Parrots and parrot-like birds. Disease of parrots.
New York: All-Pets Books, 1954. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, publisher's cloth with the Glossy Black Cockatoo blindstamp of Sir Edward Hallstrom. More
Cage Birds
Pheasants: their lives and homes.
New York: New York Zoological Society, (1931. first edition). Quarto, colour plates by Lodge and others, a fine set in publisher's cloth. The reduced format version of Beebe's monumental 'A monograph of the pheasants', 1914-1918. More
Budgerigars, canaries and foreign finches.
london: C. Arthur Pearson, 1961. Octavo, colour illustrations, lacks dustwrapper. More
The foreigner: a practical guide to the keeping, breeding and showing of all kinds of foreign birds and budgerigars, written by the foremost avicultural authorities of the day.
Sydney: Keston foreign bird Farm, 1934-1938. Octavo, coloured and uncoloured plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt cockatoo, a very good set, scarce. The Keston Bird Farm, established by Edward Boosey in the 1920's was a very successful operation until World War Two and beyond. Although the business imported birds its..... More
How to sex cage birds (British and foreign).
London: The Feathered World, [1907]. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, slightly rubbed, very scarce. More
Bird-keeping in Australia.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1962. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in contacted dustwrapper. Signed by Alec Chisholm at the end of the Foreward. A minor classic of Australian avicultural literature- well published, very readable and still useful. With an excellent Foreward by Alec Chisholm. More
Parakeets: their breeding, training and management.
New York: Denlinger's, 1952. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
Through a birdroom window.
London: F. V. White, [1920]. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, bookplate, publisher's decorated cloth, slightly grubby, bookplate. The Reverend Farrar's two little books, the other is "Birdroom and aviary", are the wittiest and most enjoyable books ever written on aviculture. More
Favourite foreign birds for cages and aviaries.
London: L. Upcott Gill, [1891]. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's red gilt cloth, a good copy. More
Australian parrakeets: their maintenance and breeding in Europe.
Haren: Author, [1966. second edition), Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Australian parrots in bush and aviary
Sydney: David & Charles, 1981. Octavo, photographs, lengthy inscription, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Avi-index: a selected index of Australian Aviculture over 43 years.
Sydney: Avicultural Society of Australia, 1990. Octavo, paperback, More
Records of birds bred in captivity.
London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1926. Octavo, bookplate. Publisher's handsome blue cloth in very good printed dustwrapper, very scarce in this condition. More
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The atlas of rare pheasants, in two volumes: volume one [only].
Sydney: Palawan Press, 1997. Folio, 24 colour plates by Timothy Greenwood. Publisher's handsome green cloth with embossed Reeve's Pheasant and slipcase, limited to 600 numbered copies. A volume two was published. More
Adventures with talking birds.
Neptune: TFH, 1981. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, laminated boards. More
Australian softbill management: aviary studies of wrens, robins, chats and dotterels.
Sydney: Singil Press, 1991. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper. "To Ian [Rowley] Many thanks and very best wishes Rosemary Hutton" Very few books have been written on Australian softbills and this is the best. More
Macaws, Cockatoos, Parrakeets, and Parrots.
London: Dean and Son, [c1870]. Octavo, uncoloured plates, coloured boards, advertisement endpaper detached, scarce. Dean Pratical Guide Books. The plates, originally hand coloured, are taken from the 1833 Lauder and Brown The miscellany of natural history, volume one: parrots. Nine Australian species are figured. More
Australian parrots in field and aviary.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1976. reprint). Octavo, 13 colour plates by Neville Cayley, near mint copy in dustwrapper. A heavily revised re-issue of Neville Cayley's 1938 classic. Alan Lendon was a prominent Adelaide medico and aviculturist who held one of the finest collections of Australian parrots post World War Two..... More
Australian parrots in field and aviary.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1983. reprint). Octavo, 13 colour plates by Neville Cayley, inscription, a very good copy in dustwrapper. A heavily revised re-issue of Neville Cayley's 1938 classic. Alan Lendon was a prominent Adelaide medico and aviculturist who held one of the finest collections of Australian parrots post World..... More
Australian parrots in field and aviary.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1989. reprint). Octavo, 13 colour plates by Neville Cayley, fine copy in dustwrapper. A heavily revised re-issue of Neville Cayley's 1938 classic. Alan Lendon was a prominent Adelaide medico and aviculturist who held one of the finest collections of Australian parrots post World War Two... More
Your first parakeet.
Neptune: TFH, 1996. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Endangered parrots.
London: Blandford Press, (1984. first edition). Quarto, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Keeping parrots.
Poole: Blandford Press, 1985. Octavo, photographs, paperback. "Rosemary Low best wishes Andrew April 1989" More
Lories and lorikeets: the brush-tongued parrots.
Melbourne: Inkata Press, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Mynah birds.
Sydney: John Bartholomew & Son, 1976. Octavo, colour illustrations, paperback. More