London: Alecto Historical Editions in association with the British Museum (Natural History), 1980-1990. Folio, 738 copper-engraved plates in titled window mounts, colour printed a la poupee in up to 17 colours with additional watercolour touches from the original plates after Sydney Parkinson, Frederick Polydore Nodder, John Frederick Miller, James Miller..... More

Melbourne: Charles Stuart & Co., 1887-1891. Folio, Early binder's cloth; a neat set with a few scattered spots. Gracius Joseph Broinowski was born in Poland in 1837 and arrived in Australia in 1857. He was treated roughly on the voyage and jumped ship at Portland, Victoria. He became a naturalised..... More

Melbourne: Author, 1883. Octavo, Publisher's printed pink wrappers, a few minor blemishes otherwise a very good copy, boxed, very scarce. Originally published as a series of papers in The Southern Science Record. The first separate publication on Australian oology and the forerunner to the author's major work on Nests and..... More

Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1900-1994. Octavo, The first three volumes are the Hyett/Cooper facsimile, volume six is unbound, volume eight part one only (lacks three parts) and volume nine is in a shabby "Emu" binding, all other volumes in a neat binder's cloth, a very good run. The single..... More

Melbourne: Hill House, 1989-1996. Folio, colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, a fine set. A complete set of the Hill House facsimile of John Gould's Birds of Australia (1840-1868), and way superior to the Lansdowne facsimile published 1972-1975. Some of the Hill House facsimile volumes were produced in very small numbers..... 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: Reading and Wellbank, Printers, 1865. Octavo, Modern binder's cloth with gilt title, very scarce. The author's reprint with a separately published title page. Originally published in the Transactions of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales. Both Krefft papers are of great interest, the first paper particularly so as..... More

Melbourne: Government Printer, 1885-1890. Large octavo, 199 handsome lithographed plates (including 172 chromolithographs) of mammals, reptiles and fish. Later binder's blue cloth, a very good clean set. The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria is an underrated work of Australian natural history; the plates are handsome and the text scholarly..... More

London: Macmillan, 1927. Octavo, photographs, fine set in dustwrappers, scarce in this condition. More

London and Melbourne: Dulau and Co./Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1896. Octavo, text illustrations; a total of 69 plates including eleven zoological chromolithographs (three bird plates by Neville Cayley senior; three mammal, four reptile and one frog), folding map. Publisher's dark blue cloth (a little tired and rubbed). The Horn Expedition..... More

London: J. Debrett, 1790. Quarto, ten handcoloured engraved plates of reptiles. Modern blue half calf with the bookplates of David McPhee. John White was chief surgeon of the First Fleet. He was also an interested amateur naturalist and after arriving at Port Jackson found time to accompany Governor Phillip on..... More