A contribution to the theory of the living organism.
Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1951. Octavo, a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
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T. Rex and the crater of doom.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2015. second edition), Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact, falling back..... More
The morphology of the syrinx in Passerine birds.
New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, 1971. Octavo, 20 plates, softcover. Bulletin 37. More
Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia: animals in space and time.
Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1984. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Possums and opossums: studies in evolution.
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1987. Quarto, colour illustrations., fine set in dustwrappers Includes many hundreds of photographs including 11 full page colour reconstructions of prehistoric marsupials. There is an introductory chapter which summarizes, integrates and develops all of the contributions in the volumes as an overview. The volumes also contains..... More
Darwin's luck: chance and fortune in the life and work of Charles Darwin.
London: Continuum, 2009. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Just how far did Charles Darwin's luck - both good and bad - affect his life and scientific discoveries? One might make a case for saying that Darwin's life was dogged by ill-luck (or perhaps ill-fortune is more..... More
Life in cold blood.
London: Ebury Press, 2008. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The final chapter in David Attenborough's overview of life on planet earth. Reptiles and amphibians ruled the world for nearly 200 million years and today they number over 12,500. This book traces the story of their evolution, behaviour and natural history..... More
Speciation and geographic variation in Black-tailed Gnatcatchers.
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 1987. Octavo, black and white photographs, maps, wrappers. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 42. More
Lizards: study in thermoregulation.
London: Edward Arnold, 1979. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, softcover. Studies in Biology number109. More
The Karanasa butterflies, a study in evolution.
Pittsburgh: Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 1951. Octavo, plates, text illustrations. Publisher's printed wrappers, partly unopened. More
The Tettigoniidae: biology, systematics and evolution.
Bathurst: Crawford House, 1990. Octavo, illustrations, laminated boards. Includes chapters by various authors on topics such as the evolution of acoustic communication; anti-predator defences; and karyotypes and meiosis. More
The dinosaur heresies: new theories unlocking the mystery of the dinosaurs and their extinction.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1986. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The meaning of birds.
London: Head of Zeus, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, oblong format, black and white illustrations. One of the most eloquent nature writers offers a passionate and informative celebration of birds and their ability to help us understand the world we live in. As well as exploring how birds achieve the miracle of..... More
In search of reptiles and amphibians.
Leiden: E J Brill, 1987. Octavo, photographs, paperback, bookplate of David Mcphee. More
Beautiful minds: the parallel lives of Great apes and Dolphins.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Small octavo, softcover. Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any animals appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side, Maddalena Bearzi and..... More
Reptile and amphibian variants: colors, patterns, and scales.
Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 1995. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This is the first published work on the reptile and amphibian variations that occur naturally or through selective breeding. These animals with conspicuously altered colours and patterns are often quite beautiful. Profusely illustrated. More
The bird: its form and function.
New York: (1906. first edition). Octavo, photographs, library stamp on front paste-down, a very good copy in publisher's decorated cloth. More
The emerald planet: how plants changed earth's history.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white illustrations. In The emerald planet, David Beerling puts plants centre stage, revealing the crucial role they have played in driving global changes in the environment, in recording hidden facets of Earth's history, and in helping us to predict its..... More
Selection: the mechanism of evolution.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2007. second revised edition). Octavo, dustwrapper, line drawings. This book adopts an experimental approach to understanding the mechanisms of evolution and the nature of evolutionary processes, with examples drawn from microbial, plant and animal systems. It incorporates insights from remarkable recent advances in theoretical modeling, and..... More
Evolutionary ecology of birds: life histories, mating systems and extinction.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. This comprehensive appraisal of avian diversity is divided into five sections - Comparative biology of birds; Natural selection and diversity in life-histories; Sexual selection and diversity in mating systems; Birth and death of bird species; and Conclusions. More
Type specimens of bird skins in the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, Unitied Kingdom.
Tring: British Ornithologists' Club, 1999. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, paperback. British Ornithologists' Club Occassional Publication, number four. More
When life nearly died: the greatest mass extinction of all time.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. The greatest mass extinction in Earth's history happened some 251 million years ago. In this cataclysm at least 90 percent of life was killed, both on land and in the sea, almost bringing evolution to a halt. What caused destruction on such..... More
The eponym dictionary of reptiles.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Octavo, laminated boards, BRAND NEW. This reference book answers all your questions about the origins of the vernacular and scientific names of reptiles across the globe. This dictionary covers everyone after whom an extant or recently extinct reptile has been named. The entries include..... More