Melbourne: Charles Stuart & Co., 1890-1891. Folio, 303 chromolithographic plates with accompanying text and tissue guards. Six volumes bound in three, contemporary half calf and gilt lettered cloth, expertly re-spined, all edges coloured and tissue guards present, a sound clean set. Gracius Joseph Broinowski was born in Poland in 1837... More about The birds of Australia, comprising three hundred full-page illustrations with a descriptive...

Sheffield: Author, 1900. Octavo, 28 (27 of eggs) chromolithographs by Brittlebank, photographs. Publisher's olive-green cloth, a superb set, rare in this condition. A. J. Campbell, a foundation member of both the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union and the Bird Observers' Club, was a prolific contributor to the journals of the day... More about Nests and eggs of Australian birds: including the geographical distribution of the species and...

Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1975. facsimile). Folio, coloured plates. Publisher's full calf a very good copy. The Supplement. A variety of later discovered birds are figured, including the Night Parrot. More about The birds of Australia [volume eight only

Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1975. facsimile). Folio, coloured plates. Publisher's vinyl, a very good copy. Waders and other waterbirds. More about The birds of Australia [volume six only

Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1975. facsimile). Folio, coloured plates. Publisher's vinyl, a very good copy. Kingfishers and others. More about The birds of Australia [volume two only

London: Author, 1865. Octavo, Publisher's handsome decorated cloth, bookplate, a few minor splits in the cloth, otherwise a near fine copy. The Handbook is a significant elaboration of the text of Birds of Australia and Gould's final contribution to Australian ornithology. It is still a useful book in any working... More about Handbook to the birds of Australia

London: Author, 1848. Octavo, two wood-engraved illustrations. Publisher's cloth, rebacked retaining original endpapers, scarce. "The Preface and Introduction to my Birds of Australia having been set up in small type for facility of correction, I have had a limited number of copies printed in octavo form, for distribution ..." (Notice... More about An introduction to the birds of Australia

Sydney: Author, 1907. Quarto, photographs. Publisher's printed wrappers, a fine copy, in a modern box. S. W. Jackson (1873-1946) is best known for 'Egg collecting and bird life of Australia'. This handsome production, liberally illustrated with Jackson's pioneering photographs, has always been a scarce and desirable item of ephemeral Australian... More about Egg collecting and bird life of Australia: catalogue and date of the "Jacksonian Oological...

London: H F & G Witherby, 1936. Quarto, 24 (of 41) handcoloured and 6 (of 16) photographic plates. Binder's cloth, uncut, a fine copy. A so-called "Doris Eddy" Supplement. Doris Eddy ran Sewards, a long-established Melbourne Bookshop. At the end of World War Two she purchased the remaining stock of... More about A supplement to the birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands to which is added those birds of New...

Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914. Quarto, 25 egg plates, uncoloured vignettes by Neville Cayley senior, photographs by the author and H. Barnes. Contemporary half black calf, all edges speckled, an excellent set. Alfred John North (1855-1917) was one of the greatest of all Australian ornithologists and a founding member in 1880... More about Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania