The fur animals of Louisiana.
New Orleans: Department of Conservation, (1931. second edition). Octavo, text illustrations. Binder's cloth, upper printed wrapper retained. State of Louisiana, Department of Conservation, Bulletin 18.
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Turtles. Proceedings: International Turtle and Tortoise Symposium Vienna 2002.
Frankfurt: Edition Chimaira, 2006. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. Includes papers, from contributors from many different countries, presented at the symposium on turtle keeping, breeding, and observing.
Wildlife contraception: issues, methods, and applications.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Zoo and Aquarium Biology Conservation Series. This collection of essays is the first major work in more than a decade to discuss the critical issue of wildlife contraception and the first ever to take up contraception for wild...
Birds of Venezuela.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. Venezuela is blessed with one of the largest avifaunas in the world. More than 1,400 species have been recorded in the country, thanks to a great diversity of habitats ranging from the High Andes to lowland Amazonian rainforest, and just about...
The future of tropical savannas: an Australian perspective.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 1996. Octavo, paperback, maps, graphs. Examines the roles of science in resource management and policy making.
Whaler's eye.
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1962. Octavo, photographs, slight water damage.
Whaler's eye.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1964. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper.
Birds of Somalia.
Mountfield: Pica Press, 1998. Octavo, dustwrapper, eight colour plates by Martin Woodcock, maps. Covers 650 species (including seven endemics). Range, abundance and seasonal data are given for each species.
Natural history of Tenerife.
Dunbeath: Whittles Publishing, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Tenerife is a remarkable island, dominated by Mount Teide, an active volcano higher than any mountain in mainland Spain. The island has extraordinary volcanic landscapes, and thousands of species of plants and animals that are found only there. The authors' love of...
Watching whales and dolphins in Southern Africa.
Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. Southern Africa has some of the best whale and dolphin watching opportunities in the world. This is an essential guide to watching the region's 12 most common species. In addition to species accounts and charts that aid identification, this...
The natural history and management of the Gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus Daudin).
Melbourne FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 2008. Quarto, laminated boards, black and white illustrations. Presents tortoise management and research techniques that can be applied to various species. Designed to be the manual that can serve for certification for various institutions and State and Federal agencies, this work contains many tricks of...
Neurobiology of monotremes: brain evolution in our distant mammalian cousins.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2013. Quarto, laminated boards, black and white illustrations. Details the development, structure, function and behavioural ecology of our distant mammalian cousins. The monotremes are an unusual and evolutionarily important group of mammals showing striking behavioural and physiological adaptations. They are the only mammals exhibiting electroreception (in the...
Restoring North America's birds: lessons from landscape ecology.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Octavo, dustwrapper, illustrations. The author challenges some of the assumptions that underlie current conservation efforts and offers recommendations, based on sound ecological principles, for protecting the rich natural diversity of North America's birds.
Restoring North America's birds: lessons from landscape ecology.
New Haven: Yale University Press, (2002. second edition). Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Now in paperback. The author challenges some of the assumptions that underlie current conservation efforts and offers recommendations, based on sound ecological principles, for protecting the rich natural diversity of North America's birds.
Conservation of grassland birds in North America: understanding ecological processes in different regions.
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 2007. Octavo, colour photographs, wrappers. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 64.
Marsupials of Australia, volume two: carnivorous marsupials and bandicoots.
Chatswood: Lansdowne, 1987. Folio, colour plates by Rosemary Woodford Ganf. Publisher's cloth covered boards with embossed brown calf inset, limited edition of 1000 copies signed and numbered by author and artist, fine copy.
Stuffed animals and pickled heads: the culture and evolution of natural history museums.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. A stimulating discussion of the role of natural history museums in culture and society.
Growth in length: embryological essays.
London: Cambridge University Press, 1916. Octavo, text illustrations. Very good copy in chipped dustwrapper.
Birds of Western Ecuador: a photographic guide.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Western Ecuador is famed for its astonishingly diverse birdlife, from colorful hummingbirds and outrageous toucans to more difficult groups like raptors, flycatchers, and ovenbirds. Here is the ultimate photographic guide to the spectacular birds of this region. Featuring nearly 1,500...
The living planet: a portrait of the earth.
London: Collins and BBC, (1984. reprint). Large octavo, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrpper.
Life in cold blood.
London: Ebury Press, 2008. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The final chapter in David Attenborough's overview of life on planet earth. Reptiles and amphibians ruled the world for nearly 200 million years and today they number over 12,500. This book traces the story of their evolution, behaviour and natural history.
Sinai: landscape and nature in Egypt's wilderness.
Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2014. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, map. Sinai's allure is legendary, full of spectacular landscapes, thriving flora and fauna, and unique history, this peninsula has long held sway in the imagination of millions. The high mountains and wadis of the peninsula's south provide the fertile...
Speciation and geographic variation in Black-tailed Gnatcatchers.
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 1987. Octavo, black and white photographs, maps, wrappers. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 42.
The original water-colour paintings by John James Audubon for the birds of America. Reproduced in colour for the first time from the collection at the New York Historical Society.
[New York]: Michael Joseph, 1966. Quarto, two volumes, accompanying text leaves and 431 colour plates. Fine set in publisher's slipcase.
The birds of America: the Bien chromolithographic edition.
New York: W. W. Norton, 2013. Folio, publisher's cloth, slipcase, colour illustrations. John James Audubon's Birds of America has been reproduced often, beginning with the double elephant folio printed in England by Havill. After Audubon's death, his family arranged with the New York printer Julius Bien to produce another elephant...