The atlas of breeding birds in New York State.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. Quarto, text illustrations, maps, fine copy. More
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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. More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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Bird books and bird art. An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology [facsimile].
Amsterdam: Junk, 1973. Quarto, uncoloured illustrations. More
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. More
Frogs of Australia: Reed concise guide.
Chatswood: New Holland Publishers, 2017. Duodecimo, paperback, limp plastic cover, colour photographs. A new title in the popular series of the Reed Concise Field Guides to Australian Wildlife. This is the ultimate pocket guide to the country's frogs. It may be diminutive in size but it punches well above its... More
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... More
Tadpoles of South-eastern Australia: a guide with keys.
Frenchs Forest: New Holland Publishers, 2007. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps. The first part of the book deals with frog classification, collecting and raising tadpoles, the prevailing laws in each State and the issues surrounding the decline and conservation of these amphibians. Part two is concerned with the... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
ANZANG thirteenth edition: Australasian Nature Photography: the year's best wildlife and landscape photos.
Sydney: Australian Geographic, 2016. Large octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. This books presents a collection of ANZANG award-winning and shortlisted images from the 2016 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... More
ANZANG ninth collection: Australasian nature photography.
Collingwood: CSIRO/South Australian Museum, 2012. 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... More
Wild ways: field guide to the behaviour of Southern African mammals.
Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 2014. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, line drawings. Southern Africa has one of the richest and most accessible mammal faunas on earth, attracting vast numbers of visitors from around the globe. With his in-depth knowledge and wealth of experience, Peter Apps describes and interprets the... More
Monkeys of Peru: pocket idenitification guide.
Washington DC: Conservation International,U.S., 2015. Laminated concertina. colour illustrations, maps. A handy identification guide and checklist for the monkeys of Peru. More
The birds of British Somaliland and the Gulf of Aden.
London:/Edinburgh: Gurney and Jackson/Oliver and Boyd, 1937-1961. Quarto, 34 colour plates by Thorburn and Grönvold, folding maps. The first two volumes have a few spots and lack dustwrappers, volumes three and four are fine with fine dustwrappers. With the neat ownership stamp of Joseph M. Forshaw. More