Butterfly and angelfishes of the world, volume two: Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Red Sea, Indo-Pacific.
Melle: Mergus, (1981. second edition). Quarto, colour photographs, chipped dustwrapper. More
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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.
Washington DC: American Ornithologists Union, (1998. seventh edition). Octavo, publisher's cloth, BRAND NEW. Prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union. More
The Tettigoniidae: biology, systematics and evolution.
Bathurst: Crawford House, 1990. Octavo, illustrations, laminated boards. WAS $100. Includes chapters by various authors on topics such as the evolution of acoustic communication; anti-predator defences; and karyotypes and meiosis. More
Keys to the orders of insects.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, printed wrappers. 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 of New Guinea: distribution, taxonomy and systematics.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Octavo, photographs, map, fine copy in dustwrapper 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..... More
On the evolution of the Australian marsupialia; with remarks on the relationships of the Marsupials in general.
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
Type specimens of bird skins in the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, Unitied Kingdom.
Tring: British Ornithologists' Club, 1999. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, paperback. British Ornithologists' Club Occassional Publication, number four. More
The grasshoppers (Acrididae) of New Zealand: their taxonomy and distribution.
Christchurch: University of Canterbury, 1967. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
No specimen left behind: mass digitization of natural history collections.
Sofia: 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 dustwrapper. More
Bolton's catalogue of the ants of the world, 1758-2005.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. CD-ROM, Barry Bolton's "New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World", published in 1995, was the first attempt in more than one hundred years to collect all taxonomic decisions for ants worldwide, including extinct as well as extant taxa. One reviewer said of..... More
Arthropod phylogeny with special reference to insects.
Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 1987. Octavo, laminated boards, line drawings. More
The Mitchell Beazley world atlas of birds.
London: 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.
Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1980. Octavo, publisher's printed cloth. More
The elements of conchology; or natural history of shells according to the Linnean system, with observations on modern arrangements.
Dublin: Author, 1816. Octavo, nine uncoloured engraved plates. Contemporary full gilt morocco and inner dentelles with silk endpapers, all edges gilt, a handsome copy. More
Advances in the taxonomy and biogeography of crustacea in the Southern Hemisphere.
Sofia: Pensoft, 2009. Octavo, paperback, line drawings, 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.
Cambridge MA: 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.
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, (2001. reprint). Octavo, dustwrapper, An up-to-date check-list of accepted genera of Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and flowering plants. 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.
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1992. Octavo, page 417 torn, otherwise a very good copy in sunned dustwrapper. An up-to-date check-list of accepted genera of Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and flowering plants. More
Plant taxonomic literature in Australian libraries.
Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study, 1978. Quarto, very good copy in slightly chipped dustwrapper. More
Systematic dictionary of mammals of the world.
London: Museum Press, 1962. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Botany for gardeners: an introduction to the science of plants.
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 are plants..... More
The taxonomy and species of birds of Australia and its territories.
Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1994. Octavo, paperback. Royal Ornithologists Union Monograph 2. More