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Cambridge MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1943. Small quarto, two plates, fine copy in publisher's cloth. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, number nine. More
Cambridge MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1943. Small quarto, two plates, fine copy in publisher's cloth. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, number nine. More
Sydney: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2008. Octavo, paperback and CD-ROM, colour photographs and maps. The first Red List assessment of the entire Cayman Islands flora, covering all 415 species and varieties considered to be native to the Cayman Islands. A comprehensive field guide to the unique plants of the Cayman..... More
London: Bloomsbury Books, 2022. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. The Lesser Antillies - incorporating the nations of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, along with numerous dependencies - are rich in birdlife. It is a magical region with endemic parrots..... More
London: A & C Black Publishers, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps. Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire are the three main islands of the Netherlands Antilles off the coast of northern Venezuela. They are major tourist destinations especially popular with divers and naturalists. The colour plates are..... More
Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa, 2010. Octavo, laminated boards, colour illustrations, maps. This directory provides a concise summary of the 2345 Important Bird Areas described to date in the Americas. The inventory represents a participative consensus on the most important sites for bird and biodiversity conservation in the hemisphere, in what..... More
London: Arlequin Press, 2002. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Includes sections on conservation, general information, birding through the seasons and birding localities in Bermuda by parish. Also includes breeding, sought-after and rare birds as well as a checklist and bibliography. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Octavo, paperback, photographs. Explores images of the tropical world - maps, paintings, botanical drawings, photographs, diagrams, and texts - produced by European and American travelers over the past three centuries. Bringing together a group of distinguished contributors from disciplines across the arts and humanities..... More
London: Government Printing Establishment, 1891. Octavo, printed title wrapper, title, preface. Red half calf and black cloth, house in a red solander box with label; signatures of 'Julie Adele Livingston, July 2nd 1904 Kingston, Jamaica' on title and top margin of page 5, some browning confined to text, lacking back..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (2012. third edition), Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, map. This new edition incorporates five decades of his notes and records of the island's birds to present in a handy and readable form detailed and comprehensive information about the birds of Trinidad and Tobago. Showcasing 40 all-new colour..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2007. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. This is a comprehensive and portable field guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago. 107 colour plates, taken from Birds of Northern South America, illustrate all 470 species found on the islands, including vagrants. Includes descriptions of every..... More
New Jersey: Kanduanum Books, 2015. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, softcover. More
Cley: Prion, (2004. third edition). Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, other illustrations. All of the sites described in the second edition, along with a host of new ones, have been visited, verified and been given revised or new text. The bar graphs of seasonal distribution and the section on..... More
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. Octavo, colour photographs, illustrations, map, softcover. The first comprehensive illustrated guide to the natural world of the Caribbean islands. 600 vivid colour images illustrate 451 species of plants, birds, mammals, fish, seashells, and much more. While the guide primarily looks at the most common..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Large octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, text illustrations, maps. Archaeological data now show that relatively intense human adaptations to coastal environments developed much earlier than once believed - more than 125,000 years ago. With our oceans and marine fisheries currently in a...... More
Sydney: The Viking Press, 1945. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. WAS $45. The first section provides facts about reef wildlife, the interactions between humans and reefs, and the Caribbean area in general. Spalding discusses the problems facing the reefs, with a focus on what each person can do to..... More
Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2006. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. Featuring 500 fantastic colour photographs, this work captures the beauty of marine life found in the Caribbean, the Pacific Ocean, Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. More
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. The classic guide to the birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti—now fully revised and updated Field Guide to the Birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti is the essential guide to birdwatching in these tropical countries. This completely revised..... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Libraries, 2011. Quarto, photographs and illustrations, publisher's boards,. This beautiful book was originally prepared in conjunction with an exhibition of books from the E.A. McIlhenny Natural History Collection displayed at the Hill Memorial Library in 2011, featuring four centuries of illustrated books on the birds..... More
New York: Krieger Publishing Company, 2005. Quarto, publisher's boards, This is a comprehensive checklist of all known snakes found in the New World, as well as a lexicon that lists all the common names, in several languages, of these snakes. The checklist gives information on snakes in all of the..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1990. Quarto, colour photographs, map, very good copy in dustwrapper. One of the best bird photographic essays, the images are outstanding. More
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. The coral reefs of Florida and the Caribbean, known for their stunning beauty and biodiversity, are part playground and part research lab for the thousands of tourists, divers, and marine scientists who visit them each year. Documenting the wide array..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Octavo, photographs, maps, paperback. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. This comprehensive work covers all the owls of North America, including Mexico and the Caribbean. Owls are perhaps the most intriguing of all birds -- instantly recognizable and endlessly fascinating. Heard more often than seen, many owls are best identified by..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, colour and black and white illustrations, maps. This is the essential guide for anyone traveling to those islands. It showcases the more than 280 species seen on Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao and provides descriptions of and directions to the best places..... More