My foreign doves and pigeons.
London: "The Feathered World" [1911]. Octavo, uncoloured frontispeice, photographs. Publisher's green cloth, a handsome copy of a scarce book. More
Cage Birds
Pheasants: their lives and homes.
Garden City: New York Zoological Society, (1931. first edition). Quarto, colour plates by Lodge and others, a fine set in publisher's cloth. The reduced format version of Beebe's monumental 'A monograph of the pheasants', 1914-1918. More
Budgerigars, canaries and foreign finches.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1961. Octavo, colour illustrations, lacks dustwrapper. More
Parrots, cockatoos and macaws.
London: Rockliff, 1956. Octavo, photographs, lacks dustwrapper. Edward Boosey was the head birdkeeper for the Duke of Bedford, after leaving his employ he set up the Keston Bird Farm in the 1930's. His two best known books, the other being foreign Bird keeping, are entertaining and well written. More
How to sex cage birds (British and foreign).
London: The Feathered World, [1907]. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, slightly rubbed, very scarce. More
The magazine of The Parrot Society, volumes 1-16.
Bedford: The Parrot Society, 1967-1982. Octavo, photographs. Binder's cloth, some extra unbound volumes, scarce. One of the better avicultural magazines with quality articles by well known aviculturists such as George Smith, the Stoodleys and Rosemary Low. PROVENANCE: The set of Stan Sindel. More
Pheasants: including their care in the aviary.
London: Blandford Press, 1961. Octavo, colour plates, dustwrapper. More
Favourite foreign birds for cages and aviaries.
London: L. Upcott Gill, [1891]. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's red gilt cloth, a good copy. More
Avi-index: a selected index of Australian Aviculture over 43 years.
Melbourne: Avicultural Society of Australia, 1990. Octavo, paperback, More
Records of birds bred in captivity.
London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1926. Octavo, bookplate. Publisher's handsome blue cloth in very good printed dustwrapper, very scarce in this condition. More
The atlas of rare pheasants, in two volumes: volume one.
London: Palawan Press, 1997. Folio, 24 colour plates by Timothy Greenwood. Publisher's handsome green cloth with embossed Reeve's Pheasant and slipcase, limited to 600 numbered copies. There is a volume two. More
Adventures with talking birds.
Neptune: TFH, 1981. Octavo, colour photographs, black and white illustrations, laminated boards. More
Australian aviculture: a selection of original articles published in Australian Aviculture over twenty-five years.
Melbourne: Avicultural Society of Australia, (1983. fourth edition). Octavo, text illustrations, signature, softcover. More
Macaws, Cockatoos, Parrakeets, and Parrots.
London: Dean and Son, [c1870]. Octavo, uncoloured plates, coloured boards, advertisement endpaper detached, scarce. Dean Pratical Guide Books. The plates, originally hand coloured, are taken from the 1833 Lauder and Brown The miscellany of natural history, volume one: parrots. Nine Australian species are figured. More
Perroquets et perruches.
Paris: Editions Boubee, 1962. Tall octavo, eight colour plates by Paul Barruel, a very good copy. More
Australian parrots in field and aviary.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1973. Octavo, 13 colour plates by Neville Cayley, maps, chipped dustwrapper. A heavily revised re-issue of Neville Cayley's 1938 classic. Alan Lendon was a prominent Adelaide medico and aviculturist who held one of the finest collections of Australian parrots post World War Two. More
Diets for birds in captivity.
Poole: Blandford Press, 1981. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Beginner's guide to birdkeeping.
London: Pelham Books, 1976. Octavo, photographs, signed by the author, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Endangered parrots.
Poole: Blandford Press, (1984. first edition). Quarto, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Mynah birds.
Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Son, 1976. Octavo, colour illustrations, paperback. More
Lovebirds and parrotlets.
London: Cage Birds, [1952]. Small octavo, coloured frontispiece, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
A guide to Cockatiels and their mutations: their management, care and breeding.
South Tweed Heads: Australian Birdkeeper, (2007. revised edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Chapters include: wild Cockatiels; aviary birds—housing, feeding, breeding, artificial incubation, handrearing; companion birds—housing9780734403780 9780734403780, environment, enrichment, feeding, behaviour; colour mutations—basic genetics, worldwide mutations—European, North American and Australian, combination colours; and health and disease. Also available in hardcover [stock..... More
A treatise on domestic pigeons; Comprehending all the different species known in England ...
London: Printed for and Sold by C. Barry. P. Stevens. A. Wesley. and J. Walters, 1765. Octavo, engraved frontispiece and 13 other engraved plates. Contemporary full morocco with gilt inner rule and red label, leather eroded, title recto with overlaid pastedown covering a line of text. The first English pigeon..... More
Soft-billed birds.
Fond du Lac, All-Pets Books, 1955. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
