The Royal Society: its origins and founders.
London: The Royal Society, 1960. Octavo, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: The Royal Society, 1960. Octavo, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2014. Octavo, paperback. The annual collection celebrating the finest Australian science writing of the year. Why are Sydney's golden orb weaver spiders getting fatter and fitter? Could sociology explain the recent upsurge in prostate cancer diagnoses? Why were Darwinites craving a good storm during 'The Angry Summer'..... More
New York: Ecco, 2007. Octavo, black and white illustrations, dustwrapper. From the author of Winter world: the ingenuity of animal survival and Ravens in winter comes the remarkable story of his fathers life, his family's past, and how the forces of history and nature shaped his own life. Also available..... More
London: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2001. Octavo, inscribed by the authors,softcover. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, volume 132, number 3. More
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2011. Octavo, black and white illustrations, paperback. The chronicle of novelist Richard Horan's quest to gather seeds from trees at the homes of America's most beloved authors. A heartfelt paean to the writers of America's past, this book is equally a wise, funny, and enthralling..... More
Amsterdam: De Erven van F. Houttuyn, 1767. Octavo, nine uncoloured folding lithographic plates. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, some wear and crushed corners, later endpapers. The insect volume from the 37 volume 'Natuurlyke Historie of uitvoerige Beschryving der Dieren, Planten en Mineraalen, volgens het Samenstel van den Heer Linnaeus'..... More
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1919. Octavo, a very good copy in the publisher's cloth. More
Oxon: Routledge, 2013. Octavo, softcover. Today's celebrity conservationists play a major role in drawing public attention to an increasingly threatened world. One of the first books to address this contribution, it focuses on five key figures: English naturalist David Attenborough, French marine adventurer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, American primatologist Dian Fossey, Canadian..... More
Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 1967. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
New York: Doubleday andCompany, 1973. Quarto, plates and text illustrations, fine copy in cracked slipcase. More
Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Michael R. Jeffords and Susan L. Post have circled the globe, and explored their neighborhood, collecting images of the natural world. This book opens their personal cabinet of curiosities to tell the stories of the pair's most unusual encounters. From..... More
New York: Mayflower Books, 1978, Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: John Murray, 1928. Octavo, maps, minor foxing confined to preliminaries and edges, bookplates, publisher's cloth, fine copy. More
Melbourne: Lothian, (1986. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, signature, softcover. More
Lawrence: University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, 1969. Octavo, paperback, photographs, graphs, tables, a few blemishes. More
London: The Tryon Gallery, 1976. Folio, 15 plates with tissue guards. Publisher's half velum and maroon cloth boards by Zaehnsdorf, limited to 506 numbered and signed copies, slipcase. More
Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2013. Quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. Presents the best of Museum Victoria's remarkable collection of natural history artworks. The book opens with the "paper museums" of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, stunning collections of the bizarre and fabulous, each one exquisitely depicted. It presents the valiant artistic efforts..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, Keim pairs cutting-edge science with a deep love of nature, conveying his insights in prose that is both accessible and beautiful. In an elegant, thoughtful tour of nature in the twenty-first century, Keim continues in the tradition of Lewis Thomas, Stephen Jay Gould..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 2014. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. During his childhood, Richard Kerridge loved to catch wild creatures for his back-garden zoo, newts caught his attention first of all, as the nearest he could get to the African wildlife he watched on television. There..... More
Sydney: Harper Collins, 2020. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific knowledge. By award-winning bestselling writer Grantlee..... More
New York: Picador, 2011. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. An epic account of the extraordinary life and adventures of legendary explorer and taxidermist Carl Akeley, who revolutionized taxidermy and environmental conservation and created the famed African Hall at New York's Museum of Natural History. Akeley risked death time and..... More
Australia: Oxford University Press, (1994. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. The book is intended for undergraduate students of biogeography and ecology, environmental sciences and general readers interested in conservation. More
London: Portman Books, (1989. reprint). Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: Walker & co., 1997. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Quercus, 2009. Folio, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. A journey through the diversity, complexity and majesty of the Animal Kingdom. Discover how primitive slime fungi cells coalesce and function for a time as a single animal, or witness the millions of Monarch butterflies that aggregate on trees..... More