Animals for man.
London: Edward Arnold, 1977. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, softcover. Studies in biology, number 78. More
London: Edward Arnold, 1977. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, softcover. Studies in biology, number 78. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Quarto, dustwrapper, illustrations. A stunningly illustrated book about selective breeding - the ongoing transformation of animals at the hand of man. More important, it's a book about selective breeding on a far, far grander scale - a scale that encompasses all life on Earth. We'd..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. Small quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Covers the 38 most familiar breeds of pigs in Europe and North America. The breed profiles are written in engaging text that covers the history of each breed, its main characteristics and information about how to look after them. Each breed..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. In 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting scientific..... More
Johannesburg: Central News Agency, 1912. Small octavo, photographs. Publisher's quarter cloth and printed boards, some slight wear. More
Mile End: Wakefield Press, 2019. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. During the last century, global domestic cat numbers rocketed past 200 million, along with a surge in cat diseases and numbers of feral cats and sick, injured and malnourished cats. Cat shelters are overflowing. Hundreds of thousands of cats..... More
London: Baillière Tindall, 1982. seventh edition). Quarto, text illustrations, laminated boards. More
London: Reaktion Books, 2015. Octavo, photographs, illustrations, bookplate, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. Guinea pigs are a popular pet for those looking for an alternative to dogs and cats. They are increasingly bred for looks, shaped by humans in search of an ideal appearance. But it was guinea pigs that influenced..... More