Sydney: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1930. Octavo, folding map. Publisher's light blue cloth, a very good copy. Sir Charles Frederic Belcher 1876-1970) , lawyer, British colonial jurist, and amateur ornithologist was born in Geelong. He was a founding member of the Geelong Field Naturalists' Club, the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union..... More

London: Country Life, 1968. Quarto, text illustrations, colour plates by eight artists, including Roger Tory Peterson, David Reid-Henry and Guy Coheleach, fine set in slightly blemished slipcase. More

Sydney: RAOU, 1968-1994. Octavo, roneoed typescipt, the bookplate of Stephen Marchant, binder's cloth, a fine set. PROVENANCE: English born Stephen Marchant (1912-2003) was a petroleum geologist who wrote many high quality international bird papers. In 1963 he migrated to Australia and became actively involved with the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union..... More

Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2003. Quarto, colour plates and photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. FREIGHT WILL BE $18, WITHIN AUSTRALIA. Completed in sixteen volumes, 1992-2013. Species accounts cover taxonomy, distribution (including subspecies), habitat, feeding, breeding, movements, status and conservation. The first passerine volume. This volume covers broadbills, asities, pittas, ovenbirds..... More

Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, (1972. reprint). Quarto, tipped-in colour photographs, a few tape marks, otherwise a fine copy in fine dustwrapper. A great book, continuing the tradition of Neville Cayley's 1938 Australian parrots: their habits in the field and aviary. More

London: Witherby & Co, 1910. Octavo, publisher's cloth, gilt top edge, photographs, folding map at rear. Limited to 350 copies (277 of 350), library stamps of the RAOU, shadow on spine from call number sticker, rear pocket present, otherwise a very good crisp copy of a scarce title. More

Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor and Francis, 1927. Quarto, photographs. Publisher's blue cloth, a fine copy. More

Sydney: T. C. Lothian, 1907. Octavo, illustrations. Publisher's cloth, a bright crisp copy, rare in this condition. More

Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2006. Quarto, 54 colour plates, text illustrations, maps, mint set in publisher's mailing carton. POSTAGE AN EXTRA $20 WITHIN AUSTRALIA. Each species account includes sections on field identification, habitat, distribution and population, movements and migration, food, social organisation, social behaviour, voice, breeding, plumage and morphology, and..... More

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1920. Large octavo, 22 colour plates by H. Gronvold, fine copy in publisher's decorated cloth. More

Adelaide: Rigby, 1980. Small folio, colour plates by Peter Trusler. Publisher's canvas cloth and slipcase, the collector's issue, limited to 200 copies and signed by authors and artist. A landmark book of Australian bird art, with an excellent text by well known Bird Observer Club stalwarts Tess Kloot and Ellen..... More

Sydney: The Ibis, 1930. Octavo, 20 folding colour plates. Binder's green cloth with red labels, all edges coloured, a fine copy. The plates are produced in folding chart form and are highly attractive examples of measured drawings. Published as a Supplement to The Ibis, Twelfth Series, Volume 6... More