Kamagawa: International Marine Biological Research Institute, 1991. Octavo, illustrations, tables, fine copy. In English and Japanese. More about International Conference on the Marine Mammal Studies: Now and future. 2nd Annual Symposium of...
Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Soner, 1889. Quarto, 31 lithographed plates (twelve coloured). Modern red binder's cloth, partly unopened, a fine copy. A scarce and attractive work on Australian seaweeds. More about Species Sargassorum Australiae: descriptae et dispositae
Washington, DC: American Ornithologists Union, 1984. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, softcover. Ornithological Monographs No. 32. More about The marine ecology of birds in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
Melbourne: Georgian House, (1962. reprint). Octavo, twelve colour plates, two signatures on title page. More about Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, other illustrations. A review of the current status of the country's estuarine research and management. Information is provided on a wide range of topics, including geological, physical and chemical processes, diversity and productivity of plant and animal communities, interactions between... More about Estuaries of South Africa
Hong Kong: Periplus Editions, 1996. Quarto, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about Marine life of Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Perth: WA Museum, (2002. reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour plates, text illustrations. Owner's signature, minor wear to front cover. Otherwise a fine copy. A field guide for anglers and divers - the excellent illustrations make identification easy and the author has included a guide to edibility as well as sections on... More about Marine fishes of tropical Australia and south-east Asia
London: John Murray, 1960. Octavo, photographs,very good copy in like dustwrapper. More about A book of dolphins
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1962. Octavo, photographs, slight water damage. More about Whaler's eye
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations. Although this book covers the well-known resident spinner dolphins and the visiting humpback whales, it particularly highlights the ten species of lesser-known open-ocean dolphins and whales that are resident to the marine slopes of the islands. These include... More about The lives of Hawai'i's dolphins and whales: natural history and conservation
Wellington: The Biological Society, (1972. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, stiff wrappers, inscribed by the author for Bob Green. More about New Zealand whales and dolphins
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2005. Large quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Spanning the vast diversity of Earth's oceans, these fascinating ocean worlds occupy more than three quarters of our planet, and their natural richness is the source of life, yet they are still poorly understood. With through, accessible essays on... More about Planet ocean: voyage to the heart of the marine realm
Hobart: Antarctic Division, 1988. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More about Proceedings of the symposium on Macquarie Island
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2008. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, black and white photographs, text illustrations. WAS $40. John Bannister is a leading expert on the large whales of southern waters and has published on Sperm, Humpbacked and right whales. Seven 'great whales' are found in Australian coastal waters including six of... More about Great whales
Perth: WA Museum, 1995. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. WAS $15. More about Western Australian Humpback and Right Whales: an increasing success story
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. Global environmental change (including climate change, biodiversity loss, changes in hydrological and biogeochemical cycles, and intensive exploitation of natural resources) is having significant impacts on the world's oceans. This book advances knowledge of the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems, and... More about Marine ecosystems and global change
Manuka: Australian Institute of Marine Science, 1983. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. More about Perspectives on coral reefs
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1943. Octavo, coloured frontispiece by Neville W. Cayley, photographs, dustwrapper. More about Australian wild life
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Small octavo, softcover. Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any animals appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side, Maddalena Bearzi and... More about Beautiful minds: the parallel lives of Great apes and Dolphins
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, line drawings. In this fascinating account, Bearzi takes us inside the world of a marine scientist and offers a firsthand understanding of marine mammal behaviour, as well as the frustrations, delights, and creativity that make up dolphin research. In this intimate narrative... More about Dolphin confidential: confessions of a field biologist
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. In this fascinating account, Bearzi takes us inside the world of a marine scientist and offers a firsthand understanding of marine mammal behaviour, as well as the frustrations, delights, and creativity that make up dolphin research. In this... More about Dolphin confidential: confessions of a field biologist
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Seawatching is the challenging act of identifying waterbirds in flight. Since more than one hundred different species can fly past an observation point, often at great speed or in tightly packed, mixed-species flocks, identification of these distant shapes can be a.... More about Peterson reference guide to seawatching: eastern waterbirds in flight
Northampton: Interlink Publishing, 2006. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, colour plates, black and white illustrations, maps. Covers Southern Mexico's insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and plant and sea life. More about Traveller's Wildlife Guides: Southern Mexico. The Cancun Region, Yucatan Pininsula, Oaxaca,...
Sydney: Lansdowne, (1981. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More about The Great Barrier Reef
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1946. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More about Life histories of North American diving birds: Order Pygopodes