Impressions of waterfowl of Australia: from the original oils on Lauan mahogany panels.
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1977. Quarto, colour plates. Publisher's quarter morocco, limited to 350 copies, numbered and signed by the author. More
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1977. Quarto, colour plates. Publisher's quarter morocco, limited to 350 copies, numbered and signed by the author. More
East Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1978. Folio, full-page text illustrations. Publisher's full brown calf with gilt decoration, limited to 500 copies numbered and signed by the artist, fine copy. More
London: Academic Press, 1992. Quarto, colour plates, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. A handsome book which discusses all 22 of the world's species, thoroughly covers the eleven African species, takes a comparative look at foraging, feeding, social and breeding habits, and addresses conservation issues. More
Washington DC: The Auk, (1954. first edition), Octavo, bookplate, fine copy. More
Sandy: Ornithological Society of the Middle East, 1980-1996. Octavo, bound in three volumes of binder's cloth with volume 16 unbound, the bookplate of Stephen Marchant. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1957. Large octavo, coloured frontispiece, text illustrations, very good copy in slipcase (slightly flecked), limited to 750 copies, signed by the author. An excellent compilation of essays on birds by the best known names in ornithology. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1934. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, colour plates. Publisher's green pebble-grained cloth lettered in silver, a contemporary ink inscription dated October 1934, a very good copy. The first true bird field guide and one of the most influential natural history books of all time. This copy is..... More
North Ryde: Angus and Robertson, 1987. Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. National Photographic Index, volume four. More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2001. Octavo, paperback, map. Contains detailed information on the ecology, status and distribution of all species. Introductory chapters deal with geography, climate and vegetation; bird migration in Ecuador, Ecuadorian ornithology, endemic bird areas in Ecuador and conservation. Individual species accounts treat habitat, distribution and..... More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1891. Octavo, 13 chromolithographic plates by Smit and Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps, partly unopened . Volume 19 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1891. Octavo, 13 chromolithographic plates by Smit and Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, a fine copy. Volume 19 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1888. Octavo, 16 handcoloured plates by Hart. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume twelve from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: Longman Green & Co., 1925. Octavo, 232 coloured plates, very good set, lacks dustwrappers. More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931. Octavo, text illustrations. Handsome contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards, top edge coloured, wrappers retained. More
London: Bemrose and Sons, Limited, 1893. Octavo, folding map, photographs. Publisher's cloth, slightly cracked front hinge, some foxing on end papers and a few small spots throughout. With the bookplate of Joseph E Thayer, a very good copy, scarce. More