American seashells.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, (1968. reprint). Quarto, color plates, text illustrations, tape marks, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
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The fringe of the sea.
Adelaide: Rigby, (1966. first edition). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. 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
Australian Echinoderms: biology, ecology and evolution.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, text illustrations, graphs. WAS $180. Echinoderms, including feather stars, sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins and sea cucumbers, are some of the most beautiful and interesting animals in the sea. They play an important ecological role and several species of sea..... More
British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910. Pycnogonida.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1938. Quarto, publisher's printed wrappers. Offprints from the British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910. Natural History Reports. Zoology. Volume three, number one and Zoology Volume two, number two (Hirudinea by W.A. Harding). More
A collection of five major papers on Pycnogonida.
London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1907-1938. Quarto, erratically paginated, text illustrations and uncoloured plates, binder's cloth. 1. The John Murray Expedition 1933-34 Scientific Reports, volume five, number 6, 1938. 2. 'Pycnogonida dredged during the cruise of the H. M. S. Triton. 10 pp, one..... More
Australian sea shells: an introduction for young biologists and collectors.
Sydney: Periwinkle Press, (1961. second edition). Octavo, photographs, stiff card and dustwrapper. More
The secret life of lobsters: how fishermen and scientists are unraveling the mysteries of our favorite crustacean.
London: Harper Collins, 2004. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. A narrative written by a one-time Maine lobsterman relates how lobsters socialize, mate, fight for dominance, and navigate their way across the ocean floor. More
A photographic guide to seashore life of Australia.
Sydney: New Holland, (2019. reprint). Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This handy, pocket-sized guide includes slugs, worms, crabs, starfish, anemones and shell inhabitants. Each of the 232 species or groups in the book is illustrated with a colour photograph, distribution map and description of the animal. More
Zoological catalogue of Australia volume 19.3A Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (part one).
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2002. Octavo, publisher's cloth, illustrations. Covers the commercially important crustacean species - shrimps, prawns, lobsters and yabbies, listing over 1200 species known from Australian waters. The volume opens with a general introduction to the Malacostraca, giving an historical overview of the work on this group. The Catalogue..... More
Encyclopedia of tidepools and rocky shores.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, text illustrations. WAS $180. Containing 200 entries written by scientists from around the world, this book provides a picture of tidepools and rocky shore science. This book discusses the animals and plants that live in tidepools, the physics and..... More
A field-guide to the reef-building corals of the Indo-Pacific.
Rotterdam: Dr W Backhuys, 1980. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in papered printed boards. More
Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Brisbane: University of Queensland, 1982. Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Living corals.
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, (1979. first edition). Octavo, oblong format, striking full page colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
British Prosobranch molluscs: their functional anatomy and ecology.
London: Ray Society, 1962. Octavo, text illustrations. More
Catalogue of the fossil Bryozoa in the Department of Geology, volume two: the cretaceous Bryozoa.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1909. Octavo, nine uncloured lithographs. Publisher's cloth, library stamp of the Royal Society of Victoria on the title page, otherwise a sound copy. More
Shells of the world: a natural history.
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. A marvellously illustrated natural history of the world’s mollusks. Mollusks are invertebrate animals with a remarkable natural history and a rich fossil record, and their shells are prized for their breathtaking variety and exquisite beauty. Shells of the..... More
Shallow seas of Northwest Europe.
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations, graphs. New Naturalist # 131. Shallow seas are the most biologically rich and productive areas of the world ocean. This latest New Naturalist volume provides a natural history of this environment and its biological communities. The margins of the continents..... More
Shallow seas of Northwest Europe.
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, graphs, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist # 131. Shallow seas are the most biologically rich and productive areas of the world ocean. This latest New Naturalist volume provides a natural history of this environment and its biological communities. The margins..... More
Sea stars, sea urchins and allies: Echinoderms of Florida and the Caribbean.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, text illustrations. WAS $90. A comprehensive guide to the identification and natural history of the five classes of Echinoderms (sea stars, and sea cucumbers) of the Florida Keys, Bahamas Islands, and Caribbean. For more than 150 species of Echinoderms found..... More
The spell of the shell.
New York: Hawthorn Books, 1975. Octavo, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Out of the blue: a journey through the world's oceans.
Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 2005. Quarto, colour photographs,k dustwrapper. This exploration of the oceans describes the marine plants and animals that inhabit our planet, whether in the coldest water of the ice-bound poles, the warmest tropical seas, at the surface or in the deep ocean. The text is combined..... More
Reef coral identification: Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas, including marine plants.
London: New World Publications, (2003. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Plankton: a worldwide guide.
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. Plankton are the unsung heroes of planet Earth. Passive drifters through the world’s seas, oceans, and freshwater environments, most are invisible or very small, but some are longer than a whale. They are the global ocean’s foundation food, supporting..... More
Ecology of temperate reefs: proceedings of a symposium held at The University of Melbourne, 11-14 July 1989.
Sydney: Ecological Society of Australia, 1990. Octavo, black photographs and other illustrations, softcover. More