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Catalogue 55Natural History - secondhand and antiquarian

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Catalogue 55Natural History - secondhand and antiquarian

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Front cover [21040] Bauer, Ferdinand. Natural history drawings taken from the zoological specimens collected on the first circumnavigation of Australia 1801-1803. London: D. Alecto Editions, 1997.Inside cover [38810] Bennett, George. Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia.. London: 1860.Back cover [21040] Bauer, Ferdinand. Natural history drawings taken from the zoological specimens collected on the first circumnavigation of Australia 1801-1803. London: D. Alecto Editions, 1997.

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Here is a small selection of some of our better secondhand natural history books covering all subjects. Many of the titles in this catalogue are “fresh” in stock and have only been uploaded to our webpage after the catalogue’s publication. It is always our aim to give regular customers the first opportunity to purchase. Most of the items in this catalogue will have images on the webpage and many will have additional text. We have made a number of recent purchases of solid natural history collections and hope to produce further catalogues in 2016.

[37414] Birds illustrated. Brentford: Birds Illustrated, 1955-1957 Quarto, 776 pp., photographs, colour plates. Binder’s cloth, all wrappers retained. The first two volumes of a monthly cage bird journal. $120

[37424] A collection of Australian Women’s Weekly nature publications. Sydney: Australian Women’s Weekly, 1956-1957. Quarto, six magazines in binder’s cloth. $100

[15543] Althofer, George W. Cradle of Incense: the story of Australian Prostanthera. [Melbourne]: Society for Growing Australian Plants, 1978. Octavo, 192 pp., illustrations, bookplate, letter from author, slightly worn dustwrapper. $30

[38239] Andersen, Johannes C. Bird-song and New Zealand song birds. Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1926. 215 pp., photographs. Publisher’s cloth, numbered subscriber’s copy signed by the author, library stamp and library pocket, a very good copy, scarce. $100

[15597] Anstis, Marion. Tadpoles of South Eastern Australia: a guide with keys. Frenchs Forest: New Holland, 2002. Octavo, 281 pp., colour photographs, text illustrations, maps, dustwrapper. $80


[9528] Archer, Michael and Georgina Clayton, editors. Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia: animals in space and time. Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1984. Quarto, 1203 pp., text illustrations, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper, scarce. $250

[19681] Archer, Michael, editor. Carnivorous marsupials. Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1982. Quarto, two volumes, 804 pp., text illustrations, bookplates, very good set in dustwrappers. $350

[37165] Armati, Mary. E. G. Waterhouse of Eryldene. Sydney: The Fine Arts Press, 1977. Quarto, 112 pp., photographs. Publisher’s quarter cloth and linen boards, limited to 550 numbered and author signed copies, a fine copy. $100

[36344] Audubon, Maria R. Audubon and his journals: with zoological and other notes by Elliott Coues. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. 1086 pp., two volumes, photographic plates. Publisher’s blindstamped cloth, inscription on front endpaper, a fine set. $400

[35880] Austen, Ernest Edward. A handbook of the Tsetse-Flies (genus Glossina). London: British Museum (Natural History), 1911. Octavo, 110 pp., ten colour photographic plates. Publisher’s cloth, a neat library stamp on the title pages otherwise a fine crisp copy. $150

[35803] Austen, Ernest Edward. Bombyliidae of Palestine. Long Beach: British Museum (Natural History), 1937. Quarto, 221 pp., coloured frontispiece. Publisher’s cloth, apart from library stamp on title page, a fine copy. $100


[5186] Bailey, Alfred M. and J. H. Sorensen. Subantarctic Campbell Island. Denver: Denver Museum of Natural History, 1962. Octavo, 305 pp., photographs. Publisher’s cloth, a very good copy. $80

[5209] Baker, E. C. Stuart. The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, volume two: Snipe, bustards and sand-grouse. [Bombay]: Bombay Natural History Society, 1921. Tall octavo, 342 pp., 19 colour plates by H. Gronvold, photographs. Very good copy in publisher’s brown half morocco. $450

[5206] Baker, Richard T. and Henry G. Smith. Woodfibres of some Australian timbers: investigated in reference to their prospective value for paper-pulp production. Sydney: Government Printer, 1924. 160 pp., colour frontispiece, “micro-photographs” of wood fibres. Publisher’s cloth, a small stain. $80

[15741] Bannerman, David Armitage [and W. Mary Bannerman]. Birds of the Atlantic islands. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1963. Quarto, four volumes, 1285 pp., colour plates and text illustrations by D. M. Reid Henry. Bookplate in each volume. Good set in lightly worn dustwrappers. $850

[5239] Bannerman, David Armitage. The birds of tropical West Africa: with special reference to those of the Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold

Coast and Nigeria. London: Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1931-1951. Octavo, eight volumes, 3564 pp., 86 (85 coloured) plates, text illustrations, folding maps. Publisher’s cloth, apart from a few minor corner bumps, a fine set. $1,250


[35983] Barbour, Thomas. A contribution to the zoogeography of the West Indies, with especial reference to amphibians and reptiles. Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1914. Quarto, 359 pp., one lithographic plate of frogs. Half green morocco, wrappers retained, a handsome copy. $450

[35984] Barbour, Thomas. A list of Antillean reptiles and amphibians. New York: New York Zoological Society, 1930. Quarto, 116 pp. Binder’s cloth with title, wrappers retained. $100

[5260] Barrett, Charles. The bird man: a sketch of the life of John Gould. Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1938. Small octavo, 52 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s paper covered boards, some wear. $50

[15778] Barrett, Charles. Parrots of Australasia.

Melbourne: N. H. Seward, 1949. Octavo, 112 pp., coloured frontispiece by Neville Cayley, near fine copy in dustwrapper with owner’s signature. $100

[19332] Barrett, Geoff, et al. The new atlas of Australian birds. Hawthorn East: Birds Australia, 2003. Quarto, 824 pp., maps, illustrations, laminated boards. $60

[12660] Bascombe, M. J. et al. The butterflies of Hong Kong. San Diego: Academic Press, 1999. Quarto, dustwrapper, 422 pp., colour photographs, text illustrations. $225

[5282] Basset Hull, A. F. A list of the birds of Australia. Sydney: Author, 1909. Octavo, wrappers, 31 pp. recto printed and numbered only, addenda, errata and corrigenda slips bound in, scarce. $60


[34278] Bateman, James. The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala. New York: Johnson Reprint, (1973 facsimile). Folio, 12 pp., 40 colour plates. Publisher’s green cloth, limited to 1000 numbered copies, a fine copy. $500

[21040] Bauer, Ferdinand. Natural history drawings taken from the zoological specimens collected on the first circumnavigation of Australia 1801-1803. London: Alecto Editions, 1997. Folio, a loose collection of four plates (Koala, Rainbow Lorikeet, Swimmer Crab and Weedy Sea Dragon) from

the Alecto facsimile of Natural History drawings from Flinders, plus four plates from the Alecto facsimile of Catesby’s Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. The title pages of both facsimiles present and all in a satchel cloth folder. $2,500

[38923] Beklemishev, W. N. Principles of comparative anatomy of invertebrates. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1969. Octavo, two volumes, 1019 pp., text illustrations, signature, very good set. $200

[5337] Bennett, George. Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China. London: Richard Bentley, 1834. Octavo, two volumes, 870 pp., uncoloured frontispieces. Attractive early binder’s cloth, a few spots, otherwise a bright pleasant copy. $400

[38810] Bennett, George. Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia. London: 1860. Octavo, 456 pp., eight handcoloured lithographs by George French Angas. Publisher’s blindstamped purple cloth, some fading and blemishes, hinges cracked, front paste down damaged, a sound copy. $850

Bennett was particularly interested in the Platypus and his account of this extraordinary animal in Gatherings is a classic.

Ferguson 6929; Mengel 228; Whittell p. 49; Wood p. 231.


[38818] Bertolonii, Antonii. Novi commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis, tomus tertius. Bologna: Dall’ Olmo et Tio, 1839 Quarto, [six] pp. (titlepage

and introduction), [56] pp., 14 handcoloured (five folding) engraved plates. Modern binder’s cloth, contents fine and crisp. $1,250

Four papers by Bertoloni.

1. Continuatio historiae horti botanici et scholae botanicae Archigymnasii Bononiensis adjectis descriptionibus trium novarum plantarum, [1834]. Pp. 1-18, two handcoloured engraved plates (one folding).

2. Commentarius de itinere neapolitano: aestate anni 1834 suscepto, [1835]. Pp. 155-175, three folding handcoloured engraved plates.

3. Horti botanici bononiensis: plantae novae, vel minus cognitae, fasciculus one, [1835]. Pp. 317-324, five handcoloured engraved plates (one folding).

4. Plantarum rariorum, vel novarum horti Botanici Bononiensis, fasciculus secundus [no date]. Pp. 11-22, four handcoloured engraved plates.

[27196] Beruldsen, Gordon. A field guide to nests and eggs of Australian birds. Adelaide: Rigby, (1980 first edition). Octavo, 448 pp., colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. $50

[38814] Bishop, Walter W. and J. Desmond Clark. Background to evolution in Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967. Octavo, 935 pp., text illustrations, signature, blemished dustwrapper. $60

[3253] Bjorndal, Karen, editor. Biology and conservation of sea turtles. Washington: Smithsonian, 1981. Quarto, paperback, 583 pp., illustrations. $60

[18075] Blakers, M. et al. The atlas of Australian birds. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, (1985 reprint). Octavo, 738 pp., text illustrations, maps, laminated boards. $50


[38730] Bleeker, P. Over Eenige Visschen van Van Diemensland. Amsterdam: C. G. Van Der Post, 1855. Quarto, 31 pp., one folding plate. Publisher’s printed wrappers, rare. $950

Not in Ferguson.

[32891] Boot, Jeremy. Birds of South Australia.

Adelaide: Oaklands Publishing, 1985. Quarto, 56 pp., 19 tipped-in colour plates. Publisher’s quarter cloth, a fine copy. $100

[25316] Boulenger, George Albert. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). London: British Museum, 1893-1896. Octavo, three volumes, 1558 pp., 73 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher’s cloth, some slight wear primarily to the top of the spine of volume three which has a split along the upper edge, library accession numbers in a copperplate hand on the title pages and endpapers, a very good set, scarce. $2,850

[12085] Bowen, W. Wedgwood. Catalogue of Sudan birds, based on the collection in the Sudan Government Museum (Natural History). Khartoum: Sudan Government Museum (Natural History), 1926-1931. Octavo, two parts, 283 pp., publisher’s wrappers, a very good set. $300

[14480] Breakwell, E. The grasses and fodder plants of New South Wales. Sydney: Department of Agriculture, 1923. Octavo, 370 pp., photographs, publisher’s cloth. $65

[5493] Broinowski, Gracius J. The Cockatoos and Nestors of Australia and New Zealand [facsimile]. Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Small folio, 13 plates and accompanying text leaves, two appendices (one by Keith Hindwood). Black full morocco, limited edition of 500 copies, signed and numbered by a Broinowski descendant, a fine copy. $300


[20821] Brook, George et al. Catalogue of the Madreporian corals in the British Museum (Natural History). London: British Museum (Natural History). 1893. Large quarto, seven volumes, 1480 pp., 240 uncoloured photographs. Publisher’s cloth, some wear, the upper spine of volume seven repaired, the titles pages with the stamp of the “Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales” plus a few stamps throughout, a sound set, scarce. $1,650

[5497] Brooke, Jocelyn. The wild orchids of Britain. London: Bodley Head, 1950. Quarto, 139 pp., 40 colour plates by Gavin Bone. Publisher’s cloth, limited to 1140 numbered copies. $100

[16159] Brown, Leslie and Dean Amadon. Eagles, hawks and falcons of the world. London: Country Life, 1968. Quarto, two volumes, 946 pp., text illustrations, colour plates by eight artists, including Roger Tory Peterson, David Reid-Henry and Guy Coheleach, a few pale

spots otherwise a very good set in the slipcase. $250

[27711] Brown, Robertus. Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Dieman, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805 ... edition secunda ... Normibergae: Leonardi Schrag, 1827. Octavo, 460 pp. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, all edges coloured, some wear, very scarce. $4,500

First published 1810, this is the second edition published in Germany.

[3693] Brunner, Hans and Brian J. Coman. The identification of mammalian hair. Melbourne: Inkata Press, 1974. Quarto, dustwrapper, 176 pp., photographs, owner’s signature, signed by both authors, very good copy in dustwrapper, very scarce. $300

Most of the mammals covered are Australian.


[36575] Buckland, William. Geology and mineralogy, considered with reference to natural theology. London: William Pickering, 1837 second edition). Octavo, two volumes, 747 pp., 69 plates. Publisher’s cloth with printed labels, some foxing throughout but a sound set. $450 Published as part of the Bridgewater Treatises. The Earl of Bridgewater, a gentleman naturalist, commissioned

eight Bridgewater Treatises upon his deathbed to explore “the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation.” They first appeared during the years 1833 to 1840 and can be regarded as a forerunner of the intelligent design arguments put forward by creationist biologists. William Buckland (1784-1856) was that classic Victorian, a theologian but also a geologist and palaeontologist who gave the first full account of a fossil dinosaur and was a pioneer in the use of fossilised faeces, for which he coined the term coprolites, to reconstruct ancient ecosystems.

[38856] Bucknill, C. E. R. Sea shells of New Zealand. Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs, [1924]. Quarto, 123 pp., 12 uncoloured plates. Publisher’s paper covered boards with tipped on Nautilus plate, a fine copy, scarce in this condition. $80

[30020] Buller, Walter L. Manual of the birds of New Zealand. Wellington: Government Printer 1882. Octavo, 108 pp. 36 uncoloured plates (derived from History of the birds of New Zealand 1873). Publisher’s red decorated cloth, lower cover stained, a very good copy. $500

[14458] Bustard, Robert. Australian sea turtles: natural history and conservation. London: Collins, 1972. Octavo, 220 pp., photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. $30


[35346] Butler, Arthur G. Foreign finches in captivity. London: L. Reeve & Co., 1894. Quarto, 332 pp., 59 (of 60) handcoloured lithographs by Frohawk, lacks the Painted Finch plate and the Chestnut-breasted Finch/ Three-coloured Manikin plate is substantially trimmed

but not affecting image. Publisher’s blindstamped burgundy morocco grain cloth with handsome gilt finch design on upper board, top edge gilt, some light wear and a few spots throughout. $2,500

A handsome monograph on finches. The illustrations by Frohawk, particularly those of the Australian finches, are excellent. A second edition with chromolithographed plates and smaller format was published in 1899.

Fine bird books (reprint) p. 85; Mengel 445; Nissen IVB 169; Wood p. 274.

[15401] Butterworth, Elizabeth. Parrots and cockatoos. London: Fischer Fine Art, 1979. Folio, 20 uncoloured aquatints, each signed and numbered by the artist. All plates printed on deckle edge paper and contained in a cloth covered folio box, limited edition of 60 numbered copies, the separately printed booklet by Rosemary Low supplied in photocopy, a fine copy. $2,650

[2639] Butterworth, Elizabeth. Parrots, macaws, and cockatoos: the art of Elizabeth Butterworth. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988. Folio, unpaginated, colour plates, softcover. $80

[36183] By an ex-commissioner. Destruction of life by snakes, hydrophobia, etc. in western India. London: W. H. Allen, 1880. Duodecimo, 120 pp. Publisher’s green cloth with titles, a few blemishes otherwise a very good copy, rare. $500


[36417] Campbell, Archibald James. Nests and eggs of Australian birds: including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon. Sheffield: Author, 1901. Octavo, 1102 pp., 28 (27 of eggs) chromolithographs by Brittlebank, photographs. Publisher’s brown decorated cloth [single volume], a bright crisp copy, scarce in this condition. $1,500

[5584] Campbell, Archibald James. Golden wattle: our national floral emblem. Being a particularly (sic) unique series of photo-pictures of wattles, or Australian acacias, in full flower (with the introduction of a figure for idealistic purposes). Melbourne: Osboldstone & Co., 1921. Quarto, 64 pp., tipped-in colour and black and white photographs. Publisher’s green boards and cloth spine, library stamp on blank front endpaper, a very good copy. $250

Many of the photographs are of young women dressed in Grecian-type robes tastefully disporting themselves among wattle trees or holding bunches of wattle.

[5610] Carter, H. J. Gulliver in the bush: wanderings of an Australian entomologist. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1933. Octavo, 234 pp., photographs. Book plate, publisher’s cloth, a few spots otherwise a good copy. $50

[32256] Cayley, Neville W. Australian finches in bush and aviary. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1932. Octavo, 256 pp., colour plates by the author. Publisher’s cloth, a very good copy $150

[5625] Cayley, Neville W., editor. Feathered friends: a Gould League annual. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1935. Octavo, 60 pp., colour plates by Neville Cayley, library pocket, softcover. $50


[38496] Chandler, L. G. Bush charms. Melbourne: Whitcombe & Tombs, [1922]. Small octavo, 114 pp., text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. $40

Les Chandler (1888-1980) was a pioneering ornithologist who made the first bird bands in Australia and banded the first Mutton bird in 1912. He also campaigned for the establishment of the Hattah-Kulkyne National Park which became a reality in 1960.

[12104] Chapin, James P. The birds of the Belgian Congo. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1932-1954. Octavo, four volumes, 3054 pp., three colour plates, photographs and other illustrations. Binder’s

red cloth, all edges speckled, with the bookplate and signatures of Stephen Marchant (a previous editor of The Emu), a very good set of a scarce work (only 300 copies of part one were published). $1,200

[5641] Chapman, Frederick. Open-air studies in Australia. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1929. Octavo, 170 pp., photographs, dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. $50

[1797] Ching, Raymond. Studies and sketches of a bird painter. Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Folio, 260 pp., colour plates by Ching. Publisher’s cloth, slipcase with pictorial wrapper (the standard edition), owner’s expansive signature and address, a very good copy. $250

[8962] Ching, Raymond. Studies and sketches of a bird painter. Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Small folio, 260 pp., colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher’s full grey calf and Solander box, edition limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, some marks to box otherwise a fine copy. $850


[5667] Chisholm, A. H. and Norman Chaffer. Observations on the Golden Bower-bird. Sydney: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1956. Octavo, 39 pp., colour frontispiece. Publisher’s stiff wrappers, fine copy. $30

[30516] Chisholm, Alec H. The story of Elizabeth Gould. Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1944. Octavo, 76 pp., uncoloured frontispiece. Publisher’s green cloth, limited to 350 copies, a fine copy. $450

[37707] Chisholm, Alec H. Strange journey: the adventures of John Gilbert and Ludwig Leichhardt. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1973 third edition). Octavo, 306 pp., endpaper maps, fine copy. $60

[4116] Coates, Brian J. The Birds of Papua New Guinea, including the Bismarck Archipelago and Bougainville, volume one: non passerines. Brisbane: Dove, 1985. Quarto, 464 pp., colour photographs, maps, fine copy in fine dustwrapper. $250

[28041] Cogger, Harrold G. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Sydney: Reed Books, (1992 fifth edition). Quarto, 775 pp., colour photographs and text illustrations, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. $150

[35493] Cope, Edward Drinker. Hitherto unpublished plates of Tertiary Mammalia and Permian Vertebrata. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1915. Quarto, 64 uncoloured lithographs with accompanying text leaves. Publisher’s blue cloth, a few library stamps of the Royal society of Victoria, otherwise a very good copy. $500

[37150] Cott, Hugh B. Adaptive coloration in animals. London: Methuen, (1940 first edition). Octavo, 508 pp., coloured frontispiece, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper, scarce. $300


[10018] Crook, A. H. and G. A. C. Herklots, editors. The Hong Kong Naturalist: a quarterly illustrated journal principally for Hong Kong and South China, volume one. Hong Kong: The Newspaper Enterprise, 1930. Octavo, 200 pp., seven colour plates, other illustrations. $400

[36119] Cullen, J. M. and C. G. Beer, editors. Animal behaviour monographs, volumes 1-24. London: Balliere, Tindal and Cassell, 1968-1976. Quarto, 24 volumes, all bound in twelve volumes of binder’s cloth. $500

An important journal with major contributions by famous zoologists such as Richard Dawkins and Jane Goodall.

[38930] Cunningham, Daniel John. Report on some points in the anatomy of the Thylacine, [Cuscus and Phascogale], collected during the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger in the years 1873-1876; ... London: Challenger Expedition, 1881. Quarto, 192 pp., 13 lithographs.

Modern half calf and marbled boards $1,200

[4851] D’Abrera, Bernard. Butterflies of the Australian region. Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1971 first edition). Folio, 416 pp., colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper, signed “Bernard D’Abrera 8 November 1972 Melbourne”. $350

[20692] D’Abrera, Bernard. Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region. Based on synonymic catalogue of the Butterflies of the Ethiopian Region by R. H. Carcasson. East Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1980. Folio, 593 pp., colour photographs, inscribed by the author, fine copy in slightly sunned dustwrapper. $400


[4138] D’Abrera, Bernard. Butterflies of the Oriental Region, part two: Nymphalidae, Satyridae and Amathusidae. Melbourne: Hill House, 1985. Folio, 245-534 pp., colour photographs, inscribed by the author, fine copy in lightly sunned dustwrapper. $300

[26388] D’Abrera, Bernard. Butterflies of the Oriental Region, part three: Lycaenidae and Riodinidae. Melbourne: Hill House, 1986. Folio, 535-672 pp., colour photographs, inscribed by the author, fine copy in lightly sunned dustwrapper. $300

[38625] Darwin, Charles. The expression of the emotions in man and animals. London: John Murray (1873 reprint). Octavo, 374 pp., seven heliotype plates. Publisher’s cloth, contemporary (dated 1883) owner’s signature on title page, a near fine copy. $600

[10959] Datta, Ann. John Gould in Australia: letters and drawings. Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 1997. Quarto, 528 pp., colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. $200

[37026] Davidson, Rodney. A book collector’s notes on items relating to the discovery of Australia, the first settlement and the early coastal exploration of the continent. North Melbourne: Cassell Australia, 1970. Octavo, 138 pp., photographs. Publisher’s cloth and slipcase, limited to 250 numbered and signed copies, bookplate of David McPhee. $150

[10698] Diment, Judith A. et al. Catalogue of the natural history drawings commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771, held in the British Museum (Natural History). Part two: Botany: Brazil, Java, Madeira, New Zealand, Society Islands and Tierra del Fuego. London: Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Historical Series Volume 12, 1987. Octavo, 200 pp., colour plates, paperback, fine copy. $60


[376] Dixon, Joan M. and Linda Huxley, editors. Donald Thomson’s mammals and fishes of northern Australia. Melbourne: Nelson, 1985. Quarto, 210 pp. photos, text illustrations, maps and tables, dustwrapper. $30

[17824] Dorleans, Henry. From Tonkin to India: by the sources of Irawadi January ‘95 - January ‘96. London: Methuen & Co., 1898. Large octavo, 467 pp., text illustrations. Publisher’s green pictorial cloth, slightly shaken, otherwise a very good copy, scarce. $950

[35989] Duellman, William E. A monographic study of the colubrid snake genus Leptodeira. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1958. Large quarto, 152 pp., photographs, text illustrations. Binder’s cloth, publisher’s wrappers retained, a fine copy. $150

[16520] Duellman, William E., editor. The South American herpetofauna: its origin, evolution, and dispersal. Lawrence: The University of Kansas, 1979. Quarto, 485 pp., text illustrations, maps, fine copy in publisher’s cloth. $200

[38883] Duellman, William E., editor. Patterns of distribution of amphibians: a global perspective. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Octavo, 633 pp., illustrations, a very good copy in dustwrapper. $100

[38979] Duppa, Richard. The classes and orders of the Linnaean system of botany, illustrated by select specimens of foreign and indigenous plants. London: 1816. T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees and others, three volumes, 235 handcoloured and three engraved plates, tissue guards. Early polished

olive calf, handsome gilt borders, spines tanned, all edges coloured, bookplates. $3,500


[15630] Ebes, Hank. The John Gould Collection from his personal library. Melbourne: Ebes Douwma Antique Prints and Maps, 1987. Octavo, 182 pp., colour photographs, softcover. $100

A useful reference with a photograph of every plate from “Birds of Australia”, “Mammals of Australia” and “Birds of New Guinea”.

[572] Ehmann, Harald. Encyclopedia of Australian animals: reptiles. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1992. Quarto, 495 pp., colour photographs, distribution maps, fine in dustwrapper, scarce. $159

[38858] Eisenberg, John F. The mammalian radiations: an analysis of trends in evolution, adaptation, and behaviour. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Octavo, 610 pp., text illustrations, publisher’s cloth. $80

[33278] Elliot, Daniel Giraud. A classification and synopsis of the Trochilidae. Washington: Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 1878. Quarto, 277 pp., text illustrations. Contemporary half morocco, all edges coloured, two library stamps of the RAOU, otherwise a very good copy. $250

[36419] The Emu, volumes 1-92. 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. $5,000

[14004] Ferguson, John Alexander. Bibliography of Australia. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1941-1969 first edition). Octavo, seven volumes, 5294 pp., very good set in dustwrappers, some wear. $950

[6757] Fisher, Robert H. Butterflies of South Australia (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea). Adelaide: Government Printer, 1978. Octavo, 272 pp., colour plates, paperback, very good copy. $70


[1485] Flora of Australia, volume 29. Solanaceae. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1982. Octavo, 208 pp., colour photographs, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. $80

[1550] Flora of Australia, volume eight. Lecythidales to Batales. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1982. Octavo, 420 pp., text illustrations, slightly blemished dustwrapper. $80

[1555] Flora of Australia, volume 22. Rhizophorales to Celastrales. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1984. Octavo, 239 pp., text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. $80

[1558] Flora of Australia, volume four. Phytolaccaceae to Chenopodiaceae. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1984. Octavo, 354 pp., colour photographs, text illustrations, a fine copy in dustwrapper. $120

[1586] Flora of Australia, volume three. Hamamelidales to Casuarinales. Canberra Australian Government Publishing Service, 1989. Octavo, 219 pp., text illustrations, dustwrapper. $100

[1589] Flora of Australia, volume 18. Podostemaceae to Combretaceae. Canberra Australian Government Publishing Service, 1990. Octavo, 349 pp., text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. $100

[1596] Flora of Australia, volume 35. Brunoniaceae, Goodeniaceae. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1992. Octavo, 351 pp., text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. $100


[1594] Flora of Australia, volume 50. Oceanic islands, [part two]. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1993. Octavo, 606 pp., text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. $150

Covers Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Ashmore Reef (Indian Ocean), the Coral Sea, Macquarie and Heard Islands (sub-Antarctic region).

[1604] Flora of Australia, volume 49. Oceanic islands [part one]. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1994. Octavo, dustwrapper, 681 pp., text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. $50

Covers Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island.

[16657] Forbes, Henry O. A naturalist’s wanderings in the eastern archipelago, a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1885. Octavo, 536 pp., chromolithograph frontispiece (Forbes’ Honeyeater), text

illustrations. Publisher’s decorated cloth, cracked hinges, otherwise a bright crisp copy. $1,450

[6212] Frith, H. J. The Mallee-fowl: the bird that builds an incubator. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1962. Octavo, 136 pp., photographs, slightly chipped dustwrapper. $80

[13887] Fritsch, F. E. The structure and reproduction of the algae. Cambridge: [Cambridge] University Press, 1935-1945. Octavo, two volumes, 1732 pp., illustrations, two folding maps. Publisher’s cloth, volume one signed by the author, very good set. $300

[23742] Gardner, C.A. Trees of Western Australia. Perth: Department of Agriculture of Western Australia, 1952-1966, Octavo, text illustrations. 29 pamphlets [numbered from 1 to 109]. A very good set, scarce. $100


[1605] Glasby, C. J. et al., editors. Fauna of Australia, volume 2A: Amphibia and Reptilia. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1993. Quarto, 439 pp., text illustrations, signature, sunned dustwrapper. $80

[6316] Goode, John. Freshwater tortoises of Australia and New Guinea (in the family Chelidae). Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1967. Octavo, 154 pp., colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper, scarce. $350

[38941] Gosse, P. H. The aquarium: an unveiling of the wonders of the deep sea. London: John Van Voorst, (1854 second edition), Octavo, 304 pp., six chromolithographs, including a frontispiece, all by Gosse, text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, some wear, front endpaper loose, a sound copy. $250

Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888) was an English naturalist and populariser of natural science. He created and stocked the first public aquarium at the London Zoo in 1853 and published the first book on aquariums in 1854. Deeply religious and a staunch opponent of Darwinianism he was enshrined, probably unfairly, by his son Edmund Gosse’s book Father and son, first published 1907. The best edition, the first edition of 1854 does not have the coloured plates.

[3953] Gould John. Monograph of the Pittidae [facsimile]. Melbourne: Hill House, 1989. Folio, 9 colour plates and accompanying text leaves. Publisher’s blue cloth, fine copy. $350


[26957] Gould, John. Handbook to the birds of Australia. London: Author, 1865. Octavo, two volumes, 1266 pp. Publisher’s handsome decorated

cloth, bookplate, a few minor splits in the cloth, otherwise a near fine copy. $2,500

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 Australian ornithology.

Ferguson 10031; Sauer 25; Whittell pp. 295-6: Wood p. 365; Zimmer p. 262.

[878] Gould, John. Kangaroos: with modern commentaries by Joan Dixon. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1973. Folio, 152 pp., colour plates, Publisher’s cloth and slipcase. $60

[21594] Gould, John. Australian marsupials and monotremes: with modern commentaries by Joan Dixon. South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1974. Folio, 144 pp., colour plates. Publisher’s cloth, cardboard slipcase. $60

[3675] Gould, John. A synopsis of the birds of Australia and the adjacent islands. Melbourne: Queensberry Hill Press, (1979 facsimile). Quarto, 73 coloured plates by Elizabeth Gould, each plate accompanied by a single text leaf. Publisher’s half morocco in a slip case. $650

[8968] Gould, John. The birds of Australia and the adjacent islands [facsimile]. East Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1979. Folio, 20 colour plates. Publisher’s decorated cloth, limited edition of 500 copies numbered and signed by Alan McEvey, a fine copy. $400


[13996] Gould, John. A monograph of the Macropodidae, or family of kangaroos [facsimile]. Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Folio, 30 colour plates. Publisher’s cloth with locket portrait, limited edition of 750 copies numbered and signed by Joan M. Dixon, a very good copy. $250

[3952] Gould, John. The birds of Australia, volume five [facsimile, the parrot volume]. Melbourne: Hill House, 1989. Folio, 92 colour plates. Publisher’s green cloth, fine copy. $2,250

[30846] Gould, R. T. The case for the sea-serpent. London: Philip Allan and Co, 1930. Octavo, 292 pp., photographs. Publisher’s cloth, slightly grubby, hinges lightly cracked. $60

[6349] Gray, Annie P. Bird hybrids: a check-list with bibliography. Farnham Royal: Farnham Royal Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, 1958. Quarto, 390 pp., fine copy in dustwrapper, bookplate of Roy Cooper. $250

[36424] [Gray, John Edward]. Catalogue of reptiles ... in the collection of the British Museum. London: British Museum, 1844-1845. Duodecimo, two volumes, 80 and 289 pp., Publisher’s blue wrappers with title labels on upper covers and hand written paper label on spine, a fine set contained in a handsome modern half calf Solander box. $850

[37623] Green, J. W. editor, Kingia [volume one]. Perth: Western Australian Herbarium, 1988-1990. 459 pp., four parts, wrappers. The first four parts of the Western Australian Herbarium’s in-house journal. $80

[13280] Greenewalt, Crawford H. Hummingbirds. Garden City: American Museum of Natural History, 1960. Quarto, 250 pp., 68 tipped-in colour photographs by the author, text illustrations. A fine copy in a slightly chipped dustwrapper, the bookplate of Norman Wettenhall. $400


[35882] Gregory, William King, editor. The anatomy of the Gorilla: the studies of Henry Cushier Raven. New York: Columbia University Press, 1950. Quarto, 259 pp. four folding plates. Publisher’s cloth, chipped dustwrapper, some grubby marks and the library stamp of the Royal Society of Victoria, a very good copy. $400

[10413] Gressitt, J. L., editor. Biogeography and ecology of New Guinea. The Hague Junk, 1982. Octavo, 984 pp., photographs. Publisher’s cloth, ex library with stamps and library pocket, nonetheless a sound set, scarce. $250

[30581] Grigson, Geoffrey, Buchanan, Handasyde and William Stearn. Thornton’s Temple of Flora with plates faithfully reproduced from the original engravings. London: Collins, 1951. Large folio, 20 pp., 31 coloured and uncoloured plates. Publisher’s half morocco and slipcase, spine lightly sunned. Limited to 250 numbered copies and signed by the three contributors. $500

[38216] Grosse, E.M. (artist). Series of seventeen colour lithographed plates, from the 1913 expedition to the coral reefs of the Torres Straits of the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Sydney: [Government Printer, 1914]. Quarto,

19 pp., a series of 17 plates (numbered to 19) of echinoderms, with a typescript insert inscribed to J. Lane Mullins by F. Walsh. $650

[35890] Gudger, Eugene Willis, editor. The Bashford Dean Memorial volume, Archaic Fish. Part one: introduction, table of contents and articles one to five. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 19301933. Quarto, 770 pp., text illustrations, plates. Binder’s cloth, some stamps, a very good copy. $250


[35992] Gunther, Albert C. L. G. The reptiles of British India. London: Ray Society, 1864. Folio, 452 pp., 26 uncoloured lithographic plates. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, top edge gilt, upper corner very slightly bumped and a few spots, otherwise a handsome copy. $2,250

[26962] Gurney, J. H. The gannet: a bird with a history. London: Witherby & Co, 1913. Octavo, 576 pp., frontispiece map, plates, two coloured, and illustrations. Publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth (back hinge weakened), gilt edges, prospectus enclosed, near fine copy. $300

[21341] Hale, Herbert M. The crustaceans of South Australia. Adelaide: Government Printer, 1927-1929. Octavo, 380 pp., uncoloured plates, text illustrations. Publisher’s wrappers, signatures, minor blemishes, otherwise a sound set. $60

[9538] Hanken, James and Brian K. Hall, editors. The skull. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Octavo, three volumes, 1613 pp. text illustrations, softcover. $120

[34284] Harris, Tony. Shrikes of southern Africa: true shrikes, helmet-shrikes and bush shrikes, including the batises and Black-throated Wattle-eye. Cape Town: Struik Winchester, 1988. Quarto, 224 pp., colour plates by Graeme Arnott. Publisher’s half morocco and marbled boards, slipcase; the Collector’s Issue limited to 100 numbered and signed copies. $350

[21264] Harrison, Peter. Seabirds: an identification guide. Beckenham: Croom Helm, (1983 first edition). Octavo, 448 pp., colour plates by the author, maps, very good copy in dustwrapper. $60


[38817] Harvey, William Henry. Phycologia Britannica [volumes three and four only]: or a history of British Sea-Weeds, containing coloured figures, generic and specific characters, synonymes, and descriptions of all the species of Algae inhabiting the shores of the British Islands. London: Reeve and Benham, 1846-1852. Octavo, 172 (of 360) hand coloured plates with accompanying text leaves, each plate accompanied by a single text leaf. Handsome contemporary full green blindstamped polished morocco, gilt spines with coloured label, all edges speckled. $1,200

[6504] Haswell, William A. Catalogue of the Australian stalk and sessile eyed Crustacea. Sydney: The Australian Museum, 1882. Octavo, 324 pp., four uncoloured chromolithographs (substantially foxed). Early binder’s cloth, bookplate and library pocket. $80

[1112] Haverschmidt, F. Birds of Surinam. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, (1968 first edition). Quarto, 446 pp., colour plates by Paul Barruel, folding map, very good copy in dustwrapper. $150

[18711] Hayman, Peter et al. Shorebirds: an identification guide to the waders of the world. London: Croom Helm, (1995 reprint), Octavo, 412 pp., colour plates, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. $100

[3671] Hazzard, Margaret. Australia’s brilliant daughter. Ellis Rowan- artist, naturalist, explorer 1848-1922. Melbourne: Greenhouse Publications, 1984. Octavo, 160 pp., colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. $40

[6533] Henshaw, Samuel et al. Some Chinese vertebrates. Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1912. Quarto, 107-247 pp., six coloured plates. Publisher’s printed upper wrapper (lower wrapper missing), badly chipped. $100


[6554] Hibberd, Shirley. The book of the aquarium; or practical instructions on the formation, stocks, and management in all seasons, of collections of marine and river animals and plants. London: London Groombridge and Sons, [1869]. Small octavo, 262 pp., text illustrations. Publisher’s decorated cloth, grubby but a sound copy. $100

[16570] Hill, Robin. Australian birds. Melbourne: Nelson, (1976 second edition). Folio, 276 pp., colour illustrations by the author. Publisher’s full brown leather and slipcase, limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the author, the deluxe edition. $300

[35490] Hinde, George Jennings. Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History). With descriptions of new and little-known species. London: British Museum (Natural History), 1883. Quarto, 248 pp., 38 uncoloured lithographic plates. Publisher’s cloth, a very good copy. $250

[6584] Hingston, R. W. G. The meaning of animal colour and adornment. London: Edward Arnold, 1933. Octavo, 411 pp., text illustrations, bookplate of Roy Cooper, dustwrapper. $150

[24545] Holldobler, Bert and Edward O. Wilson. The ants. Cambridge MA: Belknap Press, 1990. Quarto, 734 pp., illustrations, inscription, fine copy in dustwrapper. $250

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[17966] Hooker, J. D. Handbook of the New Zealand flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermedec’s, Lord Auckland’s, Campbell’s, and MacQuarie’s Islands. London: Lovell Reeve, 1864-1867. Octavo, two volumes, 798 pp. Publisher’s cloth on stiff boards, contents slightly loose, bookplates, a sound copy. $400

[35904] Hopkins, G. H. E et al. Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian region. London: British Museum (Natural History), 1936-1941. Octavo, three volumes, 1153 pp., colour photographic plates. Publisher’s cloth, a neat library stamp on the title pages, otherwise a fine crisp copy. $450

[2207] Houston, T. F. Dragon lizards and goannas of South Australia. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, (1978 first edition). Octavo, 84 pp., attractive colour plates by the author, maps, softcover. $50

[28239] Howard, H. Eliot. An introduction to the

study of bird behaviour. Cambridge: [Cambridge] University Press, 1929. Quarto, 136 pp., ten uncoloured plates. Contemporary red half calf by Waltbys of Oxford, apart from a few minor spots a handsome copy. $300

[6647] Howchin, Walter. The building of Australia and the succession of life: with special reference to South

Australia. Adelaide: Government Printer, 1925-1930. Octavo, three volumes, 750 pp., text illustrations. Publisher’s wrappers, a very good set. $100


[33668] Hudson, G. V. New Zealand Neuroptera: a popular introduction to the life-histories and habits of may-flies, dragon-flies, caddis-flies and allied insects inhabiting New Zealand, including notes on their relation to angling. London: West, Newman & Co., 1904. Octavo, 102 pp., eleven coloured plates. Publisher’s green cloth, a fine copy. $500

[6652] Hudson, W. H. Birds of La Plata. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1920. Large octavo, two volumes, 484 pp., 22 colour plates by H. Gronvold. Publisher’s decorated cloth, fragments of dustwrappers for both volumes, a very good set of the standard issue limited to 3000 copies. $450

[37617] Hudson, W. H. The naturalist in La Plata. London: J M Dent, (1929 second edition). Octavo, 394 pp., text illustrations, bookplate, fine copy in chipped dustwrapper. $60

[38884] Hulme, F. Edward. Familiar wild flowers. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., [1877-1885 first edition]. Octavo, five volumes, 808 pp., 200 coloured plates. Publisher’s handsome decorated green cloth, all edges gilt, a fine crisp set. $400

[30873] Hume, Allan C. editor. Stray feathers: a journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies [lacking the last three volumes]. 1872-1878. Octavo, eight volumes, hand coloured plates. Contemporary green half calf with red labels, some rubbing, the set of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists’ Union with library stamps. $1,500

[1175] Hume, Ian D. Digestive physiology and nutrition of marsupials. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Octavo, 256 pp., photographs, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. $80

[21397] Hume, Ian D. Marsupial nutrition. Melbourne: Cambridge UP, 1999. Octavo, 434 pp., text iIlustrations, signature, paperback. $80


[3535] Hunt, P. Francis Orchidaceae. Bourton: Bourton Press, 1973. Folio, 144 pp., 40 coloured plates by Mary A. Grierson. Publisher’s full vellum by Zaehnsdorf, all edges gilt, cloth slipcase, limited to 600 numbered and signed copies; a fine copy. $750

[21414] Hyett, Jack. A bushman’s year. Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire, 1959. Octavo, 248 pp., photographs, signed by the author, fine copy in dustwrapper. $30

Jack Hyett was a schoolteacher and popular newspaper columnist of the 1950’s and 1960’s. He became editor of The Emu in the 1960’s.

[8802] Jackson, S. W. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia: catalogue and date of the “Jacksonian Oological Collection,” illustrated with numerous photographs depicting various incidents and items ... Sydney: Author, 1907. Quarto, 172 pp., photographs. Publisher’s printed wrappers, a fine copy. $4,500

[38749] Jardine, Sir William. British Salmonidae. London: Decimus Publishing, 1979. Folio, 12 colour plates, text illustrations. Quarter morocco over green cloth, slipcase, limited to 500 numbered copies, a very good copy. $350

[30582] Jones, D. L. and T. B. Muir, editors. Orchids of Australia: the complete edition drawn in natural colour by W. H. Nicholls. Melbourne: Nelson, 1969. Large quarto, 142 pp., 476 colour plates by W. H. Nicholls, fine copy in very good dustwrapper. $200

[6846] [Jones, Jack] “Gerygone”. Birds of the Footscray district. Melbourne: [Author], 1939. Octavo, 48 pp. Printed wrappers, fine copy, scarce. $80


[31426] Jones, Paul. Flora Magnifica: selected and painted by the artist. London: The Tryon Gallery, 1976. Folio, [48] pp., 15 plates with tissue guards. Publisher’s half velum and maroon cloth boards by Zaehnsdorf, limited to 506 numbered and signed copies, slipcase. $650

[32104] Jones, Paul. Flora Superba: selected and painted by the artist. Text by Wilfred Blunt. London: The Tryon Gallery, 1976. Folio, [48] pp., 16 plates with tissue guards. Publisher’s half velum and blue cloth boards by Zaehnsdorf, limited to 506 numbered and signed copies (copy number five), all in a flecked slipcase. $650

[26357] Keast, Allen, editor. Ecological biogeography of Australia. The Hague: Dr W Junk, 1981. Octavo, three volumes, 2142 pp., text illustrations, map. Publisher’s cloth and slipcase, a fine set. $600

[967] Keenleyside, Miles H. A. Cichlid fishes: behaviour, ecology and evolution. London: Chapman and Hall, 1991. Octavo, 378 pp., text illustrations, signature, laminated boards. $80

[38873] Keith, Arthur. The antiquity of man. London: Williams and Norgate, (1915 first edition). Octavo, 519 pp., text illustrations. Publisher’s decorated cloth, signature, a very good copy. $100

[23857] Kemp, Alan. The birds of southern Africa. Johannesburg: Winchester Press, 1982. Quarto, 488 pp., 176 colour plates by Claude Gibney Finch-Davies, fine copy in dustwrapper with bookplate and prospectus tipped in. The standard subscriber’s volume, limited to 2750 copies. $300

[15066] Kirk, T. The forest flora of New Zealand. [Wellington]: Government Printer, 1889. Small folio, 345 pp., 159 uncoloured plates. Publisher’s elaborately blindstamped cloth, some slight rubbing, otherwise a very good copy. $400


[16462] Kloot, Tess and Ellen McCulloch. Birds of Australian gardens. Adelaide: Rigby, 1980. Folio, 192 pp., colour plates by Peter Trusler, dustwrapper. $50

[26987] Kloss, C. Boden, editor. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum: Singapore, Straits Settlements. Singapore: Raffles Museum, 1928-1952. 24 volumes (bound in ten). Contemporary binder’s red cloth (some size variation), all edges speckled, typed title page for volume one, a fine set, very scarce. $2,850

The National Museum of Singapore is the oldest museum in Singapore and was established in 1849.

[14159] Krefft, Gerard. The snakes of Australia; an illustrated and descriptive catalogue of all the known species. Sydney: Thomas Richards,

Government Printer, 1869. Quarto, 100 pp., twelve uncoloured plates. Modern binder’s cloth with gilt title, the stiff card wrappers retained, the plates with some minor repairs and the upper wrapper stained, a sound pleasant copy. $1,250

[4109] Krefft, Gerard. The snakes of Australia [facsimile]. Brisbane: Lookout Publications, 1984. Quarto, 100 pp., colour plates. $80

[15180] Krefft, Gerard. The mammals of Australia, illustrated by Miss Harriett Scott and Mrs. Helena Forde, for the Council of Education. Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1979. Folio, monochrome plates. Publisher’s quarter brown calf, limited to 350 copies signed by Basil Marlow, fine copy. $100

[10751] Labillardiere, J. J. Novae Hollandiae Plantarum specimen: with an introduction by Frans A. Stafleau. Lehre: J. Cramer, (1966 facsimile). Small quarto, 132 pp., 265 uncoloured plates. Publisher’s cloth, a fine copy. $400


[18407] Labillardiere, J.-J. Sertum Austro-Caledonicum. Lehre: Verlag von J Cramer, (1968 facsimile). Small folio, 83 pp., 80 plates. Publisher’s cloth, a fine copy, scarce. $400

[25897] Langrand, Olivier. Guide to the birds of Madagascar. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. Octavo, 364 pp., colour plates, very good in dustwrapper. $100

[1533] Last, P.R. and J.D. Stevens. Sharks and rays of Australia. Melbourne: CSIRO, (1994 first edition). Quarto, 513 pp., colour plates, distribution maps, very minor blemishes, laminated boards. $100

[13390] Le Vaillant, Francois. A new and improved edition of Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets by Francoise Le Vaillant 1753-1824 from the original two volumes in the collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green. Sydney: Imprime, 1989. Elephant folio, two volumes, 144 loose plates. Publisher’s handsome green cloth Solander boxes with coloured label, a fine set. Limited to 200 copies. $3,500

[36370] Leach, J. A. Nature-study: a descriptive list of the birds native to Victoria, Australia. Melbourne: Government Printer [1909]. Octavo, 74 pp. Binder’s red cloth, publisher’s wrappers retained, a handsome copy, scarce. $60

[12934] Lear, Edward. Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or parrots: the greater part of them species hitherto unfigured, containing forty-two lithographic plates, drawn from life, and on stone ... [facsimile]. London/ New York: Pion/ Johnson Reprint, 1978. Folio, 42 coloured plates and accompanying text. Publisher’s red half morocco, “An essay ...” by Brian Reade tipped in, a very good copy. $1,250

[36436] Lendenfeld, R. von Descriptive catalogue of the Medusae of the Australian seas. Sydney: Australian Museum, 1887. Octavo, two parts, 32, 49 pp. Early binder’s cloth, title page lightly spotted, a very good copy, scarce. $450


[18339] Lever, Christopher. The Cane Toad: the history and ecology of a successful colonist. Otley: Westbury Academic and Scientific Publishing, 2001. Octavo, 230 pp., colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. $150

[15097] Lewin, John William. A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, collected, engraved, and faithfully painted after nature [facsimile]. Introduction and bibliographical descriptions by Allan McEvey. Melbourne: Queensberry Hill Press, 1978. Folio, text erratically paginated, colour plates. Publisher’s handsome brown full calf, limited to 500 numbered copies, Solander box. $500

[30871] Liltved, William Rune. Cowries and their relatives of Southern Africa. A study of the Southern African Cypraeacean and Velutinacean Gastropod Fauna. Cape Town: Seacomber Publications, 1989. Quarto, 208 pp., colour photographs. Publisher’s half morocco

and marbled boards, the collector’s issue, this is copy number five and signed by the author. $300

[11819] Lindley, John. The elements of botany, structural, physiological, and medical. Being a sixth edition of the outline of the first principles of botany. With a sketch of the artificial methods of classification, and a glossary of technical terms London: Bradbury & Evans, 1849. 242 pp., Text illustrations, owner’s inscription, some foxing throughout, grubby publisher’s cloth. $60

[15398] Lindley, John. Sertum orchidaceum: a wreath of the most beautiful orchidaceous flowers. New York: Johnson Reprint, (1973 facsimile). Folio, unpaginated, 49 colour plates. Publisher’s green cloth, limited edition of 1000 numbered copies, fine copy. $300


[7078] Littlejohns, R. T. and S. A. Lawrence. Birds of our bush, or photography for nature-lovers. Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, [1927]. Octavo, 208 pp., illustrated from photographs by the authors. Publisher’s decorated cloth, a fine crisp copy, very scarce in this condition. $60

[35995] Liu, Ch’eng-chao. Amphibians of western China. Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1950. Quarto, 400 pp., ten plates (eight coloured). Publisher’s printed wrappers, a fine copy magnificently housed in quarter morocco Solander box. $400

[38045] [Lubbock, John]. British wild flowers considered in relation to insects. London: Macmillan, 1909. Octavo, 194 pp., text illustrations, bookplate. Publisher’s cloth, corner of free front endpaper removed, otherwise a fine crisp copy. $80

[7095] Lord, Clive E. and H. H. Scott. A synopsis of the vertebrate animals of Tasmania. Hobart: Oldham, Beddome, and Meredith, 1924. Octavo, 340 pp., text illustrations, very good copy in publisher’s cloth. $80

[7112] Lowe, P. R. and N. B. Kinnear. British Antarctic (“Terra Nova”) Expedition, 1910. Zoology: Birds. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1930. Quarto, 103-193 pp. 16 plates (nine coloured) by Edward Wilson. Publisher’s printed wrappers, some slight chipping. $300

From the British Antarctic (“Terra Nova”) Expedition, 1910.

Natural History Report. Zoology, Volume 4, No. 5: Birds. The plates by Edward Wilson are some of the finest Antarctica natural history images.


[7131] Lydekker, Richard. The Royal natural history. London: Frederick Warne & Co. 1893-1896. Quarto, six volumes, chromolithographs and text illustrations. Handsome publisher’s decorated cloth, some spotting, otherwise a very good set. $500

[38606] Lyell, Charles. The geological evidences of the antiquity of man: with an outline of glacial and post-tertiary geology and remarks on the origin of species, with special reference to man’s first appearance on the Earth. London: John Murray, (1873 fourth edition). Octavo, 572 pp. uncoloured frontispiece. Contemporary full calf prize binding, all edges marbled, both boards detached, ex-library. $100

[35908] Lyne, A. G. and B. F. Short, editors. Biology of the skin and hair growth: proceedings of a Symposium held at Canberra, Australia, August 1964. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1965. Octavo, 806 pp., text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper, signed by Lyne. $100

[35616] Lynes, H. Review of the genus Cisticola. London: The Ibis, 1930. Octavo, two

volumes, 673 pp., 20 colour plates. Handsome publisher’s “Ibis” red cloth, a very good copy. $850

[34930] MacEwan, William. The growth and shedding of the antler of the deer: the histological phenomena and their relation to the growth of bone. Glasgow: Maclehose, Jackson and Company, 1920. Octavo, 109 pp., photographs. Publisher’s cloth, fine copy. $400

[7187] Maiden, J. H. The weeds of New South Wales, part one [all published]. Sydney: Government Printer, 1920. Octavo, 142 pp., colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, very good copy. $120


[12236] Majnep, Ian Saem and Ralph Bulmer. Birds of my Kalam Country. [Auckland]: Auckland University Press, 1977. Quarto, 220 pp., photographs and text illustrations, slightly blemished dustwrapper. $60

[20594] Marshall, A. J. Bower-birds: their displays and breeding cycles. A preliminary statement. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954. Octavo, 208 pp., text illustrations, good copy in worn and chipped dustwrapper. $80

[7234] Maskell, W. M. An account of the insects noxious to agriculture and plants in New Zealand. The Scale-insects (Coccididae). Wellington: Government Printer, 1887. Octavo, 116 pp., 23 chromolithograph plates. Publisher’s cloth, a very good copy. $60

[16347] Mathews, Gregory M. Birds and books: the story of the Mathews Ornithological Library. Canberra: Verity Hewitt Bookshop, 1942. Octavo, 66 pp., photographs. Publisher’s titled wrappers, limited to 200 copies, numbered and signed by the author. $200

[18492] Mathews, Gregory M. and Tom Iredale. A manual of the birds of Australia, volume one: Orders Casuarii to Columbae [all published]. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1921. Large octavo, 279 pp., 36 plates (ten coloured) by Lilian Medland, fine copy in dustwrapper. $150

A prospectus was issued announcing the intention of a four volume manual. When this first volume was published Iredale had immigrated to Australia and presumably this had an effect on the completion of the project.

[38859] McConchie, Rob, editor. Northern Territory Naturalist. Darwin: Northern Territory Naturalists Club, 1978-1985. Quarto, eight parts, photographs, text illustrations, softcovers. The first eight issues. $60


[11] McEvey, Allan. John Cotton’s birds of the Port Phillip district of New South Wales 1843-1849. Sydney: Collins, 1974. Oblong format, 128 pp., colour plates, slipcase. Limited to 850 numbered copies, fine copy. $200

[19288] Mech, L. David and Luigi Boitani. Wolves: behaviour, ecology and conservation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Quarto, 448 pp., photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. $80

[30578] Meinertzhagen, R. Birds of Arabia. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1954. Quarto, 624 pp., 19 colour plates by G. E. Lodge, D. M. Reid-Henry and Miss Talbot Henry, other illustrations, folded map in back cover pocket, fine copy in near fine dustwrapper, desirable in this condition. $850

History has shown that Richard Meinertzhagen is the bad man of twentieth century ornithology- he committed ornithological fraud on a grand scale, completely lied about his military exploits and may have murdered his first wife. He was a man of considerable means and consequently all his books are handsome productions with Birds of Arabia probably the best.

[7346] Meredith, Louisa A. Bush friends in Tasmania, native flowers, fruits and insects, drawn from nature, with prose descriptions and illustrations in verse London: Macmillan, 1891. Folio, 76 pp., 15 chromolithographs. Publisher’s decorated cloth, some wear, contents loose and shaken, sound internally. 700 numbered copies, signed by the author, lengthy contemporary inscription on upper paste down. $300

[35836] Mertens, Robert. Die familie der Warane (Varanidae) Frankfurt: Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 1942. Quarto, three parts, 672 pp., photographic plates. Publisher’s printed wrappers, a fine set. $600


[7358] Miller, Gerrit S. Catalogue of the mammals of Western Europe (Europe exclusive of Russia) in the collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1912. Octavo, 1019 pp., text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, neat library stamp on the title page, otherwise a fine copy. $80

[23884] Miller, R. S., editor. The Lowan, parts one and two [all published]. Melbourne: Bird Observers’ Club, 1935-1936. Octavo, 43 pp., two coloured plates by Neville W. Cayley. Publisher’s printed wrappers, fine copy, scarce. $300

[7398] Moore, John A. The frogs of eastern New South Wales. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1961. 149-386 pp., text illustrations, wrappers. $60

[20337] Moore, Raymond C., editor. Treatise on invertebrate palaeontology, part R: Arthropoda volume four [crustacea]. Lawrence: The University of Kansas, 1969. Octavo, two volumes, 651 pp., text illustrations, very good in cloth binding, signed by the author for Edgar Riek. $250

[38602] Morris, Brian. The epiphytic orchids of Malawi. Malawi: The Society of Malawi, 1970. Octavo, 136 pp., five colour plates, text illustrations, ex-library. A very good copy in dustwrapper. $60

[20517] Morris, F. O. A history of British birds. London: Bell and Daldy, (1870 second edition). Octavo,

six volumes, 1666 pp., 365 handcoloured plates. Publisher’s handsome gilt original cloth, a very good set. $950


[26755] Morris, Frank T. Birds of the Australian swamps, two volumes [all published]. Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1978-1981. Folio, Publisher’s quarter brown calf, limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the author, fine copy. $650

[18410] Mueller, Ferdinand von and Alfred J. Ewart. The plants indigenous to the colony of Victoria. Melbourne: Government Printer, 1860-1865- [1910]. Quarto, three volumes, 242 pp., 120 lithographic plates. The first volume in binder’s cloth, the second volume in publisher’s cloth, the final Ewart supplement (limited to 484 copies) in original printed wrappers; some foxing, scarce, complete. $1,200

[20330] Muesebeck, C. F. W. et al. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico, (synoptic catalogue and supplements one and two). Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, 1951-1967. Octavo, three volumes, 2309 pp. Publisher’s cloth, folding map. $300

[37716] Muller, Ferdinand von. Western Australia. General information respecting the present condition of the forests and timber trade of the southern part of the colony ... Perth: Government Printer, 1882. Quarto, 57 pp., two (one folding) coloured maps, one tinted and 20 uncoloured lithographic plates. Publisher’s cloth with label, hinges cracked, crudely repaired. The bookplate of R. Schomburgk, Director of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. $450

[1259] Mulvaney, D. J. and J. H. Calaby. ‘So much that is new’. Baldwin Spencer, 1860-1929: a biography. Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 1985. Octavo, 492 pp. text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. $100

[13002] Murphy, Robert Cushman. Oceanic birds of South America: a study of species of the related coasts and seas, including the American quadrant of Antarctica based upon the Brewster-Sanford collection in the American Museum of Natural History. New York: Macmillan, 1936. Quarto, two volumes, 1246 pp., colour plates, photographs, very slight wear to publisher’s cloth. $80


[32440] Murray, George, editor. Phycological memoirs, being researches made in the Botanical Department of the British Museum. London: Dulau and Co., 1892-1895. Quarto, 98 pp., 20 lithographed (some coloured) plates. Publisher’s morocco grained cloth, a near fine copy. $350

[35166] Musgrave, Anthony. Bibliography of Australian entomology 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors. Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1932. Octavo, 380 pp., wrappers, chipped and some creasing, owner’s sticker. $50

[530] National Photographic Index. The wrens and warblers of Australia. London: Angus and Robertson, 1982. Quarto, 344 pp., colour photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. $250

[25362] National Photographic Index. The waterbirds of Australia. North Ryde: Angus and Robertson, 1985. Quarto, 332 pp., colour photographs, fine copy dustwrapper. $150

[542] National Photographic Index. The seabirds of Australia. North Ryde: Angus and Robertson, 1986. Quarto, 518 pp., colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. $200

[20565] National Photographic Index. The shorebirds of Australia. North Ryde: Angus and Robertson, 1987. Quarto, 692 pp., colour photographs, dustwrapper rubbed and grubby, otherwise a very good copy. $300

[545] National Photographic Index. The shorebirds of Australia. North Ryde: Angus and Robertson, 1987. Quarto, 692 pp., colour photographs, a fine copy in dustwrapper. $350


[20736] National Photographic Index. Parrots and pigeons of Australia. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1992. Quarto, 318 pp., colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. $400

[576] National Photographic Index. Cuckoos, nightbirds and kingfishers of Australia. Pymble: Angus and Robertson, 1994. Quarto, 270 pp., colour photographs, maps, fine copy dustwrapper. $150

[9159] National Photographic Index. Finches, bowerbirds and other passerines of Australia. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1996. Quarto, 302 pp., colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. $200

[13599] Naumann, I. D., chief editor. The insects of Australia: a textbook for students and research workers [with supplement]. Melbourne: Melbourne UP, (1979-1974 reprint). Quarto, two volumes, 137 pp., colour plates, very good set in dustwrappers. $100

[14034] Neira, Francisco J. et al. Larvae of temperate Australian fishes: laboratory guide for larval fish identification. Nedlands: UWA Press, 1998. Quarto, 474 pp., text illustrations, maps, laminated boards. $100


[25244] Nicholls, W. H. Orchids of Australia, drawn in natural colour by W. H. Nicholls with descriptive text. Melbourne: Georgian House 1951. Small folio, 96 coloured plates with accompanying

text leaves. Full red morocco with gilt spine and contrasting black label, wrappers retained. Limited to 1050 numbered copies, a very fine copy in the scarce presentation binding. $1,850

Most copies of the limited edition are bound in a quarter morocco, very few sets were done in the full red morocco.

[36002] Nichols, John Treadwell. The fresh-water fishes of China. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1943. Quarto, 322 pp., text illustrations. Publisher’s yellow printed cloth, a fine copy. $200

[35837] Nicholson, Edward. Indian snakes. An elementary treatise on ophiology with a descriptive catalogue of the snakes found in India and the adjoining countries. Madras: Higginbotham and Co., (1893 second edition). Octavo, 188 pp., 20 lithographic plates, many figures handcoloured. Publisher’s brown cloth with

gilt cobra, title page and early leaves laid down, otherwise a very good copy. $850

[10803] Nissen, Claus. Die illustrierten vogelbucher: ihre geschichte und bibliographie. Stuttgart Hiersemann Verlag, 1953. Quarto, 222 pp., photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. $200


[38866] Noakes, David L. G. and Jack A. Ward. The ecology and ethology of fishes. The Hague: Dr W. Junk, 1981. Small quarto, 142 pp., photographs, a very good copy. $220

[13882] North, Alfred J. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania. Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914. Quarto, four volumes, 1580 pp., 25 egg plates, uncoloured vignettes by Neville Cayley senior, photographs by the author and H. Barnes. Handsome modern green morocco and cloth boards, all edges speckled, a fine clean set. $1,800

[21235] Oates, Eugene W. and W. T. Blandford. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. London: Taylor & Francis, 1889-1898. Octavo, four volumes, 1913 pp., text illustrations. Contemporary half morocco, slight wear and previous owner’s notes, otherwise a sound set. $600

[38393] Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. Report on the birds collected by the British Ornithologists’ Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea [drop title]. [London]: The Ibis, 1915. Quarto, 336 pp. 8 chromolithographs by Gronvold, two folding

maps. Contemporary binder’s blue cloth, a fine copy. $650

[3516] Olney, Peter J. S. The wildfowl paintings of Henry Jones. London: Threshold/Harrap, 1987. Folio, oblong format, 272 pp., 60 colour plates. Publisher’s quarter blue calf and blue cloth, blue cloth case, limited edition of 350 copies signed and numbered by the author of the text, fine copy. $600


[14253] Olsen, Penny. Feather and brush: three centuries of Australian bird art. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2001. Quarto, 227 pp., colour illustrations, signature of Janet Flinn (an artist represented in the book, pages 131-133), very good copy in dustwrapper. $120

[37578] Palmer, T. S. et al. Biographies of members of the American Ornithologists’ Union. Washington DC: The Auk, (1954 first edition), Octavo, 630 pp., bookplate, fine copy. $200

[564] Pearce, Barry. Australian artists, Australian birds. Drummoyne: Angus and Robertson, 1989. Quarto, 156 pp., colour illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. $100

[13982] Pescott, Edward Edgar. The native flowers of Victoria. Melbourne: George Robertson & Co., [1914]. Octavo, 118 pp., four tipped-in colour plates, photographs, fine copy in fine dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. $80

[38999] Phillipps, Henry. History of cultivated vegetables; comprising their botanical, medicinal, edible, and chemical qualities; natural history; and relation to art, science, and commerce. Henry Colborn, 1822. Octavo, two volumes, 813 pp. Early full calf, Signet Library stamp on boards, shelf label, expertly rebacked. $400

[36644] Pinkerton, J. Petralogy: a treatise on rocks. London: White, Cochrane and Co., 1811. Octavo, two volumes, 1255 pp. two (of three?) engraved plates. Early binder’s cloth, skilfully rebacked, some paper browning and spotting, otherwise a sound set. $400

[21227] Pitman, Charles R. S. A guide to the snakes of Uganda. Kampala: Uganda Society, 1938. Quarto, 362 pp., 23 coloured plates. Publisher’s quarter cloth and marbled boards with title label, some wear but a good copy of a scarce and sought after book. $1,500


[36390] Pizzey, Graham. A garden of birds: Australian birds in Australian gardens. Ringwood: Viking O’Neil, (1988 first edition). Quarto, 342 pp., photographs, text illustrations by Richard Weatherly, inscription, a very good copy in dustwrapper. $30

[4676] Poppe, Guido T. and Yoshihiro Goto. European seashells. Wiesbaden: Christa Hemmen, 1991-1993. Octavo, laminated boards, 352, 221 pp., two volumes, colour photographs, fine set with a few very lightly bumped corners. $300

[8965] Price-Jones, Humphrey. Australian birds of prey. Lane Cove: Doubleday, 1983. Folio, 128 pp., full brown calf, illustration of white morph Grey Goshawk pasted onto front cover, all edges gilt, slipcase, colour plates, fine copy. $300

This edition limited to 250 signed and numbered copies and containing a loose illustration signed by the artist.

[38083] Quisumbing, Eduardo A. The complete writings of Dr Eduardo A. Quisumbing on Philippine Orchids. Manila: Eugenio Lopez Foundation, Inc. 1981. Octavo, two volumes, 534 pp., 258 pp., colour plates. Publisher’s vinyl binding, a very good set. $100

[38319] Raffray, Achille. Coleoptera: family Pselaphidae. Brussels: L. Desmet-Verteneuil, [1908]. Quarto, 487 pp., nine lithographed plates. Contemporary half green morocco, rubbed, the copy of F. Erasmus Wilson. $350

[7727] Ramsay, E. Pierson. Catalogue of the Australian Accipitres or diurnal birds of prey inhabiting Australia, in the collection of the Australian Museum at Sydney, N.S.W. Sydney: The Minister of Justice and Public Instruction, 1876. Octavo, 64 pp., 3 pp. index. Early binder’s cloth with gilt title, rebacked with new endpapers, bookplate. $60


[7757] Rayment, Tarlton. A cluster of bees: sixty essays on the life-histories of Australian bees. Sydney: The Endeavour Press, [1935]. Octavo, 752 pp., coloured frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Publisher’s gilt-decorated rexine, a very good copy, scarce. $1,800 One of the classics of

Australian entomological literature, handsomely published and the only true monograph on native bees.

[19708] Rayment, Tarlton. Bees of the Portland district. Portland: Portland Field Naturalist Club, 1953. Octavo, wrappers, 39 pp., text illustrations, fine copy, scarce. $40

[26559] Reader’s Digest. Reader’s Digest complete book of Australian birds. Sydney: Reader’s Digest, (1983 second edition). Quarto, 615 pp., colour photographs, maps. Handsome modern grey morocco (Newbold and Collins, Sydney) with raised bands and two coloured title inlays, decorative gilt rule, marbled endpapers, a fine copy. $400

[9445] Redouté, Pierre-Joseph. A catalogue of Redoutéana exhibited at the Hunt Botanical Library, 21 April to 1 August 1963. Pittsburgh: Hunt Botanical Library, 1963. Octavo, 126 pp., illustrations, a very good copy in slightly chipped publisher’s wrappers. $70

[4219] Ripley, Dillon. Trail of the money bird: 30,000 miles of adventure with a naturalist. London: Longman Green & Co., 1947. Octavo, 336 pp., photographs, fine copy in fine dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. $100


[23732] Ripley, S. Dillon. Rails of the world: a monograph of the Family Rallidae. Boston: David R. Godine, 1977. Small folio, 406 pp., colour plates by J. Fenwick Lansdowne, fine copy in dustwrapper. $200

[25785] Robinson, Herbert C. and Frederick N. Chasen. The birds of the Malay Peninsula: a general account of the birds inhabiting the region from the Isthmus of Kra to

Singapore with the adjacent islands. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1927-1976. Small quarto, five volumes, 1858 pp., 125 colour plates by Gronvold. Publisher’s red cloth (volume five in dustwrapper), a fine set. $1,850

[37704] Robinson, Robert. Thomas Bewick: his life and times. Newcastle: Author, 1887. Quarto, 328 pp., text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth with paper label, some light shelf wear otherwise a very good copy. $400

[365] Rolls, Eric. A million wild acres. Melbourne: Nelson, 1981. Octavo, 466 pp., photographs, bookplate, shelf wear, very good copy in dustwrapper. $50

Subtitled “200 years of man and an Australian forest”, this is the story of the great Pilliga Scrub near Coonabarabran in New South Wales.

[38976] Rose, Walter. Snakes: mainly South African. Cape Town: Maskew Miller, 1955. Octavo, 213 pp., photographs, signature, tape marks, dustwrapper. $80

[7858] Rosevear, D. R. The rodents of West Africa. London: British Museum (Natural History), 1969. Octavo, 604 pp., eleven colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy in fine dustwrapper. $250

[1291] Rosevear, D. R. The carnivores of West Africa. London: British Museum (Natural History), 1974. Octavo, 548 pp., colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. $250


[7867] Rothschild, [Walter] and Guy Dollman. The genus Dendrolagus [Tree kangaroos]. London: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 21, 1935. Quarto, 477-548 pp. 16 chromolithographic plates by Frohawk, seven photographs. Quarter red morocco and papered boards, fine copy. $2,500

[38723] Roughley, T. C. Fishes of Australia and their technology. Sydney: Government Printer, 1916. 296 pp., colour plates. Publisher’s green decorated cloth, inscribed by the author to A. G. Butler [British ornithologist], a very good copy. $300

[12548] Roulin, M. Memoire pour servir a l’histoire du tapir, et description d’une espece nouvelle appartenant aux hautes regions de la cordillere des Andes [drop title]. Paris: Annales des Science Naturelle Zoologie, 1829. Quarto, 557-640 pp., three folding uncoloured lithographed plates. Binder’s half cloth and marbled boards, partly unopened, fine copy. $300

[1449] Rourke, J. P. Joseph Knight’s cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order Proteaceae, London 1809 [facsimile]. Cape Town: Tablecloth Press, 1987. Quarto, 128 pp., colour frontispiece, slipcase, limited to 300 numbered copies, fine copy. $300

[9693] Rourke, John P. The proteas of southern Africa. Cape Town: Purnell, 1980. Folio, 236 pp., colour plates by Fay Anderson and others. Rebound in full blue morocco, fine copy. $600

[4000] Rowley, Ian. Behavioural ecology of the Galah, Eolophus roseicapillus, in the wheatbelt of Western Australia. Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1990. Octavo, 188 pp., colour photographs, laminated boards. $40


[15576] Salvin, Osbert and Ernst Hartert. Catalogue of the Picariae in the Collection of the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History), 1892. Octavo, 703 pp., 14 chromolithograph plates by Keulemans. Publisher’s cloth, two small library stamps of the Royal society of Victoria, the ownership signature of J. A. Kershaw (ornithologist of the Horn Expedition), a fine copy. $750

[38263] Saunders, Eileen. Wagtails book of Fuchsias. Henfield: Author, 1971 Quarto, four volumes, 430 pp., colour plates, very good set (lacks volume five) in publisher’s printed boards and plastic sleeves. $100

[15575] Saunders, Howard and Osbert Salvin. Catalogue of the Gaviae and Tubinares in the Collection of the British Museum [Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, volume 25]. London: British Museum (Natural History), 1896. Octavo, 475 pp., 8 chromolithograph plates by Smit. Publisher’s cloth, fine copy. $400

[11210] Saville-Kent, W. The Great Barrier Reef of Australia: its products and potentialities. Melbourne: John Currey, (1972 facsimile). Quarto, 388 pp., colour plates, text illustrations, lengthy biro inscription, grubby dustwrapper. $100

[1796] Schodde, Richard and Ian J. Mason. Nocturnal birds of Australia. Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1980. Folio, 136 pp., 22 colour plates by Jeremy Boot, text illustrations. Publisher’s brown full morocco, limited to 750 copies, numbered and signed by the authors and artist. This copy has the

attractive signed lithograph (limited to 500 copies) of a Black-shouldered kite. $550


[7965] Schweinfurth, Charles. Orchids of Peru. Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1958-1970. Octavo, five volumes (first supplement), 1085 pp., text illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers, with separately issued title page. $200

[36653] Sclater, Philip Lutley and A. H. Evans, editors The Ibis, a quarterly journal of ornithology. Jubilee Supplement. London: British Ornithologists’ Union, 1909. Octavo, 268 pp. photographs. Binder’s cloth, wrappers retained. $300

With biographies of founding members and early contributors of The Ibis.

[37794] Sclater, Philip Lutley. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the Collection of the British Museum. Fringilliformes: part two containing the families Coerbediae, Tanagridae and Icteridae. London: British Museum (Natural History), 1888. Octavo, 431 pp., 18

chromolithograph plates by Smit. Publisher’s cloth, two small library stamps of the Royal society of Victoria, the ownership signature of J. A. Kershaw (ornithologist of the Horn Expedition), a fine copy. $500

[7985] Scott, A. W. Mammalia, Recent and extinct; an elementary treatise for the use of the public schools of New South Wales. Sydney: Government Printer, 1873. Octavo, 142 pp., quarter calf on marbled boards, some foxing. Bookplate of John Lane Mullins, inscription from the author, scarce. $300

[38617] Scott, George Ryley. The history of cockfighting. London: Charles Skilton, [1957]. Quarto, 204 pp., coloured frontispiece. Contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards, top edge gilt and other edges uncut, limited to 1095 numbered copies, a fine copy. $400


[21528] Scott, H. H. A monograph of Nototherium tasmanicum. Hobart: John Vail, Government Printer, 1915. Quarto, 91 pp., 22 plates, publisher’s green boards. $70

[32200] Sealey, J. Robert. A revision of the genus Camelia. London: Royal Horticultural Society, 1958. Quarto, 239 pp., coloured frontispiece, text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, a few tape marks on endpapers otherwise a very good copy, scarce. $400

[7995] Seebohm, Henry. The birds of Siberia: a record of a naturalist’s visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesi. London: John Murray, 1901. Octavo, 512 pp., text illustrations. Publisher’s decorated cloth, some minor blemishes otherwise a very good copy. $250

[7999] Semon, Richard. In the Australian bush, and on the coast of the Coral Sea: being the experiences and observations of a naturalist in Australia, New Guinea and the Moluccas. London: Macmillan, 1899. Large octavo, 552 pp., four folding coloured maps and text illustrations. Publisher’s green cloth, a few spots but a sound copy. $350

[6020] Serventy, D. L. et al. The Emulet: An ornithological soufflé [and] An ornithological omulet. Melbourne]: Privately published, 1949-1952. Octavo, 52 pp., text illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers, limited to 150 copies, a very good set. $250

[18909] Serventy, D. L., editor. The Western Australian Naturalist [volumes 1-23]. Perth: Western Australian Naturalists’ Club, 1947-2001. Octavo, 23 volumes. Publisher’s wrappers (except the first two volumes which are bound together in a binder’s cloth), a very good set. $350


[9260] Sharpe, R. Bowdler. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the Collection of the British Museum. Fringilliformes: part three. Containing the family Fringillidæ… [Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, volume 12] London: British Museum (Natural History), 1888. Octavo, 872 pp., 16 chromolithograph plates by Hart and Keulemans. Publisher’s cloth, double page manuscript letter from Salvadori to Sharpe tipped-in. $500

[9261] Sharpe, R. Bowdler. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the Collection of the British Museum. Sturniformes, containing the families Artamidæ, Sturnidæ, Ploceidæ, Alaudidæ. Also the families Atrichiidæ and Menuridæ. London: British Museum (Natural History), 1890. Octavo, 702 pp., 15 colour plates by Smit. Publisher’s cloth, fine copy. $400

[9093] Shephard, Mark. The Great Victoria Desert: north of the Nullarbor, south of the Centre. Sydney: Reed, 1995. Quarto, 240 pp., colour photographs, very good copy in slightly sunned dustwrapper, scarce. $80

[8039] Shortridge, G. C. The mammals of south West Africa. London: William Heinemann, 1934. Octavo, two volumes, 780 pp., photographs, folding map. Publisher’s cloth, a few blemishes, signature. $150

[24045] Smith, Andrew and Ian Hume, editors. Possums and gliders. Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, (1984 first edition). Quarto, slipcase, 598 pp., photographs, text illustrations, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. $200


[13004] Smith, Bernard and Alwyne Wheeler, editors. The art of the First Fleet and other early Australian drawings. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. Small folio, 256 pp., illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. $100

[36214] Smith, Cecil. The birds of Guernsey and the neighbouring islands Alderney, Sark, Jethou, Herm: being a small contribution to the Channel Islands. London: R. H. Porter, 1879. Duodecimo, 223 pp. Publisher’s green cloth, a few minor blemishes, otherwise a fine crisp copy. $450

[24085] Smith, George A. Lovebirds and related parrots. London: Paul Elek, 1979. Octavo, 180 pp., colour photographs. Publisher’s cloth and slipcase, the Parrot Society edition limited to 350 numbered copies, this copy inscribed by the author for Australian aviculturist Ross [Hogben]. $80

[8085] Smith, J. L. B. The sea fishes of southern Africa. South Africa: Central News Agency, (1949 first edition). Quarto, 580 pp., colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher’s half red morocco and gilt decorated cloth, the subscriber’s edition limited to 200 numbered copies and signed by the author. $600

[39000] Smith, James Edward. An introduction to physiological and systematical botany. London: Longman, Rees, Orme and others, (1827 sixth edition). Octavo, 435 pp., fifteen handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary brown calf and marbled boards and half calf, gilt spine, some light wear. $350

[1792] Smith, Meredith J. Marsupials of Australia, volume one: possums, the Koala and wombats. Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1980. Folio, 202 pp., colour plates by Rosemary Woodford Ganf. Publisher’s cloth covered boards with embossed brown calf inset, limited edition of 1000 copies signed and numbered by author and artist, fine copy. $450


[29647] Smith, Meredith J. et al. Marsupials of Australia, volumes one and two. Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1980- 1987. Folio, two volumes, 786 pp., colour plates by Rosemary Woodford Ganf. Publisher’s cloth covered boards with embossed brown calf inset, limited edition of 1000 copies signed and numbered (number 123) by author and artist, a fine set. $1,250

[26378] Smythies, Bertram E. The birds of Burma. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, (1953 second edition). Octavo, 668 pp., 31 colour plates by A. M. Hughes, folding map, some pale foxing, otherwise a good copy in chipped dustwrapper. $200

[17464] Smythies, Bertram E. The birds of Borneo. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, (1960 first edition). Octavo, 562 pp., 50 colour plates by A. M. Hughes, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper, desirable in this condition. $300

[8961] Snow, David, Chisholm, A.H. and Soper, M.F. Raymond Ching: the bird paintings. Watercolours and pencil drawings 1969-1975. London: Collins, 1978. Folio, 144 pp., colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper and slipcase. $450

[38972] Society for Growing Australian Plants. Australian Plants. Sydney: Society for Growing Australian Plants, 1959-1966. Octavo, three volumes. Publisher’s binders, very good set. The first three volumes. $60

[35883] South, Richard. Catalogue of the collection of Palaearctic butterflies formed by the late John Henry Leech, and presented to the British Museum by his mother, Mrs Eliza Leech. London: British Museum (Natural History), 1902. Quarto, 228 pp., uncoloured frontispiece, two coloured plates. Publisher’s cloth, a neat library stamp on the title pages, otherwise a fine crisp copy. $450


[38864] Sowerby, John E. British Wild Flowers ... described, with an introduction and key to the natural order by C. Pierpoint Johnson London: John Van Voorst, (1863 second edition), Octavo, 186 pp., frontispiece and 86 handcoloured steel engraved plates. Handsome contemporary full gilt morocco,

all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, two nineteenth century ownership inscriptions (one dated 1863), an occasional spot, otherwise a fine crisp copy. $1,250

[15220] Sowerby, John E. and Charles Johnson. The ferns of Great Britain [with] The fern allies: a supplement. London: Henry G Bohn, 1859. Octavo, 128 pp., 80 handcoloured plates. Publisher’s handsome blindstamped and decorated cloth, all edges gilt, a few occasional spots and signature on front endpaper, a fine copy. $850

[15054] Spencer, Baldwin, editor. Report on the work of the Horn Expedition to central Australia, part one: introduction, narrative, summary of results, supplement to zoological report, map. London: Dulau and Co., 1896. Small quarto, 220 pp., folding map. Publisher’s handsome blue cloth, uncut and partly unopened, folded map at rear with tears, owner’s signature on front paste-down, a very good copy. $500

[18220] Spencer, Baldwin, editor. Report on the work of the Horn Expedition to central Australia, part three: geology and botany. London: Dulau and Co., 1896. Quarto, 204 pp., uncoloured plates. Publisher’s printed wrappers, very fragile with missing pieces but all text present, scarce. $400

[24527] Spencer, Frank. Piltdown: a scientific forgery. London: Natural History Museum Publications, 1990. Octavo, 272 pp., text illustrations, signature, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. $80


[19719] Spencer, Frank. The Piltdown papers 1908-1955. The correspondence and other documents relating to the Piltdown forgery. London: Natural History Museum Publications, 1990. Octavo, 282 pp., text illustrations, signature, a fine copy in dustwrapper. $80

[14638] Stanbury, Peter, editor. Australia’s animals: who discovered them? Sydney: The Macleay Museum, 1978. Octavo, 124 pp., photographs, illustrations, signature, softcover. $30

[38688] Stauffer, R. C, editor. Charles Darwin’s natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. London: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Octavo, 389 pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, staining to first few leaves, pencil annotations throughout. $80

[15386] Stejneger, Leonard. The poisonous snakes of North America. Washington, DC: [Annual Report of the United States National Museum], [1893]. Octavo, 339-487 pp., 19 photographs, text illustrations. Contemporary quarter morocco and marbled boards, rubbed. $250

[21399] Stonehouse, Bernard and Desmond Gilmore. The biology of marsupials. London: Macmillan Press, 1977. Octavo, 486 pp., photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. $80

[19885] Stonehouse, Bernard, editor. The biology of penguins. London: Macmillan Press, 1975. Octavo, 555 pp., photographs, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper, scarce. $150


[32428] Stonham, Charles. The birds of the British Islands. London: E. Grant Richards, 1906-1911. Large quarto, five volumes, 318 uncoloured plates by Lillian Medland. Publisher’s cloth, top edge gilt, a few flecks, internally some light spotting. $2,000

[6856] Strahan, Ronald and Basil Marlow, editors. Kangaroos and men: a symposium of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales and held at the Australian Museum, Sydney, on 4th July, 1970. Sydney: Australian Zoologist, 1971. Octavo, 100 pp., text illustrations, publisher’s wrappers. $20

[2173] Strahan, Ronald et al. Rare and curious specimens: an illustrated history of the Australian Museum 1827-1979. Sydney: The Australian Museum, 1979. Octavo, 173 pp., photographs, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. $20

[31219] Strickland, Hugh. Ornithological synonyms, volume one: Accipitres. London: John Van Voorst, 1855. Octavo, 222 pp. Publisher’s cloth, some wear, the signature and book plate of H. M. Whittell, scarce. $300

[37561] Takhtajan, Armen. Flowering plants: origins and dispersal. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1969. Octavo, 310 pp., photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. $80

[38493] Tanabe, Y., K. Tanaka and T. Ookawa. Biological rhythms in birds: neural and endocrine aspects. Tokyo: Japan Scientific Societies Press, 1980. Octavo, 373 pp., black and white photographs, text illustrations, graphs, a fine copy in publisher’s cloth. $120

[8254] Tate, G. H. H. On the anatomy and classification of the Dasyuridae (Marsupialia). New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1947. Octavo, 101-1555 pp., signature, bookplate, fine copy in wrappers. $20


[27259] Tate, G. H. H. Studies on the anatomy and phylogeny of the Macropodidae (Marsupialia). New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1948. Quarto, 237-351 pp., tables, map, signature, softcover. $50

[8256] Tate, G. H. H. The rodents of Australia and New Guinea. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1951. 183-430 pp., signature, softcover. $60

[8278] Taylor, Edward H. The serpents of Thailand and adjacent waters. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1965. 609-1096 pp., photographs, very good copy in wrappers. $120

[38994] Taylor, J. E. The aquarium: its inhabitants, structure and management. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1901. Octavo, 316 pp., text illustrations. Publisher’s decorated cloth, a very good copy. $100

[34932] Tegetmeier, W. B. and C. L. Sutherland. Horses, asses, zebras, mules and mule breeding. London: Hotace Cox, 1895. Octavo, 166 pp., advertisements, uncoloured frontispiece, 24 uncoloured plates. Publisher’s cloth, fine copy. $450

[38483] Tenison-Woods, J. E. Fish and fisheries of New South Wales. Sydney: Thomas Richards, 1882. Quarto, 213 pp., 45 plates, quarter brown calf, marbled boards. Some foxing throughout, otherwise a sound copy. $350

[38849] Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth. A glossary of Greek birds. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895. Octavo, 201 pp. Publisher’s cloth, the pencil ownership signature of W Baldwin Spencer, the deaccessioned library stamp of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists’ Union and the bookplate of D. L. Serventy. $200


[36369] Thomson, Donald F. Birds of Cape York Peninsula: ecological notes, field observations, and catalogue of specimens collected on three expeditions to north Queensland. Melbourne: Government Printer, 1935. Octavo, 80 pp., photographs. Publisher’s printed wrappers, a very good copy. $60

[10283] Thomson, Geo. M. Wild life in New Zealand. Wellington: New Zealand Board of Science and Art (1921-1926 first edition), Octavo, 222 pp., text illustrations. Two volumes, publisher’s cloth, a very good set. $100

[8313] [Thorburn, Archibald]. Thorburn’s birds of prey: a facsimile of the 1919 edition with a new forward. Lamarsh: Iain Grahame, 1985. Small folio, 32 pp., twelve coloured plates. Publisher’s green half morocco marbled endpapers, slipcase, the collector’s edition limited to 135 numbered copies, a fine copy. $1,250

[15375] Thorpe, Adrian, editor. The birds of Edward Lear: a selection of the 12 finest bird plates of the artist. London: Ariel Press, 1975. Folio, unpaginated, 12 colour plates, very good copy in slightly chipped dustwrapper. $250

[38376] Thorson, Thomas B., editor. Investigations of the ichthyofauna of Nicaraguan lakes. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976, Quarto, 663 pp., photographs, signature, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper. $60


[12139] Ticehurst, Claud B. et al. The birds of Mesopotamia. Bombay: Reprinted from the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 1920-1922. Octavo, erratically paginated, photographs. Four parts in a single volume binder’s cloth, each part inscribed “author’s compliments”, a few spots throughout, the bookplate of Stephen Marchant. $300

[37094] Turbott, E. G., editor. Buller’s birds of New Zealand. A new edition of Sir Walter Lawry Buller’s A history of the birds of New Zealand - reproducing in six-colour offset the 48 stone-plate lithographs by J. G. Keulemans - from the 2nd edition, 1888. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, (1974 reprint). Folio, 262 pp., tipped-in colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. $100

[10497] Turner, Alan and Mauricio Anton. The big cats and their fossil relatives: an illustrated guide to their evolution and natural history. Irvington: Columbia University Press, 1997. Octavo, 234 pp., colour plates, other illustrations, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. $60

[1787] Twigden, Blake L. Pisces Tropicani. Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1978. Folio, half morocco and suede. Limited to 350 copies, numbered and signed by the artist $300

[24084] Tyler, Michael J. Frogs. Sydney: Collins, 1976. Octavo, dustwrapper, 256 pp., text illustrations, colour photographs, signature, otherwise a good copy. $30

[1879] Tyler, Michael J. The Gastric Brooding Frog. London: Croom Helm, 1983. Octavo, 164 pp., illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. $120

[2252] Tyler, Michael J. and Margaret Davies. Frogs of the Northern Territory. Adelaide: University of

Adelaide: 1986. 77 pp., photographs. $30


[20344] Van Der Weele, H. W. Ascalaphiden: monographisch bearbeitet (facsimile). Brussels: Hayez, Impr. Des Academies, 1908. Large quarto, 326 pp., two coloured plates, text illustrations. Binder’s cloth, a very good copy. $400

[33118] Van Straelen. Resultats scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Neerlandaises. Brussels: Musee Royal D’Histoire de Belgique, 1933. Quarto, numerous text illustrations and plate. Publishers printed wrappers, a total of 40 fascicles, a few small library stamps and minor blemishes, otherwise a sound clean set. $400

[13713] Vaurie, Charles. Tibet and its birds. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1972. Large octavo, 408 pp., three colour plates, photographs, very good copy in slightly grubby dustwrapper. $150

[38498] Veron, J. E. N. and Ichel Pichon. Scleractinia of eastern Australia. Townsville: Australian Institute of Marine Science, 1976-1984. Quarto, 1383 pp., photographs. Publisher’s printed wrappers, a very good set. $150

[11224] Vickers-Rich, P. et al., editors. Vertebrate palaeontology of Australasia. Melbourne: Pioneer Design Studio, 1991. Octavo, 1438 pp., text illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. $250

[8444] Waite, Edgar R. A popular account of Australian snakes, with a complete list of the species and an introduction to their habits and organisation. Sydney: Thomas Shine, 1898. Small octavo, 72 pp., 16 chromolithograph plates. Publisher’s blindstamped cloth, lightly cracked and a few flecks, otherwise a very good copy. $950


[26603] Walden, Arthur. A list of birds known to inhabit the Island of Celebes. London: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 1872. Quarto, 23-118 pp., coloured map and ten handcoloured plates. Contemporary brown half morocco and marbled boards, upper corner of drop title restored without affecting text, a very good copy. $850

[38388] Waterhouse, G.R. The Naturalist’s Library, volume 24. Mammalia: marsupialia or pouched animals. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, (1855 second edition). Duodecimo, 323 pp., 34 handcoloured plates, handcoloured half title. Publisher’s cloth with new endpapers. $650

[23876] Watson, Ina. Silvertail: the story of a lyrebird. Sydney: John Sands Pty. Ltd., 1946. Large octavo, [42] pp., colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. $50

[37175] Westwood, J. O. On the Australian species of the Coleopterus

genus Bolboceras, Kirby. London: Transactions of the Linnaean Society, 1848. Quarto, 11-18 pp., one uncoloured plate. Contemporary half calf, bound with six other quarto papers on Coleoptera 1838-1862, with an index in a handsome copperplate hand, inscribed on the front pastedown “F. Erasmus Wilson from C. French”. $950

[37696] [Wheelwright, H. W]. Bush wanderings of a naturalist; or, notes on the field sports and fauna of Australia Felix. By an old bushman. London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, (1862 second edition). Duodecimo, 272 pp., 16 uncoloured plates. Publisher’s blindstamped cloth (a secondary binding?), contemporary inscription on title page, a very good copy. The first edition was issued without plates. $300


[19348] Whistler, Hugh. Popular handbook of Indian birds. Edinburgh: Gurney and Jackson, [1941 third edition]. Octavo, 549 pp., colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy with dustwrapper, scarce in this condition, bookplate of Roy P. Cooper. $100

[8545] White, Gilbert. The natural history and antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton. London: J and J Arch, (1837). Octavo, 640 pp., text illustrations. Early brown half calf and olive cloth, gilt lettering on spine, owner’s inscription on half title, a fine copy. $500

[12542] White, S. A. In the far north-east: a scientific expedition. Adelaide: Reprinted from The Register, [1917]. Sextodecimo, 144 pp., photographs. Publisher’s printed wrappers, a fine copy, scarce. $650

[15036] White, S. A. The cruise of the Avocet: in search of skuas and other things. Adelaide: Reprinted from The Register, [1917]. Sextodecimo, 68 pp., photographs. Publisher’s printed wrappers, fine copy, scarce. $550

[15038] White, S. A. Bunya or Mystery Mountains. To Robe via The Coorong. A camp out in New South Wales. Ornithologists in the West. Adelaide: Reprinted from The Register, [1919]. Sextodecimo, 133 pp., photographs. Publisher’s printed wrappers, fine copy, scarce. $650

[32459] White, S. A. Ooldea on the east-west railway: on the flooded Murray River, and other sketches. [Adelaide]: [1919]. Sextodecimo, 88 pp., photographic plates, some folding. Publisher’s printed wrappers, scarce. $350


[8549] Whitehead, P. J. P. Forty drawings of fishes made by the artists who accompanied Captain James Cook on his three voyages to the Pacific, 1768-71, 1772-75, 1776-80, some being used by authors in the description of new species. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), 1968. Folio, dustwrapper, 36 colour plates. $300

[8550] Whitley, Gilbert P. Solvol fish book: the life and habits of 80 Australian fishes Sydney: J. Kitchen and Sons, [1942]. 20 pp., colour

illustrations. Publisher’s wrappers, a fine copy. $30

[16953] Wilkinson, E. S. Shanghai birds: a study of bird life in Shanghai and the surrounding districts. Shanghai: North China Daily News and Herald, 1929. Small quarto, 243 pp., coloured frontispiece and twenty-three colour plates by Gronvold. Publisher’s handsome decorated cloth with torn dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. $500

[38833] Wilson, Edward O. The diversity of life. London: Allen Lane, (1992 first edition), Octavo, 424 pp., illustrations, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. $60

[30016] Wilson, Ernest Henry. A naturalist in western China, with vasculum, camera, and gun. London: Methuen, (1913 first edition). Octavo, two volumes, 480 pp., photographs, folding map. Publisher’s red cloth,

minor blemish on lower corner of volume two, a fine crisp set. Signed E. H. Wilson 13.12. 20” on the title page of both volumes, the bookplate of Harold Alston. $1,500


[37448] Wilson, J. T. and J. P. Hill Observations on the development of Ornithorhynchus. London: Royal Society, 1907. Quarto, 31-168 pp., 17 uncoloured plates. Publisher’s printed wrappers. $30

[2423] Wilson, Stephen K. and David G. Knowles. Australia’s reptiles: a photographic reference to the terrestrial reptiles of Australia. Pymble: Cornstalk Publishing, (1992 reprint). Quarto, 447 pp., colour photographs, signature, dustwrapper. $80

[36572] Witham, Henry. The internal structure of fossil vegetables found in the carboniferous and oolitic deposits of Great Britain, described and illustrated. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1833. Quarto, 84 pp., 16 engraved plates. Contemporary full calf, expertly rebacked, a “prize” binding with a contemporary written inscription pasted in. $1,200

[13270] Witherby, H.F. et al. The handbook of British birds. London: H. F. and G. Witherby, (1946 reprint). Octavo, dustwrapper, five volumes, 1913 pp., colour plates, text illustrations, bookplate of Roy Cooper, fine set in dustwrappers. $150

[13775] Witte, Gaston-Francois de. Genera des serpents du Congo et du Ruanda-Urundi. Tervuren: Musee Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, 1962. Octavo, 203 pp., 15 uncoloured plates, text illustrations. Modern half blue morocco, wrappers retained, a fine copy. $200

[38890] Wittstein, G. C. The organic constituents of plants and vegetable substances and their chemical analysis ... [translated by] Ferd. von Mueller. Melbourne: M’Carron, Bird and company, 1878. Octavo, 328 pp. Quarter leather and boards, publisher’s title wrapper retained, some wear, inscribed by von Mueller on the half title. $80

[8617] Wood Jones, Frederic. The mammals of South Australia. Adelaide: Government Printer, 1923-1925. Octavo, three parts, 458 pp., text illustrations, Publisher’s printed wrappers, a very good set. $100


[38140] Wood, Casey Albert . The Fundus Oculi of birds, especially as viewed through the microscope: a study in comparative anatomy and physiology. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1917. Quarto, 180 pp., 61 colour photographic plates. Publisher’s cloth, library stamps of Royal Australian Ornithologists’ Union, a note reading “To Dr J. A. Leach with the compliments of the author” pasted on upper endpaper. $150

[38893] Wooster, David, editor. Alpine plants: figures and descriptions of some of the most striking and beautiful of the alpine flowers. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874. Tall octavo, two volumes, 292 pp. 108 chromolithographed plates. Publisher’s blue blindstamped and gilt

decorated cloth, some flecking, otherwise a bright crisp set. $700

[15505] Wytsman, P. Genera Insectorum [Homoptera: family Membracidae]. Brussels: V. Verteneuil and Louis Desmet, 1950. Quarto, 383 pp., 13 uncoloured plates. Binder’s cloth, wrappers retained, a few spots throughout. $300

[13266] Zimmer, John Todd. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1926. Octavo, two volumes, 706 pp., coloured frontispiece. Publisher’s wrappers, both volumes in a binder’s slipcase, a very good set. $300

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