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
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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
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
Visual voyages: images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. An unprecedented visual exploration of the intertwined histories of art and science, of the old world and the new. From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world..... More
Whales, ice and men: the history of whaling in the western Arctic.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. Quarto, illustrations, softcover. A richly illustrated archeological and economic history of the whaling industry. More
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Australia's south east: a natural history of Australia, [volume] two.
Sydney: Collins, 1972. Quarto, photographs, chipped dustwrapper. Explores the plant and animal communities from Rockhampton in Queensland to Portland in Victoria, going as far inland as the Great Dividing Range. 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
Charles Darwin: Voyaging: Volume one of a biography.
London: Pimlico, 1996. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. 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
Turtles in our wake.
London: A & C Black, 2012. Octavo, paperback, maps. Sailing off in a forty-foot boat changed the lives of David and Sandra Clayton in ways they never thought possible. With her eye for detail and vivid descriptions, Sandra takes the reader on a powerful journey through some of the Mediterranean's..... 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
Elliott Coues: naturalist and frontier historian.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981. Octavo, 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
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
An officer of the blue: Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne, South Sea Explorer, 1724-1772.
Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 1994. Octavo, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
South with Scott.
London: Collins, (1958. reprint). Octavo, illustrations, heavily foxed preliminary pages and fore edges, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The journal of Arthur Bowes Smyth: surgeon, Lady Penrhyn 1787-1789.
Sydney: Australaian Documents Library, 1979. Quarto, plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The journal of Philip Gidley King: Lieutenant, R. N. 1987-1790.
Sydney: Australaian Documents Library, 1980. Quarto, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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
Europe: a natural history.
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2018. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. More