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London: British Museum (Natural History). 1893. Large quarto, 240 uncoloured photographs. Publisher's cloth, some wear, the upper spine of volume seven repaired, the title pages with the stamp of the "Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales" plus a few stamps throughout, a sound set, scarce. Volume one: the genus... More about Catalogue of the Madreporian corals in the British Museum (Natural History
Adelaide: E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1882-1890. Folio, coloured titlepage plus 45 chromolithographs by Rosa Fiveash, each with an accompanying text leaf. Nine parts in original grey printed wrappers all contained in a handsome archival four-fold satchel and green cloth solander box with inlaid leather label. Apart from the inevitable slight... More about The forest flora of South Australia
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. Folio, 61 uncoloured plates. A fine set in slightly chipped dustwrappers. "The Carpologia at the time of its publication (1861-1865) was an epoch-making work and [is] one of the great mycological classics. Its primary purpose was to demonstrate the pleomorphism of the Ascomycetes which had been... More about Selecta Fungorum Carpologia of the brothers L. R. and C. Tulasne. Translated into English by W....
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. Folio, 61 uncoloured plates, a very good set lacking dustwrappers. "The Carpologia at the time of its publication (1861-1865) was an epoch-making work and [is] one of the great mycological classics. Its primary purpose was to demonstrate the pleomorphism of the Ascomycetes which had been denied... More about Selecta Fungorum Carpologia of the brothers L. R. and C. Tulasne. Translated into English by W....
London: E.A. Petherick, 1888. Octavo, ten plates and text engravings. Publisher's printed vellum binding with marbled end papers, a handsome copy, very scarce. Stephen William Silver (1819-1905) was a wealthy London timber merchant who assembled a fine collection of New Zealand bird specimens. They were exhibited at the Colonial and... More about A classified list of Mr. William Silver's collection of New Zealand birds (at the Manor-house,...
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London: Author, 1888-1905. Quarto, HISTORY (1888): [13 parts in] two volumes, 48 chromolithographs by Keulemans. Contemporary half brown morocco and green cloth, top edges gilt, spines with raised bands and elaborate gilt inlays. SUPPLEMENTS (1905): two volumes [bound in one], twelve handcoloured lithographs by Keulemans. Contemporary half brown morocco and... More about A history of the birds of New Zealand [and] Supplement to the birds of New Zealand
London: John Van Voorst, 1873. Large quarto, photographic frontispiece, 35 handcoloured plates by Keulemans. Contemporary green half morocco and marbled boards, top edge gilt, the uncoloured frontispiece chipped and slightly cut down, mounted on a stub, a few spots and three contemporary ink stamps (a signature stamp on the title... More about A history of the birds of New Zealand
Wellington: Author, 1865. Octavo, with two other papers, very scarce. The other papers by Buller are Notes on the ornithology of New Zealand (extract from The Ibis 1869) and The story of Papaitonga; or a page of Maori history (Wellington Philosophical Society pp. 572-584). "There is an interesting history to... More about On the ornithology of New Zealand
London: L. Reeve & Co., 1894. Quarto, 59 (of 60) handcoloured lithographs by Frohawk, lacks the Painted Finch plate and the Chestnut-breasted Finch/ Three-coloured Mannikin plate is substantially trimmed but not affecting image. Publisher's blindstamped burgundy morocco grain cloth with handsome gilt finch design on upper board, top edge gilt... More about Foreign finches in captivity
London: W. H. Allen, 1880. Duodecimo, Publisher's green cloth with titles, a few blemishes otherwise a very good copy, rare. More about Destruction of life by snakes, hydrophobia, etc. in western India
Melbourne: Mallon Publishing, 1980. Folio, 49 colour plates by Rosemary Woodford Ganf. Publisher's cloth covered boards with embossed brown calf inset, limited edition of 500 copies signed and numbered by author and artist. The third and final volume, first published 1976. This volume covers the macropods, which represent approximately one... More about Marsupials of Australia, volume three: carnivorous marsupials and bandicoots
Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1900-1994. Octavo, The first three volumes are the Hyett/Cooper facsimile, volume six is unbound, volume eight part one only (lacks three parts) and volume nine is in a shabby "Emu" binding, all other volumes in a neat binder's cloth, a very good run. The single..... More about The Emu, volumes 1-92
Sheffield: Author, 1900. Octavo, colour plates by Brittlebank. Publisher's light green "presentation" cloth, a fine set of the rarest of the three variants of this title. "The[re] was only one edition. A London bookseller ordered 100 copies; when he saw the number of pages (over 1,000) he had it put... More about Nests and eggs of Australian birds: including the geographical distribution of the species and...
Sheffield: Author, 1900. Octavo, 28 (27 of eggs) chromolithographs by Brittlebank, photographs. Publisher's olive-green cloth, a superb set, rare in this condition. A. J. Campbell, a foundation member of both the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union and the Bird Observers' Club, was a prolific contributor to the journals of the day... More about Nests and eggs of Australian birds: including the geographical distribution of the species and...
Sheffield: Author, 1900. Octavo, 28 (27 of eggs) chromolithographs by Brittlebank, photographs. Publisher's brown decorated cloth [single volume], a superb bright crisp copy, scarce in this condition. A. J. Campbell, a foundation member of both the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union and the Bird Observers' Club, was a prolific contributor to... More about Nests and eggs of Australian birds: including the geographical distribution of the species and...
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1932-1954. Octavo, three colour plates, photographs and other illustrations. Binder's red cloth, all edges speckled, with the bookplate and signatures of Stephen Marchant (a previous editor of The Emu), a very good set of a scarce work (only 300 copies of part one... More about The birds of the Belgian Congo
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Small folio, colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's full grey calf and Solander box, edition limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, a fine copy. Raymond Harris-Ching is one of the great modern wildlife artists and Studies and Sketches is one of his best... More about Studies and sketches of a bird painter
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1897-1922. Quarto, 21 volumes. Publisher's cloth (except for two volumes), a fine set. A monumental work on the geology of North America. Freight will be charged at cost. More about Maryland Geological Survey
Sydney: William Maddock, 1868. Octavo, 20 handcoloured lithographs by Harriet Forde. Early (publisher's?) cloth, a fine crisp copy with well coloured plates, rare in this condition. Issued with coloured or uncoloured plates, Ferguson does not mention the existence of coloured copies. An important book that belongs to a select group... More about A monograph of Australian land shells
Paris: Fortin, Masson et Cie, [1836-1849]. Quarto, Large octavo, 22 volumes [bound in 20], 917 plates, many of them coloured. Handsome contemporary red half morocco, raised bands with gilt panels, and marbled boards, a few blemishes, some volumes rebacked. The "Disciples edition" of Cuvier's great survey of the animal kingdom... More about Le règne animal, distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire...
Paris: Exposition Coloniale Internationale, 1931. Quarto, 67 chromolithographs by H. Grönvold. Half green morocco and marbled boards, top edge coloured, other edges uncut, publisher's printed wrappers retained, a fine set. Nissen IVB 228. More about Les oiseaux de l'Indochine Française
Norwich: S. Wilkin, 1825. Octavo, 14 handcoloured engraved plates. Publisher's cloth, respined, a very good copy, scarce. More about Monographia Pselaphidarum et Scydmaenidarum Britanniae: or an essay on the British species of the
Bruxelles: Lacrosse et cie, 1839. Octavo, Binders half morocco and cloth boards, printed wrappers retained. Text volumes only of mammals, reptiles and fish. Not in Wood or Ronsil. More about Oeuvres du Comte de Lacepede, comprenant l'histoire naturelle des quarupedes ovipares, avec la...
London: Methuen & Co., 1898. Large octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, slightly shaken, otherwise a very good copy, scarce. More about From Tonkin to India: by the sources of Irawadi January '95 - January '96
New York: D. Appleton and Company, (1861-1863. first edition). Folio, 31 handcoloured lithographic plates heightened with gum arabic, after Elliot and P.L. Oudart. Six parts in the original printed tan card covers and half red roan, some light wear; a fine well coloured set. The first book by Elliot and... More about A Monograph of the Pittidae, or Family of Ant Thrushes