illustrations. Birds of the Western Palearctic (commonly known as BWP) is the greatest scientific bird book ever published. Complete in nine volumes, it covers 770 species of birds, of which about 600 are breeding species. Each breeding species is..... More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Quarto, 12 colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. A volume in the Bird families of the world series that takes a comprehensive look at the natural history and biology of the ratites and tinamous, including ostriches, emus, cassowaries and kiwis. Each of the..... More

Shrewsbury: Swan Hill Press, 1991. Small folio, colour plates and drawings by Ray Harris-Ching, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More

The Hague: Dr W. Junk, 1975. Octavo, text illustrations, folding maps, owner's stamp and signature, very good copy in blemished dustwrapper, scarce. More

London: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1891. Quarto, 16 lithographed plates, mostly coloured. Publisher's wrappers, chipped and detached. Volume eight. More

Napier, New Zealand;: Hawks Bay Art Gallery & Museum, (1950. third edition). Octavo, photographs, wrappers. with a photograph of Kiwis by Russell Orr. Some observations on the famous flightless birds of New Zealand as told to Robert Giddings by the author at the Acclimatization Farm near Napier. Nesting records have..... More