London: Macmillan, 1896. Small octavo, uncoloured frontispiece. Publisher's handsome gilt cloth (the primary and best variant), apart from a few spots a fine crisp copy, scarce in this condittion. More
Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Soner, 1889. Quarto, 31 lithographed plates (twelve coloured). Modern red binder's cloth, partly unopened, a fine copy. A scarce and attractive work on Australian seaweeds. More
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. Octavo, paperback, illustrations, diagrams, tables. Foreword by Edward O. Wilson. Biological Diversity Handbook Series. Written by thirty leading ant biologists, this comprehensive book describes procedures for surveying the diversity of ground-dwelling ants. It covers aspects of ant ecology and taxonomy, species identification, specimen preparation, and..... More
Sandton: Sable Publishers, [1984]. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2016. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, illustrations. Planting Dreams celebrates the artistry and imagination that have shaped Australian gardens. Internationally renowned garden historian Richard Aitken explores the environmental and social influences that have helped produce our unique gardening culture - from Indigenous land management and the earliest European..... More
Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2007. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Australia's long-unresolved forest conflict has been the make-or-break factor in federal elections, with both parties often arguing that the four-decade-old forest conflict has no practical solution. This work proposes a forest policy for Australia, calling on individuals in..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, maps. Thoroughly researched, this book traces the history of endangered species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. Peter S. Alagona shows how scientists and conservationists came to view the fates..... More
Anchorage: Alaska Geographic, Volume 8, No. 2, 1981. Octavo, oblong format, paperback. colour photographs. More
Anchorage: Alaska Geographic, Volume 9, No. 3, 1982. Octavo, oblong format, colour photographs. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Large octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, text illustrations, maps. WAS $115. The book begins with an introduction by noted iguana biologist Dr. Gordon Burghardt that examines the state of iguana research - past, present, and future - with an emphasis on social behaviour..... More
London: The Athlone Press, 1953. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs, other illustrations, maps. Organised logically with cross-references and easy navigation including subject matter from history to practical advice, this guide offers comprehensive overviews, titbits of information and trivia, short thought pieces, plus how-to instructions on every aspect of birds and birdwatching..... More
London: Salamander Books, 1989. Octavo, colour illustrations, laminated boards. More
London: Salamander Books, 1990. Octavo, colour illustrations, laminated boards. More
London: Salamander, 1987. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. More
Washington DC: American Ornithologists Union, 1984. Octavo, softcover. More
Ottawa: Research Branch Agriculture Canada, 1981. Quarto, text illustrations, a fine copy in publisher's cloth. Published in a total of three volumes. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Octavo, black and white photographs, text illustrations. David E. Alexander's fascination with the many animals and plants that have harnessed the air is evident in Nature's Flyers: Birds, Insects, and the Biomechanics of Flight, a detailed account of our current scientific understanding of the..... More
New York: Knopf Publishing, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists..... More
Pymble: Harper Collins Publishers, 2001. Octavo, paperback, photographs. The astonishing Elephant is an unabashed celebration of these mysterious creatures, whose closest living relatives are the dugong and the hyrax. While the author admits elephants can pose particular dangers to unwary humans (she recounts tales of circus trainers of her acquaintance..... More
Kuwait: Author, 2005. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Species by species portraits of the birds of Kuwait - for each there are Latin and common names. There is also a bird list for Kuwait, a description of important birding sites, an introduction to the Kuwaiti environment and a brief overview of..... More
London: Davis-Poynter, 1978. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. New Naturalist 116. In the past, emphasis has mainly been placed on ways to protect cultivated plants from attack or damage, nowadays our over-reliance on pesticides has been replaced by a far more enlightened approach to plant protection. While..... More
Delhi: Oxford University Press, (1983. first edition). Folio, 104 colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. First published in ten volumes (1968 to 1975) by Oxford University Press. More