The birdlife of Britain: a dramatic new way of identifying and understanding the birds of Britain and Europe.
London: Mitchell Beazley, (1976. reprint). Quarto, dustwrapper, sunned spine, colour illustrations by Peter Hayman. More
Birds
The Redstart.
London: Collins, 1950. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist Monograph number two. More
A photographic guide to birds of Ecuador and Galapagos.
London: New Holland, 2009. Small octavo, colour photographs, map, softcover.. Although it is one of South America's smallest countries, Ecuador is home to nearly 1,600 species of birds. This is thanks to the huge variety of habitats created by the Andes. The country is a birder's paradise and an increasingly..... More
Wildfowl of Britain and Ireland.
Glasgow: Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. Octavo, colour photographs, line drawings, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 110. David Cabot has been obsessed with wildfowl for nearly sixty years. In this seminal new work, he discusses the 56 species of wildfowl that have been recorded either in a natural state, or..... More
Goose hunting.
Washington: Stone Wall Press, (1980. reprint). Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Nests and eggs of Australian birds: embracing papers on "Oology of Australian birds" read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, supplemented by other notes and memoranda.
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
Nests and eggs of Australian birds: including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon.
Sheffield: Author, 1900. Octavo, 28 (27 of eggs) chromolithographs by Brittlebank, photographs. Binder's cloth with publisher's decorated cloth laid down on covers and spine, new endpapers, a sound copy. Six hundred copies published. A. J. Campbell, a foundation member of both the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union and the Bird Observers'..... More
A dictionary of birds.
Vermillion: Buteo Books, 1985. Quarto, illustrations, dustwrapper. Contributions from over 280 ornithologists covering the field of modern ornithology and related subjects. Includes articles on all the bird families, almost all of which are illustrated by a representative species. There are also short entries defining special terms, application of names etc...... More
The dictionary of birds in colour.
London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1974. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. More
The birds of British Columbia.
Victoria: Royal British Columbia Museum, 1990. Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, maps, dustwrappers, signed by one author. Volume one: Non-passerines (Introduction, loons through waterfowl). Volume two: Non-passerines (Diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers). First two volumes of a four volume set. More
Lakeland ornithology.
Arbroath: Transactions of the Carlisle Natural History Society, 1954. Octavo, photographs, signature, bookplate. More
Nocturnal birds of Southern Africa.
Pietermaritzburg: Author, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Brings the largely unseen world of night birds to the reader in the pages of this photographic guide, the first to cover the full spectrum of the owls, nightjars, night herons, thick-knees, coursers, the bat hawk and many other species in detail..... More
Bird song: biological themes and variations.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Octavo, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Explores the study of bird song from the biological viewpoint and reviews the extensive literature on the subject. More
Birds of the Sudan: their identification and distribution.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1955. Octavo, colour plates and other illustrations by D. M. Reid Henry, folding map, signature, slightly chipped dustwrapper. More
Annotated checklist of the birds of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Birdwatching Society, 1986. Octavo, illustrations, map, charts, paperback. More
Audubon: a biography ...
New York: The Viking Press, 1978. Octavo, illustrations, torn dustwrapper. More
Fifty years' progress of American ornithology 1883-1933.
Lancaster: American Ornithologists Union, 1933. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers. More
The warblers of North America.
New York: Dover, 1968. Octavo, 24 plates, some wear to publisher's wrappers otherwise a good copy. More
Common Australian birds of towns and gardens.
Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1970. Octavo, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The birds of Togo: an annotated checklist.
Tring: British Ornithologists' Union, 1996. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. BOU Checklist 14. Introductory chapters cover the geology and topography, geography, climate and vegetation, plus breeding, migration, conservation and zoogeography. The bulk of the book comprises the systematic list covering all 624 species reliably recorded in this West Afriacn country..... More
Penguins: birds of distinction.
Ringwood: Penguin Books, 1996. Oblong format, colour photographs, bookplste, softcover. More
The curse of the Labrador Duck: my obsessive quest to the edge of extinction.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The American Bird Conservancy guide to the 500 most important bird areas in the United States: key sites for birds and birding in all 50 states.
New York: Random House, 2003. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. The American Bird Conservancy Guide to the 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the United States offers both bird enthusiasts and conservationists specialized information never before compiled in a single comprehensive volume. This expert resource organizes the United States into..... More
Nature fantasy in Australia.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1932. first edition), Octavo, coloured frontispiece by Neville Cayley, photographs, a few spots otherwise a fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Down the long wind: a study of bird migration.
London: Newnes, 1961. Octavo, photographs, signature, bookplate, dustwrapper. More