The watercolours and drawings of Thomas Bewick and his apprentices.
London: Gordon Fraser, 1981. Octavo, uncoloured plates. Publisher's cloth and slipcase, a fine set. More
Wildlife and Botanical Art Books
The art of Robert Bateman.
Ontario: Madison Press Books, (1981. first edition). Oblong format, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper (lightly sunned). More
A general history of quadrupeds: the figures engraved on wood.
London: Ward Lock Reprints, (1970. facsimile). Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. First published in 1790. "Such animals as I knew, I drew from memory on the wood; others which I did not know were copied from 'Dr Smellie's Abridgement of Buffon,' and other naturalists, and also from the..... More
Notes by F. G. Stephens on a collection of drawings and woodcuts by Thomas Bewick, exhibited at the Fine Art Society's Rooms, 1880. Also a complete list of all works illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick, with their various editions.
London: The Fine Art Society, 1881. Quarto, 32 illustrations from original wood blocks. Publisher's leather-grained cloth, all edges coloured, a few spots throughout, otherwise a very good copy. More
Louis Agassiz Fuertes: his life briefly told and his correspondence.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. Octavo, lacks dustwrapper. More
A flutter of butterflies.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2011. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. A stunning selection of butterfly and moth illustrations held by the National Library of Australia. The works span the years from the 1770s, through the early colonial period to the turn of the twenty-first century. As well as containing a...... More
Wildlife: the nature paintings of Carl Brenders.
New York: Abrams, 1994. Quarto, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. Belgian artist Carl Brenders has travelled extensively, especially to the United States and Canada. This book contains some preliminary sketches and full colour reproductions, many of them with North American themes. More
Joseph Crawhall, the man and the artist.
London: Charles Skilton, 1958. Quarto, seven tipped-in colour plates, other plates. Publisher's cloth with gilt title andcolour cover plate inset, glassine wrapper, a fine copy. More
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Printed images in colonial Australia 1801-1901 [volume one].
Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2007. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Published to accompany the National Gallery of Australia's exhibition, The Story of Australian Printmaking 1801-2005. Roger Butler is the senior curator of Australian prints and drawings at the National Gallery of Australia. The first volume is a...... More
New Zealand birds: an artist's field studies.
Auckland: Reed Methuen, 1986. Folio, illustrations, fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. More
Studies and sketches of a bird painter.
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Small folio, colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's full grey calf and Solander box, edition limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, a fine copy. Raymond Harris-Ching is one of the great modern wildlife artists and Studies and Sketches is one of his best..... More
John James Audubon and his circle: the collections of Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955) and his son Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966).
New York: Christie, Manson and Woods International Inc, 1993. Quarto, colour illustrations, publisher's cloth binding, very good. Auction catalogue. More
The living world of Audubon.
London: Country Life, 1975. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Tunnicliffe's birdlife.
London: Clive Holloway Books, 1985. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Wonders of creation: natural history drawings in the British Library.
London: British Library, 1986. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Thorburn's Naturalist's sketchbook.
London: Michael Joseph, 1977. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. More
The art of Glen Loates.
Scarborough: Cerebrus Publishing, 1977. Small folio, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Bruno Liljefors.
Uppsala: Bokförlaget Carmina, 1981. Octavo, oblong format, illustrations, laminated boards, slight wear. Text in Swedish. More
The British bird.
London: Oxford University Press, 1943. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, colour plates by Ennion. More
Turner on birds: a short and succinct history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle, first published by Doctor William Turner, 1544
Cambridge: [Cambridge] University Press, 1903. Octavo, Publisher's cloth, library stamps and signature on title page. More
George Edward Lodge: the unpublished New Zealand bird paintings.
Wellington: Nova Pacifica, 1982. Small folio, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The Great Auk.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. Quarto, 200 colour plates, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Every aspect of the Great Auk's natural - and unnatural - history is covered, with special chapters devoted to its life cycle and the years during which it dwindled to extinction. Other chapters concern..... More
C. F. Tunnicliffe: sketches of bird life.
London: Victor Gollancz, (1981. first edition). Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Charles F. Tunnicliffe RA: the composition drawings.
London: Bunny Bird Fine Art, 1986. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More