St Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden, 1997. reprint). Octavo, dustwrapper, BRAND NEW. Edgar Anderson understood plants' fundamental relationship to man's life on Earth and his writings help us understand it by posing a series of questions. More about Plants, man and life
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2016. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. The book provides information on the habitat, distribution, foliage and fruits of 525 plant species. Central Queensland straddles the Tropic of Capricorn, although many of the plants in the book will also be found outside this area, as shown... More about Plants of central Queensland: identification and uses of native and introduced species
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1965. Octavo, illustrations, near fine copy in slightly sunned dustwrapper. More about The reptiles of Missouri
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 about Biostatistics: a computing approach
Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1959. Octavo, wrappers, text illustrations. University of Kansas Publications, volume nine, number 17. More about Distribution, variation and relationships of the Montane vole, Microtus montanus
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). More about A brief history of the Royal Society
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..... More about The complete guide to finding the mammals of Australia
Musselburgh: Author, 1995. Octavo, paperback, 160 colour photographs. More about The birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Auckland: Century Hutchinson, 1986. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about The southern ark: zoological discovery in New Zealand 1769-1900
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. Quarto, text illustrations, maps, fine copy. More about The atlas of breeding birds in New York State
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 about Giant pandas
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 about Green China
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 about Pollination power
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 about Snow monkeys: the gentle giants of the forest
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 about 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 about The house of owls
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 about Field guide to edible wild plants
Washington DC: Island Press, 2010. Octavo, softcover. 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 effectively... More about Water resources
Amsterdam: Junk, 1973. Quarto, uncoloured illustrations. More about Bird books and bird art. An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive...
New York: Maurice Martino, 1990. Quarto, illustrations. This edition is limited to 300 copies. More about Bird books and bird art: an outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive...
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 about Frogs of Australia: Reed concise guide
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 about Tadpoles of South-eastern Australia: a guide with keys
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 about The last rhinos: my battle to save one of the world's greatest creatures
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 about ANZANG eighth collection: Australasian nature photography
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 about ANZANG fourteenth edition: Australasian Nature Photography: the year's best wildlife and...