Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1994. Octavo, illustrations, paperback. This is the first of two volumes covering the vascular floras of Australia's offshore island territories. It covers Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island, both in the Tasman Sea. An introduction to the geography, physical features, climate, history of human habitation... More about Flora of Australia, volume 49. Oceanic islands [part one
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1993. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. Covers Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Ashmore Reef (Indian Ocean), the Coral Sea, Macquarie and Heard Islands (sub-Antarctic region). More about Flora of Australia, volume 50. Oceanic islands, [part two
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1993-1994. Octavo, text illustrations, very good set in dustwrappers. Part one: Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island. Part two: Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Ashmore Reef (Indian Ocean), the Coral Sea, Macquarie and Heard Islands (sub-Antarctic region). More about Flora of Australia, volumes 49 and 50. Oceanic islands [part one and two
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1993-1994. Octavo, text illustrations, very good set in softcover. Part one: Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island. Part two: Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Ashmore Reef (Indian Ocean), the Coral Sea, Macquarie and Heard Islands (sub-Antarctic region). More about Flora of Australia, volumes 49 and 50. Oceanic islands [part one and two
Anchorage: Alaska Geographic, Volume 9, No. 3, 1982. Octavo, oblong format, colour photographs. More about Islands of the Seals: The Pribilofs
Lawrence, Kansas: American Ornithologists Union, (1983. sixth edition). Octavo, maps, a fine copy. More about Check-list of North American birds. The species of birds of North America from the Arctic through...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936. Quarto, ten photographic plates, fine copy in publisher's wrappers. Discovery Reports, volume 13. More about The royal research ship 'Discovery II'
Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, (2004. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This book describes Great Barrier Island's, New Zealand, history and natural features, including flora, fauna, habitats and endangered species, both terrestrial and marine. More about Great Barrier Island
Dunbeath: Whittles Publishing, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Tenerife is a remarkable island, dominated by Mount Teide, an active volcano higher than any mountain in mainland Spain. The island has extraordinary volcanic landscapes, and thousands of species of plants and animals that are found only there. The authors' love of... More about Natural history of Tenerife
Hobart: Antarctic Division, 1988. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More about Proceedings of the symposium on Macquarie Island
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1963. Quarto, colour plates and text illustrations by D. M. Reid Henry. Bookplate in each volume, very good set in lightly worn dustwrappers. Volume four is titled History of the birds of Cape Verde Islands. More about Birds of the Atlantic islands
Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1914. Quarto, one lithographic plate of frogs. Half green morocco, wrappers retained, a handsome copy. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 44, number two. More about A contribution to the zoogeography of the West Indies, with especial reference to amphibians and...
New York: New York Zoological Society, 1930. Quarto, Binder's cloth with title, wrappers retained. Zoologica: volume eleven, number four. More about A list of Antillean reptiles and amphibians
San Francisco: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1963-1968. Octavo, text illustrations, photographs. Binder's cloth, wrappers retained. The first twelve parts with papers in Spanish, French and English. More about Noticias de Galapagos
San Francisco: american Association for the Advancement of Science, 1983. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, bookplate, publisher's cloth. More about Patterns of evolution in Galapagos organisms
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, the signature of Ian Thornton and his bookplate. More about The Galapagos: proceedings of the symposia of the Galapagos international Project
Kew: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2008. Octavo, paperback and CD-ROM, colour photographs and maps. The first Red List assessment of the entire Cayman Islands flora, covering all 415 species and varieties considered to be native to the Cayman Islands. A comprehensive field guide to the unique plants of the Cayman... More about Threatened plants of the Cayman Islands: the red list
London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1939. Quarto, 25 colour plates by Gronvold, grubby publisher's red cloth, some foxing throughout, otherwise a very good copy. More about The birds of the Malay Peninsula: a general account of the birds inhabiting the region from the...
Perry: Prion, 1996. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Provides detailed information on birding sites on this island archipelago, each site entry giving location and access, accommodation, birding strategy and species expected to be seen. Also includes a selective bird list giving brief details on the distribution and status of the uncommon birds... More about A birdwatchers' guide to the Canary Islands
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Octavo, laminated boards, text illustrations. WAS $80. This thorough and meticulous study, the result of nearly a quarter-century of research, examines the island biogeography of plants on continental islands in Barkley Sound, British Columbia. Invaluable both because of its geographical setting and because of... More about Plants on islands: diversity and dynamics on a continental archipelago
London: George Philip, 1985. Quarto, photographs and text illustrations, dustwrapper. More about Islands in the bush: a natural history of the Kora National Reserve, Kenya
Cambridge: International Council for Bird Preservation, (1985. third edition). Octavo, 12 colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. volume two 24638. More about Threatened birds of Africa and related islands: the ICBP/IUCN Red Data Book, part one
Maidenhead: WILDGuides, 2001. Octavo, paperback, illustrations, maps. This is an excellent practical, pocket-sized photographic guide to the 27 species of cetaceans that are known to have occurred in European waters (excluding the far north). Based on experiences gained by regularly travelling the ferry runs across the channel and Biscay, the... More about Whales and dolphins of the European Atlantic, the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, (2006. revised edition). Large octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Offering a comprehensive environmental history of Hawai'i, this edition provides an account of the geological formation and shaping of the Islands, their colonization by plants and animals, and the patterns of... More about Islands in a far sea: the fate of nature in Hawai'i
London: Collins, [1969. second edition). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 6. More about The highlands and islands