Subantarctic Campbell Island.
Denver: Denver Museum of Natural History, 1962. Octavo, photographs, some slight water damage, bookplate, softcover. More
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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
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
Dionaea: the Venus's flytrap.
Poole: Redfern Natural History Productions, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. The first complete monograph of Dionaea muscipula, the world famous "Venus's flytrap". Described by Charles Darwin as "the most amazing plant in the world", this unmistakable insect-eating plant produces leaves that bear jaw-like lobes that dramatically snap shut when..... 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
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
Whales and dolphins of New Zealand and Australia: an identification guide.
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1990. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover, owner signature. More
Secret lives of carnivorous marsupials.
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2018. Quarto, laminated boards, colour and black and white photographs and illustrations. Provides a guide to the world’s 136 living species of carnivorous marsupials and is packed with never-before-seen photos. Biogeography, relationships and conservation are also covered in detail. Readers are taken on a journey through..... 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
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
Identification guide to European non-Passerines.
Thetford: British Trust for Ornithology, 1993. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. With detailed descriptions of over 119 species. More
The complete naturalist.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Nick Baker's fascination with the natural world began at an early age, inspired by Gerald and Lee Durrell's classic book The Amateur Naturalist. This book is an up-to-date, practical introduction to observing, understanding and investigating the natural world around us..... More
RSPB nature tracker's handbook.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustations. Every animal leaves some kind of trace as it passes and the art of tracking is very much like learning to read. If you learn to read the signs left by footprints, leftover food, droppings and scrapes in the earth..... More
A research on the pines of Australia.
Sydney: Government Printer, 1910. Quarto, text illustrations, photographs, maps. Publisher's blue cloth cloth, a fine crisp copy. More
Artist animal.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Animals have always been compelling subjects for artists, but the rise of animal advocacy and posthumanist thought has prompted a reconsideration of the relationship between artist and animal. In this book, Steve Baker examines the work of contemporary artists who..... More
Birds of Madinat Yanbu Al-Sinaiyah and its hinterland.
Ridadh: Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, 1998. octavo, publisher's decorated cloth, colour photographs, text illustrations, text in Arabic and English. Some wear to cover, otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate. More
British water beetles: volume three.
London: Ray Society, 1958. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More