Andrew Isles Natural History Books

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We are the leading natural history specialist bookshop in Australia. Established in 1981, we hold a world class inventory in new, secondhand and rare antiquarian books and wildlife art. Rare natural history books are our specialty and we ship books to anywhere in the world. Our books are sourced from publishers and suppliers worldwide. We have large stocks of books on birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, invertebrates, botany, ecology, palaeontology, insects, marine, biology, aviculture, fossils, entomology and conservation. Our natural history stock covers books for Australia, Antarctica, America, Britain, Africa, Europe and Asia. Our wildlife art gallery regularly offers original paintings by Neville Cayley (junior and senior), Sarah Stone, William T. Cooper, Raymond Ching and Peter Schouten.

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Highlights
A cluster of bees: sixty essays on the life-histories of Australian bees.
$1500
Octavo, coloured frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Secondary (?) publisher's binding, lengthy inscription form the author.
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A history of the birds of New Zealand [and] Supplement to the Birds of New Zealand.
$12000
Second edition with supplements. A History of the Birds of New Zealand, in either edition, is one of the best, and most underrated, of all nineteenth century colour-plate bird books. The plates of the second edition show Keulemans at his best and are superb examples of chromolithography. "The book itself is on a larger scale [than the first edition], being Imperial instead of Royal quarto, and the plates, instead of being handcoloured lithographs, have been produced by the more costly but more exact and satisfactory process of printing in colours ..." (Preface). Although 1,000 sets of the 1888
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First book. Australian botany: specially designed for the use of schools.
$800
Guilfoyle, W. R. Sydney: S. Mullen, 1878. Octavo, folding frontispiece, 4 uncoloured plates. Handsome decorated publisher's cloth in gold and green. "To the Hon. Graham Berry M. P. Services- Treasurer of Victoria with the authors kindest regards 8 August 1878". Also the signatures of Charles French and R. T. M. Prescott, a wonderful association copy.
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The lizards of Australia and New Zealand in the collection of the British Museum.
$16000
The rarest of all Australian reptile books and the first monograph on Australian reptiles. The specimens were collected on the Erebus and Terror Expedition of 1839-1843. The Lizards of Australia and New Zealand is bibliographically complex but essentially there were two parts published in the Zoology of the Erebus and Terror which, when combined, form a complete copy. The first part was written by John Edward Gray and published in 1845. It has eight pages and plates 1-4, 8-9, 12-14 and 20. The concluding part was written by Albert Gunther and published in 1875. It has pages 9-19 and plates 5-
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The confessions of a beachcomber: scenes and incidents in the career of an unprofessional beachcomber in tropical Queensland.
$450
Sharland wrote for over forty years for the Hobart Mercury under the nom de plum Peregrine. He was an admirer of Banfield.
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The poultry book; comprising the characteristics, management, breeding, and medical treatment of poultry ...
$850
Wingfield, W. and C. W. Johnson, editors. London: William S. Orr, 1853. Small quarto, 21 chromolithographs by Harrison Weir. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, some wear, a leaf and one plate loose, gilt spine, all edges marbled, a sound copy of a handsome book. "The plates are early chromolithographs. A second edition, rearranged by Tegetmeier, was put out in 15 monthly parts in 1856-7" Palmer p. 30.
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A natural history of the lepidopterous insects of New South Wales [manuscript copy]
$25000
An early incomplete manuscript copy of John William Lewin's 'A natural history of the Lepidopterous insects of New South Wales, 1822' with a handwritten title page, partial text on separate leaves to accompany thirteen watercolour plates. Then follows a pencil sketch of an African scorpion and thirteen leaves of watercolours, plus two pencil sketches, of British Flowers. The front pastedown has an inscription in a very neat hand "Beauteous nature moves on unerring principles. The contemplation of her works should be the study of all her ...” The first thirteen plates are accurate copies, many
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A Monograph of the Genus Casuarius .. [drop title].
$6000
The entire issue of the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 15, Part five and the only monograph on the most spectacular of all the large flightless birds. Cassowaries are confined only to Australia and New Guinea. Rothschild assembled a large collection of live cassowaries at his estate at Tring in Hertfordshire, England, and Keulemans used them as subjects for his outstanding plates. With one exception all the plates are head studies. His enthusiasm for Cassowaries is neatly described By Miriam Rothschild.
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