Travel in aquatint and lithography: from the library of ..., volume two Asia, Oceania, Antarctic, America
Sydney: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1991. Quarto, More
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The royal research ship 'Discovery II'
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936. Quarto, ten photographic plates, fine copy in publisher's wrappers. Discovery Reports, volume 13. More
Sinai: landscape and nature in Egypt's wilderness.
Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2014. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, map. Sinai's allure is legendary, full of spectacular landscapes, thriving flora and fauna, and unique history, this peninsula has long held sway in the imagination of millions. The high mountains and wadis of the peninsula's south provide the fertile..... More
Captain Cook: navigator and scientist. Papers presented at the Cook bicentenary Symposium Australian Academy of Science, Canberra 1 May 1969.
Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1970. Octavo, tipped-in frontispeice, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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A visit to the archipelago of the Recherche S.W. Australia [drop title].
Sydney: 1922. Octavo, photographs, marbled boards. Extracted from The Emu, volume 21. More
The exploration of the Pacific.
London: Adam & Charles Black, (1947. second edition). Octavo, four folding maps, fine copy in titled dustwrapper. More
Bibliography of Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S., Circumnavigator.
Sydney: The Library of New South Wales, (1970. second edition). Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The ecotravellers' wildlife guide: Belize and northern Guatemala.
London: Academic Press, 1999. Octavo, colour plates, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps. Sunned spine, softcover. Includes identification, distribution, and conservation information on Belize and Northern Guatemala's frequently spotted animals. Also includes information on the ecology, behaviour, and conservation of profiled animals; information on habitats and on the most common plants;..... More
Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China.
Sydney: Richard Bentley, 1834. Octavo, aquatint frontispieces. Nineteenth century half calf, and marbled boards, spine labels, bookplate, stamp, a very good copy. Dr George Bennett (1804-1893) settled permanently in Sydney in 1836 and died in 1893. He established a successful medical practice and became a leading figure in Colonial science..... More
Baudin in Australian waters: the artwork of the French voyage of discovery to the southern lands 1800-1804. With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur C.
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988. Small folio, colour plates, textillustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Seven names for the Bellbird: conservation geography in Honduras.
College Station: Texas A & M Uinversity Press, 2003. Octavo, photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Through his recounting of local lore, Bonta makes the interaction between culture and avifauna in Latin America a key to better understanding the practice of biodiversity protection. He offers a significant contribution to the..... More
The Skottowe manuscript: select specimens from nature of the birds, animals etc etc. of New South Wales.
Sydney: David Ell Press, 1988. Octavo, 27 full-page watercolours. Publisher's cloth and slipcase, limited to 550 copies, a fine copy. The manuscript, now held in the Mitchell Library, was created in 1813 by the colonial official Thomas Skottowe, using the illustrations of the convict artist Robert Browne. More
Alaska bird trails: adventures of an expedition By dog sled to the delta of the Yukon River at Hooper Bay.
New York: Bird Research foundation, 1943. Quarto, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
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Australia's south east: a natural history of Australia, [volume] two.
London: Collins, 1972. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. Explores the plant and animal communities from Rockhampton in Queensland to Portland in Victoria, going as far inland as the Great Dividing Range. More
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Tropical Queensland: a natural history of Australia, [volume] one.
London: Collins, (1970. first edition). Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Top wildlife sites of the World.
London: New Holland Publishers, 2015. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Beautifully illustrated, this book details the most amazing spectacles that every wildlife enthusiast has to see during their lifetime. Top nature photographer and inveterate traveller William Burrard-Lucas has spent years visiting the far-flung corners of every continent, capturing thousands of..... More
Wild China: the hidden wonders of the world's most enigmatic land.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. China has more varied habitats for wildlife than anywhere else in the world: rivers carve immense gorges through the world's loftiest mountain peaks; vast deserts range from searing heat to mind-numbing cold; wild horses gallop across grass steppe land; shallow..... More
Islands in the bush: a natural history of the Kora National Reserve, Kenya.
London: George Philip, 1985. Quarto, photographs and text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
The journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin: Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes Geographe and Naturaliste, assigned by order of the Government to a voyage of discovery.
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974. Quarto, illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Pelican in the wilderness; a naturalist's odyssey in North America.
New York: George Allen and Unwin, 1956. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Tropical visions in an age of empire.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Octavo, paperback, photographs. Explores images of the tropical world - maps, paintings, botanical drawings, photographs, diagrams, and texts - produced by European and American travelers over the past three centuries. Bringing together a group of distinguished contributors from disciplines across the arts and humanities..... More
Francois Péron: an impetuous life.
Paris: Miegunyah Press, 2006. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. In 1800 François Péron, an ambitious young medical student not long released from the French revolutionary army, gained a place as an assistant zoologist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australian waters. As his colleagues either deserted or died, he..... More
Best of Getaway Gallery.
Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2011. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The best of Getaway Gallery is a celebration of the photographers who capture the unbelievable pictures that are submitted to South Africa's Getaway magazine every month. It is their dedication to their art, and their determination to capture these fleeting moments of..... More
The Banks/Cook portfolio.
Melbourne: Hill House, 1990. Folio, charts, colour plates. Text volume, dustwrapper. Chart volume, cloth boards. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Fine copy. More
Thomas Johnson: botanical journeys in Kent and Hampstead. A facsimile reprint with introduction and translation of his Iter Plantarum 1629, Descriptio Itineris Plantarum 1632.
London: Hunt Botanical Library, 1972. Quarto, text illustrations, folding map, very good copy in dustwrapper. More