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.
[Bombay]: Bombay Natural History Society, 1921. Tall octavo, 19 colour plates by H. Gronvold, photographs. Publisher's brown half morocco.
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...
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...
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.
Cape Town: Purnell and Sons, 1967. Octavo, colour plates, folding map. Publisher's cloth, flecked, bookplate.
Thetford: British Trust for Ornithology, 1993. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. With detailed descriptions of over 119 species.
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...
London: Helm, 1997. Octavo, 48 colour plates, 145 maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Many warblers are notoriously difficult to identify in the field (and even in the hand) and, until now, there has been no definitive guide to the species of these regions. One hundred and forty-five species (and all...
Singapore: Draco Publishing, 2008. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This is the most comprehensive account of Singapore's wild animals ever produced in one volume. Compiled by a dedicated and experienced group of local wildlife experts within the Nature Society of Singapore; almost all terrestrial vertebrates currently occurring are described and illustrated...
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...
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...
Sydney: Government Printer, 1910. Quarto, waratah frontispiece, photographs, printed grey wrappers. The Technological Museum was first opened in 1893. It has shifted location and has now morphed into the Powerhouse Museum. In 1888 Richard Thomas Baker (1854-1951) was appointed assistant curator to Joseph Henry Maiden at the Technological Museum and...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Octavo, black and white 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...
Melbourne: RAOU, 1969-1990. Quarto, photographs. The first 96 parts, unbound.
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...
Santee: Advanced Vivarium Systems, 1997. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations.
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...
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...
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