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Frenchs Forest: New Holland, (2006. third edition, revised). Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. A unique and comprehensive reference book on trees of the world. More
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Frenchs Forest: New Holland, (2006. third edition, revised). Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. A unique and comprehensive reference book on trees of the world. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Standing in an old-growth forest, you can instinctively sense the ways it is different from forests shaped by humans. These ancient, undisturbed ecosystems are increasingly rare and largely misunderstood. Nature’s Temples explores the science and alchemy of old-growth forests..... More
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations. The stunning, specially commissioned cover illustrations are one of the great joys of the New Naturalist series, lending it a distinctive style which has inspired nature enthusiasts for many decades. The Collins New Naturalist series is the longest-running and arguably the..... More
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009. Quarto, colour illustrations, bookplate, laminated boards, torn bellyband. The stunning, specially commissioned cover illustrations are one of the great joys of the New Naturalist series, lending it a distinctive style which has inspired nature enthusiasts for many decades. The Collins New Naturalist series is the longest-running..... More
Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. Octavo, paperback, photographs. Alec Chisholm inspired Australians to see nature anew. His Mateship with Birds, published in 1922, is a classic of nature writing, and until his death in 1977 he urged his compatriots to cherish the natural world as their national heritage. Chisholm was..... More
New York: Abbeville Press, 2016. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Staking out some of the world's last dark places, photographer Beth Moon uses a digital camera to reveal constellations, nebulae, and the Milky Way, in rich hues that are often too faint to be seen by the naked eye. As in..... More
New York: Abbeville Press, 2014. Quarto, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. Be transported to another time by Beth Moon's captivating black and white photographs of the world's most majestic ancient trees. Beth Moon's fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees has taken her across the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle..... More
London: Faber, 2023. Octavo, dustwrapper, text illustrations. For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies, religion and rituals; exploited them for their natural resources; and been inspired by them for our music, art and..... More
[New York]: Harper Collins Publishers, 2003. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. This is the remarkable story of how a misguided decision by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, precipitated his employment of a young naturalist named Charles Darwin. Also available in hardback see stock id: 19419. More
London: Little, Brown, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that have contributed to making the RCP what it is..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Quarto, paperback and CD, colour illustrations. A beautifully illustrated exploration of Edward Lear’s little-known career as a natural-history artist — now in a new expanded paperback edition. Edward Lear (1812–1888) is best known today for his witty limericks and endearing nonsense verse. But the celebrated..... More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1998. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, line grawings, maps. The proceedings of the Economic Botany and the International Society of Ethnopharmacology conference, London, 1996, exploring the commercial and scientific potential of plants for food, health and drug industries. It focuses on the current state..... More
Atlantic Monthly Press, Octavo, dustwrapper, text illustrations. Draws on a rich range of sources including letters, diary enteries and the accounts of Darwin and Fitzroy. More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1998. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. A listing of Greek, Latin and English name components. More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2001. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. This taxonomic account of all the 339 genera currently recognized in the family, is illustrated with 50 full-page line drawings. Many of the generic descriptions are based on the work of the late Dr John Hutchinson, but the classification follows that..... More
Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis, 2012. Octavo, laminated boards, photographs, text illustrations, maps, graphs, tables. This volume provides a contemporary overview of new strategies for traditional medicine development. It looks at the importance of cataloguing ethnomedical information, of determining the active principles, and of examining the genetic diversity and range..... More
New York: Random House, 2021. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. A masterful, timely, fully authorized biography of the great and hugely influential biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientists of our time-from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic..... More
Paris: Éditions du Muséum, 1957. Octavo, illustration, publisher's printed wrappers, a fine copy. Mémoires du Muséum National d’histoire naturelle. nouvelle série. Série A. Zoologie. Tome 15, fascicule one. More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2006. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. WAS $75. The world is facing a biodiversity crisis of unprecedented magnitude. Unless there are radical changes in human behaviour, we can expect significant and alarming species loss in the near future. DNA and tissue banks have great potential as tools..... More
Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia, (1998. facsimile). Quarto, twelve colour plates. Publisher's decorated cloth, the standard edition limited to 500 copies. With Introductions by Valmae Hankel and Ed McAlister. The first book devoted exclusively to Australian fauna, published in 1794, with the first descriptions of the..... More
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 2001. Octavo, paperback, WAS $50. Includes introduction; history; gazetteer; and annotated checklist. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 52. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs and illustrations. A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings. Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship..... More
New York: Sterling Publishing, 2013. Quarto, paperback, slipcase, colour illustrations. Following the success of "Natural Histories," this is the next compendium in this well-received series that marries art and thought-provoking science. American Museum of Natural History ornithologist Paul Sweet takes readers on a migratory journey across the globe, introducing them..... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Libraries, 2011. Quarto, photographs and illustrations, publisher's boards,. This beautiful book was originally prepared in conjunction with an exhibition of books from the E.A. McIlhenny Natural History Collection displayed at the Hill Memorial Library in 2011, featuring four centuries of illustrated books on the birds..... More
London: Natural History Museum, 2013. Quarto, paperback, photographs. The Natural History Museum in London has long been a favourite destination for millions every year. This book takes you on a whirlwind journey through the history of the Natural History Museum: the people, the influences, the discoveries and much more. It..... More