Budgerigars, canaries and foreign finches.
london: C. Arthur Pearson, 1961. Octavo, colour illustrations, lacks dustwrapper. More
CAGE BIRDS - General Reference
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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
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
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
Adventures with talking birds.
Neptune: TFH, 1981. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, laminated boards. More
Records of birds of prey bred in captivity.
London: Author, (1955. second edition). Octavo, recto only. Publisher's cloth, bookplate. More
An introduction to birdkeeping.
London: Cage Birds, [21955]. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, chipped dustwrapper. More
Foreign birds.
London: W G Foyle, 1954. Octavo, text illustrations, chipped dustwrapper. More
Aviculture in Australia: keeping and breeding aviary birds.
Melbourne: Black Cockatoo Press, (1989. first edition). Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. The best general Australian cage bird book by Australia's finest single publisher of aviculture. More
The new bird table book.
London: Readers Union, 1973. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Bird ailments and accidents: their treatment and cure.
London: Cage Birds, (1953. fifth edition). Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
Handbook of birds, cages and aviaries: the complete guide to keeping and housing pet and aviary birds.
Sydney: ABK Publications, (2000. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs. More
Aviary birds in colour.
London: Blandford Press, 1974. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. More
The handbook of aviculture.
London: Blandford Press, 1987. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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