Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum, late The Allan, formerly the Tunstall, or Wycliffe Museum.
Newcastle: T. and J. Hodgson, 1827. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, binder's cloth. More
Newcastle: T. and J. Hodgson, 1827. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, binder's cloth. More
New York: W. W. Norton, 2014. Small octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. Moses Harvey was the eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist who first photographed the near-mythic giant squid in 1874, draping it over a shower curtain rod to display its magnitude. In Preparing the Ghost, what begins as..... More
Fort William: Author, 2001. Octavo, photographs, creased softcover. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2019. second edition), Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. This second edition of Australian Bird Names is a completely updated checklist of Australian birds and the meanings behind their common and scientific names, which may be useful, useless or downright misleading! For each species, the authors examine the many-and-varied..... More
Washington DC: University of Washington Press, 2001. Octavo, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. This text considers how to develop an international environmental regime that represents a consensus of most world peoples so that its rules will be obeyed; which allows for sufficient variance from universal norms so as not to..... More
Malanda: Frith and Frith, [2008]. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $80. Bowerbirds are fascinating because of their unusual behaviour involving building complex structures, called bowers. Some bowers are like miniature buildings and are artistically decorated with flowers, fruits, bones, shells, feathers and much more, including numerous human artefacts..... More
Canberra: Redgum Publishing, 2015. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Join Bruce Gall on the trip of a lifetime, as bus and train drivers safely chauffer you 26,000 kilometres around amazing Australia. Think of all those places you've ever wanted to visit, and this journey will take you to most..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. Octavo, dustwrapper, WAS $40. What is so compelling about falconry? Tim Gallagher mines his lifelong obsession with Falcons for an answer in this engaging volume interweaving memoir, history, and travelogue. An entire subculture of the sport exists outside the mainstream of American society, consisting of obsessed..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $70. In this book Jeremy Gaskell pieces together all the important historical data and argues that the extinction of the Great Auk was inextricably bound up with the prevailing social, economic, and political conditions of the eighteenth and..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, softcover. The varied works in this volume include passionate essays on the protection of animals, vivid accounts of travel and adventure from the English seashore to the Himalayas, poetry and fiction, and marvellous tales of nature for children. Special features..... More
Hawthorn: Bloomings Books, 1999. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Dampier landed on the coast of Western Australia more than 80 years before the arrival of James Cook on the eastern coast, which made him the first explorer to set foot on Australian soil. This book documents his two..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps. Descriptions of places to visit are accompanied by maps and photographs of animals and plants. More
London: Bloomsbury Books, 2007. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds. With the passion of a birdwatcher and hoarder of words, Gibson has spent fifteen years..... More
London: Bloomsbury Books, (2005. first edition). Octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds. With the passion of a birdwatcher and hoarder of words..... More
Armidale: Kardoorair Press, 2001. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. Joseph Maiden was the Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney , first appointed in 1896, and was one of Australia's great botanist with an enourmous body of scientific literature to his name. More
Auckland: Random Century, 1990. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2014. Octavo, photographs, maps. WAS $90. An up-to-date synthesis by leading researchers, this book explores Australia’s unique predator communities from prehistoric, historic and current perspectives. It covers mammalian, reptilian and avian carnivores, both native and introduced to Australia. It also examines the debate surrounding how best to..... More
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2014. Quarto, oblong format, colour photographs, map, dustwrapper. In this new pictorial work by Axel Gomille, you can experience the magic of a world of contrasts, of ever-changing colours, exotic scents and unfamiliar sounds, that seduces all of your senses all at once. Axel Gomille is..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2019. Quarto, colour illustrations. Compact edition. Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage round the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia and Java..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations. Reaktion Animal Series. Highly regarded woodpecker expert Gerard Gorman presents a unique natural, social, and cultural history of woodpeckers. Woodpeckers are among the most remarkable birds, having evolved a unique anatomy enabling them to peck and bore into solid timber both to..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 2002. Octavo, phorographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: Harmony Books, 1997. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. Collection of essays which address the significance of the millenium. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centers, full of..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Hounds-tongue, Ragged robin, Costmary, and Pennyroyal all-heal. These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were among the great variety of flowers and herbs grown in America's colonial and early Federal gardens. In this sumptuously illustrated book, a...... More
Sydney: New South Books, 2007. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. In the summer of 2002-03, acclaimed writer and historian Tom Griffiths voyaged the Southern Ocean to Antarctica. He was on board the first Australian ship to ' slice the silence' of a year, arriving at Casey Station to deliver the new..... More