London: Zoological Society of London, 1874. Quarto, 82 handcoloured and uncoloured lithographic plates, some double page. Restored green half morocco, new endpapers, a small library stamp on title page. Volume eight of the Transactions contains the two papers by Viscount Walden which form his monograph on the birds of the..... More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1885. Quarto, 97 handcoloured and uncoloured lithographic plates, some double page. Restored green half morocco, marbled endpapers, a very good copy. The papers are: 1. Flower, William Henry. On the external characters of two species of British Dolphins (Delphinus delphis, Linn., and Delphinus tursio, Fabr.)..... More
Hobart: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations by Jane Burrell, softcover. More
Sydney: Kevin Weldon, 1985. Quarto, colour photographs. More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1987. Quarto, colour illustrations. Includes many hundreds of photographs including 11 full page colour reconstructions of prehistoric marsupials. There is an introductory chapter which summarizes, integrates and develops all of the contributions in the volumes as an overview. The volumes also contains a complete taxonomic index..... More
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1981. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2018. Quarto, laminated boards, colour and black and white photographs and illustrations. Provides a guide to the world’s 136 living species of carnivorous marsupials and is packed with never-before-seen photos. Biogeography, relationships and conservation are also covered in detail. Readers are taken on a journey through..... More
London: Linnean Society of London, 1903. Quarto, three uncoloured plates. Contemporary quarter morocco and cloth, the bookplate of John Calaby. From the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, volume nine, part three. More
Sydney: Zoological Parks Board of NSW, 1978. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Melbourne: Brown, Prior, Anderson, 1950. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
![Genera mammalium: montremata [and] marsupialia. Angel Cabrera](/pictures/thumb/42441.jpg?v=1615937427)
Madrid: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, 1919. Quarto, 17 chromolithographic plates, with coloured and uncloured images, fine copy i in publisher's printed wrappers, scarce. With a coloured plate of Thylacine. More
London: Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1894. Octavo, four handcoloured plates by Smit (Green Ringtail Possum, Herbert River Ringtail possum, Lemuroid Pussum and Lumholtz's Tree Kangaroo). Extract. This paper describes Lumholtz specimens collected in far north Queensland. More
Sydney: UNSW Press, (1995. first edition). Octavo, photographs, text illustrations. Some sunning, otherwise a fine copy. Covers many features of kangaroo biology, such as reproductive patterns, social structure and locomotor characteristics as well as other facets of biology, ecology and behaviour. Australian Natural History Series. More
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 2009. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 320. More
London: R H Porter, 1881. Tall octavo, frontispiece, 31 lithographed plates including eleven coloured and seven either folding or double page. Contemporary black half morocco, the bookplate John Calaby. Alfred Henry Garrod (1846-1879) was an anatomist and physiologist with a strong interest in zoology. He was the first person to..... More
Melbourne: Cheshire, 1969. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. A classic account of the biology of Australian macropods. More
Melbourne: Macmillan, 1973. Folio, colour plates, fine copy in slipcase. More
![A monograph of the Macropodidae, or family of kangaroos [facsimile]. John Gould](/pictures/thumb/13996.jpg?v=1589595321)
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Folio, 30 colour plates. Publisher's cloth with locket portrait, limited edition of 750 copies numbered and signed by Joan M. Dixon, a very good copy. This is a facsimile edition of the two-part work, A Monograph of the Macropodidae of Family of Kangaroos, published by John..... More
Sydney: NSW University Press, (1989. first edition). Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, signature, paperback. More
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1990. Large octavo, illustrations, laminated boards. Marsupials and monotremes are of special value for examining the deepest questions of mammalian genetics and evolution. Thus, there is intense and increasing interest in all aspects of the breeding, genetics and evolution of these mammals. In this book, contributors from major..... More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1989. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine set in dustwrappers. The volumes are divided into seven sections, each devoted to a major field of research on macropod biology. The sections are evolution, zoogeography and community ecology; diet, feeding and digestion; energy, water and temperature relations; reproductive biology; development..... More
Perth: Abrolhos Publishing, 1999. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Covers Thylacine natural history, prehistory, anatomy, sightings, hunting, captivity, expeditions and other aspects of their history. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2019. photographs, laminated boards. The Tasmanian devil is threatened by Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD), a transmissible form of cancer that has reduced the population by over 80%. Hunting, extreme climate events, vehicle collision and habitat destruction also put pressure on this endangered species. The recovery effort..... More
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2015. Quarto, laminated boards, WAS $160. Utilises the latest morphometric and genetic research to develop the most up to date and comprehensive revision of the taxonomy of Australian mammals undertaken to date. It proposes significant changes to the higher ranks of a number of groups and..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2012. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, maps. WAS $100. Gliding mammals are an extraordinary group of animals that have the ability to glide from tree to tree with seemingly effortless grace. There are over 60 species of gliding mammals including the flying squirrels from Europe and North America..... More