Parrots and parrot-like birds. Disease of parrots.
Fond du Lac: All-Pets Books, 1954. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, publisher's cloth with the Glossy Black Cockatoo blindstamp of Sir Edward Hallstrom. More
CAGE BIRDS - Parrots
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
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
Parakeets: their breeding, training and management.
Richmond: Denlinger's, 1952. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
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Eclectus: newsletter of the Birds Australia Parrot Association [all published].
Melbourne: Birds Australia Parrot Association, 1996-2006. Quarto, publisher's wrappers in binder's cloth, bookplate. A very useful journal with an excellent article on the Paradise Parrot by Andrew Isles. 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.
London: Angus and Robertson, (1983. reprint). Octavo, 13 colour plates by Neville Cayley, stamp, sunned spine, otherwise a very good copy in 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..... 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
Your first parakeet.
Neptune: TFH, 1996. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Endangered parrots.
Poole: Blandford Press, (1984. first edition). Quarto, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Lories and lorikeets: the brush-tongued parrots.
London: Paul Elek, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, cancelled library stamps, dustwrapper. More
Lovebirds and parrotlets.
London: Cage Birds, [1952]. Small octavo, coloured frontispiece, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Parrots, parakeets and budgerigars
London: Cassell & Company, (1963. third edition), Octavo, photographs, laminated boards. 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 guide to Neophema and Psephotus grass parrots: their mutations, care and breeding.
South Tweed Heads: Australian Birdkeeper, (1989. first edition). Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Dear parrot: pertaining to the care, nurture and befriending of man's oldest pet.
London: J M Dent & Sons, 1980. Small octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
English names of the parrots.
Edenbridge: Author, 1970. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers, scarce. More
A guide to the names of parrots.
Edenbridge: Author, 1969. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers, fine copy. Based on the author's 1958 "I name this parrot" More
"I name this parrot .."
London: Author, (1958. first edition). Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers, a fine copy, tipped in a review slip signed by the author. Arthur Prestwich was president of the Avicultural Society and wrote a number of scholarly texts on parrot nomenclature. More
Records of parrot-like birds bred in the United States of America.
London: Author, 1949. Octavo, text printed recto only. Publisher's blue cloth, the bookplate of Jack Vincent, tipped in a signed note from the author to the editor of 'The Ostrich', a fine copy. More
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Records of parrots bred in captivity [complete set].
London: Author, 1950-1954. Octavo, text printed recto only. Publisher's cloth, a fine set with the scarce supplement. More
Edward Lear's parrots: with twelve reproductions of coloured lithographs from Lear's Psittacidae
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co, 1949. Octavo, colour plates, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper. More
Parakeets in your home.
New York: Sterling Publishing, 1956. Octavo, photographs, a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Die sprechenden Papageien.
Magdeburg: Verlagsbudbandlung, (1898. third edition). Octavo, bookplate, contemporary signatures, publisher's handsome gilt cloth, a fine copy, scarce in this condition. More