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...
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).
Anchorage: Alaska Geographic, Volume 9, No. 3, 1982. Octavo, oblong format, colour photographs.
Lawrence, Kansas: American Ornithologists Union, (1983. sixth edition). Octavo, maps, a fine copy.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936. Quarto, ten photographic plates, fine copy in publisher's wrappers. Discovery Reports, volume 13.
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.
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...
Hobart: Antarctic Division, 1988. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover.
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.
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.
New York: New York Zoological Society, 1930. Quarto, Binder's cloth with title, wrappers retained. Zoologica: volume eleven, number four.
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, map. This book challenges the world view that the Galapagos as a pristine natural environment, famed for its rare species of flora and fauna. Here, Bassett takes a hard look at the real story that the islands are in jeopardy from poaching...
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1970. Octavo, binder's cloth, wrappers retained, fine copy.
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...
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.
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...
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...
London: George Philip, 1985. Quarto, photographs and text illustrations, dustwrapper.
Cambridge: International Council for Bird Preservation, (1985. third edition). Octavo, 12 colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. volume two 24638.
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...
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...
London: Collins, [1969. second edition). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 6.
London: Collins, 1964. Octavo, photographs, maps, bookplate, inscription, fine dustwrapper. New Naturalist 6.
London: A & C Black Publishers, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire are the three main islands of the Netherlands Antilles off the coast of northern Venezuela. They are major tourist destinations especially popular with divers and naturalists. The colour plates are...
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, (2016. second edition). Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, map. This sumptuous large-format book was first produced in 2009 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Charles Darwin Foundation on Galapagos. The book comprises a series of invited essays under the editorship of world-renowned photographer and...
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