The fall of a sparrow.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1988. reprint). Octavo, paperback, illustrations. More
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Encounters with nature.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
John Gould and the fauna of Southern Australia.
Adelaide: Crawford House, 2004. Quarto, colour illustrations, limited to 100 numbered and signed copy, softcover. The trade version of this title was abandonned and replaced with: Dawes, Sean. John Gould: an Australian perspective. Stepney: Axiom Publishing, 2011. More
The contented botanist: letters of W. H. Harvey about Australia and the Pacific.
Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1988. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Gorilla Mountain: the story of wildlife biologist Amy Vedder.
New York: Franklin Watts, 2005. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. Biography of the life and work of Amy Vedder. More
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Bibliography of Australia [facsimile]
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1975-1986. reprint). Octavo, very good set in slightly worn dustwrappers, with the Addenda. More
A magnificent obsession: the story of The Mitchell Library, Sydney.
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2007. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper. The Mitchell Library is based on the collection of David Scott Mitchell, Australia's first and greatest collector of Australiana. The Library was opened in 1910 with the exceedingly generous endowment of 70,000 pounds from David Mitchell, and many thousands of..... More
The 1826 journal of John James Audubon. An account of his journey to England and Scotland to arrange the publication of The Birds of America. Transcribed from the original, in the collection of Henry Bradley Martin, and with a foreword and notes.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1967. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, some wear, softcover. More
John James Audubon.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1964. reprint). Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The identification of the northern European woods: a guide for archaeologists and conservators.
London: Archetype Publications, 2000. Large octavo, laminated boards, black and white illustrations, maps. More
Forensics, fossils and fruitbats: a field guide to Australian scientists.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2010. Octavo, black and white photographs. A fascinating collection of more than 70 profiles of Australian scientists from 15 fields of physical, biological and medical science. These scientists have been selected because their research is inspiring, intriguing or simply quirky, or because they have taken an unusual..... More
A time for a museum The history of the Queensland Museum 1862-1986.
Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1986. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Birds and books: the story of the Mathews Ornithological Library.
Canberra: Verity Hewitt Bookshop, 1942. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's wrappers, inscription, limited to 200 copies, numbered and signed by the author. More
Checklist to the Mathews Ornithological Collection.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1966. Quarto, publisher's wrappers. Gregory Mathews was one of the great bird book collectors of his time. He donated his library to the Australian National Library in 1939. More
Bibliography to accompany Victorian ornithology: a chronology showing characteristics of the periods and bibliography.
[Melbourne]: Melbourne Council of the National Museum of Victor, 1975. Octavo, wrappers, plus folding chart. More
Biographies for birdwatchers: the lives of those commemorated in Western Palearctic bird names.
London: Academic Press, 1988. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
John Muir's last journey: south to the Amazon and east to Africa. Unpublished journals and selected correspondence.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Leaving from Brooklyn, New York, in August 1911, the great naturalist and environmentalist John Muir embarked on an eight-month, 40,000-mile solo voyage to South America and Africa. He was then 73. His journals and notes languished, unpublished and virtually untouched, for 90..... More
Cayley and son: the life and art of Neville Henry Cayley and Neville William Cayley.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, dustwrapper, lavishly illustrated throughout with colour and black and white illustrations. The first and only proper biography of both Cayleys. This skillfully researched and handsomely produced book charts the lives and works of this Australian father-and-son pair of bird artists. Neville Henry, peripatetic..... More
The bird man of Brisbane: Silvester Diggles and his Ornithology of Australia.
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2010. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. When Silvester Diggles arrived in 1855 there was little artistic or scientific talent in the small frontier town of Brisbane. By the time of his death in 1880, his paramount legacy was a large book on Australian birds, profusely illustrated with hand-coloured..... More
Australian dictionary of biography, volumes 1-10.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, (1983-1986. reprint). Octavo, very good set in dustwrappers. More
Animals of Australia in colour.
Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, [1963]. Octavo, color illustations by Deirdre East, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
John Gould's extinct and endangered birds of Australia.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2012. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. In 1838, John Gould, the father of Australian ornithology visited Australia with the intention of gathering material for his great work The Birds of Australia: In Seven Volumes (1848), and the accompanying Supplement (1869). Since then, a...... More
Ludwig Becker: artist and naturalist with the Burke and Wills Expedition.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979. Quarto, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Early history of Australian zoology.
Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1970. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's printed wrappers, a fine copy. More
More early history of Australian zoology.
Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1975. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover, a fine copy. More