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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The birds of Scotland: their history, distribution, and migration.
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1953. Quarto, coloured frontispieces, photographs, fine set in dustwrappers. More
The birds of the district of Geelong, Australia.
Sydney: W. J. Griffiths, [1914]. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's handsome gilt blue cloth, corner crushed, inscribed by the author, a very good copy. The most handsome and definitive of all regional Australian bird books. Charles Belcher (1876-1970) was a foundation member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union and the Bird Observer's..... More
A history of British birds.
London: 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
Catalogue of Sudan birds, based on the Collection in the Sudan Government Museum (Natural History).
Sydney: Sudan Government Museum (Natural History), 1926-1931. Octavo, publisher's wrappers, a very good set. Part one: Struthionidae to Picidae. Part two: Alaudidae to Fringillidae. More
Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The birds of the Western Palearctic [BWP], volume eight: Crows to finches.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Quarto, colour plates, maps, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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
Ratites and Tinamous: Tinamidae, Rheidea, Dromaiidae, Casuariidae, Apterygidae, Struthionidae.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Quarto, 12 colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy in slightly crinkled dustwrapper. A volume in the Bird families of the world series that takes a comprehensive look at the natural history and biology of the ratites and tinamous, including ostriches, emus, cassowaries and kiwis. Each..... More
Contributions to the history of Australasian ornithology, two volumes [all published]
Cambridge MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2008-2012. Octavo, photographs, a fine set in publisher's cloth. Nuttall Ornithological Club Memoir No. 18. The first two volumes in a series of essays by prominent ornithologists about Australasian ornithology. This book includes chapters on Gould's collector John Gilbert; ornithology at the Auckland Museum, the..... More
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Handbook of the birds of the world [HBW], volume fifteen: weavers to new world warblers.
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2010. Quarto, colour plates and photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. FREIGHT WILL BE $18, WITHIN AUSTRALIA. Completed in sixteen volumes, 1992-2013. The eighth passerine volume. Species accounts cover taxonomy, distribution (including subspecies), habitat, feeding, breeding, movements, status and conservation. This volume includes: Weavers, Whydahs and Indigobirds..... More
Parrots of the world.
Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, (1973. first edition). Folio, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper, in the publisher's printed mailing carton, very scarce in this condition. One of the great twentieth century bird books and a central work for anybody seriously interested in parrots. More
The birds of paradise and bower birds.
London: Collins, (1977. first edition). Folio, colour plates by Cooper, fine copy in dustwrapper and publisher's slipcase, scarce in this condition. Winner of Australian Book of the Year in 1977 and one of the modern bird book classics. More
Pigeons and doves in Australia.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2015. first edition). Quarto, oblong format, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper, very scarce. *** This is the genuine first printing which was recalled due to concerns over paper quality, very few copies of this first printing survived because the stock was pulped. The reprint used a...... More
A synopsis of the birds of Australia, and the adjacent islands.
Sydney: Queensberry Hill Press, (1979. facsimile). Large octavo, 73 coloured plates by Elizabeth Gould, each plate accompanied by a single text leaf. Publisher's half morocco in slip case, a mint copy. Limited to 387 copies. Queensberry Hill Press was established by Peter Marsh with the aim of producing high quality..... More
An atlas of speciation in African passerine birds.
London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), 1970. Small folio, coloured frontispiece, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds: Ratites to Ducks [HANZAB, volume one].
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, (1990. first edition). Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, maps, fine set in dustwrappers. More
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds: Snipe to Pigeons [HANZAB, volume three].
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, maps, signature, very good copy in spine-sunned dustwrapper. 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. This volume covers Snipe, Godwits..... More
An introduction to the study of bird behaviour.
Cambridge: [Cambridge] University Press, 1929. Quarto, ten uncoloured plates. Contemporary red half calf by Waltbys of Oxford, bookplate, apart from a few minor spots a handsome copy. 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
British birds.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., (1921. second edition), Octavo, colour plates by Thorburn. Publisher's cloth. "To T. Tregallis from Stradbroke Governor of Victoria in recollection of happy days at Belgrave 1921-1926". Tipped in a photograph of the Earl of Stradbroke. Tom Tregallis (1864-1938) was a well known naturalist of his..... More
Studer's popular ornithology. The birds of North America.
Boston: Imprint Society, (1977. facsimile). Folio, colour plates. Quarter velum spine and clopth with gilt rule, limited to 500 numbered copies, mint copy in slipcase. More
Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria... [the first four volumes]
Melbourne: Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, 1872-1875. Octavo, the bookplate of J. Cecil le Soueff. Publisher's pebble-grained cloth, some stamps and blemishes, scarce. The early volumes have substantial papers by Ferdinand von Mueller on plants, Francoise du Castelnau on fish and the Melbourne Botanic Gardens. The infamous introduction of..... More
A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, collected, engraved, and faithfully painted after nature [facsimile]. Introduction and bibliographical descriptions by Allan McEvey.
Sydney: Queensberry Hill Press, 1978. Folio, 26 colour plates with single text leaf, followed by an Index of synonymes, the original list of subscribers and a final leaf for the Queensberry Hill Press subscribers. Publisher's handsome brown full calf in a Solander Box (some splitting and bumping), limited to 500..... More
Systema avium Australasianarum: a systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region.
London: British Ornithologists' Union, 1927-1930. Octavo, Later half calf and marbled boards, uncut, wrappers retained. 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