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Hardcover. Condition: New. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club No 22 Illustrated with B&W photos and drawings The people and institutions which changed the face of modern ornithology in Australia, New Zealand, and the surrounding region Most of the chapters are written by people who participated in making the history they write about, and they bring to the accounts personal experience, an intimate knowledge of the subject matter, and rich anecdotal material that adds a distinctive character to descriptive and interpretive history Contents: A History of Ornithology in Tasmania; History of Ornithological Exploration of New Guinea; A Brief History of Avian Paleontology in Australia; James Allen Keast - Bird Watcher and Ecologist: An Autobiography; A History of Ornithology in the Top End of the Northern Territory.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club No 23 Illustrated with B&W photos and drawings The people and institutions which changed the face of modern ornithology in Australia, New Zealand, and the surrounding region Most of the chapters are written by people who participated in making the history they write about, and they bring to the accounts personal experience, an intimate knowledge of the subject matter, and rich anecdotal material that adds a distinctive character to descriptive and interpretive history Contents: Who was Gregory Mathews? [Tony Howard], Ornithology at the Queensland Museum [Walter Boles], John and James Cockerell: Father and Son Naturalists [Philippa Horton], Ornithology at the South Australian Museum, Adelaide: 1856-1939 [Philippa Horton, Andrew Black, and Brian Blaylock], A History of Ornithology in Western Australia [Allen H Burbidge and Eleanor Russell].

Hardcover. Condition: New. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, No. 18. Illustrated with B&W photos. The people and institutions which changed the face of modern ornithology in Australia, New Zealand, and the surrounding region. Contents include: The First National Ornithologists' Society, Depletion of the Avifauna of the North Island of New Zealand, Museum Victoria, the Australian Museum, Canterbury Museum, Alexander, William Sharp and William John Macleay, the Macleay Museum, and History of Australian Ornithology in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, No. 14. Illustrated with B&W photos. The people and institutions which changed the face of modern ornithology in Australia, New Zealand, and the surrounding region. Contents include: John Gilbert, the Auckland Museum, the Western Australian Museum, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization (CSIRO), Systematics and Biogeography in Australian Ornithology, Birds of the Australian National Wildlife Collection, and the History of Threatened Birds in Australia and its Offshore Islands.

Paperback. Condition: Used: Like New. Paperback in near fine condition. Faded spine. Signed by author. Previous owner's name on title page.

hard cover with dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st edition. National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Illustrated with colour photographs and maps. 30 cm. XIX, 508 pages VG/G. Very good book in good dust jacket with light shelf wear, knock to front.

hardcover and dustwrapper in very good condition; 508 pages, colour photos, heavy book which will require excess postage outside Australia.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club No. 23. Illustrated with B&W photos and drawings. The people and institutions which changed the face of modern ornithology in Australia, New Zealand, and the surrounding region. Most of the chapters are written by people who participated in making the history they write about, and they bring to the accounts personal experience, an intimate knowledge of the subject matter, and rich anecdotal material that adds a distinctive character to descriptive and interpretive history. Contents: Who was Gregory Mathews? [Tony Howard], Ornithology at the Queensland Museum [Walter Boles], John and James Cockerell: Father and Son Naturalists [Philippa Horton], Ornithology at the South Australian Museum, Adelaide: 1856-1939 [Philippa Horton, Andrew Black, and Brian Blaylock], A History of Ornithology in Western Australia [Allen H. Burbidge and Eleanor Russell].

Hardcover. Condition: New. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club No. 22. Illustrated with B&W photos and drawings. The people and institutions which changed the face of modern ornithology in Australia, New Zealand, and the surrounding region. Most of the chapters are written by people who participated in making the history they write about, and they bring to the accounts personal experience, an intimate knowledge of the subject matter, and rich anecdotal material that adds a distinctive character to descriptive and interpretive history. Contents: A History of Ornithology in Tasmania; History of Ornithological Exploration of New Guinea; A Brief History of Avian Paleontology in Australia; James Allen Keast - Bird Watcher and Ecologist: An Autobiography; A History of Ornithology in the Top End of the Northern Territory.

SOFTCOVER. Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1994. First edition. A near fine copy.

Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union Monograph 2. 180 x 245 mm; laminated pictorial wraps, somewhat curled; signature of previous owner (renowned ornithologist Gordon Maclean) on title page; pp. iv + 112 including index. Very good condition. "This species list includes all extant and recently extinct native species, including vagrants accepted by the RAC, and introduced species that have become established and continue to survive in the wild. . To the main species list is appended a supplementary list, which incorporates records of vagrant species not yet validated, records of ship-assisted species, introduced species that were established but have now been extirpated, and records in the literature which are now not accepted.".

Large octavo,277 pp.,fine copy in laminated boards. Includes the standard Australian bird checklist and covers the systematics and taxonomy of the Australian avifauna. An essential reference for all seriously interested in the subject. A major revision of the previous checklist published in 1994. Lists those species of birds that have been recorded from the Australian mainland, Tasmania, island territories and surrounding waters. Based on the authors' original book The taxonomy and species of birds of Australia and its territories, it includes any new species for which records have been accepted by the Records Appraisal Committee of Birds Australia. It also includes all extant and recently extinct (post-1800) native species, as well as new species, accepted vagrants and introduced species that have become established and continue to survive in the wild. The book provides brief explanations for taxonomic changes in the literature and for those adopted within it, including the citations for such work. Its geographical coverage includes Christmas Island, Cocos-Keeling Islands, Heard Island, Lord Howe Island, Macquarie Island, Norfolk Island and the islands of Torres Strait, and also Ashmore Reef, owing to the number of vagrant species that have recently been reported from there. Also included are vagrants from the Australian Antarctic Territory that have not been recorded elsewhere in Australia or its territories.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. 4to, xix + pp508 with distribution maps and colour photographs throughout. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ in reasonable condition with some small tears to top of spine and bottom corner of back cover, a little shelf wear to top and bottom of spine with a few small scratches on spine. Original black cloth binding with lettering to spine in very good condition with a little shelf wear to top and bottom of spine and a little rubbing along edges. Inside in near fine condition. There may be extra postage charges overseas .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Jacket has moderate general wear and no tears. A narrow strip of sunning to front along edge of spine and a 3cm scratch to rear. Some foxing to feps, half-title and last page plus some minor marks to (blank) page 500. Name and date to top corner of ffep. Text and plates clean. Binding tight. 508pp Size: 220mm x 295mm. Book.

8vo (24.5x18.5cm), paperback, 112pp. Very good condition. Light wear, bumped, mild creasing to lower right front corner, a few little marks and indents. Pictures available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. THE FIFTH VOLUME OF THE TEN VOLUME SERIES IN THE NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INDEX OF AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE, AS DESCRIBED BY PUBLISHERS AS ''A SERIOUS REFEERENCE BOOKAND A MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION".

Hardcover. Condition: New. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, No. 18. Illustrated with B&W photos. The people and institutions which changed the face of modern ornithology in Australia, New Zealand, and the surrounding region. Contents include: The First National Ornithologists' Society, Depletion of the Avifauna of the North Island of New Zealand, Museum Victoria, the Australian Museum, Canterbury Museum, Alexander, William Sharp and William John Macleay, the Macleay Museum, and History of Australian Ornithology in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, No. 14. Illustrated with B&W photos. The people and institutions which changed the face of modern ornithology in Australia, New Zealand, and the surrounding region. Contents include: John Gilbert, the Auckland Museum, the Western Australian Museum, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization (CSIRO), Systematics and Biogeography in Australian Ornithology, Birds of the Australian National Wildlife Collection, and the History of Threatened Birds in Australia and its Offshore Islands.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. vii, 480pp, index, references, bw ills. Or red coth-no jacket as issued. Near new. 7 chapters on various aspects of Australasian ornithological history including threatened birds in Australia, John Gilbert, museums and a national reference collection. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. THIS VOLUME, THE FIFTH IN A SERIES PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, COVERS SOME OF THE MOST FAMILIAR OF AUSTRALIAN BUSH BIRDS - ROBINS, THRUSHES, WILLIE WAGTAILS, AND SOCIABLE BABBLERS. THIS IS A SERIOUS REFERENCE BOOK AS WELL AS A MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION.

4to. 278pp. Original laminated boards (No dustwrapper issued). A near fine copy. . First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Protective cover fitted. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Yellow Robins perched sideways on low tree trunks, tuneful thrushes, Willie Wagtails chasing across suburban lawns, sociable babblers preening each other - The Robins & Flycatchers of Australia, fifth in a series of works published in association with the National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife of the Australian Museum, covers some of the most familiar of Australian bush birds. Inhabitants, for the most part, of woods and forests, these birds, widely known as robins, flycatchers and monarchs, are largely insectivor-ous and arboreal, though many robins forage on the ground. Although a few, such as the thrushes, are introduced, the majority of species are native, and represent a cluster of families that, according to recent studies, appear to have their origins in Australia. Lucid, informative narratives introduce each species group, while synopses present a sum-mary of fascinating details about such aspects as habitat, breeding and world distribution. Fine colour photographs port.

pictorial hard cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 25 cm. X, 277 pages VG. Very good condition, owner details on front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: As New.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book - near fine. Hardback - picture boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile reprint: quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 366pp., with 43pp. of monochrome plates and many illustrations likewise. Mild wear; slight spotting and dusting to the text block edges; light offset to the endpapers; retailer's bookplate to the pastedown. Dustwrapper is sunned along the spine panel. Very good. Standard postage quoted is for a maximum 1kg book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. The packed weight of this book is over 1kg so extra charges for overseas postage will apply. Books listed on Abebooks are not kept at our bookshop. Please enquire if you wish to see the book at our premises.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: F-. First Edition. VG+/F-. Folio. original charcoal boards (a little rubbed & spotted, faint adhesion between a couple of leaves, else clean & unblemished) in dustwrapper (slightly rubbed); pp. xx (last blank), 508, with illustrations. Heavy item (2.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. Volume five in the Birds of Australia series.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Fine/ fine condition. Scarce copy of this book in hard cover. Part of a set of three I have for sale, the others being Parrots and Pigeons and The Wrens and Warblers both of Australia. The National photographic Index of Australian Wildlife.

Octavo,532 pp.,photographs,text illustrations, publisher's cloth. Nuttall Ornithological Club Memoir No. 18. The second of a projected three volumes on the history of Australasian ornithology, is an important contribution to the field. It contains chapters on the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (including: Birds Australia, and BirdLife Australia); an 1840s perspective on the depletion of the avifauna of the North Island, New Zealand; history of ornithology at: Museum Victoria, Melbourne, the Australian Museum, Sydney, the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand; Alexander and William Sharp and William John Macleay: their ornithology and museum; environmental ornithology at the Australian Museum; and Australian ornithology in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Volume one see [stock id 25952].

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.