Sydney: Author, 1907. Quarto, photographs. Publisher's printed wrappers, a fine copy, in a modern box. S. W. Jackson (1873-1946) is best known for 'Egg collecting and bird life of Australia'. This handsome production, liberally illustrated with Jackson's pioneering photographs, has always been a scarce and desirable item of ephemeral Australian... More about Egg collecting and bird life of Australia: catalogue and date of the "Jacksonian Oological...

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, (1835. first edition). Duodecimo, 33 handcoloured plates. Publisher's cloth, a fine copy. More about The naturalist's library. Mammalia, volume three: Ruminata

Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1871. Folio, 16 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's quarter cloth and stiff card wrappers, some typical rubbing and light spotting to the titlepage, otherwise a very good copy, all contained in a solander box. Included is a copy of [Krefft, Gerard. Australian Natural History. Mammals of Australia... More about The mammals of Australia, illustrated by Miss Harriett Scott and Mrs Helena Forde, for the...

Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1869. Quarto, twelve handcoloured lithographs. Modern half red morocco, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, publisher's stiff card wrappers retained, the title wrapper with a contemporary inscription dated 1889, small owner's stamp "R. Rendle" on title page, an excellent copy. Gerard Krefft (1830-1881) is rightly considered... More about The snakes of Australia; an illustrated and descriptive catalogue of all the known species

Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, 1867. Large octavo, two volumes, 36 handcoloured engraved plates. Early brown calf and marbled boards, all edges coloured, a few inoffensive spots, otherwise a handsome copy. This edition of Histoire naturelle de Lacepede was first published in 1856 and "the many subsequent volumes and editions... More about Histoire naturelle de Lacepede comprenant les cetaces, les quadrupedes ovipares, les serpents et...

London: Zoological Society of London, 1903. Quarto, three plates, including one chromolithograph of the Okapi. Binder's cloth, two small library stamps including one on the title page, corners of pages creased and crushed. The full volume of Transaction of the Zoological Society of London, volume 16, with the following papers... More about On Okapia, a new genus of Giraffidae, from central Africa

London: Bernard Quaritch, [1875]. Folio, 26 hand-coloured engraved plates with accompanying text leaves. Contemporary half morocco, slight wear, lacks rear marbled endpaper, a few spots but the plates scarcely affected. The Quaritch reissue, from the original copperplates. In a catalogue of 1877 Quaritch described it as "a new issue, in... More about A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, collected, engraved, and faithfully painted...

London: The Ibis, 1930. Octavo, 20 folding colour plates. Binder's tan leather half-morocco and cloth boards, original wrappers retained. The plates are produced in folding chart form and are highly attractive examples of measured drawings. Published as a Supplement to The Ibis, Twelfth Series, Volume 6. More about Review of the genus Cisticola

London: The Ibis, 1930. Octavo, 20 colour plates. Handsome publisher's "Ibis" red cloth, a very good copy. The plates are produced in folding chart form and are highly attractive examples of measured drawings. Published as a Supplement to The Ibis, Twelfth Series, volume six. More about Review of the genus Cisticola

Melbourne: Government Printer, 1878-1890. Large octavo, 199 handsome lithographed plates (including 172 chromolithographs) of mammals, reptiles and fish. Handsome modern half green morocco, small ink stamp on both title pages, a fine set The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria is an underrated work of Australian natural history; the plates... More about Natural history of Victoria. Prodromus of the zoology of Victoria; or, figures and descriptions...

London: R. H. Porter, 1864-1907. Large octavo, two volumes, portrait, 37 lithographed plates mostly coloured, folding coloured map. Binder's cloth retaining the two printed front wrappers in each volume, top edges gilt, others uncut, a fine copy, scarce. John Wolley (1824-1859) assembled a fine egg collection and was deeply involved... More about Ootheca Wolleyana: an illustrated catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs begun by the late...

Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914. Quarto, 25 egg plates, uncoloured vignettes by Neville Cayley senior, photographs by the author and H. Barnes. Contemporary half black calf, all edges speckled, an excellent set. Alfred John North (1855-1917) was one of the greatest of all Australian ornithologists and a founding member in 1880... More about Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania

London: Taylor & Francis, 1889-1898. Octavo, text illustrations. Contemporary half morocco, slight wear and previous owner's notes, otherwise a sound set. The ornithological section of an eight volume series. A revised second edition by E. C. Stuart Baker was published 1922-1935. Casey Wood p. 497. More about The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma