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London: The Avicultural Society, 1894-1921. Octavo, Publisher’s cloth, gilt-decorated in the two later series, the final three volumes in binder’s cloth, most volumes retaining the printed wrappers. The Avicultural magazine was the first journal devoted to cage-birds and, along with Bird notes which it absorbed in 1926, is the finest..... More
London: Ducks Unlimited Canada, 1987. Large oblong folio, 44 colour plates by 30 artists, each individually signed. Publisher's full brown leather binding and Solander box. Limited to 1,250 regular copies and 50 numbered artist proofs, a fine copy Freight will be extra. More
Paris: {'an V. de la Republique Francaise, 1797. Quarto, 266 uncoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half morocco and blue papered boards, all edges uncut, a fine copy. Volume eighteen. More
Sydney: Rue et Hotel Serpente, 1789. Octavo, two engraved plates. Early patterned boards, expertly rebacked, bookplate. More
Sydney: Mortier en Zoon, 1824. folding chart. Modern binder's cloth, small stamp on title page. More
London: Alecto Historical Editions in association with the British Museum (Natural History), 1980-1990. Folio, 738 copper-engraved plates in titled window mounts, colour printed a la poupee in up to 17 colours with additional watercolour touches from the original plates after Sydney Parkinson, Frederick Polydore Nodder, John Frederick Miller, James Miller..... More
![Stock ID 19390 A contribution to the zoogeography of the East Indian Islands [part one]. Thomas...](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/19390.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1774319499)
Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1912. Quarto, eight (including five coloured) photolithographic plates. Modern binder's cloth, owner's stamp, a fine clean copy. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 44, number one. More
Cambridge MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1943. Small quarto, two plates, fine copy in publisher's cloth. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, number nine. More
London: J. Sewell, 1781. Quarto, 22 (three folding) handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half polished calf with marbled boards, new endpapers, all edges coloured, a very good copy Text in English and French, this copy with the French title page only. More
London: Author, 1888. Quarto, [5 parts] in a single volume [all published]. Publisher's brown cloth, 31 (9 handcoloured) plates by F. W. Frohawk. Boards slightly buckled otherwise an excellent copy free of foxing and blemishes, scarce. The only monograph on weavers and sparrows. Copies with all plates handcoloured are rare..... More
London: Macmillan and Co.Limited, 1894. Large octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, some slight wear, new endpapers, a sound copy. More
London: Ray Society, 1861-1864. Folio, 29 handcoloured lithographed plates. Publisher's quarter cloth and papered boards with title labels, corners a little bumped but a very good copy. John Blackwall (1790-1881) was a pioneering arachnologist, correspondent of Charles Darwin, and one of the first naturalists to be interested in spiders of..... More
London: C. G. Van Der Post, 1855. Quarto, one folding plate. Publisher's printed wrappers, rare. Not in Ferguson. More
Sydney: Librairie D'horticulture de E. Donnaud, 1867. Octavo, engraved frontispiece.Contemporary half norocco and marbled boards, some wear, hinges tender. More
Sydney: Apud Roret, 1840. Octavo, quarter calf and pebbled boards, some wear, all edges coloured, bookplates and pencil annotations, the copy of E. W. Classey. More
Paris: Encyclopedique de Roret, 1843. Duodecimo, bookplates, contemporary quarter morocco with red label and marbled boards, all edges coloured, a fine set. More
Sydney: Versammlung von Freuden der Naturwissenschaften, [1850. Quarto, two chromolithographs, quarter cloth and marbled boards. Text in German. More
Paris: Chez B. Wild et J. Altherr, 1791. Octavo, Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, red label, early strengthening of inner hinge, a very good copy. More
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
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. Folio, 61 uncoloured plates, 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 denied..... More
![Stock ID 31140 A history of the birds of New Zealand [and] Supplement to the Birds of New...](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31140.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758433355)
London: Author, 1888-1905. Octavo, Small folio, four volumes. HISTORY: [13 parts in] two volumes, 48 chromolithographs by Keulemans. Publisher's black quarter calf with gilt spine and dark green gilt decorated cloth, top edges gilt. SUPPLEMENTS: two volumes, twelve handcoloured lithographs by Keulemans. Publisher's red gilt decorated cloth, some staining. Second..... More
London: W. H. Lizars, 1840. Duodecimo, uncoloured frontispiece of Salvani, uncoloured half title; 31 handcoloured plates. Handsome contemporary full blindstamped calf with gilt spine, all edges gilt, contents slightly shaken. From The Naturalist's Library, complete in forty volumes and edited by William Jardine. More
London: L. Reeve & Co., 1894. Quarto, 59 (of 60) handcoloured lithographs by Frohawk, lacks one plate (Painted Finch) and the Chestnut-breasted Finch 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, some light..... More
![Stock ID 45657 The Emu, volumes one to three [facsimile]. A. J. Campbell](https://andrewisles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45657.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1760056771)
Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, [c1965]. Octavo, a fine set in binder's cloth, wrappers retained. Jack Hyett and Roy Cooper, frustrated by the impossibility of completing their sets of The Emu published this facsimile in the 1960's.100 sets were produced (Jack Hyett pers com). The single most important twentieth century..... More
1897. Octavo, Watercolour on paper, 60cm by 5 cm including mount and frame, signed Neville Cayley 1897. Some foxing. More