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: Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, 1862. Octavo, plain wrappers, scarce. 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

London: Ariel Press, 1967-1978. Folio, colour plates by Margaret Stones, a fine set in dustwrappers. A landmark 20th century botanical work illustrated by one of the great botanical artists of the twentieth century. 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

London: Author, 1865. Octavo, Publisher's handsome decorated cloth, front endpaper of volume one marked, 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 collection of..... More

London: Author, 1837-1838. Large octavo, 73 finely coloured lithographed plates by Elizabeth Gould. Contemporary publisher's half green morocco and morocco-grained cloth, elaborate gilt-decorated spine, all edges gilt, the contents clean and crisp and the plates beautifully coloured, a fine copy. THE SECOND AND STANDARD ISSUE, in a 'Gould' binding with..... 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

[c1840's]. Quarto, 42 leaves of Whatman paper, some leaves watermarked 'J Whatman 1794'. A single leaf for the title page and table of contents (the wording a direct copy of the Lewin 1822 title page), then follows 13 watercolours and 13 accompanying manuscript text leaves ( a copy of the..... 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: E. W. Janson, 1844-1847. Quarto, 60 uncoloured lithographed plates. Modern half calf and marbled boards, wrappers retained, uncut, a fine copy, scarce. The complete fishes section from The Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus & Terror edited by John Richardson and John Edward Gray. British Museum..... More