Into the crocodile nest: a journey inside New Guinea.
London: Macmillan, 1987. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Macmillan, 1987. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Melle: Mergus, (1981. second edition). Quarto, colour photographs, chipped dustwrapper. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968. Octavo, some stains to dustwrappers, otherwise a very good set. More
New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1984. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. More
Leiden: E J Brill, 1987. Octavo, photographs, paperback, bookplate of David Mcphee. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. second edition). Octavo, text illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Macmillan and Co.Limited, 1894. Large octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, some slight wear, new endpapers, a sound copy. More
Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 1995. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. WAS $150. This is the first published work on the reptile and amphibian variations that occur naturally or through selective breeding. These animals with conspicuously altered colours and patterns are often quite beautiful. Profusely illustrated. More
London: Methuen and Co., 1952. Octavo, maps, lacks dustwrapper. More
Milson's Point: Currawong Press, (1982. facsimile). Octavo, colour plates, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. First published 1860. An important early work on the Platypus. Bennett sent specimens, plus his own observations, to Richard Owen and the mystery was finally solved. More
London: John Van Voorst, 1860. Octavo, eight handcoloured lithographs by George French Angas. Publisher's blindstamped purple cloth, typically faded spine, a near fine copy. Bennett was particularly interested in the Platypus and his account of this extraordinary animal in Gatherings is a classic. "The drawings, with a few exceptions, are..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. This comprehensive appraisal of avian diversity is divided into five sections - Comparative biology of birds; Natural selection and diversity in life-histories; Sexual selection and diversity in mating systems; Birth and death of bird species; and Conclusions. More
Tring: British Ornithologists' Club, 1999. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, paperback. British Ornithologists' Club Occassional Publication, number four. More
Helsinki: Publisher unknown, 1960. Large octavo, text illustrations, publisher's wrappers, a very good set. More
London: Academic Press, 1970. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in worn dustwrapper. Symposium of the Zoological Society of London, number 26. More
London: Collins, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist number 61. More
London: Collins, (1980. first edition). Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, scarce. New Naturalist 64. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Zoo Keys 209. Centuries of exploration and discovery have documented the diversity of life on Earth. Records of this biodiversity are, for the most part, distributed across varied and distinct natural history collections worldwide. This makes the task of extracting and mobilising the..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Small octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. In this entertaining and illuminating book, the biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals (including humans). More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Small octavo, paperback, In this entertaining and illuminating book, the biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals (including humans). Now available in paperback. More
New York: The Free Press, 1993. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This volume explores hominoid evolution in Eurasia during the Miocene. What is the place of Europe in the origin of humankind? Whilst our earliest human ancestors may have come out of Africa, many of our more..... More