Travel in aquatint and lithography: from the library of ..., volume two Asia, Oceania, Antarctic, America
Sydney: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1991. Quarto, More
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Check-list of North American birds. The species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian islands.
New York: American Ornithologists Union, (1983. sixth edition). Octavo, maps, a fine copy. More
Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West INdies and Hawaiian Islands.
Chicago: American Ornithologists' Union, (1998. seventh edition). Octavo, publisher's cloth, Prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union. More
The royal research ship 'Discovery II'
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936. Quarto, ten photographic plates, fine copy in publisher's wrappers. Discovery Reports, volume 13. More
Dragonflies of Europe.
London: Harley Books, 2004. Quarto, colour illustrations, maps, creased softcover. Comprising 124 species of resident damselfly (Zygoptera) and dragonfly (Anisoptera), illustrated on the 30 plates of 219 colour figures. In most cases, both sexes as well as important variants are depicted, all enlarged. This is the only book in English..... More
ANZANG twelfth edition: Australasian Nature Photography 2015.
Sydney: Australian Geographic, 2015. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. 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
Seal hunting off Jan Mayen.
Washington DC: National Geographic, 1948. Octavo, photographs, binder's cloth. Exctracted from National Geographic, volume 93. More
Subantarctic Campbell Island.
Sydney: Denver Museum of Natural History, 1962. Octavo, photographs, signature, softcover. More
New Zealand whales and dolphins.
Wellington: The Biological Society, (1972. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, stiff wrappers. More
Whales and dolphins of New Zealand and Australia: an identification guide.
Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1983. Octavo, colour photographs, bookplate, softcover, More
Birds of Iceland.
Sydney: Hjalmar R. Bardarson, 1986. Octavo, colour photographs, blemished dustwrapper. More
Arctic shorebirds in North America: a decade of monitoring.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Large octavo, laminated boards, maps. A publication of the Cooper Ornithological Society. Each year shorebirds from North and South America migrate thousands of miles to spend the summer in the Arctic. There they feed in shoreline marshes and estuaries along some of the most..... More
The handbook of bird identification for Europe and the Western Palearctic.
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, (1998. reprint). Octavo, more than 357 colour plates, owner's sticker, a very good copy in dustwrapper. The first identification guide to cover all the species to have occurred in the region, illustrating every one (including vagrants and accidentals). The species are organised by family, with..... More
Palearctic birds: a checklist of the birds of Europe, North Africa and Asia north of the foothills of the Himalayas.
London: Harrier Publications, 1994. Octavo, paperback, The aim of this new work is two-fold: to provide an up-to-date working checklist for the Palearctic region; and to make a sensible contribution to the on-going debate about which English names for birds should be adopted as standard. More
Shores of Macquarie Island.
Adelaide: Rigby, 1971. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The fur seal of South Georgia.
Sydney: British Antarctic Survey, 1968. Quarto, photographs, tables, softcover. More
Tundra plovers: the Eurasian, Pacific and American golden plovers and grey plover.
Calton: Poyser, 1998. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs, other illustrations. Examines the taxonomy, appearance, behaviour, ecology and conservation of the Golden and Grey Plovers. There are four species of tundra plover: the Grey Plover, and the Eurasian, Pacific and American golden plovers. They breed only in the northern hemisphere, principally on tundra..... More
Life in ancient ice.
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, text illustrations. An overview of current research into microbial life in ancient glacial ice and permafrost. These include particulates of fungi, bacteria, pollen grains, protists, and viruses that are carried by wind around the globe. More
Shorebirds of the Northern Hemisphere.
London: A & C Black, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Shorebirds, or waders, are a very popular group of birds among birders of all standards, though their identification is often a challenge. Covering all the species of the northern hemisphere, this new photographic guide provides all the information a...... More
Penguins: birds of distinction.
London: Penguin Books, 1996. Oblong format, colour photographs, bookplste, softcover. More
The subantarctic island of New Zealand. Reports on the geo-physics, geology, zoology, and botany of the islands lying to the south of New Zealand.
Wellington: Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 1909. Quarto, text illustrations, coloured folded map in rear paste-down pocket of volume two. Publisher's handsome gilt cloth with the original plain brown dustwrappers, a magnificent copy and very scarce in this condition (without the all too prevalent adhesion damage to sections of the text)..... More
The subantarctic island of New Zealand. Reports on the geo-physics, geology, zoology, and botany of the islands lying to the south of New Zealand.
Christchurch: Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 1909. Quarto, text illustrations, coloured folded map in rear paste-down pocket of volume two. Publisher's handsome gilt cloth, a few spots otherwise a near fine copy. More
Antarctica: a call to action.
San Rafael: Mandala Publishing, 2008. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs. This book also contains images of the frozen continent that capture the beauty of the icebergs, the glaciers, the penguins and Humpback whales, and the wild wide seas. More
The mammals of the palaearctic region: a taxonomic review.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1978. Octavo, maps, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The birds of the Western Palearctic [BWP], volume one: Ostrich to ducks.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. Quarto, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Birds of the Western Palearctic (commonly known as BWP) is one of the greatest scientific bird book ever published. Complete in nine volumes, it covers 770 species of birds, of which about 600 are breeding species. Each..... More