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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
Octavo, Single sheet 22.5 cm by 18 cm, holograph letter in ink in the entire hand of John Latham. Original folds, some slight loss and tear. An excellent holograph letter in which Latham discusses the "publication of my long intended new work on birds" [A General History of Birds, 1821-1828]... More
London: Author, [1878]-1880. Quarto, one coloured map and 33 handcoloured plates by Keulemans. Contemporary half brown morocco, top edges gilt, the second appendix present (sometimes lacking) a fine set. William Vincent Legge (1841-1918) was born in Tasmania in 1841 and educated in England after which he joined the Royal Artillery... More
![The Swedish Zoological Expedition to British East Africa 1911 [birds, reptiles and mammals]. Einar Lonnberg, Lars Gabriel Andersson.](/pictures/thumb/11829.jpg?v=1539918925)
Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells, 1911-1912. Quarto, 22 plates of birds, reptiles and mammals. Single volume binder's cloth with three parts, marbled boards with some damage, a sound copy. More
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
London: The Ibis, 1930. Octavo, 20 colour plates. Handsome binder's red cloth, a small sticker pasted on the front endpaper from the author. 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
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
London: Witherby & Co., 1910-1927. Quarto, thirteen volumes, 600 handcoloured plates by Keulemans, Gronvold, Goodchild and Green. Contemporary dark green morocco with gilt fillets and lozenge ornaments in spine compartments (except volume four); volume one with gilt stamped birds, a handsome crisp set, scarce in this condition. Gregory Macalister Mathews... More
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
Melbourne: Government Printer, 1878-1890. large octavo, 200 numbered handsome lithographed plates (including 172 chromolithographs) of mammals, reptiles and fish. Full brown Ostrich leather, stiff wrappers retained, a fine crsip copy. Irish-born Frederick McCoy arrived in Melbourne in 1854 to take up the position of the first Professor of Natural Science... More
![Bird Observers' Club. Monthly notes [numbers 51-827]. Miller.](/pictures/thumb/40347.jpg?v=1533607274)
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
Paris: Libraire de L'Aacademie de Medicine, 1880. Octavo, four lithographs of penguins, one folding map. Binder's cloth, plain wrappers retained. More
London: John Murray, 1881. Octavo, uncoloured frontispiece, text illustrations. Publisher's elaborate "prize" binding, slightly rubbed, bookplate, a very good copy. More
London: Groombridge and Sons, [1863-1867]. Octavo, 358 coloured engraved plates. Publisher's decorated red cloth, ex-libris on front pastedown with owner's name erased, a crisp near fine set. "The first issue of the two cabinet editions of the original first edition. The copy in hand contains 358 plates, the extra one... More
![National Photographic Index [complete set]. National Photographic Index.](/pictures/thumb/21156.jpg?v=1544567494)
London: Angus and Robertson, 1982. Quarto, colour photographs, fine set in dustwrappers The National photographic index was originally established by Donald Trounson and was administrated from the Australian Museum in Sydney. It has proved to be valuable resource for many projects and this series covering the entire Australian avifauna is... More
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
Madras: Higginbotham and Co., (1893. second edition). Octavo, 20 lithographic plates, many figures handcoloured. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt cobra, title page and early leaves laid down, otherwise a very good copy. More
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914. Quarto, 25 egg plates, uncoloured vignettes by Neville Cayley senior, photographs by the author and H. Barnes. Near contemporary half black calf, all edges speckled, slight wear otherwise an excellent set. Alfred John North (1855-1917) was one of the greatest of all Australian ornithologists and a.... More
London: R. H. Porter, 1883. Octavo, coloured folding map. Contemporary half morocco and patterned cloth, some rubbing, bookplate, scarce. Wood p. 497. More
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
London: Zoological Society of London, 1909-1910. Quarto, 23 chromolithographic plates, one uncoloured. Contemporary half calf, some slight wear, all edges gilt, a fine clean copy. The entire volume nineteen of the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. The expedition to the Ruwenzori Mountains in what was then the British... More
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
London: Threshold/Harrap, 1987. Folio, oblong format, 60 colour plates. Publisher's quarter blue calf and blue cloth, blue cloth case, limited edition of 350 copies signed and numbered by the author of the text, fine copy. More
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
London: John Van Voorst, 1878-1879. Quarto, Quarto, two volumes. TEXT VOLUME: erratically paginated, two uncoloured lithographs, one folding, by J. Gould and H. Richter. PLATE VOLUME: 126 uncoloured lithographic plates and one photographic plate, several folding including a folding map of New Zealand. Publisher's green cloth, the smaller text volume... More