New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, 1967. Octavo, text illustrations, signed by the author, publisher's printed wrappers with damged top corner. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, Bulletin 24. More
![A contribution to the zoogeography of the East Indian Islands [part one]. Thomas Barbour](/pictures/thumb/19390.jpg?v=1609991133)
Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1912. Quarto, eight (including five coloured) photolithographic plates. Modern binder's cloth, owner's stamp, a fine clean copy. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 44, number one. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. second edition). Octavo, text illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, 2 pages of colour photographs, black and white illustrations, map. New Guinea is famous for its spectacular bird fauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Of the nearly 800 species..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. An enthralling exploration of the biologically richest island on Earth, featuring more than 200 spectacular color images by award-winning National Geographic photographer Tim Laman In this beautiful book, Bruce Beehler, a renowned author and expert on New Guinea, and award-winning National..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1986. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, softcover. Although superceded by the later edition (Pratt and Beehler), plus the new guide by Phil Gregory, this is still a very useful book which covers over 700 species of birds and illustrates most of them in colour. The text..... More
Wau: Wau Ecology Institute, 1978. Octavo, colour plates, other illustrations, signature, softcover. More
Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Lane Cove: Doubleday, 1983. Large quarto, illustrations and maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
![Pacific marine fishes, Book 1 [Fishes of southern Japan and the Ryukyus]. Warren Burgess, Herbert...](/pictures/thumb/3333.jpg?v=1579756000)
Neptune City: TFH, (1973. second edition). Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. More
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2000. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Chronicles the demise of the North American Salmon Industry. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. Rockfishes and their close relatives are some of the most important fishes on the Pacific Coast. They occur on reefs, around sunken vessels, and among kelp beds, and they often comprise more than 90 percent of all the fishes living..... More
![Insects of Somoa: description of the environment [drop title]. P. A. Buxton](/pictures/thumb/42531.jpg?v=1645684226)
London: British Museum (Natural History), Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in binder's cloth. More
London: Poyser, 1998. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs, other illustrations. WAS $115. Examines the taxonomy, appearance, behaviour, ecology and conservation of the Golden and Grey Plovers. There are four species of tundra plover: the Grey Plover, and the Eurasian, Pacific and American golden plovers. They breed only in the northern hemisphere, principally..... More
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, photographs. Geographic isolation has fostered the evolution of many species of birds and plants entirely unique to the Hawaiian Islands, yet these islands are home to three quarters of all of America's extinctions most of which have been caused by the human..... More
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1971. Octavo, photographs, wrappers. More
New York: Macmillan, (1944. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy. More
London: A & C Black, 2008. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. A comprehensive English-language guide to Chile's common flora and fauna. It is also the first guide to cover Chile and its territories Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, San Felix-San Ambrosio, and the Juan Fernandez Archipelago. It includes information on the best..... More
Richmond: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2010. Octavo, softcover. The Pacific Ocean is the most expansive geographical feature on Earth. Included in its domain are thousands of atolls, smaller islands and, depending on how its boundaries are defined, several larger islands and island groups. Members of the grass family, Poaceae, are almost..... More
Ottawa: Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Bulletin No. 68, 1949. Octavo, colour frontispiece, photographs, signature. More
Brisbane: Dove, 1985-1990. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, a very good set in dustwrappers. One of the better modern New Guinea bird books, the photographs of the Birds of Paradise are spectacular. With introductory chapters and a bibliography. More
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Occasional Papers No. 51, 1997. Octavo, softcover. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first part describes the issues, the impact of human encroachment, government policies, change in agricultural practices, tropical timber trade, and conservation plans. The ATLAS then presents eighteen country studies, with detailed colour maps of tropical..... More
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, (2006. revised edition). Large octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Offering a comprehensive environmental history of Hawai'i, this edition provides an account of the geological formation and shaping of the Islands, their colonization by plants and animals, and the patterns of..... More
New York: Macmillan, (1945. reprint). Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More