New Guinea expedition: Fly River Area 1936-1937.
New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1940. Octavo, photographs, pencil marks throughout, flecked cloth, scarce. More
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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
The magnificent foragers.
Washington D C: Smithsonian Exposition Books, 1978. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. Various accounts of scientific field work of the Smithsonian Institution. More
Bibliography of Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S., Circumnavigator.
Sydney: The Library of New South Wales, (1970. second edition). Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The ecotravellers' wildlife guide: Belize and northern Guatemala.
San Diego: Academic Press, 1999. Octavo, paperback, colour plates, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps. Includes identification, distribution, and conservation information on Belize and Northern Guatemala's frequently spotted animals. Also includes information on the ecology, behaviour, and conservation of profiled animals; information on habitats and on the most common plants; information..... More
Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia.
London: John Van Voorst, 1860. Octavo, eight handcoloured lithographs by George French Angas. Publisher's blindstamped purple cloth, bookplate, some fading and blemishes otherwise a very good copy. Bennett was particularly interested in the Platypus and his account of this extraordinary animal in Gatherings is a classic. "The drawings, with a...... More
Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia.
London: John Van Voorst, 1860. Octavo, eight handcoloured lithographs by George French Angas. Publisher's blindstamped purple cloth, typically faded spine, a near fine copy. Bennett was particularly interested in the Platypus and his account of this extraordinary animal in Gatherings is a classic. "The drawings, with a few exceptions, are..... More
Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China.
London: Richard Bentley, 1834. Octavo, aquatint frontispieces (some spotting). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, all edges coloured, a handsome set. Dr George Bennett (1804-1893) settled permanently in Sydney in 1836 and died in 1893. He established a successful medical practice and became a leading figure in Colonial science. He..... More
Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China.
London: Richard Bentley, 1834. Octavo, aquatint frontispieces. Contemporary half calf, bookplates of the original owner with his signature on both title pages, the bookplate of F. G. Coles; a very good copy. Dr George Bennett (1804-1893) settled permanently in Sydney in 1836 and died in 1893. He established a successful..... More
Ocean: reflections on a century of exploration.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Large octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, line drawings. The past one hundred years of ocean science have been distinguished by dramatic milestones, remarkable discoveries, and major revelations. This book is a clear and lively survey of many of these amazing findings. Beginning..... More
The Skottowe manuscript: select specimens from nature of the birds, animals etc etc. of New South Wales.
Sydney: David Ell Press, 1988. Octavo, 27 full-page watercolours. Publisher's cloth and slipcase, limited to 550 copies, a fine copy. The manuscript, now held in the Mitchell Library, was created in 1813 by the colonial official Thomas Skottowe, using the illustrations of the convict artist Robert Browne. More
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Tropical Queensland: a natural history of Australia, [volume] one.
Sydney: Collins, (1970. first edition). Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Great voyages of exploration: the golden age of discovery in the Pacific.
Lane Cove: Doubleday, 1983. Large quarto, illustrations and maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Top wildlife sites of the World.
Chatswood: New Holland Publishers, 2015. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Beautifully illustrated, this book details the most amazing spectacles that every wildlife enthusiast has to see during their lifetime. Top nature photographer and inveterate traveller William Burrard-Lucas has spent years visiting the far-flung corners of every continent, capturing thousands of..... More
Who stand alone.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1965. Octavo, lacks dustwrapper. 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. Joseph Dalton..... More
Islands in the bush: a natural history of the Kora National Reserve, Kenya.
London: George Philip, 1985. Quarto, photographs and text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Pelican in the wilderness; a naturalist's odyssey in North America.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1956. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Resultats du voyage du S.Y. Belgica en 1897-1898-1899 sous le commandement de A. de Gerlache de Gomery.
Anvers: Imprimerie J. E. Buschmann, 1906. Quarto, five partially coloured lithographic plates. Binder's cloth, wrappers retained. The Insect volume. More
Travels in New Zealand: with contributions to the geography, geology, botany and natural history of that country.
London: John Murray, 1843. Octavo, five lithographed plates (four tinted.) Contemporary calf, spines fully gilt with red and green labels, all edges speckled, bookplate, some foxing but otherwise an attractive set. More
Tropical visions in an age of empire.
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
The journal of Philip Gidley King: Lieutenant, R. N. 1987-1790.
Sydney: Australaian Documents Library, 1980. Quarto, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
To sail beyond the sunset: natural history in Australia 1699-1829.
Adelaide: Rigby, 1984. Quarto, colour illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. A very useful account of the early exploration of Australian natural history and a solid reference for anyone interested in the subject. The author was the recipient of the Museum of Victoria's Science and Humanities Scholarship. More
Mawson: and the ice men of the heroic age: Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen.
Sydney: Random House, 2012. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. This book details the historic race to become the first team to reach the South Pole. On 2 December 1911, Sir Douglas Mawson left Hobart on his Australasian Antarctic Expedition to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia, 2000..... More
The birth of Sydney.
Melbourne: Text Publishing, (2002. reprint). Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Blending together the writings of early Australian explorers, settlers, and leaders, "The Birth of Sydney" editor Flannery constructs a compelling narrative history of the early life of one of the world's great cities. More