The Pelster Collection
We are delighted to announce our new catalogue, The Pelster Collection.
Featuring an exquisite collection of rare books by luminaries from John Gould and Edward Lear to Elizabeth Butterworth, this is one of the finest collections of parrot books we have ever seen.
A masterpiece of bird illustration.
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[Original Artwork].
KNIGHT, Frank (illustrator).Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00A fine set of 37 original watercolours by Frank Knight for Joseph Forshaw's 2011 work, Vanished and Vanishing Parrots. The plates depict: Carolina...
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Favourite Foreign Birds for Cages and Aviaries.
GREENE, William Thomas.Original price £75.00 - Original price £75.00Original price £0.00£75.00£75.00 - £75.00Current price £75.00An interesting introductory guide to keeping foreign bird species from the turn of the nineteenth century.New and revised edition; 8vo (19 x 13 cm...
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The Speaking Parrots:
RUSS, Karl; SCHULTZE, Leonora.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00The first edition in English of Karl Russ' (1833-1899) introductory guide to 'Speaking Parrots', describing over 100 species of bird, with 8 chrom...
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Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds
CAMPBELL, Archibald James.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00The scarce variant issue in two volumes of Archibald Campbell's comprehensive survey of the Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, richly illustrated...
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Parrakeets.
SETH-SMITH, David.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Hand-coloured lithographs. 'A description of the habits, in life and captivity, of about 131 of the smaller species of the parrot groups... the col...
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Parrakeets.
SETH-SMITH, David.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00Hand-coloured lithographs. 'A description of the habits, in life and captivity, of about 131 of the smaller species of the parrot groups... the col...
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Vogelbilder aus Fernen Zonen:
REICHENOW, Dr. Anton.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00An excellent survey of the parrots of the world, including notes and illustrations on more than 250 different species.'A series of coloured plates...
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A Monograph of Endangered Parrots.
SILVA, Tony; BENNISH, Gracia (illustrator).Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00A signed limited edition copy of Tony Silva's Monograph of Endangered Parrots. Before he was outed as the world's most prolific parrot smuggler, S...
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Nests and Eggs of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania.
NORTH, Alfred J.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00In the original wrappers. The preferred, much enlarged second edition of Australian ornithologist Alfred North's comprehensive report, containing d...
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Genera Avium.
WYTSMAN, Philogène Auguste Galilée.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Wytsman's Genera Avium was originally intended to describe all avian groups but his death and the onset of the First World War brought an end to t...
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Iconographie des Perroquets
SOUANCÉ, Charles de.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Souancé's Perroquets is a fine sequel to the works of Levaillant and Bourjot Saint-Hilaire. Together these three works constitute the definitive s...
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A History of the Birds of New Zealand [with] Supplement.
BULLER, Sir Walter Lawry; Keulemans, J.G. (illustrator).Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00First work covering the birdlife of the Maori world. The much-enlarged second edition of Buller's richly illustrated History of the Birds of New Ze...
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A Monograph of the Lories,
MIVART, St. George Jackson.Original price £14,000.00 - Original price £14,000.00Original price £0.00£14,000.00£14,000.00 - £14,000.00Current price £14,000.00Parrots by Keulemans. Mivart's Lories is perhaps the greatest and most desirable monograph on the nectar feeding parrots ever published. Mivart (18...
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