The Cuckoo and other bird mysteries.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1944. first edition), Octavo, map, bookplate of Dominic L. Serventy, publisher's bright green cloth, a very good copy. More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1944. first edition), Octavo, map, bookplate of Dominic L. Serventy, publisher's bright green cloth, a very good copy. More
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2001. Quarto, colour plates and photographs, maps, a very good copy in dustwrapper. To be completed in sixteen volumes. Species accounts cover taxonomy, distribution (including subspecies), habitat, feeding, breeding, movements, status and conservation. This volume includes mousebirds, trogons, kingfishers, todies, motmots, bee-eaters, rollers, ground-rollers, cuckoo-roller, Hoopoe, woodhoopoes..... More
Melbourne: Nokomis, 2002. Quarto, 26 colour plates and uncoloured illustrations by William Cooper, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first true monograph on this spectacular group since Schlegel and Westerman De Toerako's published 1860. This book is yet another wonderful collaboration between the meticulous pen of Joseph Forshaw and the artwork..... More
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 265, 1968. Octavo, signature, softcover. More
Washington: Academy of Sciences, Monograph No. 1, 1948. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's green cloth, fine copy. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Octavo, softcover. More
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 2004. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 57. More
London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1959. Octavo, text illustrations, worn dustwrapper. More
London: Readers' Union, 1961. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Santa Monica: Ibis, 1985. Quarto, colour plates, dustwrapper. More
Mountfield: Pica Press, 1995. Octavo, 64 colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. The south African edition. All 214 species of woodpeckers, including the little-known and enigmatic tiny piculets, are described and pictured, and their distributions, habitats and habits reviewed. Many of the subspecies depicted by Dave Nurney in his..... More
London: B T Batsford, 1981. Octavo, colour photographs, illustrations, good in dustwrapper. More