Whaler's eye.
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1962. Octavo, boards, photographs. Water damage, mainly affecting endpapers. (Pages have dried slightly warped but text is not affected.). More
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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. More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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. More
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. More
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. More
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. More
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. More
Growth in length: embryological essays.
London: Cambridge University Press, 1916. Octavo, text illustrations. Very good copy in chipped dustwrapper. More
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... More
The living planet: a portrait of the earth.
London: Collins and BBC, (1984. reprint). Large octavo, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrpper. More
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. More
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... More
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. More
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. More
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... More
The John James Audubon portfolio: a selection of the original drawings and watercolors used in the making of Birds of America accompanied by a choice of Audubon's writings.
Edition de la Main Fleurie, 2004. Quarto, 48 prints. WAS $1,800. Edited with a introduction by Ben Forkner. An edition of high quality reproductions of his original watercolors, along with key notes and correspondence by Audubon and a biographical introduction. Printed in a 14-point font on 200g deckled cream stock... More
The original water-color paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America.
New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1966. Small folio, 431 colour plates by Audubon, fine copy in very good dustwrapper. The cheaper single volume issue, published the same year as a two volume set in a slipcase. More
Audubon and his journals: with zoological and other notes by Elliott Coues.
London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. Octavo, photographic plates. Publisher's blindstamped cloth, inscription on front endpaper, a fine set. More
The Bengal monitor.
Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1994. Octavo, illustrations, maps. More
Gray's monitor lizard.
Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1988. Octavo, illustrations. More
Monotreme biology: proceedings of a Symposium held in Sydney, May 1978.
Sydney: Australian Zoologist Special Symposium Issue, Volume 20, Part 1, [1978]. Octavo, wrappers, illustrations, wrappers. More