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London: Collins, (1972. reprint). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist Monograph 16. More
London: Collins, (1972. reprint). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist Monograph 16. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1907. Octavo, photographs and text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth, bookplate of Roy Cooper. More
London: John Murray, 1978. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Quarto, dustwrapper, illustrations. A stunningly illustrated book about selective breeding - the ongoing transformation of animals at the hand of man. More important, it's a book about selective breeding on a far, far grander scale - a scale that encompasses all life on Earth. We'd..... More
New York: Springer Verlag, 1979. Octavo, text illustrations, inscribed by the author plus owner's signature, laminated boards. More
Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, (2009. second edition). Octavo, textillustrations, maps, softcover. The mysteries of migration have puzzled birders and prompted scientific inquiry for years. In this revised and updated edition, Paul Kerlinger unravels the intricacies of migration. Using case studies and illustrations, he explains the basics of flight, the effects of..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Simon and Schuster, 1993. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. Octavo, paperback, diagrams. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, 1867. Large octavo, 36 handcoloured engraved plates. Early brown calf and marbled boards, all edges coloured, a few inoffensive spots, otherwise a handsome copy. This edition of Histoire naturelle de Lacepede was first published in 1856 and "the many subsequent volumes and editions [of treatises..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Large octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations. James L. Patton served as Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and as Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1969 until 2001. This book aims to bring..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Octavo, softcover. The volume covers such topics as the reasons for extinctions, the best ways to measure biodiversity, and the benefits and drawbacks of policies like captive breeding. More
Portland: Timber Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, line drawings, maps. When we see a bird flying from branch to branch happily chirping, it is easy to imagine they lead a simple life of freedom, flight, and feathers. What we don t see is the arduous, life-threatening challenges..... More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2014. Octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in papered boards. An accessible, informative, and beautifully illustrated guide to the mysteries of ornithological Latin. It reveals the meaning, origin, and pronunciation of Latin binomials, helping readers to get to grips with the highly useful information that these..... More
London: Bloomsbury Books, 2021. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. Avian vagrancy is a phenomenon that has fascinated natural historians for centuries. From Victorian collectors willing to spend fortunes on a rare specimen, to today's high-octane bird-chasing 'twitchers', the enigma of vagrancy has become a lifelong obsession for countless ornithologists worldwide..... More
Washington DC: Government Printer, 1879. Quarto, 48 sepia chromolithographs, ex-library stamps, publisher's cloth. Report of the United States geological survey of the territories, volume twelve. More
New York: Lyons & Burford, 1996. Octavo, softcover. In this brilliant collection of essays, Lembke shares her love and knowledge of birds and the sense of wonder they inspire. More
Washington DC: Government Printer, 1874-1878. Quarto, 30 sepia chromolithographs (pus 27 plates in the separately published plate volume), ex-library stamps, publisher's cloth. Report of the United States geological survey of the territories, volumes six and seven, plus plate volume. More
Los Angeles: Reed Books, (1978. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 2008. Quarto, publisher's cloth, line drawings. WAS $200. Provides a complete collection of words that are central to understanding the biology of amphibians and reptiles, offering concise and easy-to-use readable definitions in an A-to-Z format. More
London: Blandford Press, 1991. Octavo, Embossed owner's stamp, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: NSW University Press, 1995. Quarto, colour photographs, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This is the story of the discovery of fossil fish and of their evolution. Monster sharks, bizarre armoured fish, fish with arms, fish with a spiral whiplash of teeth - these are just some of the strange..... More
Oxford: Zoological Society of London, 1987. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
London: Hutchinson, 1903. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy. More