London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1930. Quarto, 16 plates (nine coloured) by Edward Wilson. Publisher's printed wrappers, some slight chipping. From the British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report. Zoology, Volume four, number five: Birds. The plates by Edward Wilson are some of the finest Anatarctic natural..... More

Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2012. Small quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. In 1813, author, illustrator, printmaker and natural historian, John William Lewin created the first illustrated book ever published in Australia - Birds of New South Wales. Featuring more than 150 exquisite artworks, Neville takes a fascinating look at Lewin's life and..... More

London: Methuen and Company, 1967. Octavo, 160 colour-plates, very good set in dustwrappers. The two volume issue, there is an issue of the exact same book in a single volume. More

Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2012. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. In 1838, John Gould, the father of Australian ornithology visited Australia with the intention of gathering material for his great work The Birds of Australia: In Seven Volumes (1848), and the accompanying Supplement (1869). Since then, a number of species..... More