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London: British Museum, 1893-1896. Octavo, 73 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's cloth, some slight wear primarily to the top of the spine of volume three which has a split along the upper edge, library accession numbers in a copperplate hand on the title pages and endpapers, a very good set, scarce. Belgium... More
London: W. Mears, 1721. Quarto, 28 handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary full calf and maroon leather label, some wear and corners bumped, all edges coloured, a sound copy. Richard Bradley was appointed to the chair of botany at Cambridge University in 1724. This work is an early attempt to describe the... More
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
London: British Museum (Natural History). 1893. Large quarto, 240 uncoloured photographs. Publisher's cloth, some wear, the upper spine of volume seven repaired, the titles 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
Adelaide: E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1882-1890. Folio, coloured titlepage plus 45 chromolithographs, 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 chipping of... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. Folio, 61 uncoloured plates. A 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... 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: 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
![A history of the birds of New Zealand [and] Supplement to the birds of New Zealand. Walter Lawry Buller.](/pictures/thumb/40228.jpg?v=1541660439)
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
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 owner's stamps (a signature stamp on the... More
Wellington: Author, 1865. Octavo, with two other papers, very scarce. Bound with On the ornithology of New Zealand 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... More
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
London: W. H. Allen, 1880. Duodecimo, Publisher's green cloth with titles, a few blemishes otherwise a very good copy, rare. More
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
Sheffield: Author, 1900. Octavo, colour plates by Brittlebank. Publisher's light green "presentation" cloth, a fine set of the rarest of the three variant Campbells. "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 into two... More
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... 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
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
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
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
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
Paris: Fortin, Masson et Cie, [1836-1849]. Quarto, Large octavo, 22 volumes [bound in 20], 917 plates, many of them coloured. Handsome contemporary red half morocco, raised bands with gilt panels, and marbled boards, a few blemishes, some volumes rebacked. The "Disciples edition" of Cuvier's great survey of the animal kingdom... 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
Paris: Exposition Coloniale Internationale, 1931. Quarto, 67 chromolithographs by H. Grönvold. Half green morocco and marbled boards, top edge coloured, other edges uncut, publisher's printed wrappers retained, a fine set. Nissen IVB 228. More
Norwich: S. Wilkin, 1825. Octavo, 14 handcoloured engraved plates. Publisher's cloth, respined, a very good copy, scarce. More