The wild mammals of Malaya and offshore islands including Singapore.
Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, (1983. second edition), Quarto, colour plates, softcover. More
Mammals
Coyote.
Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1995. Oblong format, paperback, colour photographs. "Coyote is a fine overview, covering in an informal way the major aspects of the coyote story, from its status as a demigod to the Plains Indians to its socializing and vocalizing habits." Austin American Statesman. Also available in..... More
Panda: back from the brink.
Glasgow: Saraband, 2012. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. The Giant panda is unique and not just uniquely charming: it has no close relatives in the animal world. The iconic, instantly recognisable creature has symbolised wildlife conservation since it was adopted as a mascot. Yet despite having avoided extinction, a fate..... More
Catalogue of the mammals of Western Europe (Europe exclusive of Russia) in the collection of the British Museum.
London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1912. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, neat library stamp on the title page, otherwise a fine copy. More
List of North American land mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1912. Octavo, Handsome contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards, wrappers retained, with the bookplate of Thomas Barbour, a fine copy. United States National Museum Bulletin number 79. More
List of North American recent mammals.
Washington: Smithsonian, 1955. Red cloth, wrappers retained, inoffensive library bookplates and stamps. More
List of North American recent mammals.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, Bulletin no.205,1955. Octavo, Binder's cloth, some buckling, wrappers retained. Bulletin number 205. More
African Predators.
Vlaeberg: Struik Publishers, 2002. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Describes the appearance, distribution, mating strategies and killing behaviour of 14 of Africa's largest predators. Species covered are lion, leopard, cheetah, caracal, serval, striped hyaena, brown hyaena, spotted hyaena, aardwolf, wild dog, ethiopian wolf and the three species of..... More
Kalahari Hyenas: the comparative behavioural ecology of two species.
London: Chapman & Hall, (1994. reprint). Octavo, photographs, signature, softcover. More
The world's whales: the complete illustrated guide.
Washington: Smithsonian, 1984. Quarto, colour photographs, text illustrations, slightly crinkled text, dustwrapper. More
Porpoise, dolphin and small whale fisheries of the world: status and problems.
Morges: IUCN, 1975. Octavo, tables, text illustrations, softcover. IUCN Monograph No. 3. More
The Asiatic wild horse Equus przevalskii Poliakoff, 1881.
London: J. A. Allen and Co., 1971. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Journey of the Pink dolphins: an Amazon quest.
Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Montgomery takes readers on a journey into the Amazon, exploring the river-dwelling dolphin's natural history, chronicling their conservation pressures, unravelling their prehistoric roots. More
Journey of the Pink dolphins: an Amazon quest.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper. Montgomery takes readers on a journey into the Amazon, exploring the river-dwelling dolphin's natural history, chronicling their conservation pressures, unravelling their prehistoric roots. More
The Native Bear of Australia.
Sydney: Koala Park, 1933. Octavo, oblong format, photographs, unpaginated, pictorial wrappers. More
Koala: a historical biography.
Collingwood: CSIRO, 2008. Small octavo, colour and black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This book examines the Koala's long seclusion from discovery (1803), its slow penetration of the European classificatory system, its distinctive history, and its emergence through observation, artistic and scientific depiction. It also covers Koala destruction..... More
Platypus: the extraordinary story of how a curious creature baffled the world.
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, (2009. reprint). Small octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This is the enigmatic story of a biological riddle that confounded scientists for nearly ninety years, challenging theories of creationism, evolution and the classification of species along the way. Also available in paperback [stock..... More
Platypus: the extraordinary story of how a curious creature baffled the world.
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2001. Small octavo, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. This is the enigmatic story of a biological riddle that confounded scientists for nearly ninety years, challenging theories of creationism, evolution and the classification of species along the way. More
The grizzlies of Mount McKinley.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. More
A dead whale or a stove boat.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. Quarto, text illustrations, worn dustwrapper. More
Systematic studies of Oryzomyine rodents (Muridae: Sigmodontidae): diagnosis and distributions of species formerly assigned to Oryzomys "capito".
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1998. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 236. More
Catalogue of primates in the British Museum (Natural History), part one: Families Callitrichidae and Cebidae.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1976. Quarto, softcover. More
The red kangaroo in Central Australia: an early account by A.E. Newsome.
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2016. Octavo, photographs, maps., softcover. The heart of Australia's ecological identity and restricted to the arid interior, the red kangaroo is Australia's largest terrestrial land mammal, and the largest extant marsupial. Almost nothing was known about the ecology of the red kangaroo when a young Alan..... More
The porpoise watcher.
London: John Murray, 1974. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Observations on Pacific Cetaceans of Californian and Mexican waters.
Berkeley: University of California Publications in Zoölogy, 1961. Octavo, photographs, text figures, wrappers. More