A biology of acacias: a new source book and bibliography for biologists and naturalists.
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1984. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, sunned dustwrapper, scarce. More
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1984. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, sunned dustwrapper, scarce. More
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1984. Octavo, text illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. More
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2015. Octavo, softcover. The annual collection celebrating the finest Australian science writing of the year. How does dust connect the cosmos with our bed sheets? Why do lobsters do the Mexican Wave backwards? And what makes us feel 'wetness' when there's no such thing as 'wet' nerve..... More
Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs, 1968. Octavo, publisher's printed boards. More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, lavishly illustrated, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first and only proper biography of both Cayleys. This skillfully researched and handsomely produced book charts the lives and works of this Australian father-and-son pair of bird artists. Neville Henry, peripatetic, often impecunious and with a...... More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Octavo, colour illustrations, inscribed by the author for William and Wendy Cooper, softcover. Around 1870, Ferdinand von Mueller, the greatest Australian botanist of the nineteenth century, began to advertise in several newspapers across Australia for ‘lady’ plant collectors. Of Mueller’s astounding 3,000-strong network of..... More
London: John Murray, 1894. Octavo, uncoloured frontispieces and plates. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, a very good copy, scarce. More
New York: Harrison House, 1988. Oblong format, colour and black and white plates, upper hinge starting, otherwise very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1895. Octavo, frontispiece, uncoloured plates. Publisher's cloth, small tear to top of spine, owner's inscription, bookplates, scarce. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1895. Octavo, frontispiece, uncoloured plates. contemporary full tree calf, raised bands and label, marbled edges, a handsome copy. More
Washington DC: The Auk, (1954. first edition), Octavo, bookplate, fine copy. More
Denmark: Pate's Patch Press, 2005. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. More
London: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 2008. Quarto, colour photographs. The Natural History Museum, London is home to one of the world's most important and comprehensive collections of natural history specimens, literature and artworks. This book is a celebration of over 200 of the Museum's most treasured possessions..... More
Baton Rouge: Freinds of the LSU Library, 1987. Quarto, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, the bookplate of Margaret Stones, signed by Perrauly, Kathryn Morgon (Preface) and David Lank (Introductory essay). More
Washington DC: Washington Biologists' Field Club, 2007. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2015. Octavo, softcover. In her nearly 60-year career as a groundbreaking primatologist and a passionate conservationist, Jane Goodall has touched the hearts of millions of people. This book is a collection of testimonies by her friends and colleagues honouring her as a scientific pioneer, an..... More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. Large octavo, colour illustrations, dustwrapper. From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. The Arcana or Museum of Nature ran to 22 monthly parts, with 84 extraordinary hand-coloured plates and over 300 text..... More
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2010. Octavo, colour illustrations, inscribed by the author, softcover. When Silvester Diggles arrived in 1855 there was little artistic or scientific talent in the small frontier town of Brisbane. By the time of his death in 1880, his paramount legacy was a large book on Australian birds..... More
Paris: Flammarion, 1991. Quarto, colour plates, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Collins, (1973. first edition). Octavo, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist 56. More
London: Author, (1958. first edition). Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers, a fine copy, tipped in a review slip signed by the author. Arthur Prestwich was president of the Avicultural Society and wrote a number of scholarly texts on parrot nomenclature. More
New York: AtlasBooks, 2006. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. Traces the twenty-one-year period between Charles Darwin's original idea about natural selection and the publication of "On the Origin of Species," in an account that offers insight into his experiences as a cautious naturalist. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Octavo, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums' shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain..... More
Peterborough: Langford Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This book is based on many years of experience with eagles. It was written by bringing together Stuart's diary and field notes, along with his photographs, thus providing a complete description of eagles, their behaviour and ecology. More
New York: Doubleday, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper. The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beast, the gorilla, only to stumble straight into the centre of the biggest debate of the day: Darwin's theory of evolution..... More