Charles Darwin 1809-1882: a centennial commemorative.
Wellington: Nova Pacifica, 1982. Small folio, tipped in photographs, text illustrations. Publisher's half blue morocco, a fine copy. More
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Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 million years of mammalian evolution in Europe.
Irvington: Columbia University Press, 2002. Octavo, colour illustrations, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. A 65 million year journey showing the complexity of mammalian evolution. More
Butterfly and angelfishes of the world, volume two: Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Red Sea, Indo-Pacific.
Melle: Mergus, (1981. second edition). Quarto, colour photographs, chipped dustwrapper. More
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
Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia: animals in space and time.
Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1984. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Riversleigh.
Sydney: Reed, (1991. first edition). Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. A classic account of Australian palaeontology. More
Possums and opossums: studies in evolution.
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1987. Quarto, colour illustrations. 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 a complete taxonomic index..... 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, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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..... 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
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 evolutionary ecology of animal migration.
New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1978. Octavo, photographs, illustrations. 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
Mate choice.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. second edition). Octavo, text illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The hunt for the dawn monkey: unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, softcover. A chronicle of two centuries of scientific exploration in search of anthropoid origins. 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
New Guinea: nature and culture of Earth's grandest island.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. An enthralling exploration of the biologically richest island on Earth, featuring more than 200 spectacular color images by award-winning National Geographic photographer Tim Laman In this beautiful book, Bruce Beehler, a renowned author and expert on New Guinea, and award-winning National..... 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
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