Boles Walter E Editors (3 results)

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: As New.

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].…