Amsterdam: Junk, 1973. Quarto, uncoloured illustrations. More about Bird books and bird art. An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive...
New York: Maurice Martino, 1990. Quarto, illustrations. This edition is limited to 300 copies. More about Bird books and bird art: an outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive...
London: Christopher Helm, 2003. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations. Birders often wonder about the people commemorated in the names of many of our familiar birds. In this book biographies detail the life and work of the individual involved, often revealing fascinating insights about the nature of bird... More about Whose bird?: men and women commemorated in the common names of birds
London: Bloomsbury Books, 2008. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Birkhead takes the reader on a journey that not only tells us about the extraordinary lives of birds - from conception and egg, through territory and song, to migration and fully fledged breeder - but also shows how, over centuries... More about The wisdom of birds: an illustrated history of ornithology
Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2006. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, dustwrapper. This comprehensive guide to the world of birds traces their evolution and explains avian biology and behaviour. More about Birds: the Macmillan visual guide
Washington: National Wildlife Federation, 1978. Quarto, paperback, More about Working bibliography of owls of the world: with summaries of current taxonomy and distributional...
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1963. Octavo, line drawings, dustwrapper. Chapters include evolution, behaviour, flight, biology and anatomy. More about Bird
New York: Bulletin of the AMNH, Volume 164, 1979. Octavo, wrappers, More about Ornithological literature of the Papuan subregion 1915 to 1975: an annotated bibliography
Poole: Blandford Press, 1981. Octavo, very good copy in dustwrapper. More about Birds: their Latin names explained
London: Longmans, Green and Co., (1901. first edition). Octavo, bookplate, a fine copy. More about Birds and man
Washington, DC: Raptor Information Center, 1979. Quarto, paperback, More about Working bibliography of the Bald Eagle
Sandy Bay: Author, 1994. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers. More about A bibliography of ornithology in Tasmania, 1950-1993
London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1925. Quarto, binder's blue cloth, a fine copy, scarce. A very useful bibliography originally published as Supplement Numbers four and five from Gregory Mathews monumental Birds from Australia 1910-1927. Copies in blue cloth of either the Bibliography or Checklist Supplements were bound by Mathews... More about Bibliography of the birds of Australia
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1966. Quarto, publisher's wrappers. Gregory Mathews was one of the great bird book collectors of his time. He donated his library to the Australian National Library in 1939. More about Checklist to the Mathews Ornithological Collection
[Melbourne]: Melbourne Council of the National Museum of Victor, 1975. Octavo, wrappers, plus folding chart. More about Bibliography to accompany Victorian ornithology: a chronology showing characteristics of the...
London: Academic Press, 1988. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, a very good copy in dustwrapper. More about Biographies for birdwatchers: the lives of those commemorated in Western Palearctic bird names
London: Academic Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, softcover, corner creased. More about Audubon to Xantus: the lives of those commemorated in North American bird names
Lawrence: University of Kansas Libraries, 1972. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers. A superb bibliography that was never finished. No wonder, Robert Mengel set the bar very high. Volume two (C-D) was published 1983. More about A catalogue of the Ellis Collection of Ornithological Books in the University of Kansas...
Lawrence: University of Kansas Libraries, 1983. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers. A superb bibliography that was never finished. No wonder, Robert Mengel set the bar very high. Volume one (A-B) was published 1873. More about A catalogue of the Ellis Collection of Ornithological Books in the University of Kansas...
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Hitchin: Wheldon and Wesley, 1986. Octavo, publisher's cloth. More about A bibliography of British ornithology [facsimile
Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs, 1968. Octavo, publisher's printed boards. More about Annotated index to some early New Zealand bird literature
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1982. Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about John Gould, the bird man: a chronology and bibliography
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Staten Island: Martino Fine Books & Publishing, 1996. Octavo, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More about John Gould, the bird man: bibliography [volume two
London: H F & G Witherby, (1990. second edition). Quarto, colour plates, spine lightly sunned, otherwise fine copy in dustwrapper. First published 1953 in folio and one of the best bird book bibliographies. This smaller format new edition has an additional appendix by Handasyde Buchanan on printing techniques. More about Fine bird books 1700-1900
London: The Ibis, 1962. Octavo, folding map, photographs. Handsome binder's quarter cloth and marbled boards, a fine copy. The Ibis volume 103b, number two. Also the subject of a popular book published 1960. More about Ascension Island and the British Ornithologists' Union Centenary Expedition 1957-1959