Canberra: Australian Nature Conservation Agency, 1996. Quarto, softcover. Wildlife Australia endangered species program, project number 380. More

Perth: WA Museum, 1995. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. More

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

London: Gowans and Gray, 1907. Duodecimo, photographs, softcover. Gowans's Nature Books, number four. More

Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1912. Quarto, eight (including five coloured) photolithographic plates. Modern binder's cloth, owner's stamp, a fine clean copy. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 44, number one. More

Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1914. Quarto, one lithographic plate of frogs. binder's cloth, wrappers retained, owner's stamp, a fine copy. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 44, number two. More

London: J. Sewell, 1781. Quarto, 22 (three folding) handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half polished calf with marbled boards, new endpapers, all edges coloured, a very good copy Text in English and French, this copy with the French title page only. More

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

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

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

London: John Wiley and Sons, 2011. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in laminated boards. 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..... More

Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 2000. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper. WAS $80. Chapters are divided by arthropod groups (true bugs, flies, fleas, and ticks), and include descriptions, hosts, host locations, sources of infestation and life cycles. The text also includes a chapter on laboratory procedures for the herpetoculturist, and a bibliography..... 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