The fringe of the sea.
Adelaide: Rigby, (1966. first edition). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Adelaide: Rigby, (1966. first edition). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Moscow: Pensoft, 2009. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations, black and white and colour photographs. ZooKeys No. 18. This is the first issue of ZooKeys devoted to taxonomy of the Crustacea, specifically crustaceans from the Southern Hemisphere, with contributions describing new taxa from Australia, New Caledonia, the Tasman Sea, Fiji, Madagascar and..... More
London: Harper Collins, 2004. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. A narrative written by a one-time Maine lobsterman relates how lobsters socialize, mate, fight for dominance, and navigate their way across the ocean floor. More
Sydney: New Holland, (2019. reprint). Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This handy, pocket-sized guide includes slugs, worms, crabs, starfish, anemones and shell inhabitants. Each of the 232 species or groups in the book is illustrated with a colour photograph, distribution map and description of the animal. More
Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1991. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, volume 31. More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2002. Octavo, publisher's cloth, illustrations. Covers the commercially important crustacean species - shrimps, prawns, lobsters and yabbies, listing over 1200 species known from Australian waters. The volume opens with a general introduction to the Malacostraca, giving an historical overview of the work on this group. The Catalogue..... More
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Octavo, boards, colour photographs, maps. This lavishly illustrated book offers a remarkable look at the world’s crabs. More than 7,000 crab species, in 100 different families, are known today. Their unique physiology and complex behaviors have made them one of the most diverse and..... More
Dunedin: Canterbury University Press, 2010. Quarto, laminated boards, photographs, text illustrations, maps. This volume is the second of three that provide a complete review and inventory of New Zealand's entire living and fossil biodiversity. Volume 2 deals with the major branch of the animal kingdom known as Ecdysozoa (moulting animals)..... More
Adelaide: Government Printer, (1927-1929. first edition). Octavo, uncoloured plates, text illustrations, fine set in publisher's printed wrappers. More
Sydney: A H and A W Reed, 1970. Octavo, colour photographs, owner's sticker, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: New World Publications, (2003. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
New York: Sea Challengers, 1996. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Sydney: Reed Books, (1994. first edition). Octavo, colour photographs, illustrations, very good in softcover. More
New Haven: Yale University, 1910. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's wrapper, little worn, ex-library with stamps, partly unopened, still a sound copy. More
London: De L'mprimerie De F. Dufart, 1802-1805. Octavo, 112 uncoloured engraved plates ( some folding), bookplate, a handsome set in a contemporary in full mottled calf, with gilt spine and coloured labels, all edges coloured. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations. Crustaceans, familiar to the average person as shrimp, lobsters, crabs, krill, barnacles, and their many relatives, are easily one of the most important and diverse groups of marine life forms. Poorly understood, they are among the most numerous invertebrates..... More
Sydney: The Geological Society of America, 1969. Octavo, text illustrations, very good in cloth binding, signed by the author for Edgar Riek. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1980. Quarto, one plate, softcover. More
Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. This long awaited guide provides a wonderful introduction for naturalists, beachcombers, divers and anyone with an interest in the marine environment. It includes a description of each animal accompanied by a colour photograph with information about each animal's behaviour, diversity..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2011. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs black and white illustrations, text illustrations, maps. Squat lobsters have been intensively studied over the past few decades, making them one of the best known deepwater crustacean groups. Of the superfamilies Chirostyloidea and Galatheoidea, they are highly visible crustaceans on seamounts..... More
Amsterdam: A. Asher & Co., [1965. facsimile). Large quarto, monochrome plates, text illustrations. Text in French. Originally published in Paris by Masson et Cie, Editeurs, 1904-1906. More
Sydney: David & Charles, 1973. Octavo, black and white photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: The Geological Society of America, 1981. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
Brussels: (Publisher unnamed), 1933. Quarto, numerous text illustrations and plate. Publishers printed wrappers, a total of 40 fascicles, a few small library stamps and minor blemishes, otherwise a sound clean set. Volume one: introduction, volume two: fascicles 1-11, volume three: fascicles 1-19, volume four: fascicles 1-12 (lacks fascicles 6, 9..... More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1928. Octavo, twelve photographic plates. Publisher's cloth, library stamp of the Royal Society of Victoria on the title page, otherwise a fine set. Volume one: Triassic and Jurassic. Volume two: Cretaceous. More