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.
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A brief history of the Royal Society.
London: The Royal Society, 1960. Octavo, photographs, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. Includes a pamphlet on the Society's Portraits and Busts by Gillian Hammill (reprinted from the Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 24, No. 1, June 1969).
The complete guide to finding the mammals of Australia.
Clayton South: 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.....
A monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Physical features and geology. With descriptions of the fauna and flora.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1900. Octavo, one map, 7 chromolithographs (four birds by Keulemans, three mammals by Smit) and 15 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's brown cloth, British Museum presentation bookplate, a fine crisp copy, very scarce in this condition. Wood p. 193.
A descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford Clay. Based on the Leeds collection ...
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1910-1913. Large quarto, two photographic frontispieces, 23 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's red gilt blindstamped cloth, two library numbers on spines, red biro library numbers on blank recto of frontispieces, a few spots affecting the plates. A bright crisp handsome set with two paper ex-libris on the...
The birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Musselburgh: Author, 1995. Octavo, paperback, 160 colour photographs.
The southern ark: zoological discovery in New Zealand 1769-1900.
Auckland: Century Hutchinson, 1986. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper.
The atlas of breeding birds in New York State.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. Quarto, text illustrations, maps, fine copy.
Giant pandas.
Rickmansworth: Evans Mitchell Books, 2006. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Wildlife Monographs, a series of fabulous, full-colour books led by stunning photographic images with fresh, informative and vivid new text charting our favourite wild animals on their home terrain.
Green China.
London: Stacey International, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Although much of China's fertile lowlands are intensively cultivated, there remain plenty of wild areas rich in unusual animals and plants. This book is richly illustrated throughout, and is both a celebration of China's natural world and a general introduction to the...
Pollination power.
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2015. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Pollination Power is a visually spectacular insight into the hidden secrets of plant pollination, unravelling the deceit, tricks and rewards that plant bestow upon their pollinators. Throughout the book, full page colour photographs are accompanied with extended captions, telling the stories...
Snow monkeys: the gentle giants of the forest.
Rickmansworth: Evans Mitchell Books, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Wildlife Monographs, a series of fabulous, full-colour books led by stunning photographic images with fresh, informative and vivid new text charting our favourite wild animals on their home terrain. Japan's sole monkey - the Japanese macaque - lives both in subtropical...
The house of owls.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations, maps. For a quarter of a century, Tony Angell had the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of Western screech owls that occupied a nesting box outside the window of his forest home. This book draws on the...
The house of owls.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Tony Angell, master artist and naturalist, offers an intimate account of owls he has observed, admired, and depicted for decades For a quarter century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of...
Field guide to edible wild plants.
Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, (2008. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. This illustrated guide to North American wild edibles has been a nature classic for over thirty years. In this new edition, David K Foster revises Bradford Angier's invaluable foraging handbook, updating the taxonomy and adding more than a dozen species...
Water resources.
Washington DC: Island Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. In this concise introduction to water resources, Shimon Anisfeld explores the fundamental interactions between humans and water, including drinking, sanitation, irrigation, and power production. The book familiarizes students with the current water crisis and with approaches for managing this essential resource...
Plant exploration for Longwood Gardens.
Portland OR: Timber Press, 2006. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Longwood Gardens of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, enjoys a long and distinguished tradition of plant exploration and introduction, dating back to the foundation of its arboretum in 1798. Since the 1950s, 50 such plant-hunting expeditions have taken place...
Bird books and bird art. An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology [facsimile].
Amsterdam: Junk, 1973. Quarto, uncoloured illustrations.
Bird books and bird art: an outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology.
New York: Maurice Martino, 1990. Quarto, illustrations. This edition is limited to 300 copies.
Tadpoles and frogs of Australia.
Chatswood: New Holland Publishers, (2017. second edition). Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. The identification of the eggs and tadpoles of Australian frogs has been a study waiting to happen for a very long time. Marion Anstis began the process of addressing this with her first book Tadpoles of...
The last rhinos: my battle to save one of the world's greatest creatures.
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Learned that the Northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the brink of extinction, Anthony knew he had to act. If the world lost the sub-species, it would be the largest land mammal since the woolly mammoth...
ANZANG eighth collection: Australasian nature photography.
Adelaide: CSIRO/South Australian Museum, 2011. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. Presents the finest photographs submitted to the competition. Each photograph is accompanied by technical information as well as anecdotes about how the picture was taken, which will stimulate yet further interest in the flora and fauna and their conservation in the...
ANZANG fourteenth edition: Australasian Nature Photography: the year's best wildlife and landscape photos.
Sydney: Australian Geographic, 2017. Large octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. This book presents a collection of ANZANG award-winning and shortlisted images from the 2017 competition. Each image is accompanied by technical information as well as anecdotes from the photographers themselves on how each photograph was taken. There are also useful...
ANZANG Nature and landscape photographer of the year: the fourth collection.
Collingwood: CSIRO, 2007. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. ANZANG Nature is an organisation focused on the unique natural heritage of the bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea – continents and islands flung from the great southern continent of Gondwana Land over fifty million years ago in which, due...
ANZANG seventh collection: Australian nature photography.
Collingwood: CSIRO/South Australian Museum, 2010. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. Presents the finest photographs submitted to the 2010 ANZANG competition, showcasing the stunning photographs of animals, plants and landscapes taken in Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea. Each photograph is accompanied by technical information as well as anecdotes about how...