New Zealand whales and dolphins.
Wellington: The Biological Society, (1972. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, stiff wrappers, inscribed by the author for Bob Green. More
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Wild about the natives: a photographic journey through Australia's south west bushland.
Glen Forrest: Off Pen Publishing, 2012. Oblong format, laminated boards, colour photographs. A beautiful photographic book capturing the essence of spring in the south west of Western Australia. More
The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, volume two: Snipe, bustards and sand-grouse.
[Bombay]: Bombay Natural History Society, 1921. Tall octavo, 19 colour plates by H. Gronvold, photographs. Publisher's brown half morocco. More
The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon: ducks and their allies (swans, geese and ducks), volume one.
London: Bombay Natural History Society, (1921. second edition). Tall octavo, 30 coloured plates by Gronvold, Lodge and Keulemans. Publisher's half morocco, slight wear and a few spots. The stamp "Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales" on the endpapers, half title and the verso of plates; inscribed "A. J. Basset..... More
The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon: snipe, bustards and sand-grouse, volume two.
London: Bombay Natural History Society, 1921. Tall octavo, 19 colour plates by H. Gronvold, photographs. Publisher's half morocco, slight wear and a few spots. The stamp "Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales" on the endpapers, half title and the verso of plates; inscribed "A. J. Basset Hull Esq. With..... More
Ericas in Southern Africa.
Cape Town: Purnell and Sons, 1967. Octavo, colour plates, folding map. Leather bound, one corner rubbed. Numbered collector's edition, limited to 400 copies, signed by the authors and the artists. More
Ericas in Southern Africa.
Cape Town: Purnell and Sons, 1967. Octavo, colour plates, folding map. Publisher's cloth, flecked, bookplate. More
Identification guide to European non-Passerines.
Thetford: British Trust for Ornithology, 1993. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. With detailed descriptions of over 119 species. More
Identification of European non-Passerines.
Thetford: British Trust for Ornithology, (2016. second edition, revised). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, tables. This major guide improves on the original by now comprehensively covering 155 species, with descriptions of ageing and sexing methods, moult, biometrics and racial differences. It complements Lars Svensson's Identification Guide to European Passerines, and is..... More
The complete naturalist.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Nick Baker's fascination with the natural world began at an early age, inspired by Gerald and Lee Durrell's classic book The Amateur Naturalist. This book is an up-to-date, practical introduction to observing, understanding and investigating the natural world around us..... More
RSPB nature tracker's handbook.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustations. Every animal leaves some kind of trace as it passes and the art of tracking is very much like learning to read. If you learn to read the signs left by footprints, leftover food, droppings and scrapes in the earth..... More
A research on the eucalypts especially in regard to their essential oils.
Sydney: Government Printer, (1920. second edition). Quarto, monochrome plates, photographs. Publisher's red cloth, a few minor blemishes, the bookplate of John Calaby, a very good copy. More
Artist animal.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Animals have always been compelling subjects for artists, but the rise of animal advocacy and posthumanist thought has prompted a reconsideration of the relationship between artist and animal. In this book, Steve Baker examines the work of contemporary artists who..... More
Birds of Madinat Yanbu Al-Sinaiyah and its hinterland.
Ridadh: Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, 1998. octavo, publisher's decorated cloth, colour photographs, text illustrations, text in Arabic and English. Some wear to cover, otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate. More
Britain's hoverflies: an introduction to the hoverflies of Britain and Ireland.
Princeton: Princeton University Press/WILDGuides, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A beautifully illustrated photographic field guide to all the genera of hoverflies found in Britain, focusing on the species most likely to be identified. Accessible and designed to appeal to a wide audience, the book contains more than 500 remarkable..... More
Birds and Counties: an ornithological bibliography for the Counties of England, Wales, Scotland and for the Isle of Man.
London: Imperial College Press, 2000. Octavo, dustwrapper, maps. A magnificent contribution to ornithological history in the United Kingdom. Includes all known books, pamphlets and papers which contain substantial studies of the birds of local areas. Each county has an introduction on its boundaries and the history of its ornithology... More
Planet ocean: voyage to the heart of the marine realm.
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2005. Large quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Spanning the vast diversity of Earth's oceans, these fascinating ocean worlds occupy more than three quarters of our planet, and their natural richness is the source of life, yet they are still poorly understood. With through, accessible essays on..... More
Wild hope: on the front lines of conservation success.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Octavo, photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Tropical deforestation. The collapse of fisheries. Unprecedented levels of species extinction. Faced with the plethora of gloom-and-doom headlines about the natural world, we might think that environmental disaster is inevitable. But is there any good news about..... More
Bird anatomy for artists.
Redcliffe: BFineArt, 2013. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations. Foreword by Penny Olsen. This informative textbook for bird artists is a comprehensive survey of the complete bird from head to tail. The book is full of masterly illustrations that are clear and easy to understand, including black and white working drawings..... More
The general care and maintenance of popular monitors and tegus.
Santee: Advanced Vivarium Systems, 1997. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations. More
The illustrated atlas of wildlife.
California: University of California Press, 2009. Quarto, colour photographs, illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Have you ever seen an antelope the size of a cat, or a frog bigger than a lapdog? What kinds of animals thrive in the Sahara? Earth is full of incredible creatures, all specially adapted..... More
The wild side. Chronicles of nature: part one, biology without borders.
Perth: Bamford Consulting Ecologists, 2015. Octavo, publisher's boards, colour photographs and illustrations. The wild side began life in May 1997 as a weekly column in a new environment section of The West Australian newspaper. It ran until late 2003 and comprised 294 essays. This part is a collection of 35..... More
The mammals of Banff National Park.
Ottawa: Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, 1958. Octavo, wrappers, photographs, maps. National Museum of Canada Bulletin number159. More
Banks' Florilegium: a publication in thirty-four parts of seven hundred and thirty-eight copperplate engravings of plants collected on Captain James Cook's first voyage round the world in H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768-1771, with five supplementary plates ...
London: Alecto Historical Editions in association with the British Museum (Natural History), 1980-1990. Folio, 738 copper-engraved plates in titled window mounts, colour printed a la poupee in up to 17 colours with additional watercolour touches from the original plates after Sydney Parkinson, Frederick Polydore Nodder, John Frederick Miller, James Miller..... More
Banks' Florilegium: plants collected on Captain James Cook's First Voyage round the world in H.M.S. Endeavour 1768-1771 [Madeira section only].
London: Alecto Historical Editions in association with the British Museum (Natural History), 1985. Folio, Eleven copper engraved plates, à la poupée and finished by hand, each with the publisher's and printer's blindstamp, numbered and initialled by the printer, in window mounts with title, loosely contained in cloth-backed portfolios, in the..... More