London: E.A. Petherick, 1888. Octavo, ten plates and text engravings. Publisher's printed vellum binding with marbled end papers, tears repaired, 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 Indian..... 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

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

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. Contemporary full calf with gilt title, marbled endpapers and coloured edges, expertly rebacked, some wear; a very good copy with the plates in good contemporary colouring, in a cloth box with title, very scarce. Issued with coloured or uncoloured..... More

Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 1992-2013. Quarto, colour plates and photographs, maps, a fine set in dustwrappers A complete set, including the supplementary volume, of the finest technical bird book ever published. More

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

Hafniae: Apud Proft et Storch, 1796. Octavo, Contemporary half morocco, neatly annotated. The index of Fabricius' 'Entomologia Systematica'. More

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

Leiden: E J Brill, 1867-1868. Tall octavo, 14 handcoloured lithographed bird plates; uncut in later boards mounting the front printed wrapper. More

London: R H Porter, 1881. Tall octavo, frontispiece, 31 lithographed plates including eleven coloured and seven either folding or double page. Contemporary black half morocco, the bookplate John Calaby. Alfred Henry Garrod (1846-1879) was an anatomist and physiologist with a strong interest in zoology. He was the first person to..... More

London: Author, [1858]- 1875. Folio, 47 handcoloured lithograph plates by W. Hart, and H.C. Richter. Full contemporary green morocco, gilt inner rules, elaborate gilt spine five raised bands and gilt title, some minor rubbing. The King of Belgium's gilt stamp with crown and initials, a superb copy crisp and free..... More

London: George Bell and Sons, 1884-1887. Octavo, three volumes, 81 colour-printed wood-engraved plates (chromoxylographs) by Benjamin Fawcett drawn by A. F. Lydon. Publisher's primary issue dark green blindstamped cloth, a fine set in the best of three variant publisher's bindings, scarce in this condition. The first book devoted exclusively to..... More