George Edward Lodge: the unpublished New Zealand bird paintings.
Wellington: Nova Pacifica, 1982. Small folio, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Wildlife Artworks
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Butterflies on my mind.
Brighton: Angus and Robertson, 1978. Octavo, colour illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Plantworlds.
Bologna: Damiani Editore, 2005. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Each chapter of "Plantworlds" is devoted to a particular continent and the plants native to that region. Influenced by artists such as Arthur Harry Church and Georgia O'Keeffe, Jones brings both a passion and an exacting eye to the..... More
The bird illustrated 1550-1900.
New York: Abrams, 1988. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The art of bird illustration.
London: Eagle Editions, 2001. Quarto, illustrations, softcover. More
Seen but not heard: Lilian Medland's birds.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2014. Quarto, colour illustrations, photographs, bookplate, softcover. Lilian Medland has not received until now the recognition she deserves as a painter of birds. Due to world events and circumstances, five important books on birds containing her superb illustrations were never published. Even now, she is..... More
John Gould's contribution to British art: a note on its authenticity.
Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1973. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. Allan Reginald McEvey (1919-1996) was Curator of Ornithology at the Museum of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. He held a deep interest in John Gould and this little publication is an excellent essay on Gould, showing his capabilites as a draughstman. 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, lavishly illustrated, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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, often impecunious and with a...... 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. Personal inscription by author. 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..... More
Spirit of the Wedge-tailed eagle: the art of Humphrey Price-Jones.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2007. Quarto, colour illustrations, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. Spirit of the Wedge-tailed eagle is the culmination of four decades of intimate study of this iconic bird by Australia's leading bird painter, Humphrey Price-Jones. It includes more than 30 magnificent full colour paintings as well as many..... More
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Historical drawings of native flowers [and] Historical drawings of moths and butterflies.
Sydney: Craftsman House, 1988. Folio, colour plates. Publisher's cloth with coloured vignette and slipcase, a fine set. Volume one: Historical Drawings of Moths and Butterflies. Volume two: Historical Drawings of Native Flowers. From the collections of the Mitchell library, Sydney. 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
A fine field for botanizing.
Sydney: The Library Council of New South Wales, 1981. Octavo, photographs, softcover. An exhibition arranged in association with Thirteenth International Botanical Congress, Sydney, 21-28 August 1981. More
John Clare's birds.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The many faces of Bewick and the bicentenary of his Water birds.
Newcastle upon Tyne: The Natural History Society of Northumbria, 2007. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria, volume 65, part three. More
Raymond Ching: the bird paintings. Watercolours and pencil drawings 1969-1975.
London: Collins, 1978. Folio, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper and slipcase. More
Sketches of bird life.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1981. Oblong format, colour plates and text illustrations, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. Introduction by Robert Gillmor. More
Humans, nature, and birds: science art from cave walls to computer screens.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. 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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