The building of Australia and the succession of life: with special reference to South Australia.
Adelaide: Government Printer, 1925-1930. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's wrappers, some blemishes. More
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The building of Australia and the succession of life: with special reference to South Australia.
Adelaide: Government Printer, 1925-1930. Octavo, text illustrations. binder's cloth, the three parts bound together, a fine set. More
![Encyclopedia of exploration 1800 to 1850 [part two]. Raymond John Howgego](/pictures/thumb/21009.jpg?v=1588833924)
Encyclopedia of exploration 1800 to 1850 [part two].
Potts Point: Hordern House, 2004. Octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. The second volume of this acclaimed reference work on exploration. With 732 articles, indexes of ships and persons and bibliographies. This volume is of particular interest to any Australiana collector and attempts to detail every significant traveler, voyager and..... More
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Encyclopedia of exploration 1850 to 1940: continental exploration [part four].
Potts Point: Hordern House, 2008. Octavo, dustwrapper. This is the fourth and final volume in the series. A comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of travel and colonization in Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas, from the year 1850 to 1940. Part one: 1800 see [stock id 17408]..... More
Living insects.
Sydney: Collins, 1975. Octavo, photographs. Minor foxing to dustwrapper, otherwise a fine copy. More
Living insects.
Sydney: Collins, 1975. Octavo, photographs, signature, good copy in dustwrapper. More
Urban antics: tales of an urban naturalist.
Kensington: WA Naturally Publications, 2005. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. The author has worked with Western Australia's national parks and wildlife for his entire life. More
A bushman's harvest.
Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire, 1961. Octavo, photographs, lacks dustwrapper. An entertaining collection of essays. More
A bushman's year.
Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire, 1959. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Jack Hyett was a schoolteacher and popular newspaper columnist of the 1950's and 1960's. He became editor of The Emu in the 1960's. More
A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia.
Sydney: The Australian Museum, 1934. Octavo, printed wrappers. More
Birds of paradise and bower birds.
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1950. Quarto, 33 colour plates by Lilian Medland. Publisher's quarter morocco, rubbed, chipped dustwrapper, the signature of Ian Rowley. More
Inventory of declared marine and estuarine protected areas in Australian waters.
Canberra: Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, 1984. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations, two parts. Special publication, number twelve. More
A list of the birds of Brisbane.
Brisbane: Author, 1963. Octavo, softcover. More
Koala: origins of an icon.
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2007. Small octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The koala is universally recognised and revered as an Australian icon. It is also one of the most well-adapted and resilient of Australia's marsupials, described by some as a triumph of evolution. How does it survive, and..... More
The Noah's Ark syndrome: one hundred years of acclimatization and zoo development in Australia.
[Perth:]: Zoological Gardens Board of WA, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
A field guide to crustaceans of Australian waters.
Chatswood: Reed Books, (1994. first edition). Octavo, colour photographs, illustrations, softcover. More
Australasian marsupials and monotremes: an Action Plan for their conservation.
Gland: IUCN, 1992. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
The conservation status of Australia's insect fauna.
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1978. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
The ecology of pests: some Australian case histories.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations, scuffed softcover otherwise good copy. More
Properties of timbers imported into Australia,
Melbourne: CSIRO Division of Building Research, [1977. second edition). Octavo, CSIRO Division of Building Research, Technical Paper (Second Series), No. 17. More
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Australian vertebrata: fossil and Recent [drop title].
Sydney: Industrial Progress of N.S.W. being a Report of the Intercolonial Exhibition, 1871. Small octavo, Modern full calf, bookplates of David McPhee, some foxing, scarce. Ferguson 11247a. More
Catalogue of mammalia in the collection of the Australian Museum.
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1864. Duodecimo, Original publisher's plain blue wrappers, modern solander box, very scarce. More
Two papers on the vertebrata of the Lower Murray and Darling; and on snakes observed in the neighbourhood of Sydney.
Sydney: Reading and Wellbank, Printers, 1865. Octavo, Modern binder's cloth with gilt title, very scarce. The author's reprint with a separately published title page. Originally published in the Transactions of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales. Both Krefft papers are of great interest, the first paper particularly so as..... More
Guide to sea fishes of Australia.
Frenchs Forest: New Holland, 1996. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, softcover. Each species account is accompanied by one or more colour photographs, nearly all of which show the fishes in their natural habitat. More than 950 species are described. More