Camels and the outback.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1964. Octavo, photographs, tape marks on endpapers, otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. More
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The hunting of the Buffalo.
Norman: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. More
Llama.
London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Octavo, colour and black and white illustrations, bookplate, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series.Known for their haughty demeanour, woolly charm and propensity to spit when threatened, llamas have had a rich and varied history. Since their domestication high in the Andes, they have been sacrificed, farmed, smuggled and..... More
Horn of darkness: rhinos on the edge.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Octavo, photographs, stamp, fine copy in dustwrapper. The Black Rhino is on the edge of extinction because of the demand for rhino-horn. To deter rhino poachers, authorities in Namibia have decided to dehorn the remaining population. More
Zebras, asses and horses: an action plan for the conservation of wild equids.
Gland: IUCN, 1992. Quarto, paperback, illustrations. More
Antelopes: Global Survey and Regional Action Plans, part one: east and northeast Africa.
Gland: IUCN, 1998. Quarto, maps, softcover. More
Deer: the animal answer guide.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, black and white photographs, text illustrations. WAS $38. Answers intriguing questions about members of the deer family Cervidae. From the diminutive pudu of South America that weighs 7kg to male moose that weigh close to 900kg, Feldhamer and McShea explore..... More
The last elephant: an African quest.
London: Harper Collins, 1993. Octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. The story of the African elephant and its fight for survival. More
Goat.
London: Reaktion Books, 2015. Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations. Reaktion Animal Series. Found in nearly every part of the world where humans live, our relationship with this familiar animal is oddly ambivalent. Here, Joy Hinson explores the reasons behind this unease, from our interaction with the endangered wild goat species of..... More
Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History), volume five [only].
London: Printed by order of the trustees, 1916. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth, bookplate, small library stamp on blank endpaper, a very good copy. Volume five: Perissodactyla (horses, tapirs, rhinoceroses), Hyracoidea (huraxes), Proboscidae (elephants). More
Where the buffalo roam: restoring America's Great Plains.
New York: Chicago University Press, (2002. second edition). Octavo, softcover. Pummeled by a century of drought, depopulation, and soil erosion, America's Great Plains are in dire straits. With farms closing left and right, large parts of the region now have about the population they had in frontier days. Frank and..... More
The future for woodland deer: management or sport?
Sydney: Swan Hill Press, 1999. Octavo, dustwrapper, illustrations. The aim of this book is to probide some ideas and useful ways forward for those who are facing the challenge of integrating woodland and deer management in lowland England. More
Bison.
London: Reaktion Books, 2015. Octavo, colour and black and white illustrations, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. Bison once ranged across the Great Plains of North America in vast herds - early eighteenth century explorers described them as 'innumerable' - and at the beginning of the nineteenth century they numbered in the..... More
Elephant Don: the politics of a pachyderm posse.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. In Elephant Don, O'Connell, one of the leading experts on elephant communication and social behavior, takes us inside the little-known world of African male elephants, a world that is steeped in ritual, where bonds are maintained by unexpected..... More
Silent thunder: the hidden voice of elephants.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Silent thunder: the hidden voice of elephants.
Sydney: Phoenix, 1999. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. This remarkable memoir of scientific discovery begins at the Washington Park Zoo in Portland, Oregon, where Katy Payne's revolutionary work in the field of elephant communication began. It was there that she first discovered the idea that elephants use infrasonic sounds -- sounds below..... More
Marvel of the desert: the camel in Saudi Arabia.
Sydney: Immel, 1984. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The natural history of deer.
London: Christopher Helm, 1988. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Wild equids: ecology, management and conservation.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Octavo, publisher's boards, black and white photographs, text illustrations, maps. Wild horses, zebras, asses, and feral equines exhibit intriguing and complex social structures that captivate the human imagination and elicit a wide range of emotions that influence conservation and management efforts. This book, spearheaded..... More
Big game in Alaska: a history of wildlife and people.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. Octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Elephants: majestic creatures of the wild
Sydney: RD Press, 1992. Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. Contributors include Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Dr Anthony Hall-Martin, Dr Philip J. Viljoen, Dr Richard Leakey and Cynthia Moss. More
The African buffalo: a study of resource limitation of populations.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. Octavo, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Javelinas and other peccaries: their biology, management and use.
College Station: Texas A & M UP, (1996. second edition). Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs. A major revision of The Peccaries, which was published in 1984. Also available in paperback [stock id 36301]. More
Animal re-introductions: the Arabian Oryx in Oman.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Octavo, photographs, stamp. fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Wild pigs: environmental pest or economic resource.
London: Pergamon Press, 1982. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More