Sydney: William Brooks & Company, [1907]. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, 37 uncoloured plates and text illustrations. Publisher's decorated cloth (NOT AS PICTURED), grubby and some splitting of spine, hinges cracked, full page inscription of Charles Woollett, and the biro inscription "J. W. Kinghorn, Australian Museum" on the title page. More
Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, (1840. first edition). Octavo, portrait frontispieces and hand-coloured extra engraved title pages, 64 hand-coloured plates and text illustrations. Handsome contemporary decorated morocco, all edges gilt, fine spotting throughout and priced accordingly; the rare large paper issue. LARGE PAPER COPY. From The Naturalist's Library, with a memoir..... More
Edinburgh: W H Lizars, (1837. first edition). Octavo, 32 handcoloured plates. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titled spine, bookplates. From William Jardine's Naturalist Library. More
Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, (2023. third edition, revised), Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Marine plants of Australia is fully referenced and has numerous descriptions and line drawings, detailing many of the intricacies of this surprisingly complex group of plants. It is be an invaluable identification guide. This..... More
Silverwater: Golden Press, 1989. Quarto, colour photographs, bookplate, sunned spine, a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Oxford University Press, (1980. reprint). Octavo, illustrations by Donald Watson, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Collins, 1946. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, a very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper. More
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
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), 1893. Octavo, 14 chromolithograph plates. Publisher's brown cloth, bookplate, a near fine copy. Volume 21 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. Wood p. 548; Zimmer p. 540. More
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2003. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, dustwrapper. More
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2020. Large octavo, photographs, bookplate, softcover. Budgies, budgies, budgies. Beautiful and cheeky, delightful and enchanting, wild or tamed budgerigars are Australia's gift to the bird world. They sing and dance, and yawn as contagiously as humans. They are masters of mimicry. They grasp simple grammar, can..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More