Birds from Lawrence Jones

Neptune, NJ, U.S.A.: TFH, 1978. HEAVY. 584pp, full-page colour plates, line drawings, distribution maps, bibliography, index. Pictorial boards, no jacket. Some bubbling of surface of front cover, page edges toned in bands. This 'improved' 1978 edition has expanded indices. The definitive work on the world's parrots covering all species and some sub-species. Over 500 birds illustrated in colour..… Read more about this item

New York: Universe Books, 1977. 165pp. Blue cloth in acket. Some silverfishing to bottom edge of cloth. In the 1920s the author, as a young man, sailed Antarctic waters at the height of the whaling and sealing season. Wherever he travelled- the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, South Shetlands and South Orkneys- he encountered penguins. Here he records his observations of… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Indruss Productions, 1994. HEAVY. xii, 4480pp, references, num bw&col photographs, line drawings. Pictorial card. Minor edge wear, covers creased. Comprehensive volume on all aspects of breeding finches in captivity. Essential reference for the aviculturist.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Large 8vo.

Neptune City, NJ: TFH, 1990. 224pp, index, num col ills. Pictorial glossy boards. Endpapers and prelims heavily foxed, prev owner name inked out inside front cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 4to.

Brisbane: The Queensland Finch Society, 1989. 313pp, index, tables, bw & col ills. Or pictorial card. Light edge wear to covers. Exceptional guide for aviculturalists on breeding the non-Australian finches.. Revised Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Mumbai: Bombay Natural History Society, 1996. 183pp, index, 106 plates (most col), endpaper maps. Blue cloth in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket. Over 1000 species shown on 106 plates with concise information regarding status, size, habitat and distribution within subcontinental limits.. Second Edition, Corrected.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Dick, John Henry.. 4to.

South Tweed Heads: ABK Publications, 2002. 295pp, index, bibliography, num col ills. Or pictorial laminated boards. Small smudge on front free endpaper otherwise near new. Invaluable technical volume for breeders of parrots and extremely scarce in hardcover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo.

London: British Museum (Natural History), 1982. viii, 203pp, index, references, appendices, line drawings maps. Brown cloth in jacket. Spine faded, small prev owner name stamp at rear. The Cotingidae are one of a small number of passerine families that evolved in South America with many being specialized fruit eaters. There were 65 species recognised at the time of publication ranging… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1988. HEAVY. 216pp, index, bibliography, exhibitions list, 200 plates. Cloth in jacket. Light wear to jacket. Jacket variant showing eagle. A range of the artist's wild portraits covering his wanderings from the Arctic to Australia. As well as works shown in their final painted form, many sheets of preparatory pencil sketches are also included. Over… Read more about this item

Nerang, Qld: Petaurus Publishing, 2002. 85pp, bw ills. Pictorial card. Moderate edge wear to covers, bottom front corner creased. SIGNED and inscribed (To Steve) by compiler (David Fleahy's daughter) on title page. David Fleahy, first to breed the platypus in captiviy and pioneering Australian conservationist, has his writings on Australia's largest raptor compiled in this volume by his daughter.. Signed… Read more about this item

Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2015. HEAVY. 188pp, 159 full page col plates. Pictorial boards in jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket-near new. Fine art photographer Leila Jeffreys captures Australia's birds in these wonderful avian portraits.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Brisbane: Indruss Productions, 1994. HEAVY. xii, 4480pp, references, num bw&col photographs, line drawings. Pictorial card. Light edge wear and several creases to cover. SIGNED on title page. Comprehensive volume on all aspects of breeding finches in captivity. Essential reference for the aviculturist.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Large 8vo.

Philadelphia: David McKay Co, 1895. 278pp, index, bw ills. Pictorial brown cloth. Very slight flecking to rear cover, slightest of edge wear to covers, light even toning to page edges. A most attractive copy. This edition with additions and a chapter on American incubators included for the first time.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 8vo.

Vlaeberg, South Africa: Fernwood Press, 1996. HEAVY. 240pp, index, bibliography, glossary, hundreds col photos, map. Green cloth in jacket. 2cm tear top rear jacket, minor edge wear to jacket, light foxing to endpapers. Liberally illustrated accounts of more than 90 groups of species of southern Africa's avifauna giving details of courtship and pairing, nest construction and eggs, chicks and their… Read more about this item

Cape Town: Struik, 1995. HEAVY. 304pp, index, further reading, hundreds col photos, bw ills, distribution maps, map, errata. Pictorial glossy boards in jacket. Surface abrasion at top of contents page from adhesion, prev owner details pencilled on front free endpaper, some fading to spine. Presents over 700 species of southern Africa's avifauna.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.… Read more about this item

Cape Town: Struik, 2013. 263pp, index, references, glossary, num col ills, distribution maps. Pictorial card. Near new. Comprehensive illustrated guide to the birds of Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Rodrigues, Seychelles and Comoros. This edition has over 160 new illustrations, updated and improved distribution maps and includes French common names. The text has also been fully revised.. Thrid Edition, Fully Revised.. Soft… Read more about this item

London: Christopher Helm, 2011. 176pp, index, references, tables, 800 ills on 65 col plates, map. Pictorial card. Near new. Covers over 250 species including all residents, migrants and vagrants. . Apparent First. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo.

Tweed Heads: ABK Publications, 2005. 160pp, bibliography, num col ills. Glossy pictorial boards. Near new. Covers 6 species and several sub-species of black cockatoo from the Genuses Callocephalon, Calyptorhyncus and Probisciger.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/None, as Issued.. 8vo.

Sydney: Reed New Holland, 2005. 175 pp, num photographs by author(most col), together with historic illustrations from publications such as Gould's The Birds of Australia and those created specially for this book, maps, tables, bibliography, index, illustrated end-papers. Near new. Blue decorative cloth in wrapper. The book tells the life histories of each of the five species of Albatross that… Read more about this item

Tweed Heads: ABK Publications, 2002. 111pp, tables, bw & col ills. Or pictorial card. Bottom front corner creased affecting approx 1/3 of the pages, tear at top of title page.. Revised Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo.