Catalog of living whales.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1966. Octavo, softcover Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 246. More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1966. Octavo, softcover Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 246. More
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1966. Octavo, bookplate, binder's cloth, wrappers retained. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 246. More
London: Collins, (1974. first edition). Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper (not price-clipped). New Naturalist 57. More
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962. Octavo, photographs, signature, worn dustwrapper. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Octavo, laminated boards, photographs, maps. Whale-watching has been portrayed by destinations and business operators, and advocated by environmental groups, as a sustainable activity and a humane alternative to whaling. In recent years however, the sustainability of these activities has increasingly been questioned, as research shows..... More
New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1962-1971. Quarto, text illustrations, folding maps, very good set in dustwrappers. Volume 1: Physical Oceanography. Volume 2: The composition of sea-water. Comparative and descriptive oceanography. Volume 3: The earth beneath the sea. History. Volume 4: New concepts of sea floor evolution [two volumes]. More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1997. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. WAS $50. A compilation of research papers from leading marine mammal scientists examining trends in marine mammal studies. More
San Francisco: Friends of the Earth, 1978. Octavo, illustraions, softcover. More
Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, (1978-1982). Quarto, text illustrations, a fine set in dustwrappers. Volume one: Report of the FAO Advisary Committee on Marine Resources Research. Volume two: Pinniped species summaries and report on sirenians. Volume three: General papaers and large cetaceans. Volume four: Small cetaceans..... More
London: PRC Publishing, 1999. Quarto, text illustrations. Owner's stamp, some minor scuffing to dustwrapper, otherwise a very good copy. More
London: Profile, 2007. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper. WAS $60. The Antarctic Peninsula is for all of us an early warning system. This brilliant book tells the story of Antarctic warming and of how scientists are piecing together the jigsaw of causes and impacts, here in particular through a study of..... More
London: Profile, 2007. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. The Antarctic Peninsula is for all of us an early warning system. This brilliant book tells the story of Antarctic warming and of how scientists are piecing together the jigsaw of causes and impacts, here in particular through a study of the changing..... More
Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 2005. Quarto, colour photographs,k dustwrapper. This exploration of the oceans describes the marine plants and animals that inhabit our planet, whether in the coldest water of the ice-bound poles, the warmest tropical seas, at the surface or in the deep ocean. The text is combined..... More
London: Croom Helm, 1985. Octavo, colour photographs.. dustwrapper. More
Tokyo: National Institute of Polar Research, 1990. Octavo, black and white photographs, other illustrations, light wear wrappers, signature. More
New York: Facts on File, 1983. Quarto, colour photographs, very good in dustwrapper. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, owner's sticker, fine copy in dustwrapper. One of the great seabird reference books. Petrels, albatrosses, and storm-petrels are among the least known of all the world's birds, living their lives at sea far from the sight of most people. Enigmatic and..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. Peterson Reference Guide. An authoritative reference guide covers the 36 species of gulls that occur in North and South America, contains 1,160 photographs illustrating the many plumages gulls display as they mature, and provides descriptions by two..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A state-of-the-art photographic field guide to the world's oceanic birds. Oceanic birds are among the most remarkable but least known of all birds, living at sea, far from the sight of most people. They offer unusual identification challenges with many..... More
Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2017. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations. In this book award-winning author and whale researcher Erich Hoyt takes readers into the field for an intimate encounter with some 90 species of cetaceans that make their homes in the world's oceans. Drawing on decades of firsthand experience..... More
Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, (2023. second edition), Quarto, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. In this updated edition, award-winning author and whale researcher Erich Hoyt takes readers into the field for an intimate encounter with 93 species of cetaceans that make their homes in the world's oceans, rivers and lakes. Drawing..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1984. Octavo, photographs and textillustrations, softcover. More
Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 2001. Octavo, laminated boards, maps. This monograph on marine biodiversity is a result of 132 experts comprehensively and systematically researching and compiling the species recorded in China's seas in the last 70 years. From bacteria to mammals, over 20,000 species were verified. Each species entry includes..... More
Durban: Oceanographic Research Institute, 1974. Octavo, wrappers, illustrations, tables, fine copy. Investigational report No. 35. More
Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, (2023. third edition, revised), Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Marine plants of Australia is fully referenced and has numerous descriptions and line drawings, detailing many of the intricacies of this surprisingly complex group of plants. It is be an invaluable identification guide. This..... More