British Hymenoptera.
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1923. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's boards. More
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Steve Backshall's wildlife adventurer's guide: a guide to exploring wildlife in Britain.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, (2016. reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations. A naturalist's equivalent to the Dangerous Book for Boys, this book includes tips on everything from beachcombing, snorkelling and building your own hedgehog hotel, to tree climbing, natural foods and how to make traps for insects and mammals. This hands-on..... More
Naturalist's guide to the mushrooms and other fungi of Britain and Northern Europe.
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This is an easy-to-use identification guide to 280 species of mushroom and toadstool most commonly found in Britain, Ireland, and other parts of Northern Europe. The user-friendly introduction includes an overview of distribution, habitats, mushroom structure and nomenclature. There is useful..... More
Identification guide to mushrooms of Britain and Northern Europe.
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. A user-friendly introduction includes an overview of distribution, the anatomy of a mushroom, nomenclature and useful information on hunting for and cooking with mushrooms. The identification section then divides into three categories: edible mushrooms, inedible (but not poisonous) mushrooms, and poisonous..... More
Butterflies.
Stillwater: Voyager Press, 2006. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. A cultural and natural history of butterflies with stunning photographs. It highlights 40 of the most fascinating butterfly species from around the world. Includes an introduction to physical characteristics and behaviour butterfly-human relations, conservation, and the art of photographing butterflies... More
Birds of Colorado, volume one.
Denver: Denver Museum of Natural History, 1965. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper. Inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. R. T. M. Pescott by the authors, April 12, 1966. Letters and newspaper clippings about Alfred Bailey's death from Muriel Bailey tipped in. More
Pictorial checklist of Colorado birds: with brief notes on the status of each species in neighboring states of Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
[Denver]: Denver Museum of Natural History, 1967. Quarto, with 124 colour plates, black and white photographs Signed by both authors, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Tiger tales: stories of the Tasmanian Tiger.
Sydney: Harper Collins, 2001. Oblong format, photographs,signed by the author, softcover. Ripping yarns about the Thylacine, some of them dubious. More
Billion-dollar fish: the untold story of Alaska pollock.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. Alaska pollock is everywhere. That ubiquity has made pollock the most lucrative fish harvest in America-the fishery in the United States alone has an annual value of over one billion dollars. But even as the money rolls in..... More
Manual of ciltivated plants most commonly grown in the continental United States and Canada.
New York: The MacMillan Company, (1961. sixth edition). Octavo, line drawings, bookplate, very good copy. More
Carnivorous plants of Britain and Ireland.
Peterborough: Redfern Natural History Productions, 2016. Octavo, paperback, limp plastic, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. This fully illustrated guide to the carnivorous plants of Britain and Ireland features over 200 images and documents all recognised native species and their hybrids, as well as the non-native species that have become naturalised..... More
The Tettigoniidae: biology, systematics and evolution.
Bathurst: Crawford House, 1990. Octavo, illustrations, laminated boards. Includes chapters by various authors on topics such as the evolution of acoustic communication; anti-predator defences; and karyotypes and meiosis. More
Reproductive behaviour of insects: individuals and populations.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1991. Octavo, photographs, laminated boards. More
The rainforests of Britain and Ireland.
Dingwall: Sandstone Press, 2015. Small quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. In this book Clifton Bain focuses on the mixed oak, birch and other woodlands that line the west coasts of, north to south, Scotland, Northern England, Wales and Ireland. Correctly described as a rainforest, these trees take a higher rainfall..... More
A memoir of Thomas Bewick, written by himself.
London: Oxford University Press, 1975. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Originally published 1862. More
Thomas Bewick. My life.
London: The Folio Society, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations, papercovered boards, cloth spine, bookplate, fine. More
Australian plant genera: an etymological dictionary of Australian plant genera.
Sydney: Society for Growing Australian Plants, 1981. Octavo, softcover, some wear, signature. More
Natural histories: extraordinary rare book selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library.
New York: Sterling Publishing, 2012. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. This book allows readers a privileged glimpse of seldom seen, fully illustrated scientific tomes from the American Museum of Natural History's Rare Book Collection. Forty essays from the museum's top experts in a variety of natural science disciplines, from anthropology to..... More
The lives of Hawai'i's dolphins and whales: natural history and conservation.
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations. Although this book covers the well-known resident spinner dolphins and the visiting humpback whales, it particularly highlights the ten species of lesser-known open-ocean dolphins and whales that are resident to the marine slopes of the islands. These include..... More
New Zealand whales and dolphins.
Wellington: The Biological Society, (1972. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, stiff wrappers, inscribed by the author for Bob Green. More
Wild about the natives: a photographic journey through Australia's south west bushland.
Glen Forrest: Off Pen Publishing, 2012. Oblong format, laminated boards, colour photographs. A beautiful photographic book capturing the essence of spring in the south west of Western Australia. More
The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon: ducks and their allies (swans, geese and ducks), volume one.
London: Bombay Natural History Society, (1921. second edition). Tall octavo, 30 coloured plates by Gronvold, Lodge and Keulemans. Publisher's half morocco, slight wear and a few spots. The stamp "Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales" on the endpapers, half title and the verso of plates; inscribed "A. J. Basset..... More
The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon: snipe, bustards and sand-grouse, volume two.
London: Bombay Natural History Society, 1921. Tall octavo, 19 colour plates by H. Gronvold, photographs. Publisher's half morocco, slight wear and a few spots. The stamp "Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales" on the endpapers, half title and the verso of plates; inscribed "A. J. Basset Hull Esq. With..... More
Ericas in Southern Africa.
Cape Town: Purnell and Sons, 1967. Octavo, colour plates, folding map. Leather bound, one corner rubbed. Numbered collector's edition, limited to 400 copies, signed by the authors and the artists. More
Ericas in Southern Africa.
Cape Town: Purnell and Sons, 1967. Octavo, colour plates, folding map. Publisher's cloth, flecked, bookplate. More