The mammals of Tasmania.
Launceston: Mary Fisher Bookshop, 1973. Octavo, photographs, signature, softcover. More
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Launceston: Mary Fisher Bookshop, 1973. Octavo, photographs, signature, softcover. More
South Yarra: Fungimap, 2021. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, maps, bookplate, softcover. This book is easy to use with comprehensive identification characters, as well as detailed distribution maps. More
Winmalee: Three Sisters Productions, 1987. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1985. Quarto, illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. Based on papers presented at the 1984 Australian Herpetological Conference held at the University of Sydney. Together, the information presented comprises a major review of frog and reptile biology. More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1989. Quarto, colour illustrations, small peice shaved from fron blank endpaper, very good set in dustwrappers. The volumes are divided into seven sections, each devoted to a major field of research on macropod biology. The sections are evolution, zoogeography and community ecology; diet, feeding and digestion;..... More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2012. Quarto, colour illustrations, sample copy sticker on blank endpaper, fine copy in dustwrapper. Some of the earliest artistic impressions of the birds, flowers, fish and people of Australia are found in John Hunter's First Fleet sketchbook. Both historically significant and stunningly beautiful, Hunter's sketches..... More
Canberra: Australian Academy of Science, 1982. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Moulins: Imprimerie Dole, Les Marmousets, 1982. Small folio, uncoloured illustrations. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt with coloured insert, a fine copy. An excellent facsimile of the official account of Baudin's coastal exploration of Australia. More
CSIRO Publishing, 2004. Octavo, photographs, graphs, laminated boards. More
Canberra: The Bird Bander's Association of Australia, 1962-1976. Quarto, 14 volumes in wrappers, scarce. A complete set with the first two volumes roneoed. Subsequently renamed Corella. More
Canberra: The Bird Bander's Association of Australia, 1962-1976. Quarto, in three volumes of binder's cloth. A complete set with the first two volumes roneoed. Subsequently renamed Corella. Provenance: the set of Helen Aston. More
Chatswood: New Holland, 2010. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. The beauty of these birds, such as the tiny delicate Emu wren that lives exclusively among Spinifex clumps, the unmistakable majestic Wedge-tailed Eagle and the elusive Chestnut-breasted Whiteface of the gibber plains of South Australia, are all..... More
Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, (2006. second edition), Octavo, colour photographs, bookplate, softcover. More
Sydney: NSW Uni Press, 1982. Quarto, colour photographs, laminated boards. More
Sydney: NSW Uni Press, (1987. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, laminated boards. More
Kensington: New South Wales University Press, 1979. third edition). Octavo, text illustrations, papered boards, fine copy. More
Adelaide: Government Printer, (1976. reprint). Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, signature, softcover. More
Adelaide: Government Printer, (1927-1929. first edition). Octavo, uncoloured plates, text illustrations, signature and some owner annotations in biro, publisher's printed wrappers. More
Adelaide: Publishers Limited, 1956. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Melbourne: Walker, May and Co., (1906. second edition). Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, slight flecking, a very good copy (not as pictured). The second edition differs markedly to the first edition with illustrations and extra text. More
Melbourne: T. C. Lothian, 1907. Octavo, illustrations. Publisher's cloth, a bright crisp copy, rare in this condition. More
Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2012. Octavo, black and white photographs, map. Good copy in paperback. The coast and its people help define our identity. Most Australians live in suburbia, but our hearts are elsewhere. This book is a celebration of the Australian seascape, from its natural grandeur to the..... More
Melbourne: James J. Blundell, 1856. Duodecimo, interleaved. Contemporary full calf, signature of H. H. Scott, very good copy. The copy of Herbert Hedley Scott (1866–1938), prominent Tasmanian natural historian and director of the Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston. He is best remembered for his palaeontological work on the Diprotodont Nototherium..... More
Geelong: Heath and Cordell, 1860. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's printed stiff card, upper cover detached, stain on title page, scarce. Printed in Geelong, an early printing. Geelong was gazetted as a town in 1838. Samuel Hannaford (1828-1874) arrived in Melbourne in 1853 and worked as a bank teller in Warrnambool..... More
Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, (1991. first edition), Quarto, colour photographs, signature, very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. More