My foreign doves and pigeons.
London: "The Feathered World" [1911]. Octavo, uncoloured frontispeice, photographs. Publisher's green cloth, a handsome copy of a scarce book. More
Cage Birds
Pheasants: their lives and homes.
Garden City: New York Zoological Society, (1931. first edition). Quarto, colour plates by Lodge and others, a fine set in publisher's cloth. The reduced format version of Beebe's monumental 'A monograph of the pheasants', 1914-1918. More
Guinea fowl of the world.
Liss: Nimrod Book Services, 1985. Small quarto, photographs, text illustrations bookplate,, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Budgerigars, canaries and foreign finches.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1961. Octavo, colour illustrations, lacks dustwrapper. More
The foreigner: a practical guide to the keeping, breeding and showing of all kinds of foreign birds and budgerigars, written by the foremost avicultural authorities of the day.
Keston: Keston foreign bird Farm, 1934-1938. Octavo, coloured and uncoloured plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt cockatoo, a very good set, scarce. The Keston Bird Farm, established by Edward Boosey in the 1920's was a very successful operation until World War Two and beyond. Although the business imported birds its..... More
Parrots, cockatoos and macaws.
London: Rockliff, 1956. Octavo, photographs, lacks dustwrapper. Edward Boosey was the head birdkeeper for the Duke of Bedford, after leaving his employ he set up the Keston Bird Farm in the 1930's. His two best known books, the other being foreign Bird keeping, are entertaining and well written. More
How to sex cage birds (British and foreign).
London: The Feathered World, [1907]. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, slightly rubbed, very scarce. More
The magazine of The Parrot Society, volumes 1-16.
Bedford: The Parrot Society, 1967-1982. Octavo, photographs. Binder's cloth, some extra unbound volumes, scarce. One of the better avicultural magazines with quality articles by well known aviculturists such as George Smith, the Stoodleys and Rosemary Low. PROVENANCE: The set of Stan Sindel. More
Through a birdroom window.
London: F. V. White, [1920]. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, bookplate, publisher's decorated cloth, slightly grubby, bookplate. The Reverend Farrar's two little books, the other is "Birdroom and aviary", are the wittiest and most enjoyable books ever written on aviculture. More
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Eclectus: newsletter of the Birds Australia Parrot Association [all published].
Melbourne: Birds Australia Parrot Association, 1996-2006. Quarto, publisher's wrappers in binder's cloth, bookplate. A very useful journal with an excellent article on the Paradise Parrot by Andrew Isles. More
Pheasants: including their care in the aviary.
London: Blandford Press, 1961. Octavo, colour plates, dustwrapper. More
Favourite foreign birds for cages and aviaries.
London: L. Upcott Gill, [1891]. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's red gilt cloth, a good copy. More
Avi-index: a selected index of Australian Aviculture over 43 years.
Melbourne: Avicultural Society of Australia, 1990. Octavo, paperback, More
Records of birds bred in captivity.
London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1926. Octavo, bookplate. Publisher's handsome blue cloth in very good printed dustwrapper, very scarce in this condition. More
The atlas of rare pheasants, in two volumes: volume one.
London: Palawan Press, 1997. Folio, 24 colour plates by Timothy Greenwood. Publisher's handsome green cloth with embossed Reeve's Pheasant and slipcase, limited to 600 numbered copies. There is a volume two. More
Adventures with talking birds.
Neptune: TFH, 1981. Octavo, colour photographs, black and white illustrations, laminated boards. More
Australian aviculture: a selection of original articles published in Australian Aviculture over twenty-five years.
Melbourne: Avicultural Society of Australia, (1983. fourth edition). Octavo, text illustrations, signature, softcover. More
Macaws, Cockatoos, Parrakeets, and Parrots.
London: Dean and Son, [c1870]. Octavo, uncoloured plates, coloured boards, advertisement endpaper detached, scarce. Dean Pratical Guide Books. The plates, originally hand coloured, are taken from the 1833 Lauder and Brown The miscellany of natural history, volume one: parrots. Nine Australian species are figured. More
Perroquets et perruches.
Paris: Editions Boubee, 1962. Tall octavo, eight colour plates by Paul Barruel, a very good copy. More
Australian parrots in field and aviary.
London: Angus and Robertson, (1983. reprint). Octavo, 13 colour plates by Neville Cayley, stamp, sunned spine, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. A heavily revised re-issue of Neville Cayley's 1938 classic. Alan Lendon was a prominent Adelaide medico and aviculturist who held one of the finest collections of Australian..... More
Australian parrots in field and aviary.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1973. Octavo, 13 colour plates by Neville Cayley, maps, chipped dustwrapper. A heavily revised re-issue of Neville Cayley's 1938 classic. Alan Lendon was a prominent Adelaide medico and aviculturist who held one of the finest collections of Australian parrots post World War Two. More
Diets for birds in captivity.
Poole: Blandford Press, 1981. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Beginner's guide to birdkeeping.
London: Pelham Books, 1976. Octavo, photographs, signed by the author, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Endangered parrots.
Poole: Blandford Press, (1984. first edition). Quarto, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Lories and lorikeets: the brush-tongued parrots.
London: Paul Elek, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, cancelled library stamps, dustwrapper. More