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

London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Quarto, five handcoloured engraved plates. Publisher's printed wrappers, a fine copy, all contained in a quarter calf box with marbled boards, very scarce. The first monograph on Australian fish and the only monograph with handcoloured plates of Australian fish. This is also the..... More

London: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 1900. Quarto, 18 handcoloured lithographs by Keulemans, four uncoloured photographic plates, two handcoloured maps. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, top edge coloured, publisher's blue wrappers retained, a fine copy. Extracted from the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 15..... More

London: Trubner and Co, 1876-1876. Quarto, 104 handcoloured lithographs and chromolithographs by Keulemans and others. Publisher's green cloth, some occasional spots mainly to the endpapers and early leaves, the bookplate of H. Bradley Martin, a very good set. George Dawson Rowley (1822-1878) was an English amateur ornithologist, a friend of..... More

London: British Museum (Natural History), 1898. Octavo, 18 chromolithographic plates by Keulemans. Publisher's brown cloth, partly unopened, apart from a library pocket and a small paper library stamp on the bottom of the spine, a near fine copy. Volume 20 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in..... More

London: R. H. Porter, 1894-1900. Quarto, 100 handcoloured lithographs by J. Smit. Publisher's gilt brown cloth, top edges gilt, some very light damp affected damage to outer corners cloth, otherwise an excellent set, with the contents in fine crisp condition. Inscribed in the first volume "C.H. Angas with best wishes..... More

London: R. H. Porter, (1903. first edition). Octavo, 20 coloured (including 19 handcoloured) plates by Gronvold, Green and Goodchild. Contemporary half red morocco, top edge gilt, wrappers retained, owner's signature and price paid on front endpaper, a very good copy. A handsome publication and one of the last colour plate..... More

London: John Van Voorst, (1863. second edition). Octavo, frontispiece and 86 handcoloured steel engraved plates. Handsome contemporary full gilt morocco, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, two nineteenth century ownership inscriptions (one dated 1863), an occasional spot, otherwise a fine crisp copy. The expanded reissue of Sowerby's classic work on British..... More

London and Melbourne: Dulau and Co./Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1896. Octavo, four volumes, text illustrations; a total of 69 plates including eleven zoological chromolithographs (three mammal, three bird, four reptile and one frog), folding map. Publisher's handsome blue cloth, uncut and partly unopened, a fine copy. The Horn Expedition is..... More

London: E. Grant Richards, 1906-1911. Large quarto, 318 uncoloured plates by Lillian Medland. Publisher's cloth, top edge gilt, a few flecks, internally some light spotting. Lilian Medland married Tom Iredale and illustrated his Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds 1953 and Birds of New Guinea, 1956. More

London: Wheldon & Wesley, 1930-1945. Quarto, 41 coloured plates by Gronvold and 16 photogravure plates. Contemporary red half morocco, a fine set. The only true colour plate monograph of the birds of prey, limited to 412 copies. More

San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1922. Quarto, photographs. Publisher's printed wrappers, uncut and partly unopened. All housed in two matching fleece lined quarter green morocco folding Solander boxes, a superb set. Volume one: Lizards. Volume two: Snakes. "One of the best treatise on the subject extant" (Wood). Wood p.609..... More