The painted stream: a river warden's life.
London: J M Dent & Sons, 1985. Quarto, text illustrations. Minor wear to dustwrapper, otherwise a fine copy. More
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The bird in art.
London: Merrell Publishers, 2012. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. There has until now been no proper study of the bird in art, despite our fascination with birds, and despite the wealth of complex meanings associated with them in different cultures. A number of pagan gods are linked with..... More
Looking at birds: an antidote to field guides.
Peterborough: Langford Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white illustrations. Part of a series (WAT) of books in which masters of wildlife art share many of their techniques. In this volume John Busby explains by examples how important it is to gather information direct from birds in the..... More
Idlings in Arcadia.
New York: E P Dutton, 1935. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Plantworlds.
Bologna: Damiani Editore, 2005. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. When fall's chill or winter's storms keep you in, plant yourself in front of the fireplace with this book of Andrea Jones's botanical photographs and enjoy the eternal spring. In fact, not even spring's arrival will give you these..... More
Birds.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2011. Octavo, paperback and DVD, colour illustrations. Part of a series presenting historic volumes. Drawing from Georges-Louis Leclerc's 36 volume masterpiece, "Histoire Naturelle, Generale Et Particuliere", this title features 350 of Leclerc's magnificent original paintings, faithfully reproduced in full colour. A visual index categorizes each..... More
For the love of nature: E.E. Gostelow's birds and flowers.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2010. Small octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Ebenezer Edward Gostelow (1866-1944) began his 50 year teaching career at the age of 15. He was a keen naturalist and took every opportunity to study the local plants and birds. Gostelow would liven up his blackboards with captivating..... More
Ferdinand Bauer: the Australian natural history drawings.
Melbourne: Lothian, 1989. Quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. More
Cayley and son: the life and art of Neville Henry Cayley and Neville William Cayley.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, dustwrapper, lavishly illustrated throughout with colour and black and white illustrations. The first and only proper biography of both Cayleys. This skillfully researched and handsomely produced book charts the lives and works of this Australian father-and-son pair of bird artists. Neville Henry, peripatetic..... More
Troubled waters: trailing the albatross an artist's journey.
Peterborough: Langford Press, 2012. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The world's great oceans are largely beyond most people's experience and imagination. But for the last three decades or more, a tragedy has been unfolding out of sight on the open ocean. Hundreds of thousands of seabirds, albatrosses especially..... More
Outlines of Australian art: the Joesph Brown collection.
Melbourne: Macmillan, (1989. third edition). Quarto, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Humans, nature, and birds: science art from cave walls to computer screens.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Octavo, colour illustrations, dustwrapper. This book invites readers to enter a two-floor virtual 'gallery' where 60-plus images of birds reflecting the accomplishments of human pictorial history are on display. These are works in a genre the authors term Science Art - that is, art..... More
Humans, nature, and birds: science art from cave walls to computer screens.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. This book invites readers to enter a two-floor virtual 'gallery' where 60-plus images of birds reflecting the accomplishments of human pictorial history are on display. These are works in a genre the authors term Science Art - that is, art..... More
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