1. Clement, Roland C.

The Living World of Audubon. The photographers of the Living World of Audubon include: Fred J. Alsop, A.W. Ambler, Ron Austing, Jen & Des Bartlett, D.R, Blankinship, Allan D. Cruickshank, Helen Cruickshank, Thase Daniel, Harry Engels, Kenneth W. Fink, John B. Flannery, David Mohrhardt, Robert E. Pelham, Leonard Lee Rue, Marty Stouffer, H.A. Thornhill, Joe Van Wormer. Designed by Albert Squillace.

First Edition. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1974. 23,5 x 31 cm. 272 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. [Ridge Press Books].

2. Finn, Frank.

Pets and how to keep them. With twelve coloured plates and many Illustrations after photographs from Life.

London, Hutchinson and Co., 1907. Small Octavo. Color-Frontispice, XVI, 219 pages. Original, decorative Hardcover. Very good, actually excellent and firm condition with only minor signs of wear. With a neat, private gift-inscription: “Violet from Aunt Maud – Xmas 1907”.

3. Kearton, R.

Birds’ Nests, Eggs, and Egg-Collecting. Illustrated with 16 coloured Plates [colour-chromolithographs of eggs in nests].

London / Paris / Melbourne, Cassell & Company, 1890. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. 71 pages plus several pages of historical advertising. Hardcover / Original, illustrated publisher’s cloth in protective collector’s mylar. Binding a little shaky but overall in very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Contains an inscription by Professor J.H. Pollen from the year 1892.

4. Müller, Johannes.

Über zwei verschiedene Typen in dem Bau der erectilen männlichen Geschlechtsorgane bei den straußartigen Vögeln und über die Entwicklungsformen dieser Organe unter den Wirbelthieren überhaupt.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1836-1838. Quarto (23.2 cm x 28.5 cm). 40 Seiten plus drei (3) grosse, lithographische Tafeln mit Illustrationen zum Text im Anhang (Seiten 137 – 177 des Jahrgangsbandes 1836). Moderne Broschur mit eingebundener Originalabhandlung. Sehr guter Zustand. Es handelt sich hier um die seltene, originale Erstausgabe der Publikation. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Der originalen Publikation wurde eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus dem Jahre 1836].

5. Peterson, Roger Tory.

Roger Tory Peterson: The Art and Photography of the World’s Foremost Birder. Edited by Roger Tory Peterson and Rudy Hoglund. Foreword by S.Dillon Ripley. Watching the Birds by William Zinsser. Commentaries by John Leo.

New York, Rizzoli, 1994. 4°. 204 pages with hundreds of photographs and illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

6. Pratt, Ambrose.

The Lore of the Lyrebird. With a foreword by the late Honourable A.A. Dunstan.

Eighth Edition. Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens, 1951. 14 x 22.5 cm. 79 pages with 20 illustrations. Frontispiece illustration: ‘James’ by F.Lewis. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed on front endpaper by preowner. Rare in the dustjacket !