Edinburgh: Stationery Office, 2006. Quarto, laminated boards, illustrations. Waterbirds are one the world's most attractive group of birds and among the most threatened. These include albatrosses, flamingos, swans, geese, ducks, cranes, waders, gulls, terns and auks... They share a dependency on the world's wetlands-seas, coasts, estuaries, lagoons, lochs, rivers, marshlands... More about Waterbirds around the world

Glasgow: Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. Octavo, colour photographs, line drawings, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 110. David Cabot has been obsessed with wildfowl for nearly sixty years. In this seminal new work, he discusses the 56 species of wildfowl that have been recorded either in a natural state, or... More about Wildfowl of Britain and Ireland

London: Country Life, (1956. first edition). Octavo, colour plates by Peter Scott, very good copy in dustwrapper, owner's signature on endpaper. More about The waterfowl of the world [volume two only

Ottawa: Canadian Wildlife Service, Monograph Series No. 4, 1971. Octavo, photographs, graphs, line drawings. More about Buffleheads

London: British Museum (Natural History), 1883. Octavo, nine handcoloured plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume eight from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More about Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds in the Collection of the British Museum....

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1925. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. More about Bird life on island and shore

London: Croom Helm, 1984. Octavo, colour plates by Robert Gillmor and Peter Hayman, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about The herons handbook

London: Academic Press, 1999. Large octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. Wetlands are special places whose complex ecosystems provide homes for rich and varied assemblages of bird inhabitants. Herons, storks, ibises, spoonbills, anhingas, shorebirds and birds of prey all make a living there, each according to their own special needs. Although... More about Birds of the wetlands

London: British Museum (Natural History), 1890. Octavo, 15 chromolithographic plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps, partly unopened. Volume 15 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More about Catalogue of the Picariea in the Collection of the British Museum. Scansores, containing the...

Cambridge: [Cambridge] University Press, 1940. Quarto, text illustrations by G. E. Lodge, very good copy in dustwrapper. More about A waterhen's worlds

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, dustwrapper. More about Ducks, geese, and swans of the world

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1968. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about Waterfowl: their biology and natural history