London: Random House, 2008. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. Author Bruce Barcott chronicles Sharon Matola's inspiring crusade to stop a multinational corporation in its tracks. Ferocious in her passion, she and her confederates - a ragtag army of courageous locals and eccentric expatriates - endure slander and reprisals and take..... More
Melbourne: N. H. Seward, 1949. Small quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy, lacks dustwrapper. More
![Stock ID 5493 The Cockatoos and Nestors of Australia and New Zealand [facsimile]. Gracius J....](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5493.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1667264444)
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
London: Reaktion Books, 2006. Octavo, illustrations, bookplate, signed by the author, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. Paul Carter's Parrot is a fascinating natural and cultural history of parrots. It covers three broad areas: 'Parrotics' - the historical, cultural and scientific classifications of parrots; 'Parroternalia' - the association of parrots with the..... More
Camarillo: Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, 1994. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, softcover. Proceedings of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, vol.5 no.4, May 1994. More
Brisbane: Alexander Editions, (2002. third revised edition). Quarto, colour plates by William T. Cooper, a fine copy in dustwrapper. Australian Parrots was first published in 1969 with tipped-in photographs by Len Robinson was an immediate success. A second edition, with a substantially revised text and illustrated by William T. Cooper..... More
Sydney: Lansdowne Editions, (1981. second edition). Small folio, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, (1988. reprint). Small folio, colour plates, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: Lansdowne Editions, (1981. second edition). Small folio, colour plates, signature, stamp, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Buxton: Nokomis Editions, 2016. Quarto, colour and black and white illustrations, oblong format, fine copy in publisher's cloth. This book is the final collaboration of Joseph M. Forshaw and William T. Cooper and combines the finest Cooper artwork with an updated, authoritative Forshaw text. Presented as a deluxe edition, this..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2015. reprint). Quarto, oblong format, colour illustrations, signed bookplate by the author and artist, fine copy in dustwrapper. This reprint uses a heavier paper stock and includes an In Memoriam celebrating the life of the artist William T. Cooper (1934-2015). In 1973 Joseph Forshaw and William Cooper..... More
Adelaide: Rigby, 1982. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, stamp, very good dustwrapper. More
Adelaide: Rigby, 1982. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. An excellent treatment on the subject. The author as director of CSIRO Wildlife Division maintained an extensive collection of Australian pigeons and doves in Canberra. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), (1970. second edition). Quarto, illustrations, maps, signature, very good copy in slightly chipped dustwrapper. More
![Stock ID 40889 Jewels of nature: the parrots, volume one [all published]. Gordon K. Hanley](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/40889.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681428637)
Sydney: Fine Art Collectibles, 2001. Elephant folio, 60 plates by Gordon Hanley. Full green morocco with an inlaid picture of a Major Mitchell Cockatoo, numbered and signed by Gordon Hanley and the publisher (Okko Boer); all in a green solander carry-case. Text by Neville Connors, Stephen Garnett, Rosemary Low, Charles..... More
Mountfield: Pica Press, (1998. first edition). Octavo, 88 colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first identification guide to parrots. One-fifth of the world's parrots are on the threatened list and this book includes up-to-date information on their conservation Winner of the 1999 British Library Association's McColvin Medal for..... More
New York: Atria, 2002. Octavo, colour illustrations, maps, softcover. Describes the desperate race against time to save a rare blue parrot, the Spix's macaw, from extinction, by calling for private collectors to allow their birds to mate with the last wild specimen. Also available in hardcover [stock id 25827]... More
London: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 1902. Large quarto, four lithographed plates. contemporary binder's cloth, wrappers retained, a fine copy. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, volume 16, part five, More
London: Collins, 1965. Octavo, photographs, near fine copy in dustwrapper (not price-clipped). New Naturalist Monograph 20. More
Sydney: Linnean Society of New South Wales, 1893. Octavo, one uncoloured plate, bookplate, binder's cloth. More
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Octavo, stamp, softcover. More
London: Author, 1949. Octavo, text printed recto only. Publisher's blue cloth, paper dustwrapper with handwritten label, a fine copy. More
Terrey Hills: A H & A W Reed, (1981. reprint). Folio, colour plates, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: [Australian Museum], 1894. Octavo, Publisher's wrappers detached and heavily chipped, the neat stamp of the "Royal Society of Edinburgh" 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