Melbourne: Charles Stuart & Co., 1890-1891. Folio, 303 chromolithographic plates with accompanying text and tissue guards. Six volumes bound in three, contemporary half calf and gilt lettered cloth, expertly re-spined, all edges coloured and tissue guards present, a sound clean set. Gracius Joseph Broinowski was born in Poland in 1837... More

Adelaide: E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1882-1890. Folio, coloured titlepage plus 45 chromolithographs by Rosa Fiveash, each with an accompanying text leaf. Nine parts in original grey printed wrappers all contained in a handsome archival four-fold satchel and green cloth solander box with inlaid leather label. Apart from the inevitable slight... More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. Folio, 61 uncoloured plates, a very good set lacking 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

London: Author, 1888-1905. Folio, HISTORY (1888): [13 parts in] two volumes, 48 chromolithographs by Keulemans. Contemporary half brown morocco and green cloth, top edges gilt, spines with raised bands and elaborate gilt inlays. SUPPLEMENTS (1905): two volumes [bound in one], twelve handcoloured lithographs by Keulemans. Contemporary half brown morocco and... More

Wellington: Author, 1865. Octavo, with two other papers, very scarce. Also included is a paper "Notes On the ornithology of New Zealand" by Buller (extract from The Ibis 1869). Separate is a paper by Buller "The story of Papaitonga; or a page of Maori history (Wellington Philososphical Society p. 572-584)... More

London: W. H. Allen, 1880. Duodecimo, Publisher's green cloth with titles, a few blemishes otherwise a very good copy, rare. More

Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1900-1994. Octavo, The first three volumes are the Hyett/Cooper facsimile, volume six is unbound, volume eight part one only (lacks three parts) and volume nine is in a shabby "Emu" binding, all other volumes in a neat binder's cloth, a very good run. The single..... More

Sheffield: Author, 1900. Octavo, colour plates by Brittlebank. Publisher's light green "presentation" cloth, a fine set of the rarest of the three variant 'Nests and eggs'. "The[re] was only one edition. A London bookseller ordered 100 copies; when he saw the number of pages (over 1,000) he had it put... More

Sheffield: Author, 1900. Octavo, 28 (27 of eggs) chromolithographs by Brittlebank, photographs. Publisher's brown decorated cloth [single volume], a superb bright crisp copy, scarce in this condition. A. J. Campbell, a foundation member of both the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union and the Bird Observers' Club, was a prolific contributor to... More

Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Small folio, colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's full grey calf and Solander box, edition limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, a fine copy. Raymond Harris-Ching is one of the great modern wildlife artists and Studies and Sketches is one of his best... More

Sydney: William Maddock, 1868. Octavo, 20 handcoloured lithographs by Harriet Forde. Early (publisher's?) cloth, a fine crisp copy with well coloured plates, rare in this condition. Issued with coloured or uncoloured plates, Ferguson does not mention the existence of coloured copies. An important book that belongs to a select group... More

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1915-1917. Octavo, two volumes, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, volume one with some light staining to cloth but not affecting text, some slight paper oxidation, a library stamp on the title page of volume one, very scarce. One of the classics of Australian herpetological literature covering 624 species. More

Norwich: S. Wilkin, 1825. Octavo, 14 handcoloured engraved plates. Publisher's cloth, respined, a very good copy, scarce. More