The life and lore of the bird: in nature, art, myth, and literature
Sydney: Crown, 1975. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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The heyday of natural history, 1820-1870.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. More
The origin and history of the British Fauna.
London: Methuen and Co., 1952. Octavo, maps, lacks dustwrapper. More
Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia.
Sydney: Currawong Press, (1982. facsimile). Octavo, colour plates, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. First published 1860. An important early work on the Platypus. Bennett sent specimens, plus his own observations, to Richard Owen and the mystery was finally solved. More
Baudin in Australian waters: the artwork of the French voyage of discovery to the southern lands 1800-1804. With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur C.
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988. Small folio, colour plates, textillustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. 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
The colonial earth.
Sydney: Miegunyah Press, (2000. first edition). Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Taking art as his starting point, Bonyhady explores how issues such as the preservation of endangered species, the protection of forests, the maintenance of public rights over the foreshore and even the likelihood of climate change already loomed..... More
The Great Barrier Reef: history, science, heritage.
Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This book is a comprehensive cultural and ecological history of the European impact on the Great Barrier Reef, from early voyages of discovery to the most recent developments in Reef science and management. More
Evolution: the history of an idea.
Berkeley: University of California Press, (2003. third edition). Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, softcover. Since its original publication in 1983, Evolution: the history of an idea has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact of this most controversial of scientific theories. This new edition has..... More
Linnaeus: progress and prospects in Linnean research.
Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1980. Octavo, publisher's printed cloth. More
Britain's natural heritage: reading our countryside's past.
London: Blandford Press, 1987. Quarto, colour photographs, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin: Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes Geographe and Naturaliste, assigned by order of the Government to a voyage of discovery.
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974. Quarto, illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
The art of natural history: animal illustrators and their work.
London: Country Life, 1978. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in slipcase. More
Island farm.
London: G Bell and Sons, (1944. reprint). Octavo, photographs, lacks dustwrapper. More
Animals and the Law: a review of animals and the State.
London: Chichester Institute of Higher Education, 1998. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. More
The ancestor's tale: a pilgrimage to the dawn of life.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (2004. first edition). Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. A pilgrimage back through time to explore the history of life. More
Unweaving the rainbow: science, delusion and the appetite of wonder.
London: Allen Lane, 1998. Octavo, owner's stamp, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The contented botanist: letters of W. H. Harvey about Australia and the Pacific.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
A century afield: a history of the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club.
Hobart: Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club, 2004. Octavo, photographs, softcover. An account of the history of the club to mark its centenary. 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
The future eaters: an ecological history of the Australasian lands and people.
Sydney: Reed Books, (1994. first edition). Octavo, photographs, texta mark bottom edge, signed by the author, fine copy in dustwrapper. One of the great modern masterpieces of modern Australian natural history writing, the hardcover was a small print run. A brilliant account of the pre and post ecological and human..... More
The 1826 journal of John James Audubon. An account of his journey to England and Scotland to arrange the publication of The Birds of America. Transcribed from the original, in the collection of Henry Bradley Martin, and with a foreword and notes.
Lincoln: University of Oklahoma Press, (1967. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, some wear, softcover. More
John James Audubon.
Lincoln: University of Oklahoma Press, (1964. reprint). Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
A bicentenary history of the Linnean Society of London.
London: Taylor & Francis, 1938. Octavo, photographs. Binder's half morocco, wrappers retained. More