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
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
London: Chapman & Hall, 1991. Octavo, photographs, laminated boards. More
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
London: Oxford University Press, 1975. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Originally published 1862. More
London: The Folio Society, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations, papercovered boards, cloth spine, bookplate, fine. More
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
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
Wellington: The Biological Society, (1972. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, stiff wrappers, inscribed by the author for Bob Green. More
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1990. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover, owner signature. More
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
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
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
Thetford: British Trust for Ornithology, 1993. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. With detailed descriptions of over 119 species. More
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
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
New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1978. Octavo, photographs, illustrations. More
Sydney: Government Printer, 1910. Quarto, text illustrations, photographs, maps. Publisher's blue cloth cloth, a fine crisp copy. More
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
Willoughby, NSW: Weldon, (1989. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, lengthy inscription, dustwrapper. More
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
London: Ray Society, 1958. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, printed wrappers. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press/WILDGuides, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A beautifully illustrated photographic field guide to all the genera of hoverflies found in Britain, focusing on the species most likely to be identified. Accessible and designed to appeal to a wide audience, the book contains more than 500 remarkable..... More
