Raymond Ching: the bird paintings. Watercolours and pencil drawings 1969-1975.
London: Collins, 1978. Folio, colour plates, signed by Rymond Ching, fine copy in slipcase, without dustwrapper. More
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Whales, dolphins and porpoises.
Silverwater: Golden Press, 1989. Quarto, colour photographs, bookplate, sunned spine, a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The swift trout: a tale of trout in two rivers.
London: Collins, 1946. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, a very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper. More
Passions in ornithology: a century of Australian egg collectors.
Canberra: Author, 2020. Quarto, photographs, with cd in pocket of rear paste down, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. Limited to 400 copies. An outstanding reference for anyone interested in Australian ornithology. With 303 detailed biographical entries, complete with portrait photographs and other photographs, of anyone who has been prominent in..... More
Ellis Rowan: a life in pictures.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2020. Octavo, colour illustrations, bookplate, softcover. Ellis described the fungi: Growing, they look like dolls dressed up in fluted lace petticoats. Some are apple green, others mauve; one is black, and another has a scarlet cap. They stand high on long white stems, and the..... More
Fungi down under: the Fungimap guide to Australian fungi.
South Yarra: Fungimap, 2021. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, maps, bookplate, softcover. This book is easy to use with comprehensive identification characters, as well as detailed distribution maps. More
Pigeons and doves in Australia.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2015. reprint). Quarto, oblong format, colour illustrations, signed bookplate by the author and artist, fine copy in dustwrapper. This reprint uses a heavier paper stock and includes an In Memoriam celebrating the life of the artist William T. Cooper (1934-2015). In 1973 Joseph Forshaw and William Cooper..... More
Birds of East Asia: Eastern China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Eastern Russia.
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2009. Octavo, colour illustrations, distribution maps, bookplate, softcover. This is the first single volume guide ever devoted to the eastern Asian avifauna. The eastern Asian region, centring especially on the major islands off the continental coast (including Japan and Taiwan) and the immediately adjacent..... More
The birds of London.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Octavo, colour photographs, black and white illustrations, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. The parks, reservoirs, rooftops and gardens of London - here defined as the area within 20 miles of St Paul's Cathedral - have a surprisingly rich avifauna, including a healthy population of one of..... More
Key to the system of Victorian plants: volumes one and two.
Melbourne: Government Printer, 1885-1888. Octavo, 152 uncoloured plates, folding map. Contemporary full morocco, worn, owner pasted slip (Sir Henry Parkes), small stamp on title page. Volume one [text]: dichotomous arrangement of the orders..., volume two [plates]: enumeration of the native species. More
Birds of paradise: nature, art and history.
Malanda: Frith and Frith, 2010. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, signed by the authors, fine copy in dustwrapper (NOT AS PICTURED). The authors have studied Birds of paradise for 40 years. This book comprehensively details the entire family of Birds of paradise and describes their natural history, conservation and cultural history..... More
A collection of 27 papers on Victorian marine molluscs.
Melbourne: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Octavo, typescript index, binder's cloth, interleaved and wrappers retained, with the signature of J. A. Singleton. John Henry Gatliff (1848-1935) emigrated to Geelong with his parents in 1857, he was a very early member of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, collaborated..... More
The remarkable baobab.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004. Octavo, colour photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. Acclaimed historian Thomas Pakenham trains his lens on the most mysterious of trees, the baobab, with spectacular results. His search for the world's most striking baobabs has lead him over the last eight years on a trail..... More
The hummingbirds of North America.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, (1984. second edition). Octavo, 24 colour plates, maps, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. First published in 1983, this work has been expanded and revised to include 25 Mexican species (47 species in all). More
Wild flowers of the wayside and woodland.
London: Frederick Warne and Company, (1962. reprint). Small octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Wayside and woodland trees.
London: Frederick Warne and Company, (1964. tenth edition). Small octavo, colour plates and other illustrations, inscription, very good copy in dustwrapper. The Wayside and Woodland Series. More
Wild flowers of the wayside and woodland.
London: Frederick Warne and Company, (1948. reprint). Duodecimo, colour plates, bookplate, a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Flowers of the woods.
London: Penguin Books, 1946. Octavo, colour plates, bookplate, papered boards. More
Wayside and woodland trees: a pocket guide to the British Sylva.
London: Frederick Warne and Company, Duodecimo, photographs, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. The Wayside and Woodland Series. More
Birds, mammals and reptiles of the Galapagos Islands: an identification guide.
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, (2005. second edition). Octavo, colour photographs, maps, bookplate, softcover. Until the discovery of the Islands in 1535, the flora and fauna of the Galapagos evolved in isolation, producing strange and marvellous island species, as Charles Darwin found when he visited 300 years later. Nowadays..... More
Hummingbirds.
Canada: Little Brown, 1988. Quarto, colour photographs by Tony Keppelman, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The book of Indian birds.
Bombay: Bombay Natural History Society, (1972. ninth edition). Octavo, colour plates, a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Wild fowl.
Clayton: The Clayton Dyestuffs Company. Octavo, twenty six colour plates, bookplate, publisher's cloth. "The following illustrations were included in a series of trade journal advwertisements, and are produced here in response to many requests" More
A classification of recent birds [drop title].
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1951. Octavo, bookplate, binder's cloth. 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