Zoological Catalogue of Australia, volume 22. Protura, Collembola, Diplura.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1994. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1994. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
London: Transworld Publishers, (2015. reprint). Octavo, paperback, One puff adder, one antelope, one crocodile - This was the list of sick animals presented to Oliver Graham-Jones on his first day as a new vet at London Zoo in 1951. And his time at the zoo didn't get any less strange..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Octavo, photographs, signature, dustwrapper. "[This] is a book for zoo people entering the twenty-first century because it synthesizes the theoretical and practical knowledge of wild mammals in captivity acquired so rapidly and abundantly in the last three decades. More
New York: Tom Doherty, 1990. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1903. Quarto, three plates, including one chromolithograph of the Okapi. Binder's cloth, two small library stamps including one on the title page, corners of pages creased and crushed. The full volume of Transaction of the Zoological Society of London, volume 16, with the following papers..... More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1987. Octavo, More
London: Hutchinson, 1903. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy. More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1985. Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1997. Quarto, colour paintings and drawings by Pamela Conder, fine copy in dustwrapper. Examines the role of zoos, particularly in relation to education and conservation, as well as exploring some of the aspects of animal diversity, evolution and behaviour. More
Wellingborough: Thorsons Publishing Group, 1987. Octavo, Black and white photographs, signature, paperback. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Focusing on Tokyo's historic Ueno Zoo, Ian Miller shows how the facility played a critical role in legitimating Japan's project of imperial expansion in the public mind. Founded in 1882, the zoo served as one of the primary..... More
[New York]: National Academies Press, (2010. eighth edition). Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. This respected guide has been revised by a committee of experts, based on input from scientists and the public. The guide incorporates recent research on commonly used species, including farm animals, and includes extensive references. The committee discusses..... More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1909-1910. Quarto, 23 chromolithographic plates, one uncoloured. Contemporary half calf, some slight wear, all edges gilt, a fine clean copy. The entire volume nineteen of the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. The expedition to the Ruwenzori Mountains in what was then the British..... More
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1990. Quarto, colour photographs, signature, dustwrapper. More
Bowden: East Street Publications, 2007. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. Stories from Stone Hills Wildlife Sanctuary in Zimbabwe. See also stock id [33957]. More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. Zoo Keys 123. The assassin spiders of the family Archaeidae are an ancient and iconic lineage of basal araneomorph spiders, characterised by a specialised araneophagic ecology and unique, ‘pelican-like' cephalic morphology. Found throughout the rainforests, wet sclerophyll forests and mesic..... More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2012. Octavo, paperback, photographs, colour illustrations, line drawings, maps. Zoo Keys 191. The assassin spiders of the family Archaeidae from southern Australia are revised, with a new genus (Zephyrarchaea gen. n.) and nine new species described from temperate, mesic habitats in southern Victoria, South Australia and south-western Western..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Robbins considers nearly every aspect of France's obsession with exotic fauna, from the vast literature on exotic animals and the inner workings of the oiseleurs' (birdsellers') guild to how the animals were transported, housed and cared for... More
Irvington: Columbia University Press, 2004. Octavo, dustwrapper, illustrations. Based on fifteen years of work at the world-famous San Diego Zoo, this charming book reveals the hazards and rewards of running a modern zoo. Also available in paperback [stock id 32888]. More
Napier, New Zealand;: Hawks Bay Art Gallery & Museum, (1950. third edition). Octavo, photographs, wrappers. with a photograph of Kiwis by Russell Orr. Some observations on the famous flightless birds of New Zealand as told to Robert Giddings by the author at the Acclimatization Farm near Napier. Nesting records have..... More
New York: New York Zoological Society, 1912. Oblong format, colour photographs, publisher's coloutred wrappers. More
London: Oxford University Press, (1963. third edition). Octavo, text illustrations, signature, minor annotations. Originally published in 1931. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. This highly acclaimed author looks back on his fifty years as a wildlife researcher specializing in marine mammals: seals, sea otters, whales, dolphins, walruses, manatees and dugongs. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Describes the historical relationship between elephants and humans, discussing their ecological significance, prospects for their extinction, efforts to preserve the species, and the use of elephants in warfare and industry. More
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1949. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper. David Seth-Smith (1875–1963) was the curator of mammals and birds for the Zoological Society of London, long term editors the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, the Avicultural Magazine and a regular BBC broadcaster. He visited Australia twice..... More