George Edward Lodge: the unpublished New Zealand bird paintings.
Wellington: Nova Pacifica, 1982. Small folio, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Wellington: Nova Pacifica, 1982. Small folio, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: Abrams, 1988. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2014. Quarto, colour illustrations, photographs, bookplate, softcover. Lilian Medland has not received until now the recognition she deserves as a painter of birds. Due to world events and circumstances, five important books on birds containing her superb illustrations were never published. Even now, she is..... More
Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1973. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. Allan Reginald McEvey (1919-1996) was Curator of Ornithology at the Museum of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. He held a deep interest in John Gould and this little publication is an excellent essay on Gould, showing his capabilites as a draughstman. More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, lavishly illustrated, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first and only proper biography of both Cayleys. This skillfully researched and handsomely produced book charts the lives and works of this Australian father-and-son pair of bird artists. Neville Henry, peripatetic, often impecunious and with a...... More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, dustwrapper, lavishly illustrated throughout with colour and black and white illustrations. Personal inscription by author. The first and only proper biography of both Cayleys. This skillfully researched and handsomely produced book charts the lives and works of this Australian father-and-son pair of bird..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2007. Quarto, colour illustrations, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. Spirit of the Wedge-tailed eagle is the culmination of four decades of intimate study of this iconic bird by Australia's leading bird painter, Humphrey Price-Jones. It includes more than 30 magnificent full colour paintings as well as many..... More
Peterborough: Langford Press, 2012. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The world's great oceans are largely beyond most people's experience and imagination. But for the last three decades or more, a tragedy has been unfolding out of sight on the open ocean. Hundreds of thousands of seabirds, albatrosses especially..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Newcastle upon Tyne: The Natural History Society of Northumbria, 2007. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria, volume 65, part three. More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1981. Oblong format, colour plates and text illustrations, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. Introduction by Robert Gillmor. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. This book invites readers to enter a two-floor virtual 'gallery' where 60-plus images of birds reflecting the accomplishments of human pictorial history are on display. These are works in a genre the authors term Science Art - that is, art..... More