British butterflies.
Harmondsworth: King Penguin, 1951. Octavo, 16 colour plates by Paxton Chadwick, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Harmondsworth: King Penguin, 1951. Octavo, 16 colour plates by Paxton Chadwick, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2005. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs and other illustrations. Covers the anatomy, physiology, behaviour and ecology of both native New Zealand and introduced spiders. For ease of use, the chapters group spiders in different ways, such as habitat, size, and web type. There are also chapters..... More
Newbury: NatureBureau, 2006. Large octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This new assessment is based on the best information on butterfly populations and distributions anywhere in the world. In the 2000-04 period alone, thousands of volunteer recorders and conservationists have contributed over 1.6 million butterfly distribution records and carried out butterfly monitoring..... More
London: New Holland Publishers, 2014. Octavo, paperback, limp plastic, colour photographs, line drawings. The first comprehensive guide to cover all 79 spider families that occur in Australia. This book contains nearly 400 colour photographs of spiders and their webs, many of which have never been published before. The detailed introduction..... More
New York: W. W. Norton, 2014. Small octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. Moses Harvey was the eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist who first photographed the near-mythic giant squid in 1874, draping it over a shower curtain rod to display its magnitude. In Preparing the Ghost, what begins as..... More
London: Collins, 1959. Octavo, illustrations, signature of Doug Dorward, very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist 40. More
Melbourne: Victorian Department of Agriculture, 1891. Octavo, chromolithographs by G. C.Brittlebank. Publisher's cloth, some blemishes and sunned as usual. More
Melbourne: Victorian Department of Agriculture, 1893. Octavo, chromolithographs by G. C.Brittlebank, publisher's cloth. More
Melbourne: Victorian Department of Agriculture, 1900. Octavo, chromolithographs by G. C.Brittlebank. Publisher's cloth, some blemishes and sunned as usual, the folding Wattle Goat Moth folding plate with the usual adhesion damage. More
London: Ray Society, 1962. Octavo, text illustrations. More
Melbourne FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 2004. Octavo, black and white photographs, text illustrations, laminated boards. WAS $60. Instructions for the development of long-term breeding environments for food animals, with information on how to raise a wide variety of live food such as plankton, worms, crustaceans, molluscs, insects and mammals. Note..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1968. reprint). Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
Sydney: Cornstalk Publishing, (1924. second edition). Octavo, photographs, very good copy. More
Sydney: William Brooks & Company, [1907]. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, 37 uncoloured plates and text illustrations. Publisher's decorated cloth (NOT AS PICTURED), grubby and some splitting of spine, hinges cracked, full page inscription of Charles Woollett, and the biro inscription "J. W. Kinghorn, Australian Museum" on the title page. More
England: The Amateur Entomologists' Society, 1991. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, 1968. Octavo, illustrations, signature. More
Melbourne: Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, 1968. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. A comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to the damselflies of North, Central, and South America and companion volume to Dragonfly genera of the new world {stock id 25060]. Damselflies are more diverse and harder to identify than..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, other illustrations. A guide to the taxonomy and ecology of dragonflies in North, Middle, and South America. This volume provides keys for all dragonfly genera with descriptive text for each genus, accompanied by over 1,600 diagnostic illustrations, including wing..... More
Melbourne: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Octavo, typescript index, binder's cloth, interleaved and wrappers retained, with the signature of J. A. Singleton. John Henry Gatliff (1848-1935) emigrated to Geelong with his parents in 1857, he was a very early member of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, collaborated..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1966. Octavo, wrappers, CSIRO Bulletin No. 287. More
France: Biotope, 2012. Octavo, colour illustrations, maps, softcover. This bilingual guide allows accurate and easy identification of 640 vertebrate species. All birds, mammals (including cetaceans and bats), reptiles, amphibians and freshwater fish found in France, the Benelux and the British isles are detailed. Concise texts give the size, overall description..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This pocket-sized book is an introduction to around 240 of the most easily noticed British insects selected from a range of orders and families. Each species is divided into simple sections covering general information followed by its flight period, habitat and..... More
London: Crowood Press, 1996. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. A guide to the enormous variety of northern European insects that will enable readers to identify over 1000 species. Photographs show the species in their natural environments. The book also contains an introduction to the anatomy and life cycle of insects... More