The anatomy of the migratory locust.
London: The Athlone Press, 1953. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
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Recherches sur l'anatomie des Psoques.
Paris: Les Presses Universitaires de France, 1934. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. Text in French. More
Bird anatomy for artists.
Redcliffe: BFineArt, 2013. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations. Foreword by Penny Olsen. This informative textbook for bird artists is a comprehensive survey of the complete bird from head to tail. The book is full of masterly illustrations that are clear and easy to understand, including black and white working drawings..... More
The acquisition of motor behavior in vertebrates.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996. Small quarto, tables, fine copy in dustwrapper. Motor skills determine how well we perform in athletics, dance, music and countless daily tasks. The nervous system can learn new motor behaviours through experience and practice - this is motor learning. This text presents research on the..... More
Atlas of Drosophila morphology: wild-type and classical mutants.
London: Elsevier Science Publishers, 2013. Quarto, spirally bound, colour photographs. The guide every Drosophila researcher wished they had when first learning genetic markers, and the tool they wish they had now as a handy reference in their lab research. Previously, scientists had only poor-quality images or sketches to work with..... More
Observations on the myology of Dugong dugon (Muller).
Washington DC: Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 1977. Octavo, softcover Number 226. More
The elements of insect anatomy.
Ithaca: Comstock Publishing, 1895. Octavo, text illustrations. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, a very good copy. More
Tthe elements of insect anatomy.
Ithaca: Comstock Publishing, (1916. ninth edition). Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's boards. More
Ecdysis, as morphological evidence of the original tetradactyle feathering of the bird's fore-limb, based especially on the perennial moult in Gymnorhina tibicen [drop title].
London: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, volume sixteen, part eight, 1903. Large quarto, text illustrations. Binder's cloth, small library stamp on front end paper, otherwise a good copy. More
The collected scientific papers of the late Alfred Henry Garrod.
London: R H Porter, 1881. Tall octavo, frontispiece, 31 lithographed plates including eleven coloured and seven either folding or double page. Contemporary black half morocco, the bookplate John Calaby. Alfred Henry Garrod (1846-1879) was an anatomist and physiologist with a strong interest in zoology. He was the first person to..... More
British Prosobranch molluscs: their functional anatomy and ecology.
London: Ray Society, 1962. Octavo, text illustrations. More
Primate comparative anatomy.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Quarto, laminated boards, black and white photographs, illustrations, line drawings. In this comprehensively illustrated, up-to-date textbook, primate anatomist Daniel L. Gebo provides straightforward explanations of primate anatomy that move logically through the body plan and across species. Including only what is essential in relation..... More
Tasmanian Tiger: a lesson to be learnt.
Perth: Abrolhos Publishing, 1999. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Covers Thylacine natural history, prehistory, anatomy, sightings, hunting, captivity, expeditions and other aspects of their history. More
A general textbook of entomology: including the anatomy, physiology, development and classification of insects.
London: Methuen, (1925. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's worn cloth, rebacked with new endpapers. One of the classics of entomological literature, the first edition is rarely seen and usually, like this copy, in mediocre condition. More
Introduction a l'entomologie comprenant les principes généraux de l'anatomie et de la physiologie des insectes, des détails sur leurs moeurs et un résumé des principaux systèmes de classification proposés jusqu'a ce jour ces animaux.
Paris: Librarie Encyclopedique De Roret, [1838. second edition), Octavo, wrappers. More
Introduction a l'entomologie comprenant les principes généraux de l'anatomie et de la physiologie des insectes, des détails sur leurs moeurs et un résumé des principaux systèmes de classification proposés jusqu'a ce jour ces animaux.
Paris: Librarie Encyclopedique De Roret, (1834. first edition). Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers. More
Insecto-theology. Or a demonstration of the being and perfections of God, from a consideration of the structure and economy of insects.
Edinburgh: William Creech, 1799. Octavo, one uncoloured engraved plate. Contemporary full calf, spine friable, library sticker, all edges coloured. More
The anatomy, physiology, morphology, and development of the Blow-fly (Calliphora erythrocephala).
London: R. H. Porter, 1890-1892. Octavo, 50 uncoloured plates, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, signatures and a library stamp in each volume, a sound set. More
The inside out of flies.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2020. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The Inside Out of Flies is a look under the bonnet at the astonishing mechanics of fly anatomy. Erica McAlister reveals the engineering miracles embodied in each species of fly and some of the fascinating implications they hold for human technology. Discover..... More
The brain of the Opossum (Didelphus marsupialis).
Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1968. Folio, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
On the anatomy of vertebrates.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1866-1868. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's burgundy cloth, slight wear, two owners' signatures on title page, a sound set. Volume one: fishes and reptiles. Volume two: birds and mammals. Volume three: mammals. More
A manual of practical vertebrate morphology.
London: Oxford University Press, (1963. third edition). Octavo, text illustrations, signature, minor annotations. Originally published in 1931. More
Animal body size: linking pattern and process across space, time, and taxonomic group.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Octavo, laminated boards, graphs. This volume explores animal body size from a macroecological perspective, examining species, populations, and other large groups of animals in order to uncover the patterns and causal mechanisms of body size throughout time and across the globe. The chapters represent..... More
On the anatomy and classification of the Dasyuridae (Marsupialia).
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1947. Octavo, signature, bookplate, fine copy in wrappers. Results of the Archbold Expeditions number 56. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Volume 88. More