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

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

Adelaide: Royal Society of South Australia, 1934--1935. Octavo, 16 volumes (bound in two), binder's cloth, wrappers retained, scarce. The first 16 volumes, with contributions by well known names such as S. A. White, Edgar Wait, J. M. Black and Bernard Cotton. More

Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1974. facsimile). Folio, coloured plates. Publisher's vinyl, a very good copy. Honeyeaters. More

Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1974. facsimile). Folio, coloured plates. Publisher's vinyl, a very good copy. Robins and other small passerines. More

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

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

Sydney: Author, 1907. Quarto, photographs. Modern full polished calf, spine with raised bands and two coloured labels, title page grubby. S. W. Jackson (1873-1946) is best known for Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. This is a handsome production liberally illustrated with his pioneering photographs and has always been..... More

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