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New England: Australasian Raptor Association, 435801980-1985. Quarto, typescript, binder's cloth. More
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New England: Australasian Raptor Association, 435801980-1985. Quarto, typescript, binder's cloth. More
New Plymouth: Thomas Avery and Sons, 1936. Octavo, photographs, a fine copy with slightly chipped dustwrapper; scarce and made more so by the condition of the dustwrapper. The story of the discovery of the fossil Moa. One critic has said: "It reads like an Edgar Wallace novel" More
London: Collins, 1950. Octavo, text illustrations, near fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist Monograph number two. More
Melbourne: Author, 1883. Octavo, Publisher's printed pink wrappers, a few minor blemishes otherwise a very good copy, boxed, very scarce. Originally published as a series of papers in The Southern Science Record. The first separate publication on Australian oology and the forerunner to the author's major work on Nests and..... More
Brisbane: Dove, 1985. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. With an introductory chapter followed by chapters covering the non-passerine orders and a bibliography. More
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
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
Johannesburg: Winchester Press, 1986. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in slipcase, the subscribers' edition. More
Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, (1973. first edition). Folio, colour plates, maps, inscription (birthday presant) on front endpaper with a few flecks, slightly worn and sunned dustwrapper (NOT AS PICTURED). One of the great twentieth century bird books and a central work for anybody seriously interested in parrots. More
Melbourne: Hill House, 1988. Folio, 56 colour plates. Publisher's red cloth, a fine copy. The Bird of Paradise volume. More
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
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1890. Octavo, 15 chromolithographic plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, hinges slightly cracked, otherwsie a near fine copy (NOT AS PICTURED). Volume 15 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. 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
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1920. Large octavo, 22 colour plates by H. Gronvold, fine copy in publisher's decorated cloth. More
Perth: WA Museum, 2004. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, text illustrations, maps, very good set in slightly chipped dustwrappers. More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2010. Octavo, colour illustrationsand photographs, owner's sticker, fine copy in dustwrapper. This remarkable book covers the identification of 112 species of Reed and Bush warblers (families Lucustellidae and Acrocephalidae) in astonishing detail with an emphasis on identification down to the subspecies level and the..... 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. 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: 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
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
London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1920-1926. Quarto, Contemporary half morocco, library stamps of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Supplement Number one (Check list): Orders Casuariiformes to Menuriformes, 1920. Supplement Number two (Check list): Order Passeriformes (part), 1923. Supplement Number three (Check list): Order Passeriformes (concluding part)..... More
Melbourne: Bird Observers' Club, 1935-1936. Octavo, two coloured plates by Neville W. Cayley. Binder's cloth, wrappers retained. An early attempt by the Bird Observers' Club to produce a serious journal. There are some quality contributors including Jack Hyett (his first efforts?), Dudley Dickison, A. G. Campbell and Alec Chisholm... More
Melbourne: Bird Observers Club of Australia, 1931-1974. Quarto, blue binder's cloth, quarto issues 11, 13, 16,17 and 18 supplied in facsimile; oblong folio issue May 1937 in facsimile. An outstanding near complete run, the early issues are rare. First published, in large quarto form, as 'Nature Lovers' Notes' from 1931-1935;..... 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