The fur seal of South Georgia.
London: British Antarctic Survey, 1968. Quarto, photographs, tables, softcover. More
London: British Antarctic Survey, 1968. Quarto, photographs, tables, softcover. More
London: Christopher Helm, 1989. Octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Chez Samuel Fauche, 1779. Octavo, four uncoloured engraved plates. Original papered boards with handwritten labels, all edges uncut. Complete in twelve volumes. Charles Bonnet 1720-1793), naturalist and philosopher, discovered parthenogenetic reproduction in aphids and observed insects respiration through their spiracles. More
South Australia: SGAP, 2004. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This book covers the identification and description of common native plants of the Coorong region of S.E. South Australia, including uses by indigenous people and early European settlers. More
Tantanoola: Neville Bonney, 2013. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. It is highly unlikely that any other edible Australian native plant has created as much interest as the Native peach/Quandong, Santalum acuminatum. This plant is now embedded in Australian folklore and holds nostalgic memories for many people. This fully illustrated book..... More
College Station: Texas A & M Uinversity Press, 2003. Octavo, photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Through his recounting of local lore, Bonta makes the interaction between culture and avifauna in Latin America a key to better understanding the practice of biodiversity protection. He offers a significant contribution to the..... More
Sydney: David Ell Press, 1988. Octavo, 27 full-page watercolours. Publisher's cloth and slipcase, limited to 550 copies, a fine copy. The manuscript, now held in the Mitchell Library, was created in 1813 by the colonial official Thomas Skottowe, using the illustrations of the convict artist Robert Browne. More
Carlton South: Miegunyah Press, (2000. first edition). Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Taking art as his starting point, Bonyhady explores how issues such as the preservation of endangered species, the protection of forests, the maintenance of public rights over the foreshore and even the likelihood of climate change already..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Octavo, dustwrapper, illustrations. Interweaving stories about Malay kings, colonial rulers, tiger charmers, and bounty hunters with facts about tigers and their way of life, the book is an engrossing combination of environmental and micro history. More
South Australia: Woods and Forests Department, [1980]. Octavo, text illustrations, colour photographs, map in rear pocket, signature, softcover. More
Keston: Keston foreign bird Farm, 1934-1938. Octavo, coloured and uncoloured plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt cockatoo, a very good set, scarce. The Keston Bird Farm, established by Edward Boosey in the 1920's was a very successful operation until World War Two and beyond. Although the business imported birds its..... More
London: Rockliff, 1956. Octavo, photographs, lacks dustwrapper. Edward Boosey was the head birdkeeper for the Duke of Bedford, after leaving his employ he set up the Keston Bird Farm in the 1930's. His two best known books, the other being foreign Bird keeping, are entertaining and well written. More
Adelaide: Oaklands Publishing, [c1985]. Small folio, four colour plates in printed folder. Major Mitchell Cockatoo, Nankeen Kestrel, White-backed Magpie and Kookaburra. More
Adelaide: Oaklands Publishing, 1985. Quarto, 19 tipped-in colour plates. Publisher's quarter cloth, a fine copy. An edition of 19 colour plates and selected drawings with accompanying text by Shane Parker, Curator of Birds, South Australian Museum. More
New York: Abrams, 1992. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Authors, 2002. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Volumes one and two bound in one: Flora of the Shanghai area: Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Volume 2: Gymnospermae. [stock id 11566]. Volume three: Flora of the Shanghai area: Book 2, Volume 3. Dicotyledoneae: Casuarinaceae to Apiaceae[stock id 25189]. The only books..... More
Melbourne: Authors, 2002. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Companion volume to Flora of the Shanghai area: Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Volume 2: Gymnospermae [stock id 11566]. The only books in English on the local flora of the Shanghai region. Also available as a set [stock id 25190]. More
Melbourne: Author, 1996. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Two volumes bound in one: Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Volume 2: Gymnospermae. Companion volume to Flora of the Shanghai area: Book 2, Volume 3. Dicotyledoneae: Casuarinaceae to Apiaceae [stock id 25189]. The only books in English on the local flora of the..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. Octavo, paperback, colour plates, text illustrations. Sunned spine, otherwise a good copy. More
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Borneo, one of the world’s most exciting biodiversity hotspots, is renowned for its spectacular species richness residing in evergreen tropical rain forests, home also to a myriad of insects, including the lanternflies. Thus far, just 34 taxa are known from..... More
Pretoria: J. L. van Schaik, 1999. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. An attractively illustrated book covering all the larger carnivores of Africa. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, distribution maps. Seaweeds aren't plants: they're algae, part of a huge and largely unfamiliar group of aquatic organisms. Seaweeds of the World makes sense of their complicated world, differentiating between the three main groups – red, green, and brown –..... More
Canberra: Australian National University, 2003. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. There is no denying that the unpredictability of Australia's climate poses real challenges for the agricultural community, especially as most conventional farming practices were developed on the relative predictability of a European climate. More recently though policy has been rejecting the..... More