Zoological Catalogue of Australia, volume three. Arachnida: Mygalomorphae, Araneomorphae in part, Pseudoscorpionida, Amblypygi and Palpigradi.
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1985. Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1985. Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, tables. The Coccinellidae are a family of beetles, known variously as ladybirds or ladybugs. In Britain alone, some 46 species belong to the Coccinellidae family, although only 26 of these are recognisably ladybirds. Composed largely of Professor Michael Majerus' lifetime..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, (2015. second edition). Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. Now in its second edition, this book has been thoroughly updated and is now far more comprehensive than the original edition. Containing over 3000 stunning full colour photographs, this book is the perfect single-volume guide to Britain's moths..... More
New York: Pergamon Press, 1962. Octavo, text illustrations. Pure and Applied Biology, volume eleven. More
Petaluma: Pomegranate, 2008. Quarto, colour photographs, good copy in dustwrapper. This book presents the compositions of Christopher Marley: assemblages of real insect bodies that display brilliant colour and otherworldly form. The colours are entirely natural, and to render the reproductions as accurate as possible some have been reproduced with fifth-colour..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2016. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. Much more than just another natural history of butterflies, this book explores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists alike. Beginning with the author's own experience of hunting and rearing butterflies as a boy, Peter Marren..... More
Melbourne: Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020. Octavo, paperback and CD, colour photographs. This book completes the Noctuoidea and covers the Victorian Noctuidae. The accompanying CD contains over 440 pages of Noctuids, 50 pages of updates for previous MoVs, Full Checklist for MoV9 and full index for the full series (books..... More
Melbourne: Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, CD-ROM. Part four in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part covers the Emeralds and allies. Part one see [stock id 28859], part two [28868, part three [32931], part five..... More
Melbourne: Entomological Society of Victoria, (2017. second edition, reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, CD-ROM. This is the first part in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This handy sized booklet figures the 85 species of Silk moths found in Victoria, Australia..... More
Melbourne: Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, CD-ROM. Part three in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part covers the Looper caterpillars which are a familiar sight on plants everywhere. Most belong to the geometrid family of..... More
Melbourne: Entomological Society of Victoria, (2009. second edition), Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, CD-ROM. Part two in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This handy sized booklet features 150 species of Tiger moths in six families found in Victoria, Australia. Species are..... More
Melbourne: Entomological Society of Victoria, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, CD-ROM. Part two in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This handy sized booklet features 150 species of Tiger moths in six families found in Victoria, Australia. Species are set to..... More
Perth: Western Australian Museum, 2020. Octavo, paperback, limp plastic, colour photographs maps. This comprehensive guide covers over 200 species of shallow water seastars found in Australia, how to identify them, where they live, what they eat, when and how they reproduce, and many other fascinating aspects of their biology... More
Perth: Western Australian Museum, (2010. revised edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Our coastline extends from the tropical waters of the north to the temperate waters in the south, and attracts thousands of swimmers, sailors, skindivers, fishers, naturalists and beach walkers. This heavily illustrated and informative book identifies those animals in..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations. Crustaceans, familiar to the average person as shrimp, lobsters, crabs, krill, barnacles, and their many relatives, are easily one of the most important and diverse groups of marine life forms. Poorly understood, they are among the most numerous invertebrates..... More
Wellington: Government Printer, 1887. Octavo, 23 chromolithograph plates. Publisher's cloth, a very good copy. More
Sydney: Linnean Society of New South Wales, Octavo, Publisher's printed wrappers, interleaved, anotations, spots throughout. The classic taxonomy of Australian coleoptera. Masters became assistant curator at the Australian Museum in 1864 but left in 1874 to become curator of the MacLeay Collection, a position he held until his death in..... More
Sydney: Linnean Society of New South Wales, Octavo, plain wrappers, interleaved, anotations, spots throughout. The classic taxonomy of Australian coleoptera. Masters became assistant curator at the Australian Museum in 1864 but left in 1874 to become curator of the MacLeay Collection, a position he held until his death in 1912..... More
Brisbane: UQP, (1984. second edition), Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
New York: Springer-Verlag, 1977. Octavo, text illustrations. Proceedings in Life Sciences. More
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co.,1909. Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's colour printed cloth, expertly rebacked preserving a good remnant of the printed spine, new endpapers a sound copy. More
Lincoln: Manaaki Whenua Press, 1993. octavo, paperback, text illustrations. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2020. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The Inside Out of Flies is a look under the bonnet at the astonishing mechanics of fly anatomy. Erica McAlister reveals the engineering miracles embodied in each species of fly and some of the fascinating implications they hold for human technology. Discover..... More
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. This book takes the reader on a journey through a hidden world of snail killers, silly names and crazy sex lives. Entomologist Erica McAlister gets under the wings of these crucial creatures as she ventures into the land of the fly..... More
Melbourne: Government Printer, 1885-1890. Large octavo, 199 handsome lithographed plates (including 172 chromolithographs) of mammals, reptiles and fish. Later binder's blue cloth, a very good clean set. The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria is an underrated work of Australian natural history; the plates are handsome and the text scholarly..... More