Breeding birds of Britain and Ireland: a historical survey.
Berkhamsted: Poyser, 1973. Octavo, illustrations, maps, dustwrapper. More
Berkhamsted: Poyser, 1973. Octavo, illustrations, maps, dustwrapper. More
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2018. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. This book puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing behaviours inconsistent with the..... More
London: Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. With over a million visitors a year, Kew is one of the world's best-loved gardens. As well as having a fascinating history and holding an unchallenged position as the world's leading botanical research institute, it is a paradise for plant lovers..... More
London: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 2008. Quarto, colour photographs. The Natural History Museum, London is home to one of the world's most important and comprehensive collections of natural history specimens, literature and artworks. This book is a celebration of over 200 of the Museum's most treasured possessions..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, line drawings, maps. As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet's mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums, to sloths and sakis. This biological..... More
Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing, 2013. Quarto, dustwrapper, photographs, colour illustrations. Explores the ongoing relationship between humans and dolphins in New Zealand. It tells the stories of many remarkable encounters, featuring all of the famous dolphins, such as Pelorus Jack from the early years of the 20th century, Opp in the..... 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
Geelong: Neptune Press, 1976. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2015. Octavo, softcover. In her nearly 60-year career as a groundbreaking primatologist and a passionate conservationist, Jane Goodall has touched the hearts of millions of people. This book is a collection of testimonies by her friends and colleagues honouring her as a scientific pioneer, an..... 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
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2010. Octavo, colour illustrations, inscribed by the author, softcover. When Silvester Diggles arrived in 1855 there was little artistic or scientific talent in the small frontier town of Brisbane. By the time of his death in 1880, his paramount legacy was a large book on Australian birds..... More
London: British Museum Press, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Now in a fresh new paperback format, this book showcases the British Museum's vast collection of bird images from all over the world. Some are primarily decorative, whereas Thomas Bewick and the Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro chose to show birds in..... More
St Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden, 2011. Octavo, paperback, line drawings. "Realizing Nature`s Potential: The Once and Future King of Drug Discovery" was a two-day event held at the Missouri Botanical Garden in the fall of 2006 in honor of Dr Gordon Cragg. Dr Cragg, former chief of the Natural Products..... More
London: Collins, 1950. Octavo, endpaper map, a very good copy in chipped dustwrapper. More
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1963. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, illustrations. Best-selling palaeontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping, scientific history of life on Earth. Recounting the adventures behind each discovery and fully interpreting their significance within the larger fossil record..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2016. Octavo, photographs, illustrations, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. From the dawn of civilization scorpions have captured the human imagination. Yet the scorpion is often a misunderstood animal with a bad reputation that overshadows its many exceptional qualities. Older than dinosaurs, these small arthropods have survived for hundreds..... More
New York: W W Norton & Company, 1992. Quarto, colour photographs, bookplate, slightly chipped dustwrapper. Treasures and oddities of natural history collectors from Peter the Great to Louis Agassiz. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Octavo, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums' shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain..... More
Paris: Librarie Encyclopedique De Roret, 1842. Octavo, twelve uncoloured lithographic plates, signature, binder's cloth. Text in French. More
Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2001. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Tells the history of Museum Victoria from its early beginnings as the National Museum of Victoria established in 1854 and The Industrial and Technological Museum established in 1870. Operating independently for over a century, the two merged in 1983. This..... More
London: Poyser, 2005. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps, dustwrapper. This stunning new Poyser title looks at the flora and fauna of Lapland - that area of northern Europe and northwestern Russia which lies within the Arctic circle. After general introductions, the book examines the Lapland ecosystems and species by..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2014. Octavo, photographs and illustrations, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. Despite our familiarity with dolphins, many people remain ill-informed about how they evolved, how they function and how they have interacted with humans for millennia. This book dives into the dolphin's zoology, as well as its social and..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1986. reprint). Octavo, 506 pp. softcover. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947. Octavo, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper. More