BIRDS - Australia and Antarctica
Melbourne: Charles Stuart & Co., 1890-1891. Folio, 303 chromolithographic plates with accompanying text and tissue guards. Six volumes bound in three, contemporary half calf and gilt lettered cloth, expertly re-spined, all edges coloured and tissue guards present, a sound clean set. Gracius Joseph Broinowski was born in Poland in 1837... More
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$9,000.00 AU
Stock ID: 39820
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Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1900-1994. Octavo, The first three volumes are the Hyett/Cooper facsimile, volume six is unbound, volume eight part one only (lacks three parts) and volume nine is in a shabby "Emu" binding, all other volumes in a neat binder's cloth, a very good run. The single..... More
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$5,000.00 AU
Stock ID: 36419
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Sheffield: Author, 1900. Octavo, colour plates by Brittlebank. Publisher's light green "presentation" cloth, a fine set of the rarest of the three variant 'Nests and eggs'. "The[re] was only one edition. A London bookseller ordered 100 copies; when he saw the number of pages (over 1,000) he had it put... More
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$3,000.00 AU
Stock ID: 5574
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Sheffield: Author, 1900. Octavo, 28 (27 of eggs) chromolithographs by Brittlebank, photographs. Publisher's olive-green cloth, a superb set, rare in this condition. A. J. Campbell, a foundation member of both the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union and the Bird Observers' Club, was a prolific contributor to the journals of the day... More
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$2,000.00 AU
Stock ID: 20641
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Sheffield: Author, 1900. Octavo, 28 (27 of eggs) chromolithographs by Brittlebank, photographs. Publisher's brown decorated cloth [single volume], a superb bright crisp copy, scarce in this condition. A. J. Campbell, a foundation member of both the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union and the Bird Observers' Club, was a prolific contributor to... More
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$2,000.00 AU
Stock ID: 40780
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London: Author, 1865. Octavo, Publisher's handsome decorated cloth, bookplate, a few minor splits in the cloth, 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... More
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$1,800.00 AU
Stock ID: 26957
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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
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$2,500.00 AU
Stock ID: 40590
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London: Author, 1848. Octavo, two wood-engraved illustrations. Publisher's cloth, expertly rebacked retaining original endpapers, scarce. "The Preface and Introduction to my Birds of Australia having been set up in small type for facility of correction, I have had a limited number of copies printed in octavo form, for distribution ..."... More
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$1,200.00 AU
Stock ID: 26958
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London: Author, 1837-1838. Large octavo, 73 finely coloured lithographed plates by Elizabeth Gould and the eight page appendix 'Description of New Species of Australian Birds'. Contemporary half green morocco and morocco-grained cloth, elaborate gilt-decorated spine, all edges gilt, bookplate; a small neat library stamp on the title page and the... More
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$24,000.00 AU
Stock ID: 40573
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London: Author, 1837-1838. Large octavo, 73 finely coloured lithographed plates by Elizabeth Gould and the eight-page appendix 'Description of New Species of Australian Birds'. Contemporary half green morocco and morocco-grained cloth, elaborate gilt-decorated spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; a crisp fine coloured copy, free of foxing and other significant... More
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$32,000.00 AU
Stock ID: 40633
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Sydney: Author, 1907. Quarto, photographs. Publisher's printed wrappers, a fine copy, in a modern box. S. W. Jackson (1873-1946) is best known for 'Egg collecting and bird life of Australia'. This handsome production, liberally illustrated with Jackson's pioneering photographs, has always been a scarce and desirable item of ephemeral Australian... More
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$1,850.00 AU
Stock ID: 8802
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Sydney: Author, 1907. Quarto, photographs. Modern full polished calf 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 a.... More
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$4,000.00 AU
Stock ID: 40579
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London: H F & G Witherby, 1936. Quarto, 24 (of 41) handcoloured and 6 (of 16) photographic plates. Binder's cloth, uncut, a fine copy. A so-called "Doris Eddy" Supplement. Doris Eddy ran Sewards, a long-established Melbourne Bookshop. At the end of World War Two she purchased the remaining stock of... More
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$2,500.00 AU
Stock ID: 14407
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Melbourne: Bird Observers Club of Australia, 1936-2003. Four volumes of half foolscap in binder's cloth (numbers 51-517, 1936-1974), the remaining nine volumes quarto in binder's cloth (numbers 518-827, 1975-2003), a very good run of an exceedingly scarce journal in its early days. The first 50 issues are large quarto and... More
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$1,200.00 AU
Stock ID: 40347
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Paris: Libraire de L'Aacademie de Medicine, 1880. Octavo, four lithographs of penguins, one folding map. Binder's cloth, plain wrappers retained. More
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$150.00 AU
Stock ID: 40900
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