International Conference on the Marine Mammal Studies: Now and future. 2nd Annual Symposium of IBI, Kamagawa.
Kamagawa: International Marine Biological Research Institute, 1991. Octavo, illustrations, tables, fine copy. In English and Japanese. More
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Species Sargassorum Australiae: descriptae et dispositae.
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
The marine ecology of birds in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
Washington, DC: American Ornithologists Union, 1984. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, softcover. Ornithological Monographs No. 32. More
Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land.
Melbourne: Georgian House, (1962. reprint). Octavo, twelve colour plates, two signatures on title page. More
Estuaries of South Africa.
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
Marine life of Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Hong Kong: Periplus Editions, 1996. Quarto, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Marine fishes of tropical Australia and south-east Asia.
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
A book of dolphins.
London: John Murray, 1960. Octavo, photographs,very good copy in like dustwrapper. More
Whaler's eye.
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1962. Octavo, photographs, slight water damage. More
The lives of Hawai'i's dolphins and whales: natural history and conservation.
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
New Zealand whales and dolphins.
Wellington: The Biological Society, (1972. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, stiff wrappers, inscribed by the author for Bob Green. More
Planet ocean: voyage to the heart of the marine realm.
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
Proceedings of the symposium on Macquarie Island.
Hobart: Antarctic Division, 1988. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Great whales.
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
Western Australian Humpback and Right Whales: an increasing success story.
Perth: WA Museum, 1995. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. WAS $15. More
Marine ecosystems and global change.
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
Australian wild life.
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1943. Octavo, coloured frontispiece by Neville W. Cayley, photographs, dustwrapper. More
Albatross.
London: Reaktion Books, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white photographs and illustrations. Reaktion Animal Series. Albatross looks at the place of these iconic birds in the lives of different peoples and societies. The albatross's remarkable ease in the air and its huge wingspan strikes all those who observe... More
Beautiful minds: the parallel lives of Great apes and Dolphins.
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
Dolphin confidential: confessions of a field biologist.
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
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
The Arcturus adventure: an account of the New York Zoological Society's first oceanographic expedition.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1926. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, photographs, signature of H. L. White of Belltress, near fine copy. Aesentation copy from Henry Luke White of Belltress, the great patron of Australian ornithology. More
The Arcturus adventure: an account of the New York Zoological Society's first oceanographic expedition.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1926. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, photographs,fine copy in chipped dustwrapper, very scarce in this condition. More
Beneath tropic seas: a record of diving among the coral reefs of Haiti.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1928. first edition). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in publisher's cloth. More
Peterson reference guide to seawatching: eastern waterbirds in flight.
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