London: H F & G Witherby, 1936. Quarto, 24 (of 41) handcoloured and 6 (of 16) photographic plates. Binder's cloth, uncut, a fine copy. A so-called "Doris Eddy" Supplement. Doris Eddy ran Sewards, a long-established Melbourne Bookshop. At the end of World War Two she purchased the remaining stock of... More about A supplement to the birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands to which is added those birds of New...

Melbourne: Bird Observers' Club of Australia, 1936-2003. Four volumes of half foolscap in binder's cloth (numbers 51-517, 1936-1974), the remaining nine volumes quarto in binder's cloth (numbers 518-827, 1975-2003), a very good run of an exceedingly scarce journal in its early days. The first 50 issues are large quarto and... More about Bird Observers' Club. Monthly Notes [numbers 51-827

London: John Murray, 1881. Octavo, uncoloured frontispiece, text illustrations. Publisher's elaborate "prize" binding, slightly rubbed, bookplate, a very good copy. More about The cat. An introduction to the study of backboned animals, especially mammals

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

London: Francis Edwards, 1916. Quarto, ten chromolithographs (including eight of birds by Gronvold, two of insects) and 27 uncoloured plates (including four of reptiles and one of fish). Publisher's blue wrappers, uncut and partly unopened, limited to 150 numbered copies (this copy is number 112), a fine set with both... More about Reports on the collections made by the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition and the Wollaston...

London: E. Cox and Son, 1821. Octavo, 22 handcoloured engraved plates (including one reptile plate of a viper). Nineteenth century calf with gilt crest on front board, library stamps in title and text, signed release by Redmond Barry on the titlepage, a handsome copy. More about Appendix to the general system of toxicology; or, a treatise on mineral, vegetable, and animal...

Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, (1964. facsimile). Quarto, folding maps, plates, publisher's cloth. More about Journals of two expeditions into the interior of New South Wales

Kassel: Verlag von Theodor Fischer, 1878-1883. Folio, 33 chromolithographic (finished by hand) plates and accompanying text leaves. Publisher's green blindstamped and gilt cloth, expertly rebacked, the standard issue, some foxing but not affecting images; additional typescript index in French plus typescript interleaved French text. Anton Reichenow (1847-1941) was the most... More about Vogelbilder aus fernen zonen. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der Papageien

London: E. W. Janson, 1839-1843. Quarto, text double column, 60 lithographed plates. Modern quarter morocco and boards, retaining original publisher's printed title wrapper, a fine copy. More about Ichthyology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James...

London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1927-1976. Small quarto, 125 colour plates by Gronvold. Publisher's red cloth (volume five in dustwrapper), a fine set. Volume five Conclusion and survey of every species was produced much later (1976) by Lord Medway and David R. Wells. More about The birds of the Malay Peninsula: a general account of the birds inhabiting the region from the...

Melbourne: Monash University, 1988. Folio, 24 colour plates. Publisher's quarter morocco, a fine copy. More about The banksias, volume two