Birds of the Caribbean.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1962. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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Birds of the Caribbean.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1962. Quarto, colour photographs, lacks dustwrapper. More
The politics of wilderness preservation.
Anchorage: University of Alaska, (2008. reprint). Octavo, black and white photographs, softcover. Explores the history of wilderness preservation in the United States. More
Marches.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. New Naturalist 118. A complete natural history and the first large-scale survey of this unique part of the country. The borderland between England and Wales has long been a region of contention. Its distinctive geography, wedged roughly between Welsh mountains..... More
Pipits and wagtails of Europe, Asia and North America.
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2003. Octavo, dustwrapper, 26 colour plates, 240 colour photographs, maps and text illustrations. The first guide to cover the 26 species of Holarctic pipits and wagtails in detail. The species accounts cover all aspects of identification (taxonomy, size and structure, plumage, geographical variation, anatomical..... More
Elephas maximus: a portrait of the Indian elephant.
Orlando: Harcourt, 2004. Octavo, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $38. Revered in Indian religion and culture, yet coveted by poachers for its ivory tusks, the Asian elephant has lived, worked, and even fought side by side with humans for 4,000 years. Stephen Alter first encountered Elephas..... More
Baboon mothers and infants.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. Octavo, illustrations, signature, paperback. When originally released in 1980 this book transformed the study of maternal primate relationships by focusing on motherhood and infancy within a complex ecological and sociological context. This paperback edition has a new foreword by the author. More
Foraging for survival: yearling baboons in Africa.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Basing his study on field observations of eleven yearling baboons, Altmann includes detailed data on what types of food and how much each baboon ate, as well as chemical analyses of these foods to identify differences in nutrient intake. He then..... More
The Observer's book of lichens.
London: Frederick Warne and Company, 1963. Duodecimo, colour photographs, text illustrations, chipped dustwrapper. More
Super vision: a new view of nature.
New York: Abrams, 2003. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $75. In this volume, scientific images of interest and beauty are accompanied by Ivan Amato's descriptions, which shed light on the images themselves as well as the technologies that created them. More
Check-list of North American birds. The species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian islands.
Lawrence, Kansas: American Ornithologists Union, (1983. sixth edition). Octavo, maps, a fine copy. More
Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West INdies and Hawaiian Islands.
Washington DC: American Ornithologists Union, (1998. seventh edition). Octavo, publisher's cloth, BRAND NEW. Prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union. More
Notice des insectes de la France, reputes venimeus, tiree des ecrits des naturalistes, des medecins, & de l'observation.
Paris: Rue et Hotel Serpente, 1789. Octavo, two engraved plates. Early patterned boards, expertly rebacked, bookplate. More
Handbook of capture-recapture analysis.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, other illustrations, tables. Every day, biologists in parkas, raincoats, and rubber boots go into the field to capture and mark a variety of animal species. Back in the office, statisticians create analytical models for the field biologists' data. But..... More
Termites of the top end.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1993. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
The Cactus Wren.
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1973. Octavo, graphs, signature, softcover. More
Embryology and phylogeny in Annelids and Arthropods.
Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1973. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. More
Victoria's national parks: a centenary history.
Melbourne: State Library of Victoria, 2000. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The reptiles of Missouri.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1965. Octavo, illustrations, near fine copy in slightly sunned dustwrapper. More
The trees of New South Wales.
Sydney: Government Printer, (1956. third edition). Octavo, illustrations, folding map, ex library. More
Biostatistics: a computing approach.
New York: Taylor and Francis, 2012. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white illustrations, tables. The emergence of high-speed computing has facilitated the development of many exciting statistical and mathematical methods in the last 25 years, broadening the landscape of available tools in statistical investigations of complex data. Biostatistics: A Computing..... More
Distribution, variation and relationships of the Montane vole, Microtus montanus.
Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1959. Octavo, wrappers, text illustrations. University of Kansas Publications, volume nine, number 17. More
Recent advances in embryology in Japan.
Japan: Arthropodan Embryological Society of Japan, 1985. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
The complete guide to finding the mammals of Australia.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Famous for its spectacular diversity of mammal fauna, this book describes Australia’s best mammal-watching sites state by state. Whether you're going whale and dolphin-watching, or looking for perennial tourist favourites such as koalas and kangaroos, this guide advises interested amateurs and..... More
The birds of Indonesia: a checklist (Peters' sequence).
Jakarta: Indonesian Ornithological Society, 1992. Octavo, softcover. More