Leiden: E J Brill, 1867-1868. Octavo, one handcoloured lithographic distribution map, six (one folded plain and five handcoloured) lithographed plates and some folded tables. Early blue half morocco, all edges coloured, a very good set. The first true monograph on parrots. "In the first section of Volume one of this... More about Die Papageien: monographisch bearbeitet

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 about The collected scientific papers of the late Alfred Henry Garrod

Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1975. facsimile). Folio, coloured plates. Publisher's full calf a very good copy. The Supplement. A variety of later discovered birds are figured, including the Night Parrot. More about The birds of Australia [volume eight only

Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1975. facsimile). Folio, coloured plates. Publisher's vinyl, a very good copy. Waders and other waterbirds. More about The birds of Australia [volume six only

Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1975. facsimile). Folio, coloured plates. Publisher's vinyl, a very good copy. Kingfishers and others. More about The birds of Australia [volume two only

London: Author, 1865. Octavo, Publisher's handsome decorated cloth, bookplate, a few minor splits in the cloth, otherwise a near fine copy. The Handbook is a significant elaboration of the text of Birds of Australia and Gould's final contribution to Australian ornithology. It is still a useful book in any working... More about Handbook to the birds of Australia

London: Author, 1848. Octavo, two wood-engraved illustrations. Publisher's cloth, rebacked retaining original endpapers, scarce. "The Preface and Introduction to my Birds of Australia having been set up in small type for facility of correction, I have had a limited number of copies printed in octavo form, for distribution ..." (Notice... More about An introduction to the birds of Australia

London: Author, 1837-1838. Large octavo, 73 finely coloured lithographed plates by Elizabeth Gould and the eight page appendix 'Description of New Species of Australian Birds'. Contemporary half green morocco and morocco-grained cloth, elaborate gilt-decorated spine, all edges gilt, bookplate; a small neat library stamp on the title page and the... More about A synopsis of the birds of Australia, and the adjacent islands

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1867. Quarto, 18 uncoloured lithographed plate by George Henry Ford. Original publisher's wrappers with papered title on cover, the bookplates of David McPhee, the plates with typical oxidation and some spotting, mostly confined to the margins, rare. The rarest of all Australian reptile books and the first... More about The lizards of Australia and New Zealand in the collection of the British Museum

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 about Parrots in captivity

London: British Museum, 1877. Small folio, 55 uncoloured lithographed plates. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, all edges speckled, inscribed for the Earl Enniskillen by the author, with the Earl's handsome circular bookplate. A superb copy. William Willoughby Cole, third Earl of Enniskillen, FRS (1807-1886), known by his courtesy title... More about The gigantic land-tortoises (living and extinct) in the Collection of the British Museum

London: Ray Society, 1864. Folio, 26 uncoloured lithographic plates. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, top edge gilt, upper corner very slightly bumped and a few spots, otherwise a handsome copy. German-born British herpetologist Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1830- 1914) was, along with his near contemporary Alfred George Boulenger... More about The reptiles of British India

Berlin: Verlag von R. Friedlander und Sohn, 1910-38. Quarto, text illustrations.The first three volumes in contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, the supplement in a binders cloth, all volumes with some wear, the bookplate of Dom Serventy. More about Die Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna. Systematische Ubersicht der in Europa, Nord-Asien und der...