Kassel: Verlag von Theodor Fischer, 1878-1883. Folio, 33 chromolithographic (finished by hand) plates and accompanying text leaves. Publisher's green blindstamped and gilt cloth, expertly rebacked, the standard issue, some foxing but not affecting images; additional typescript index in French plus typescript interleaved French text. Anton Reichenow (1847-1941) was the most..... More

London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Quarto, five handcoloured engraved plates. Publisher's printed wrappers, a fine copy, all contained in a quarter calf box with marbled boards, very scarce. The first monograph on Australian fish and the only monograph with handcoloured plates of Australian fish. This is also the..... More

London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 19271939. Small quarto, 125 colour plates by Gronvold. Publisher's red cloth, signatures, a very good set. Lacking volume five 'Conclusion and survey of every species' published much later (1976) by Lord Medway and David R. Wells. More

London: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 21, 1935. Quarto, 16 chromolithographic plates by Frohawk, seven photographs. Quarter red morocco and papered boards, fine copy. The only monograph on all species of Tree kangaroos and the last colour plate mammal monograph ever published. Walter Rothschild maintained a keen..... More

London: Trubner and Co, 1876-1876. Quarto, three volumes, 104 handcoloured lithographs and chromolithographs by Keulemans and others. Contemporary green binder's cloth (a near match to the publisher's binding) with burgundy label, a few minor flecks and marks; the contents clean, a very good set. George Dawson Rowley (1822-1878) was an..... More

London: Chapman & Hall, 1897. Large quarto, photographs, three chromolithographs including one of Gouldian Finch by Keulemans. Publisher's handsome illustrated green cloth and top edge gilt, a few spots otherwise a fine copy and very scarce in this condition. More

London: R. H. Porter, (1902-1903. first edition). Octavo, 20 coloured (including 19 handcoloured) plates by Gronvold, Green and Goodchild. Modern half red morocco with two spine labels, publisher's wrappers retained, a very good copy. A handsome publication and one of the last colour plate bird books, with many Australian species..... More

London: John Van Voorst, (1863. second edition). Octavo, frontispiece and 86 handcoloured steel engraved plates. Handsome contemporary full gilt morocco, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, two nineteenth century ownership inscriptions (one dated 1863), an occasional spot, otherwise a fine crisp copy. The expanded reissue of Sowerby's classic work on British..... More

London and Melbourne: Dulau and Co./Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1896. Octavo, four volumes, text illustrations; a total of 69 plates including eleven zoological chromolithographs (three mammal, three bird, four reptile and one frog), folding map. Publisher's handsome blue cloth, uncut and partly unopened, a fine copy. The Horn Expedition is..... More

London: E. Grant Richards, 1906-1911. Large quarto, 318 uncoloured plates by Lillian Medland. Publisher's cloth, top edge gilt, a few flecks, internally some light spotting. Lilian Medland married Tom Iredale and illustrated his Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds 1953 and Birds of New Guinea, 1956. More

London: Wheldon & Wesley, 1930-1945. Quarto, 41 coloured plates by Gronvold and 16 photogravure plates. Contemporary red half morocco, a fine set. The only true colour plate monograph of the birds of prey, limited to 412 copies. More

San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1922. Quarto, photographs. Publisher's printed wrappers, uncut and partly unopened. All housed in two matching fleece lined quarter green morocco folding Solander boxes, a superb set. Volume one: Lizards. Volume two: Snakes. "One of the best treatise on the subject extant" (Wood). Wood p.609..... More

Sarasota: Allyn Museum of Entomology, 1888. Quarto, 93 colour plates with text tissue guards. Publisher's full blue morocco and gilt spine, a fine copy. More