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. More about Ericas in Southern Africa
Cape Town: Purnell and Sons, 1967. Octavo, colour plates, folding map. Publisher's cloth, flecked, bookplate. More about Ericas in Southern Africa
Thetford: British Trust for Ornithology, 1993. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. With detailed descriptions of over 119 species. More about Identification guide to European non-Passerines
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... More about Identification of European non-Passerines
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... More about Wild animals of Singapore: a photographic guide to mammals, reptiles, amphibians and freshwater...
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... More about The complete naturalist
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... More about RSPB nature tracker's handbook
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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... More about Sydney Technological Museum [drop title
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. More about A research on the eucalypts especially in regard to their essential oils
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... More about Artist animal
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. More about Birds of Madinat Yanbu Al-Sinaiyah and its hinterland
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... More about Britain's hoverflies: an introduction to the hoverflies of Britain and Ireland
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. More about Birds and Counties: an ornithological bibliography for the Counties of England, Wales, Scotland...
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... More about Planet ocean: voyage to the heart of the marine realm
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Octavo, 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 good news about... More about Wild hope: on the front lines of conservation success
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... More about Bird anatomy for artists
Santee: Advanced Vivarium Systems, 1997. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations. More about The general care and maintenance of popular monitors and tegus
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... More about The illustrated atlas of wildlife
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... More about The wild side. Chronicles of nature: part one, biology without borders
Ottawa: Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, 1958. Octavo, wrappers, photographs, maps. National Museum of Canada Bulletin number159. More about The mammals of Banff National Park
London: Alecto Historical Editions in association with the British Museum (Natural History), 1980-1990. Folio, 738 copper-engraved plates in titled window mounts, colour printed a la poupee in up to 17 colours with additional watercolour touches from the original plates after Sydney Parkinson, Frederick Polydore Nodder, John Frederick Miller, James Miller... More about Banks' Florilegium: a publication in thirty-four parts of seven hundred and thirty-eight...
London: Alecto Historical Editions in association with the British Museum (Natural History), 1985. Folio, Eleven copper engraved plates, à la poupée and finished by hand, each with the publisher's and printer's blindstamp, numbered and initialled by the printer, in window mounts with title, loosely contained in cloth-backed portfolios, in the..... More about Banks' Florilegium: plants collected on Captain James Cook's First Voyage round the world in...
Hobart: Antarctic Division, 1988. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More about Proceedings of the symposium on Macquarie Island
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1959. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about The birds of the British Isles, volume eight
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1962. Quarto, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More about The birds of the British Isles, volume eleven