Works by Archibald Thorburn from the Thorburn Museum.
London: Sotheby's, 1993. Octavo, oblong format, colour illustrations, softcover. More
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The magnificent foragers.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Exposition Books, 1978. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. Various accounts of scientific field work of the Smithsonian Institution. More
No specimen left behind: mass digitization of natural history collections.
Moscow: Pensoft, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Zoo Keys 209. Centuries of exploration and discovery have documented the diversity of life on Earth. Records of this biodiversity are, for the most part, distributed across varied and distinct natural history collections worldwide. This makes the task of extracting and mobilising the..... More
Catalogue of Sudan birds, based on the Collection in the Sudan Government Museum (Natural History).
Sydney: Sudan Government Museum (Natural History), 1926-1931. Octavo, publisher's wrappers, a very good set. Part one: Struthionidae to Picidae. Part two: Alaudidae to Fringillidae. More
Instructions for collectors, number 9A: invertebrate animals other than insects.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1954. Small octavo, text illustrations, signature, printed stiff card covers. More
Fleas: their medical and veterinary importance.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1958. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, wrappers. British Museum (Natural History.) Economic Series, no. 3A. More
British mosquitoes and their control.
London: Order of the Trustees, (1958. fourth edition). Octavo, text illustrations, wrappers. British Museum (Natural History.) Economic Series, no. 4A. More
Clothes moths and house moths: their life-history, habits, and control.
London: Order of the Trustees, (1951. fifth edition). Octavo, text illustrations, wrappers. British Museum (Natural History.) Economic Series, no. 14. More
Mosquitoes and their relation to disease: their life-history, habits and control.
London: Order of the Trustees, (1958. sixth edition). Octavo, text illustrations, wrappers. British Museum (Natural History.) Economic Series, no. 4. More
Natural history museums: directions for growth.
Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1991. Octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. The chapters in the volume provide a general overview as well as addressing specific topics concerning the roles and functions of natural history museums. More
Treasures of the Museum. Victoria, Australia.
Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2004. Octavo, colour photographs, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Catalogue of the type and figured specimens of macrofossil Algae in the British Museum (Natural History).
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1988. Quarto, short tear at the bottom of the first page, softcover. More
The Cetacean Collection of the Museum of Victoria: an annotated catalogue.
Melbourne: Australian Deer Research Foundation, 1994. Quarto, illustrations, sotfcover. More
Santos MEB Museum of Economic Botany.
Sydney: Board of the Botanic Gardens & State Herbarium, 2010. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. This beautiful book captures the life, history and restoration of what is possibly the last museum of its kind in the world. With 33 outstanding contributors the insightful essays and lavish illustrations will intrigue and fascinate..... More
Some British mites of economic importance.
London: Order of the Trustees, 1955. Octavo, text illustrations, wrappers. British Museum (Natural History.) Economic Series, no. 17. More
Capturing nature: early scientific photography at the Australian Museum 1857- 1893.
Sydney: New South Books, 2019. Octavo, limp plastic, uncoloured photographs, text illustrations. In the mid-nineteenth century, scientists around the world were quick to see photography's huge potential for capturing fleeting moments of life, death and discovery. At the Australian Museum, curator Gerard Krefft and taxidermist Henry Barnes began to experiment..... More
Catalogue of type specimens of fossils in the Australian Museum, Sydney.
Sydney: Order of the Trustees, 1971. Octavo, wrappers. More
Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum, late The Allan, formerly the Tunstall, or Wycliffe Museum.
London: T. and J. Hodgson, 1827. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, binder's cloth. There are two important specimens collected from Cook's first voyage that ended up in the Tunstall collection. Blue-headed Parrot (Rainbow Lorikeet). "This bird was bought to England by Sir Joseph Banks who gave it to Mr Tunstall ..."..... More
Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Coliomorphae: part five, containing the families Paridae and Laniidae (Titmice and Shrikes) and Certhiomorphae (Creepers and Nuthatches).
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1883. Octavo, nine handcoloured plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume eight from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
Mammal collection management.
Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1987. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
Curators: behind the scenes of natural history museums.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centers, full of..... More
Catalogue of the specimens of mammalia in the collection of the British Museum, part two [only]: Seals.
London: British Museum, 1850. Octavo, text illustrations. Original plain blue wrappers, detached and split. More
Catalogue of shield reptiles in the collection of the British Museum, part one: Testudinata (tortoises).
London: British Museum, 1855. Quarto, 42 uncoloured lithographs. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, some blemishes, top edge gilt, a presentation copy dated 1885 from P. L. Sclater to the Rev. G. R. Fisk, small neat library stamps on title page and plates, a fine copy. John Edward Gray (1800-1875)..... More
Catalogue of the specimens of mammalia in the collection of the British Museum.
London: British Museum, 1850-1852. Octavo, 37 uncoloured lithographs. Early quarter cloth with blue papered boards, titles on spine, all contained in a handsome modern solander box, very scarce. Part one: Cetacea. Part two: Seals. Part three: Ungulata Furcipeda. More