A classification of the living Mollusca: assembled by Kay Cunningham Vaught.
Philadelphia: American Malacologists, 1989. Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
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Butterfly and angelfishes of the world, volume two: Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Red Sea, Indo-Pacific.
Sydney: Mergus, (1981. second edition). Quarto, colour photographs, chipped dustwrapper. More
Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West INdies and Hawaiian Islands.
Chicago: American Ornithologists' Union, (1998. seventh edition). Octavo, publisher's cloth, Prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union. More
Identifying British insects and arachnids: an annotated bibliography of key works.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Octavo, fine copy in laminated boards. A reference work providing an annotated bibliography of key works on insect groups. It provides descriptions of all groups, the most useful and up-to-date references for each and notes on their coverage and relevance. Also contains a chapter on..... More
Birds what's in a name: from Accipiter to Zoothera: the origins of bird names.
London: New Holland Publishers, (2025. second edition), Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations. This entertaining and informative guide explains the meanings of bird names, many of which have fascinating origins and stories behind them. The universal system of ‘scientific’ names, based largely on Greek and Latin, is used in all good..... More
Birds of New Guinea: distribution, taxonomy and systematics.
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Octavo, photographs, 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 of birds recorded from New Guinea, more than..... More
Type specimens of bird skins in the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, Unitied Kingdom.
Sydney: British Ornithologists' Club, 1999. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, paperback. British Ornithologists' Club Occassional Publication, number four. More
Whose bird? Common bird names and the people they commemorate.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, bookplate, softcover. Birders often wonder about the people commemorated in the names of many of our familiar birds. In this book biographies detail the life and work of the individual involved, often revealing fascinating insights about the nature of bird..... 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
Forest trees of Australia.
Melbourne: Nelson, (1985. reprint). Large octavo, photographs, signature, very good copy in slightly chipped dustwrapper. More
Arthropod phylogeny with special reference to insects.
Malabar FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 1987. Octavo, laminated boards, text illustrations. More
The Mitchell Beazley world atlas of birds.
Sydney: Mitchell Beazley, 1974. Quarto, colour illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper, slipcase. More
The world atlas of birds.
Sydney: Colporteur Press, 1982. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Linnaeus: progress and prospects in Linnean research.
Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1980. Octavo, publisher's printed cloth. More
The man who organised nature: the life of Linnaeus.
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalised and popularised the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants and animals. Linnaeus himself classified thousands of species; the simple and immediately recognisable abbreviation 'L'..... More
The man who organised nature: the life of Linnaeus.
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations. Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalised and popularised the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants and animals. Linnaeus himself classified thousands of species; the simple and immediately recognisable abbreviation 'L'..... More
The elements of conchology; or natural history of shells according to the Linnean system, with observations on modern arrangements.
London: Author, 1816. Octavo, nine uncoloured engraved plates. Contemporary full gilt morocco and inner dentelles with silk endpapers, all edges gilt, a handsome copy, scarce. More
Advances in the taxonomy and biogeography of crustacea in the Southern Hemisphere.
Moscow: Pensoft, 2009. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations, black and white and colour photographs. ZooKeys No. 18. This is the first issue of ZooKeys devoted to taxonomy of the Crustacea, specifically crustaceans from the Southern Hemisphere, with contributions describing new taxa from Australia, New Caledonia, the Tasman Sea, Fiji, Madagascar and..... More
Classification of insects: keys to the living and extinct families of insects, and to the living families of other terrestrial arthropods.
Boston: Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Volume 108, 1954. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, 'withdrawn' stamp. otherwise a very good copy. More
Vascular plant families and genera: a list of genera and their families, as accepted by the Kew Herbarium, with an analysis of relationships of the flowering plant families according to eight systems of classification.
London: Royal Botanic Gardens, (2001. reprint). Octavo, dustwrapper, An up-to-date check-list of accepted genera of Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and flowering plants. More
Plant taxonomic literature in Australian libraries.
Sydney: Australian Biological Resources Study, 1978. Quarto, very good copy in slightly chipped dustwrapper. More
Systematic dictionary of mammals of the world.
Sydney: Museum Press, 1962. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Botany for gardeners: an introduction to the science of plants.
Portland OR: Timber Press, (2022. fourth edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. With more than 260,000 copies in print, this bestselling primer on the science of plants is back and better than ever, with updated content and new photography. What happens inside a seed after it is planted? How..... More
The taxonomy and species of birds of Australia and its territories.
Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1994. Octavo, softcover. Royal Ornithologists Union Monograph 2. More
Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2008. Large octavo, fine copy in laminated boards. Includes the standard Australian bird checklist and covers the systematics and taxonomy of the Australian avifauna. An essential reference for all seriously interested in the subject. A major revision of the previous checklist published in 1994. Lists those species..... More