Cuban ornithology.
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
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A monograph of the weaver-birds, Ploceidae, and arboreal and terrestrial finches, Fringillidae.
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
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A history of the birds of New Zealand [and] Supplement to the Birds of New Zealand.
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
![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)
The Emu, volumes one to three [facsimile]
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
Beitrag zur Fauna Centralpolynesians. Ornithologie der Viti, Samoa-und Tonga-Inseln.
Amsterdam: E J Brill, 1867-1868. Tall octavo, 14 handcoloured lithographed bird plates; uncut in later boards mounting the front printed wrapper. More
Australian parrots.
Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1980. second edition). Folio, colour plates. Publisher's full green calf, limited to 1000 copies numbered and signed by author and artist. Fine set in solander box (box slightly dull). Freight is extra. One of the very best modern parrot books, especially in its limited edition iteration, with ground..... More
An introduction to the birds of Australia.
London: Author, 1848. Octavo, two wood-engraved illustrations. Publisher's cloth, rebacked, scarce. "The Preface and Introduction to my Birds of Australia having been set up in small type for facility of correction, I have had a limited number of copies printed in octavo form, for distribution ..." (Notice p. vii). Ferguson..... More
Die Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna. Systematische Ubersicht der in Europa, Nord-Asien und der Mittelmeerregion vorkommenden Vogel.
Berlin: Verlag von R. Friedlander und Sohn, 1910-38. Quarto, text illustrations.The first three volumes in contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, the supplement in a binders cloth, all volumes with some wear, the bookplate of Dom Serventy. More
The natural history of gallinaceous birds, volume one
London: W. H. Lizars, 1836. Duodecimo, uncoloured frontispiece of Aristotle, coloured half titles; 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
The natural history of game-birds.
London: W. H. Lizars, 1834. Duodecimo, uncoloured frontispiece of Stamford Raffles, coloured half title; 30 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
The natural history of the birds of Great Britain and Ireland.
London: W. H. Lizars, 1838-1839. Duodecimo, uncoloured frontispiece of Robert Sibald and William Smellie, uncoloured and coloured half titles; 73 handcoloured plates. Handsome contemporary full blindstamped calf with gilt spine, all edges gilt, contents slightly shaken. Volume one; Birds of prey. Volume two: Incessores. From The Naturalist's Library, complete in..... More
A history of the birds of Ceylon.
London: Author, [1878]-1880- [1881]. Quarto, one coloured map, one coloured egg plate, 33 handcoloured plates by Keulemans of the Ceylonese endemics. Contemporary red calf and blue boards with gilt lettering "Royal Australasian Ornithologist Union/ presented to the R.A.O.U. by its first president/ the author". All edges speckled, the R.A.O.U. library..... More
Review of the genus Cisticola.
Sydney: The Ibis, 1930. Octavo, 20 folding colour plates. Binder's tan leather half-morocco and cloth boards, original wrappers retained. The plates are produced in folding chart form and are highly attractive examples of measured drawings. Published as a Supplement to The Ibis, Twelfth Series, Volume 6. More
Review of the genus Cisticola.
Sydney: The Ibis, 1930. Octavo, 20 folding colour plates. Binder's green cloth with red labels, all edges coloured, a fine copy. The plates are produced in folding chart form and are highly attractive examples of measured drawings. Published as a Supplement to The Ibis, Twelfth Series, Volume 6... More
Birds of Arabia. Edition de Luxe.
London: Henry Sotheran, 1980. Quarto, tipped in plates, folding map. Full green morocco with inlaid leather falcon design on upper board, silk endpapers, all edges gilt. The special issue of ten copies lettered A-K, this copy is "I". Limited to ten copies bound in a spectacular full morocco; the standard..... More
The feathered tribes of the British islands,
London: Henry G. Bohn, (1853. fourth edition). Octavo, two handcoloured frontispieces, two handcoloured title pages, seven handcoloured egg plates and other plates. Quarter calf and marbled boards, contemporary inscription. More
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National Photographic Index [complete set].
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1982. Quarto, colour photographs, a very good set in dustwrappers. The National Photographic Index, established by Donald Trounson and administrated from the Australian Museum in Sydney, has proved to be a valuable resource and this outstanding ten volume photographic monograph on Australian birds is its lasting..... More
Ootheca Wolleyana: an illustrated catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs begun by the late John Wolley and continued with additions by Alfred Newton.
London: R. H. Porter, 1864-1907. Large octavo, portrait, 37 lithographed plates mostly coloured, folding coloured map. Binder's cloth retaining the two printed front wrappers in each volume, top edges gilt, others uncut, a fine copy, scarce. John Wolley (1824-1859) assembled a fine egg collection and was deeply involved, with his..... More
The birds of the British Islands.
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
The dodo and kindred allies.
London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848. Quarto, hand coloured frontispiece. Handsome publisher's blind-panelled cloth, front cover with gilt Dodo vignette, bookplate, tipped in a separately published lithographic portrait of Strickland, a fine copy, very scarce in this condition. Anker 486; Fine Bird Books (reprint) p. 145; Nissen IVB 900; Wood..... More
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