Melbourne: Charles Stuart & Co., [1887]- 1890-1891. Folio, 303 chromolithographic plates with accompanying text and tissue guards. Six volumes bound in three, contemporary full black morocco (the "deluxe Broinowski" binding) with gilt rule, some rubbing and wear, a handsome set with tissue guards, a few spots, very scarce in this..... More

Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1900- 2000. Octavo, the first 97 volumes in a neat binder's cloth, later volumes unbound, a very good set. The single most important twentieth century reference work on Australian ornithology. The Australasian Ornithologists' Union (for most of its existence the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, and..... More

Melbourne: Hill House, 1989-1996. Folio, colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, a fine set. A complete set of the Hill House facsimile of John Gould's Birds of Australia (1840-1868), and way superior to the Lansdowne facsimile published 1972-1975. Some of the Hill House facsimile volumes were produced in very small numbers..... More

London: Author, 1865. Octavo, Publisher's handsome decorated cloth, front endpaper of volume one marked, otherwise a near fine copy. The Handbook is a significant elaboration of the text of Birds of Australia and Gould's final contribution to Australian ornithology. It is still a useful book in any working collection of..... More

Sydney: Author, 1907. Quarto, photographs. Modern full polished calf, spine with raised bands and two coloured labels, title page grubby. S. W. Jackson (1873-1946) is best known for Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. This is a handsome production liberally illustrated with his pioneering photographs and has always been..... More

Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914. Quarto, 25 handcoloured egg plates by Neville Henry Pennington Cayley (senior). Contemporary full blue morocco, all edges gilt, with inlaid gilt and title. THE ONLY COLOUR PLATE AUSTRALIAN BOOK, PRODUCED IN AUSTRALIA, OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY There are probably only two sets of coloured A. J...... More