List of the specimens of neuropterous insects in the collection of the British museum. Part two: Sialidae- Nemopterides.
London: British Museum, 1853. Duodecimo, publisher's plain blue wrappers. More
London: British Museum, 1853. Duodecimo, publisher's plain blue wrappers. More
London: British Museum, 1859-1870. Octavo, Binder's quarter morocco and cloth boards, a few library stamps, otherwise a handsome set. With Australian descriptions. More
Adelaide: Publishers Limited, 1956. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1890. Octavo, 15 chromolithographic plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, hinges slightly cracked, otherwsie a near fine copy (NOT AS PICTURED). Volume 15 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1865. Octavo, 20 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's cloth, very good copy. 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
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
London: Printed by order of the trustees, 1916. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth, bookplate, small library stamp on blank endpaper, a very good copy. Volume five: Perissodactyla (horses, tapirs, rhinoceroses), Hyracoidea (huraxes), Proboscidae (elephants). More
London: British Museum, 1909. Octavo, uncoloured plates and text illustrations, lacks printed wrappers but tipped-in. More
Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1986. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
London: Natural History Museum, 2000. Quarto, colour photographs, other illustrations, softcover. An exploration of natural history past, present and future drawing on the collections of the Natural History Museum, London and other sources. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Quarto, colour photographs and illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Philadelphia developed the most active scientific community in early America, fostering an influential group of naturalist-artists, including William Bartram, Charles Willson Peale, Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon, whose work has been addressed by many..... More
London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1912. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, neat library stamp on the title page, otherwise a fine copy. More
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1912. Octavo, Handsome contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards, wrappers retained, with the bookplate of Thomas Barbour, a fine copy. United States National Museum Bulletin number 79. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1980. Quarto, one plate, softcover. More
New York: Macmillan, 1936. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in publisher's cloth. One of the best bird books ever written and no bird book library, let alone seabird library, is complete without a copy. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1976. Quarto, softcover. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1893. Octavo, eight chromolithographic plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps, partly unopened, a near fine copy. Volume 22 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898... More
Sydney: Government Printer, 1883. Octavo, publisher's wrappers, chipped and grubby. More
London: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 2008. Quarto, colour photographs. The Natural History Museum, London is home to one of the world's most important and comprehensive collections of natural history specimens, literature and artworks. This book is a celebration of over 200 of the Museum's most treasured possessions..... More
Paris: Chez Albessard et Berard, 1860. Duodecimo, three folding uncoloured plates, later quarter cloth and marbled boards. More
Melbourne: Science Museum of Victoria, 1972. Quarto, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: British Museum Press, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Now in a fresh new paperback format, this book showcases the British Museum's vast collection of bird images from all over the world. Some are primarily decorative, whereas Thomas Bewick and the Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro chose to show birds in..... More
New York: W W Norton & Company, 1992. Quarto, colour photographs, bookplate, slightly chipped dustwrapper. Treasures and oddities of natural history collectors from Peter the Great to Louis Agassiz. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Octavo, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums' shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain..... More