Handbook of the birds of Cyprus and migrants of the Middle East.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1971. Octavo, 27 colour plates by D. M. Reid-Henry, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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Birds of the Atlantic islands.
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1963-1968. Quarto, colour plates by D. M. Henry, a near fine set in price-clipped dustwrappers. Volume four is titled History of the birds of Cape Verde Islands. More
Birds of the Atlantic islands.
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1963. Quarto, colour plates and text illustrations by D. M. Reid Henry. Bookplate in each volume, very good set in lightly worn dustwrappers. Volume four is titled History of the birds of Cape Verde Islands. More
The birds of the British Isles.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953-1963. Quarto, colour plates by George E. Lodge, fine set in dustwrappers. Freight will be extra. More
The birds of west and equatorial Africa.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953. Octavo, 30 colour plates and other illustrations, a very good set in slightly chipped dustwrappers. More
The birds of west and equatorial Africa.
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
Great whales.
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
Western Australian Humpback and Right Whales: an increasing success story.
Perth: WA Museum, 1995. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. WAS $15. More
Butterflies of the world.
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
Birds of the world.
New York: Abrams, 2005. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Building on more than 20 years' experience travelling and photographing in some of the world's remotest places, Gilles Martin offers in his new book a magnificent photographic collection of some of the most charismatic birds on the globe., Building on more than..... More
Marine ecosystems and global change.
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
Bats of America.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1969. Oblong format, colour photographs, chipped and worn dustwrapper. More
A contribution to the zoogeography of the West Indies, with especial reference to amphibians and reptiles.
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
A list of Antillean reptiles and amphibians.
New York: New York Zoological Society, 1930. Quarto, Binder's cloth with title, wrappers retained. Zoologica: volume eleven, number four. More
The biology of terrestrial molluscs.
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
Camels and the outback.
London: Angus and Robertson, 1964. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
A field guide to Australian frogs.
Adelaide: Rigby, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, a fine copy in dustwrapper. The first Australian frog field guide, a handsome production, with a print run of 2000 copies. More
The butterfly isles: a summer in search of our Emperors and Admirals.
London: Granta, 2010. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. 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
The butterfly isles: a summer in search of our Emperors and Admirals.
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
Birds of the Gambia and Senegal.
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, (2006. revised reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. A practical field guide to Gambia illustrated with 48 stunning colour plates, depicting each species in all its plumages. These plates are supplemented by useful line drawings and figures. The introduction provides an overview of the..... More
New York city trees: a field guide for the metropolitan area.
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
Identifying British insects and arachnids: an annotated bibliography of key works.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Octavo, fine copy in laminated boards. A reference work providing an annotated bibliography of key works on insect groups. It provides descriptions of all groups, the most useful and up-to-date references for each and notes on their coverage and relevance. Also contains a chapter on..... More
Royal Entomological Society book of British insects.
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
Nature contained: environmental histories of Singapore.
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
The invertebrates: a synthesis.
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, (2002. third edition). Quarto, paperback, text illustrations. More