Breeding biology of the Adelie Penguin.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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.
Lawrence, Kansas: 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.
Washington DC: American Ornithologists Union, (1998. seventh edition). Octavo, publisher's cloth, BRAND NEW. Prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union. More
ANZANG eighth collection: Australasian nature photography.
Adelaide: CSIRO/South Australian Museum, 2011. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. Presents the finest photographs submitted to the competition. Each photograph is accompanied by technical information as well as anecdotes about how the picture was taken, which will stimulate yet further interest in the flora and fauna and their conservation in the..... More
ANZANG fourteenth edition: Australasian Nature Photography: the year's best wildlife and landscape photos.
Sydney: Australian Geographic, 2017. Large octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. This book presents a collection of ANZANG award-winning and shortlisted images from the 2017 competition. Each image is accompanied by technical information as well as anecdotes from the photographers themselves on how each photograph was taken. There are also useful..... More
ANZANG Nature and landscape photographer of the year: the fourth collection.
Collingwood: CSIRO, 2007. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. ANZANG Nature is an organisation focused on the unique natural heritage of the bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea – continents and islands flung from the great southern continent of Gondwana Land over fifty million years ago in which, due..... More
ANZANG seventh collection: Australian nature photography.
Collingwood: CSIRO/South Australian Museum, 2010. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. Presents the finest photographs submitted to the 2010 ANZANG competition, showcasing the stunning photographs of animals, plants and landscapes taken in Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea. Each photograph is accompanied by technical information as well as anecdotes about how..... More
ANZANG thirteenth edition: Australasian Nature Photography: the year's best wildlife and landscape photos.
Sydney: Australian Geographic, 2016. Large octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. This books presents a collection of ANZANG award-winning and shortlisted images from the 2016 competition. Each image is accompanied by technical information as well as anecdotes from the photographers themselves on how each photograph was taken. There are also useful..... More
ANZANG ninth collection: Australasian nature photography.
Collingwood: CSIRO/South Australian Museum, 2012. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. Presents the finest photographs submitted to the competition. Each photograph is accompanied by technical information as well as anecdotes about how the picture was taken, which will stimulate yet further interest in the flora and fauna and their conservation in the..... 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
Seal hunting off Jan Mayen.
Washington DC: National Geographic, 1948. Octavo, photographs, binder's cloth. Exctracted from National Geographic, volume 93. 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
Nomads of the Strait of Gibraltar: a field guide to bird migration, the natural parks of the Strait and los Alcornocales, and the Rock of Gibraltar.
Palma: Palma del Valle, 2007. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. About 300 million birds cross the Strait of Gibraltar in both directions. Of these, about 700 thousand are soaring birds (raptors and storks) and a large proportion of this amazing biomass use the areas near the Strait as resting..... 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
Palearctic birds: a checklist of the birds of Europe, North Africa and Asia north of the foothills of the Himalayas.
Stonyhurst: 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
The fur seal of South Georgia.
London: British Antarctic Survey, 1968. Quarto, photographs, tables, softcover. More
Tundra plovers: the Eurasian, Pacific and American golden plovers and grey plover.
London: T & A D Poyser, 1998. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs, other illustrations. WAS $115. 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..... More
A collection of four substantial papers on Pycnogonida.
London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1915-1932. Quarto, erratically paginated, text illustrations and uncoloured plates, binder's cloth. From the British Antarctic ("terra nova") Expedition 1910. More
Life in ancient ice.
Princeton: 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
Going to extremes: project blizzard and Australia's Antarctic Heritage.
Sydney: Doubleday, 1986. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Penguins: birds of distinction.
Ringwood: Penguin Books, 1996. Oblong format, colour photographs, bookplste, softcover. More
The Arctic guide.
San Mateo: Wandering Albatross, 1996. Octavo, 152 pp., ills., maps, spirally bound. More
A wildlife guide to Chile.
London: A & C Black, 2008. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. A comprehensive English-language guide to Chile's common flora and fauna. It is also the first guide to cover Chile and its territories Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, San Felix-San Ambrosio, and the Juan Fernandez Archipelago. It includes information on the best..... 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, some adhesion damage to a few pages in volume one (this book is notorious for such problems), a fine copy and scarce in this condition. More