Mutton birds and other birds.
Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1914. Octavo, photographs, bookplate. Publisher's handsome decorated cloth. More
Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1914. Octavo, photographs, bookplate. Publisher's handsome decorated cloth. More
Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1914. Octavo, photographs, bookplate. Publisher's handsome green cloth, a fine copy. More
Seattle: Pacific Search Press, 1984. Quarto, colour plates, distribution maps, dustwrapper. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1934. Quarto, one plate, bookplate, printed wrappers. Discovery Reports, volume nine. More
Wellington: Victoria University, 1974. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Wellington: Price Milburn, 1978. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, limp plastic cover. More
New York: Facts on File, 1983. Quarto, colour photographs, very good in dustwrapper. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, owner's sticker, fine copy in dustwrapper. One of the great seabird reference books. Petrels, albatrosses, and storm-petrels are among the least known of all the world's birds, living their lives at sea far from the sight of most people. Enigmatic and..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $58. Peterson Reference Guide. An authoritative reference guide covers the 36 species of gulls that occur in North and South America, contains 1,160 photographs illustrating the many plumages gulls display as they mature, and provides descriptions..... More
Washington, DC: United States Department of the Interior, 1970. Octavo, wrappers, text illustrations. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Special Scientific Report- Fisheries No. 586. More
North Ryde: Angus and Robertson, 1986. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in fine dustwrapper. National Photographic Index, number three. More
North Ryde: Angus and Robertson, 1986. Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. National Photographic Index, number three. More
London: Poyser, 1991. Octavo, text illustrations, maps A fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: Devin-Adair, (1947. first edition). Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, lacks dustwrapper. More
San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1918. Quarto, 17 photographs, folding map. Publisher's printed wrappers, a very good copy. More
Ashland: Northword Press, 1987. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Poyser, 2004. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. This book summarises the findings of Seabird 2000, a major initiative to census all breeding seabirds in Britain and Ireland. It draws on the work of over 1000 surveyors who counted seabirds at coastal and inland colonies. The results are compared..... More
New York: Extracted from American Museum Novitates, 1933. Octavo, coloured frontispiece. Binder's cloth, bookplates, a very good copy, scarce. The Whitney South Sea Expedition (1920-1941) was the most extensive ornithological collecting and research expedition of the twentieth century with 4000 specimens collected for the American Museum of Natural History. This..... More
The Auk, Author's reprint combing two other papers. More
New York: Macmillan, 1936. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in publisher's cloth. One of the best bird books ever written and no bird book library, let alone seabird library, is complete without a copy. More
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1951. Octavo, photographs, binder's quarter calf over marbled boards, the signature of J. h. Sorensen. With three other related paper, all from American Museum Novitates. More
Peterborough: Langford Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, photographs. The second in the series "Wildlife and people", this book chronicles Nelson's adventures studying seabirds. Charmingly illustrated by watercolour paintings by John Busby. More
Vermillion: Buteo Books, 1978. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. The author is internationally known for his work on the gannets and boobies, and this study is the definitive work on the North Atlantic gannet Sula basssana. More
London: Hamlyn, 1980. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Cambridge: Birds International, 1994. Octavo, paperback, BirdLife Conservation Series No. 1. More