Bird books and bird art. An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology [facsimile].
Amsterdam: Junk, 1973. Quarto, uncoloured illustrations.
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Bird books and bird art: an outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology.
New York: Maurice Martino, 1990. Quarto, illustrations. This edition is limited to 300 copies.
Whose bird?: men and women commemorated in the common names of birds.
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...
The wisdom of birds: an illustrated history of ornithology.
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...
Birds: the Macmillan visual guide.
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.
Working bibliography of owls of the world: with summaries of current taxonomy and distributional status.
Washington: National Wildlife Federation, 1978. Quarto, paperback,
Ornithological literature of the Papuan subregion 1915 to 1975: an annotated bibliography.
New York: Bulletin of the AMNH, Volume 164, 1979. Octavo, wrappers,
Birds: their Latin names explained.
Poole: Blandford Press, 1981. Octavo, very good copy in dustwrapper.
Birds and man.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., (1901. first edition). Octavo, bookplate, a fine copy.
Working bibliography of the Bald Eagle.
Washington, DC: Raptor Information Center, 1979. Quarto, paperback,
A bibliography of ornithology in Tasmania, 1950-1993.
Sandy Bay: Author, 1994. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers.
Bibliography of the birds of Australia.
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...
Checklist to the Mathews Ornithological Collection.
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.
Bibliography to accompany Victorian ornithology: a chronology showing characteristics of the periods and bibliography.
[Melbourne]: Melbourne Council of the National Museum of Victor, 1975. Octavo, wrappers, plus folding chart.
Biographies for birdwatchers: the lives of those commemorated in Western Palearctic bird names.
London: Academic Press, 1988. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, a very good copy in dustwrapper.
Audubon to Xantus: the lives of those commemorated in North American bird names.
London: Academic Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, softcover, corner creased.
A catalogue of the Ellis Collection of Ornithological Books in the University of Kansas Libraries, volume one: A-B.
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.
A catalogue of the Ellis Collection of Ornithological Books in the University of Kansas Libraries, volume two: C-D.
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.
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A bibliography of British ornithology [facsimile].
Hitchin: Wheldon and Wesley, 1986. Octavo, publisher's cloth.
Annotated index to some early New Zealand bird literature.
Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs, 1968. Octavo, publisher's printed boards.
John Gould, the bird man: a chronology and bibliography.
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1982. Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper.
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John Gould, the bird man: bibliography [volume two].
Staten Island: Martino Fine Books & Publishing, 1996. Octavo, fine copy in publisher's cloth.
Fine bird books 1700-1900.
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.
Fine bird books 1700-1900.
New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, (1990. second edition), Quarto, colour plates, a very good copy in dustwrapper. First published 1953 in folio and one of the best bird book bibliographies. This smaller format second edition has an additional appendix on printing techniques by Handasyde Buchanan and is an easier...
Ascension Island and the British Ornithologists' Union Centenary Expedition 1957-1959.
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.