London: E.A. Petherick, 1888. Octavo, ten plates and text engravings. Publisher's printed vellum binding with marbled end papers, a handsome copy, very scarce. Stephen William Silver (1819-1905) was a wealthy London timber merchant who assembled a fine collection of New Zealand bird specimens. They were exhibited at the Colonial and... More about A classified list of Mr. William Silver's collection of New Zealand birds (at the Manor-house,...

London: John Van Voorst, 1873. Large quarto, photographic frontispiece, 35 handcoloured plates by Keulemans. Contemporary green half morocco and marbled boards, top edge gilt, the uncoloured frontispiece chipped and slightly cut down, mounted on a stub, a few spots and three contemporary ink stamps (a signature stamp on the title... More about A history of the birds of New Zealand

London: L. Reeve & Co., 1894. Quarto, 59 (of 60) handcoloured lithographs by Frohawk, lacks the Painted Finch plate and the Chestnut-breasted Finch/ Three-coloured Mannikin 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... More about Foreign finches in captivity

Melbourne: Mallon Publishing, 1980. Folio, 49 colour plates by Rosemary Woodford Ganf. Publisher's cloth covered boards with embossed brown calf inset, limited edition of 500 copies signed and numbered by author and artist. The third and final volume, first published 1976. This volume covers the macropods, which represent approximately one... More about Marsupials of Australia, volume three: carnivorous marsupials and bandicoots

Sheffield: Author, 1900. Octavo, 28 (27 of eggs) chromolithographs by Brittlebank, photographs. Publisher's olive-green cloth, a superb set, rare 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 the journals of the day... More about Nests and eggs of Australian birds: including the geographical distribution of the species and...

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1932-1954. Octavo, three colour plates, photographs and other illustrations. Binder's red cloth, all edges speckled, with the bookplate and signatures of Stephen Marchant (a previous editor of The Emu), a very good set of a scarce work (only 300 copies of part one... More about The birds of the Belgian Congo

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1897-1922. Quarto, 21 volumes. Publisher's cloth (except for two volumes), a fine set. A monumental work on the geology of North America. Freight will be charged at cost. More about Maryland Geological Survey

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 about The reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago

Bruxelles: Lacrosse et cie, 1839. Octavo, Binders half morocco and cloth boards, printed wrappers retained. Text volumes only of mammals, reptiles and fish. Not in Wood or Ronsil. More about Oeuvres du Comte de Lacepede, comprenant l'histoire naturelle des quarupedes ovipares, avec la...

New York: D. Appleton and Company, (1861-1863. first edition). Folio, 31 handcoloured lithographic plates heightened with gum arabic, after Elliot and P.L. Oudart. Six parts (lacks the3 final supplement) in the original printed tan card covers and half red roan, some light wear; a fine well coloured set. The first... More about A Monograph of the Pittidae, or Family of Ant Thrushes

Kingston, Jamaica: Government Printing Establishment, 1891. Octavo, printed title wrapper, title, preface. Early quarter calf, substantial wear particularly to top and bottom spine, signatures of 'Julie Adele Livingston, July 2nd 1904 Kingston, Jamaica' on title and top margin of page 5, some browning confined to text, lacking back wrapper. EXTRA... More about Economic Plants: an index to economic products of the vegetable kingdom in Jamaica

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1941-1969. first edition). Octavo, very good set in dustwrappers, some wear. More about Bibliography of Australia