Episodes of insect life.
London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, publisher's decorated gilt cloth. More
London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, publisher's decorated gilt cloth. More
London: Scribe, 2020. Octavo, paperback, From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, here is a radical examination of the bird way of being and of recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds - how they live and how they think. 'There..... More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1984. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
East Melbourne: CSIRO, 1995. Quarto, illustrations, laminated boards. This book deals with about 20% of the world butterfly fauna and is divided into three main sections - biology, biogeography and catalogue. It also includes a gazetteer and list of regional works as well as a bibliography. More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1944. first edition), Octavo, map, bookplate of Dominic L. Serventy, publisher's bright green cloth, a very good copy. More
London: John Van Voorst, 1844. Octavo, Publisher's cloth, worn and hinges cracked, contents grubby. More
Melbourne: Penguin Group, 2015. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, line drawings. A beautifully illustrated how-to book for attracting a wide variety of birds and butterflies to your garden by providing shelter, nesting sites, fruit, seeds, nuts, and nectar. The detailed directory and unique planting calendars included show you how to..... More
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Dendrobium species are attractive, conspicuous and numerous along the entire eastern coast of Australia, and are popular plants for culture and breeding of colourful hybrids. In contrast to the other books in the series so far, where a selection of..... More
USA: SSAR Publications, 2007. Quarto, publisher's cloth, black and white photographs. Contributions to Herpetology 21. Biographies of herpetologists. Second of three volumes. Volume one see [stock id 3810] and volume three see [stock id 34788]. Price approximate. More
Paris: {'an V. de la Republique Francaise, 1797. Quarto, 266 uncoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half morocco and blue papered boards, all edges uncut, a fine copy. Volume eighteen. 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: New Holland, 2001. Small octavo, colour photographs, softcover. Fact panels throughout cover a wide range of topics. The pages are alive with entertaining and informative text accompanied by exciting action photography. Other green guides in the series are frogs; parrots; spiders; birds; snakes and other reptiles; and mammals... 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
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
1891. Octavo, elven partly coloured plates, binders hald cloth. 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: John Tilly, 1736. Quarto, 53 uncoloured copper engraved plates. Contemporary full mottled calf, expertly rebacked, all edges coloured, a very good copy. More
London: The Athlone Press, 1953. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
London: "The Feathered World" [1911]. Octavo, uncoloured frontispeice, photographs. Publisher's green cloth, a handsome copy of a scarce book. More
Washington DC: American Ornithologists Union, 1984. Octavo, softcover. 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
Melbourne: Institute of Science and Industry, Bulletin No. 29, 1925. Octavo, signature, photographs, printed wrappers. More