The Bengal monitor.
Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1994. Octavo, illustrations, maps. More
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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
Resolution: the story of Captain Cook's second voyage of discovery.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004. Octavo, photographs, five copy in dustwrapper. More
Mammals of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
London: A & C Black, 2009. Octavo, laminated boards, colour plates, line drawings, distribution maps. Covering over 400 species, this work presents all of the terrestrial mammal species of the Western Palaearctic, serving as an excellent guide to the great wealth of fauna in this region. Species accounts are concise... More
Do elephants have knees: and other Darwinian stories of origins.
Cornell: Cornell University Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. Thinking whimsically makes serious science accessible. That's a message that should be taken to heart by all readers who want to learn about evolution. Do Elephants Have Knees? invites readers into serious appreciation of Darwinian histories by deploying the... More
Hymenoptera: evolution, biodiversity and biological control.
CSIRO, 2000. Octavo, dustwrapper, Based on a collection of papers presented at the Fourth International Hymenoptera Conference. More
Madagascar: the Bradt travel guide.
Chalfont St Peter: Bradt Publications, (2014. eleventh edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This award-winning guide, now in its eleventh edition, proves to be an informative, amusing and sensitive account of a truly enchanting destination. It covers every aspect of this captivating country, from the unique fauna and flora inhabiting... More
Antarctic bird studies.
Washington DC: American Geophysical Union, 1968. Quarto, photographs, bookplate, fine copy. More
Australia gone wild: an anthology of the best nature stories from Australian Geographic.
Sydney: Australia Geographic, 2017. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. This compendium brings together over 40 of the best stories spanning the natural world. Illustrated with hundreds of stunning Australian wildlife photographs, this beautiful book covers the stories of unique Australian animals such as Tasmanian tiger, Night parrot and Lord Howe Island phasmid. More
Flora of Australia, volume 26: Meliaceae, Rutaceae and Zygophyllaceae.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, line drawings, maps. Volume 26 of the Flora of Australia series describes three families of plants, Meliaceae, Rutaceae and Zygophyllaceae, consisting of 61 genera and 588 species. Meliaceae is a largely tropical family and includes the well-known Toona ciliata, Red Cedar, as well as... More
Flora of Australia, volume 37: Asteraceae 1.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing/ABRS, 2015. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps, paperback. **This was to be the first of three volumes covering the family Asteraceae. However from 2016, the Flora of Australia series (including the Flora of Australia Supplementary Series) will no longer be published in printed volumes. This volume presents... More
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Flora of Australia, volume 51. Mosses [part one].
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing/ABRS, 2006. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. This is the first of three volumes describing and illustrating more than 1000 species of Australian mosses. Together, these volumes will represent the first national account of these diverse and ecologically significant organisms. The introduction documents 200 years of research on Australian... More
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Flora of Australia, volume 51. Mosses [part one].
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing/ABRS, 2006. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. This is the first of three volumes describing and illustrating more than 1000 species of Australian mosses. Together, these volumes will represent the first national account of these diverse and ecologically significant organisms. The introduction documents... More
ANZANG twelfth edition: Australasian Nature Photography 2015.
Sydney: Australian Geographic, 2015. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. The bioregion that encompasses Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea possesses a unique natural heritage stretching back more than 80 million years, to the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwana. The South Australian Museum and Australian Geographic focus... More
Plants and habitats: an introduction to common plants and their habitats in Britain and Ireland.
[East Lothian]: Author, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. Aids in the identification of the 700 most common plant species found in Britain and Ireland. Also includes species that are conspicuous or useful ecological indicators. There is also a separate habitats section describing the flora, ecology and management of... More
Behind the binoculars: interviews with acclaimed birdwatchers.
Exeter: Pelagic Publishing, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Mark Avery and Keith Betton, passionate birdwatchers and conservationists, interview members of the British birdwatching community to answer questions about their lives as birdwatchers. They take you behind the scenes, and behind the binoculars, of a diverse range of birding and wildlife... More
Birds and forestry.
London: Poyser, 1990. Octavo, illustrations, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Fighting for birds: 25 years in nature conservation.
Exeter: Pelagic Publishing, 2012. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. Devoted to birds and wildlife since childhood, Mark's early scientific research at Oxford, Aberdeen and the RSPB provided a solid background for his management, ambassadorial, and political lobbying activities which were to follow. In this book, Mark mixes a great many stories... More
Inglorious: conflict in the uplands.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, BRAND NEW. Driven grouse shooting, where flocks of Red grouse are chased by lines of beaters so that they fly over lines of 'guns' that shoot the fast-flying birds, is a peculiarly British fieldsport. Deeply rooted in the British class system, this multi-million pound... More
Remarkable birds.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2016. Octavo, laminated boards, colour illustrations. In this beautifully presented volume, over 60 birds are introduced, organized thematically into eight sections, covering all aspects of our relationship with birds. 'Songbirds' celebrates the greatest bird virtuosi, such as the Nightingale, while 'Birds of Prey' include majestic hunters... More
Lizards: study in thermoregulation.
London: Edward Arnold, 1979. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, softcover. Studies in Biology number109. More
Genetics in the wild.
Washington D C: Smithsonian Institute Press, 2002. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. WAS $50. Describes plants and animals whose peculiar lifestyles in the wild have been illuminated by molecular markers. Among the dozens of vignettes - 92 in all- are descriptions of a mammal that produces clonal offspring, a 100-ton mushroom... More
On evolution.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2007. Octavo, paperback, John Avise is one of the most distinguished evolutionary biologists of our time. His groundbreaking work with mitochondrial DNA created the discipline of phylogeography and his work on the Pleistocene refugia hypothesis redirected scientific thinking about patterns of distribution. Spanning a remarkable thirty-five-year... More
Phylogeography: the history and formation of species.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, (2001. reprint). Octavo, laminated boards, text illustrations. Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene genealogies - phylogenetics - and geography. More
Birds of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan.
London: A & C Black, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations and photographs, maps. The first field guide to include the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, along with neighbouring Afghanistan. This vast area includes a diverse variety of habitats, and the avifauna is similarly broad, from... More