Antarctic research.
London: Butterworths, 1964. Quarto, photographs, slipcase, ex library with stamps. More
London: Butterworths, 1964. Quarto, photographs, slipcase, ex library with stamps. More
London: Butterworths, 1964. Quarto, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in publisher's cloth. 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
London: Collins, 1947. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1887. Quarto, stamps, lithograph plates, printed wrappers, chipped and detached. More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, (1988. reprint). Small quarto, illustrations. Publisher's linen cloth (lacks slipcase), a very good set. More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, (1987. first edition). Small quarto, illustrations. Publisher's linen cloth, a very good set (lacks slipcase). More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. Octavo, some scuff marks and foxing, otherwise a good copy. More
New York: Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 1965. Small quarto, black and white photographs, very good in wrappers. More
London: Collins, 1985. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Macmillan, 1899. Large octavo, four folding coloured maps and text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, slightly flecked, a very good copy. More
Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1971. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988. Small folio, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This volume contains many little-known works of art from the voyage of the first fleet and from the early years of settlement, selected from more than 600 drawings and paintings of Australian subjects held in the British Museum..... More
Sydney: Harper and Row, 1990. Quarto, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Washington DC: Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 1904. Octavo, binder's cloth, very good copy. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences volume five. More
London: J M Dent, 1986. Quarto, colour photographs, a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London and Melbourne: Dulau and Co./Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1896. Large octavo, text illustrations; a total of 69 plates including eleven zoological chromolithographs (three mammal, three bird by Neville Cayley senior, four reptile and one frog), folding map. Publisher's handsome blue cloth, uncut and partly unopened, a fine copy. The..... More
Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. When the British first arrived on Australia's shores at the end of the eighteenth century, it was not only the potential of its space that tantalised them, but the extraordinary living things that they found there. Every European collector desired..... More
Sydney: The Macleay Museum, 1978. Oblong format, text illustrations, softcover. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2017. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. WAS $50. The Pacific Ocean has been the focus of our fascination for as long as we have lived beside and on it. It covers one-third of Earth's surface, greater than all of the planet's landmasses combined. It contains half..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO and Museum of Victoria, 1999. Octavo, colour photographs, colour illustrations, maps, softcover. This full colour guide will help you find and explore more than 30 of Melbourne's "wild places" selected from national parks, state forests and conservation reserves. The places described have been chosen for their habitat values..... More
Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2016. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs and illustrations, maps. 'The greatest pleasure of naturalists (understated by certain utilitarians) is to discover new species, to point to new islands on the map of nature, and to populate continents that seem to be deserts' - Richard Spruce, 1851..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2003. Octavo, text illustrations, occasional pencil annotations, otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Octavo, maps, signature, publisher's cloth. More