Encounters with nature.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
BIRDS - Biography and Literature
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The dictionary of birds in colour.
London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1974. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. More
Birds: myth, lore and legend.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. Octavo, colour photographs and illustrations, laminated boards. Why are owls regarded either as wise or as harbingers of doom? What gave rise to the fanciful belief that storks bring babies? Why is the eagle associated with victory or the hummingbird with paradise? The answers are here..... More
History of ornithology.
London: New Holland, 2009. Octavo, colour illustrations, bookplate, laminated boards. More
Just a lark!.
London: Croom Helm, 1984. Octavo, photographs and other illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
John Gould: bird man.
Milton Keynes: Osberton Productions, 1987. Octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in laminated boards. With additional material by Gordon Sauer and Allan McEvey. Preface by Sir David Attenborough. More
Biographies of members of the American Ornithologists' Union.
Washington DC: The Auk, (1954. first edition), Octavo, bookplate, fine copy. More
The bird man of Brisbane: Silvester Diggles and his Ornithology of Australia.
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2010. Octavo, colour illustrations, inscribed by the author, softcover. When Silvester Diggles arrived in 1855 there was little artistic or scientific talent in the small frontier town of Brisbane. By the time of his death in 1880, his paramount legacy was a large book on Australian birds..... More
W. H. Hudson: a biography.
London: Faber and Faber, 1982. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The art of collecting national heritage: the letters of Henry Luke White 1910-1913.
Scone: Seven Press, 2007. Quarto, photographs, limited edition of 300 numbered and signed copies, a fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. Limited edition of 300 numbered and signed copies. Henry Luke White assembled the best ever collection of Australian birds' eggs as well as a fine bird skin collection. He also..... More
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