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Great natural history books and their creators.
Sydney: The British Library Publishing Division, 2003. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Amongst the greatest books every created are the large-scale works of natural history researched and written by apothecaries and scientists. The stories behind such books are told by Ray Desmond, with reproduced colour plates from original..... More
Wonders of creation: natural history drawings in the British Library.
London: British Library, 1986. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Animal days.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. Octavo, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Bison.
London: Reaktion Books, 2015. Octavo, colour and black and white illustrations, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. Bison once ranged across the Great Plains of North America in vast herds - early eighteenth century explorers described them as 'innumerable' - and at the beginning of the nineteenth century they numbered in the..... More
Leopard.
London: Reaktion Books, 2014. Octavo, photographs, illustrations, bookplate, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. The leopard has commanded respect and awe in mankind for centuries. Here, renowned zoologist Desmond Morris shows all sides of the animal's character: its athletic elegance, its predatory skill, its wary shyness, its cunning intelligence, its parental devotion..... More
Manwatching: a field guide to human behaviour.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1982. reprint). Quarto, colour and black and white photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Monkey.
London: Reaktion Books, 2013. Octavo, photographs and illustrations, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. Monkey explores our relationship throughout history with this most playful and familiar of creatures. As humans, we tend to see monkeys as trivial or comic creatures; indeed our dictionaries define 'monkeying' as tampering, interfering and playing mischievous, foolish..... More
The naked ape, a zoologist's study of the human animal.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1968. reprint). Octavo, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Patterns of reproductive behaviour.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Men and snakes.
London: Hutchinson, 1965. Octavo, illustrations, lacks dustwrapper. More
South African butterflies. A monograph of the family Lycaenidae, with a description and illustration of every species and figures of many of the larvae.
Cape Town: Staples Press, c.1936. Octavo, 18 (12 coloured) plates. More
Greenshanks.
Calton: Poyser, 1979. Octavo, dustwrapper, photograph. A monograph on this particularly interesting and attractive wader, the Greenshank Tringa nebularia, by a world authority on the species. More
Pine Crossbills: a Scottish contribution.
Calton: Poyser, 1975. Octavo, photographs, a very good copy dustwrapper, scarce. More