Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953. Octavo, 30 colour plates and other illustrations. Publisher's cloth, some light flecking, lacks dustwrappers, owner's stamp, a bright copy. More

Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2008. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, black and white photographs, text illustrations. WAS $40. John Bannister is a leading expert on the large whales of southern waters and has published on Sperm, Humpbacked and right whales. Seven 'great whales' are found in Australian coastal waters including six of..... More

London: Abrams, 2006. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. A photographic book on butterflies and moths. It captures the metamorphosis from caterpillar to winged adults as well as the vast diversity of butterflies. More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. Global environmental change (including climate change, biodiversity loss, changes in hydrological and biogeochemical cycles, and intensive exploitation of natural resources) is having significant impacts on the world's oceans. This book advances knowledge of the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems, and..... More

Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1914. Quarto, one lithographic plate of frogs. Half green morocco, wrappers retained, a handsome copy. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 44, number two. More

Wallingford: Cabi publishing, 2001. Octavo, laminated boards, illustrations. Topics covered include Morphology, phylogeny and systematics. Body wall: form and function. Sensory organs and the nervous system. Radular structure and function. Structure and function of the digestive tract. Food and feeding behaviour. Haemolymph: blood cell morphology and function. Structure and functioning..... More

London: Granta, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Butterflies animate our summers but the 59 butterfly species of the British Isles can be surprisingly elusive. Some bask unseen at the top of trees in London parks; others lurk at the bottom of damp bogs in Scotland. A few survive for months..... More

Irvington: Columbia University Press, 2002. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. With a lively, authoritative text and over 900 colour photographs, line drawings, and detailed maps, this is the ultimate compact field guide to trees of the Big Apple and the surrounding area. More

London: John Wiley and Sons, 2011. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. This book is the only modern systematic account of all 558 families of British insects, covering not just the large and familiar groups that are included in popular books, but even the smallest and least known. It is beautifully..... More

Singapore: NUS Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, photographs. This book takes an indepth look at how Singapore's environment and location in a zone of extraordinary biodiversity has influenced the economic, political, social and intellectual history of the island since the early 19th century. Grounding the story of Singapore within an understanding..... More

London: Short Books, 2005. Octavo, very good copy in dustwrapper. Few books are more intimidating than a conventional field guide. There are simply too many birds in them. This book introduces the reader to Britain's most obvious birds. But it does more than that: it also explains them. It explains..... More

London: Short Books, 2011. Octavo, paperback. Simon Barnes, like a modern-day Gerald Durrell, weaves together the story of his life via the animals and natural encounters that have shaped it. From the greater horseshoe bat that transported Barnes from the dull classrooms of his youth, to the great whale which..... More