Canberra: AGPS, 1988. Octavo, bookplate, fine copy in publisher's cloth. 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

San Diego: Academic Press, 1989. Octavo, photographs, laminated boards. 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

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

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