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New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1972. Large octavo, photographs, signature, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. A classic early account of cooperative nesting. More
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1972. Large octavo, photographs, signature, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. A classic early account of cooperative nesting. More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. Large octavo, colour illustrations, dustwrapper. From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. The Arcana or Museum of Nature ran to 22 monthly parts, with 84 extraordinary hand-coloured plates and over 300 text..... More
London: Natural History Museum, 2001. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Part of the Life Series, Natural History Museum. Various chapters include the coral reef environment; butterflyfishes and angelfishes; damselfishes and anemonefishes; groupers and seabasses; wrasses; grazers and crushers; bottom-dwelling fishes; nocturnal fishes; hunters; and conservation. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. This memoir presents one man's lifelong love of the ocean and gives a highly personal, behind-the-scenes look at California's innovative aquariums. David Powell, for many years curator of the world-renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium, tells the story of his life as..... More
Australia: (2002. second edition), Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. All the rigs and techniques required to catch our sport fish are included in this guide. Over 300 of Australia's most popular sport fish are listed and accompanied with details on identification, distribution, fishing techniques, rigs and eating quality. More
Sydney: [Australian Museum], (1874-1898. second edition). Octavo, Publisher's wrappers, some chipping, scarce. The second edition with additions by A. J. North. More
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. A comprehensive guide to reef and shore fishes found in the South Pacific. It covers the inshore fish fauna of New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, the Southern Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Tuvalu, Fiji, the Wallis Islands, Tonga, Samoa..... More
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Covers 342 species. More
London: E. W. Janson, 1874. Quarto, ten uncoloured lithograhic plates. Publisher's quarter cloth and printed stif card with title, a fine set The complete Janson printing of the Insect volume of the Zoology of the Erebus and Terror. The title page reads 'Insects by Adam White and Arthur Gardiner Butler'..... More
London: E. W. Janson, 1844-1847. Quarto, 60 uncoloured lithographed plates. Modern half calf and marbled boards, wrappers retained, uncut, a fine copy, scarce. The complete fishes section from The Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus & Terror edited by John Richardson and John Edward Gray. British Museum..... More
London: E. W. Janson, 1839-1843. Quarto, text double column, 60 lithographed plates. Modern quarter morocco and boards, retaining original publisher's printed title wrapper, a fine copy. More
London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Quarto, five handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary binder's cloth, one leaf with circular tear into the bottom line of text, one plate with small circular tear to corner but not affecting image, otherwise a clean copy, very scarce. The first monograph on Australian fish..... More
London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Quarto, five handcoloured engraved plates. Publisher's printed wrappers, a fine copy, all contained in a quarter calf box with marbled boards, very scarce. The first monograph on Australian fish and the only monograph with handcoloured plates of Australian fish. This is also the..... More
Melle: Mergus, 1997. Octavo, colour photographs, very good set in dustwrappers (slight tear to volume two). The English translation of Baensch's massive work on freshwater aquarium fish and related subjects. More
Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 2006. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. WAS $94. Shark expert Erich Ritter developed the first interaction concept for encounters between man and shark. This book provides advice regarding what divers should do in certain situations. It is suitable for divers and those with an interest in..... More
Arkansas: University of Arkansas, 1988. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Immel, 1995. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations, photographs, line drawings, maps. The freshwater fish fauna of North America is the most diverse and thoroughly researched temperate fish fauna in the world. This textbook provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers with an up-to-date and integrated..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Octavo, text illustrations and photographs, sofcover. During the late 1960s and 1970s, massive herds of poisonous crown-of-thorns starfish suddenly began to infest coral reef communities around the world, leaving in their wake devastation comparable to a burnt-out rainforest. In What is Natural?, Jan Sapp..... More
New York: Norton, [1987. first edition). Octavo, Owner's stamp, dustwrapper slightly worn, otherwise a good copy in dustwrapper. More
Adelaide: Government Printer, (1962. first edition). Octavo, illustrations, signature, softcover. More
London: Dulau and Co., 1896. Quarto, uncoloured plates. Publisher's green cloth, a fine copy. The Horn Expedition was the most comprehensive record of a scientific expedition undertaken in Australia in the nineteenth century. Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer was the leader of the expedition and the principal editor of the official..... More
London and Melbourne: Dulau and Co./Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1896. Octavo, text illustrations; a total of 69 plates including eleven zoological chromolithographs (three bird plates by Neville Cayley senior; three mammal, four reptile and one frog), folding map. Publisher's dark blue cloth (a little tired and rubbed). The Horn Expedition..... 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