Bird books and bird art. An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology [facsimile].
Amsterdam: Junk, 1973. Quarto, uncoloured illustrations. More
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Australasian Raptor Association News [volumes one to six]..
New England: Australasian Raptor Association, 435801980-1985. Quarto, typescript, binder's cloth. More
A history of British birds.
Newcastle: R. E. Bewick, 1847. Octavo, woodcuts, the bookplate of Walter Froggatt, worn publisher's cloth. Volume one: History and description of land birds. Volume two: History and description of water birds. More
The Redstart.
London: Collins, 1950. Octavo, text illustrations, near fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist Monograph number two. More
Canberra bird notes, volumes one to four.
Canberra: RAOU, 1968-1974. Octavo, roneoed typescipt, the bookplate of Stephen Marchant, binder's cloth. 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 (now Birdlife Australia)..... More
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On the Moa [drop title].
Napier: Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 1878. text illustrations, inscription by the author, wrappers. In 1934 the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute merged with the Royal Society of New Zealand. More
Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The birds of the Western Palearctic [BWP], volume seven: Flycatchers to shrikes.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Quarto, colour plates, maps, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
George Edward Lodge: the unpublished New Zealand bird paintings.
Wellington: Nova Pacifica, 1982. Small folio, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Bird hybrids: a check-list with bibliography.
Farnham Royal: Farnham Royal Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, 1958. Quarto, fine copy in dustwrapper, bookplate of Roy Cooper. More
The gannet: a bird with a history.
London: Witherby & Co, 1913. Octavo, frontispiece map, plates, two coloured, and illustrations. Publisher's gilt-decorated cloth (back hinge weakened), gilt edges, prospectus enclosed, near fine copy. More
Kiwis: a monograph of the family Apterygidae.
Shrewsbury: Swan Hill Press, 1991. Small folio, colour plates and drawings by Ray Harris-Ching, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds: Boatbill to Starlings [HANZAB, volume seven].
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2006. Quarto, 54 colour plates, text illustrations, maps, mint set in publisher's mailing carton. 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 references. Volume seven completes coverage of..... More
Bird coloration, volume one: mechanisms and measurements.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, dustwrapper. This well illustrated volume synthesises more than 1,500 technical papers in this field. The focus is on the three primary mechanisms of colour production - melanin pigmentation, carotenoid pigmentation and structural coloration - but less common as well..... More
Birds of La Plata.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1920. Large octavo, 22 colour plates by H. Gronvold, fine copy in publisher's decorated cloth. More
Birds of paradise and bower birds.
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1950. Quarto, 33 colour plates by Lilian Medland. Publisher's quarter morocco, bookplate, very good copy in worn dustwrapper (piece missing from spine). More
Birds of paradise and bower birds.
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1950. Quarto, 33 colour plates by Lilian Medland. Publisher's quarter morocco, lacks dustwrapper, otherwise a very good copy. More
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A monograph of the Charadriidae [facsimile].
Author, [c1980]. Octavo, Publisher's cloth. Presented to the R.A.O.U. by Dr N Kuroda (son of the author) Yamashina Institute for Ornithology 17 May 1982" More
Swifts in a tower.
London: Methuen, (1956. first edition), Octavo, text illustrations, the bookplate of Roy Cooper, page from British Birds relating to swifts pasted on upper endpaper, an excellent copy in slightly grubby dustwrapper. More
Nature-study: a descriptive list of the birds native to Victoria, Australia.
Melbourne: Government Printer, 1908. Quarto, Binder's cloth, contents grubby, annotations, very scarce. "Supplement to the "Education Gazette and Teacher's Aid" 14th December 1908. A smaller octavo version was published a year later. More
Honeyeaters and their allies of Australia.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1991. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce and in demand. National Photographic Index, volume six. The jewel in the crown of the ten volume National Photographic Index series and highly sought after. Honeyeaters is the most handsome of them all and by far the..... More
Honeyeaters and their allies of Australia.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1991. Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper, slight wear, scarce and in demand. National Photographic Index, volume six. The jewel in the crown of the ten volume National Photographic Index series and highly sought after. Honeyeaters is the most handsome of them all and..... More
Ducks of sub-Saharan Africa.
Randburg: Acorn Books, 1986. Folio, 31 colour plates by Gail Darroll, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Systema avium Australasianarum: a systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region.
[London]: British Ornithologists' Union, 1927-1930. Octavo, Binder's green cloth, a very good copy. More
Scottish birds: the journal of the Scottish Ornithologists Club, volumes one to eight.
Scottish Ornithologists Club, 1958-1975. Octavo, eight volumes in binder's cloth. Volume one, parts one to three are the 1971 reprint. More
Pigeons and doves of Australia.
Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1976. Folio, colour plates and text illustrations. Full brown calf, limited to 500 copies numbered and signed, a fine copy. More