Bird books and bird art. An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology [facsimile].
Amsterdam: Junk, 1973. Quarto, uncoloured illustrations. More
Amsterdam: Junk, 1973. Quarto, uncoloured illustrations. More
Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, [1930]. Octavo, photographs, printed wrappers with oval photograph and yapp edges, a fine copy, scarce. More
London: S. T. Freemantle, (1900. Quarto, lavishly illustrated by Keulemans and others. Publisher's vellum with armorial stamp, bookplate, limited to 150 numbered copies signed by the editor and artists, some tissue guards oxidised otherwise a handsome set. First published in 1789 Gilbert White's Selbourne is one of the most celebrated..... 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 the slipcase. More
London: Academic Press, 1992. Quarto, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1944. Octavo, uncoloured frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth, limited to 350 copies, a fine copy. More
Melbourne: Bird Observers' Club, 1959-2012. Octavo, handsome red binder's cloth with black label, a fine set The 'Australian Birdwatcher' changed to 'Australian Field Ornithology' from volume 20, published 2003. PROVENANCE: The set of Margaret Cameron, president of Birdlife Australia 1986-89 (see Robin, Libby. The flight of the Emu: a hundred..... More
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2003. Quarto, colour plates and photographs, maps, very good copy in dustwrapper. To be completed in sixteen volumes. 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, woodcreepers, typical antbirds, ground-antbirds..... More
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2014. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, maps, very good copy in dustwrapper. Having finished the Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW), Lynx has now published a checklist in association with BirdLife: HBW And Birdlife International Illustrated Checklist Of The Birds Of The World. This is not..... More
Surrey: Spur Publications, (1982. second edition). Quarto, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Widely acclaimed as the most comprehensive and authoritative work published on pheasants. Covers 49 species of pheasant and includes life habits and distribution as well as breeding information. First published in 1951. More
London: A & C Black, 2012. Octavo, colour illustrations and photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. This authoritative handbook, part of the Helm Identification Guides series, looks in detail at the world's Cuckoos, Couas and Anis - the family Cuculidae. Famed as brood-parasites of other birds, the cuckoos include a...... More
Johannesburg: Winchester Press, 1984. Folio, colour plates by C. G. Finch-Davies. Publisher's cloth and slipcase, the subscriber's issue, a fine copy. More
Johannesburg: Winchester Press, 1986. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in slipcase, the subscribers' edition. More
Farnham Royal: Farnham Royal Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, 1958. Quarto, fine copy in dustwrapper, bookplate of Roy Cooper. More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1927. Quarto, photographs. Publisher's blue cloth, a fine copy. More
Sydney: Fine Art Collectibles, 2001. Elephant folio, 60 plates by Gordon Hanley. Full green morocco with an inlaid picture of a Major Mitchell Cockatoo, numbered and signed by Gordon Hanley and the publisher (Okko Boer); all in a green solander carry-case. Text by Neville Connors, Stephen Garnett, Rosemary Low, Charles..... More
Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa, 1997. Octavo, Two volumes [Volume 1: Non-passerines. Volume 2: Passerines], not available separately. A fine set. More
South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1993-2006. Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, maps, very slightly sunned dustwrappers, otherwise a fine set in dustwrappers. The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (HANZAB) provides a comprehensive summary of the biology, together with detailed illustrations, of all 952 species of birds which..... More
Cape Town: Struik, 1995. Quarto, colour plates, distribution maps. Publisher's slipcase and dustwrapper, fine copy. More
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
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1920. Large octavo, 22 colour plates by H. Gronvold. Publisher's decorated cloth, the bookplate of Stephen Marchant, a very good set of the standard issue limited to 3,000 copies. More
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1920. Large octavo, 22 colour plates by H. Gronvold, fine copy in publisher's decorated cloth. More
Batavia: G. Kolff & Co., 1901-1909. Octavo, 112 uncoloured plates. Later full morocco, library stamp in the titlepage of volume two, a fine copy. Text in Dutch. More
Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, [1919]. Octavo, illustrated from photographs by the authors. Publisher's decorated cloth, bookplate, chipped dustwrapper (scarce), a fine copy. The National Library's website has two separate entries and gives the publication dates respectively 1927 and 1920. However I have seen a copy with a contemporary inscription dated..... More
Launceston: Author, 1910. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's printed boards and cloth spine, signature, some slight wear to corners otherwise a very good copy. More