An introduction to the deer of Australia: with special reference to Victoria.
Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, (1967. first edition). Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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Victorian ferns: descriptions of all the species occurring in the state.
[Melbourne]: Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 1934. Octavo, coloured plates, softcover. More
Flora of Melbourne: a guide to the indigenous plants of the Greater Melbourne area.
Flemington: Hyland House, (2014. fourth edition). Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. This long-awaited and greatly expanded fourth edition is a comprehensive guide to the indigenous plants of the Greater Melbourne area. It contains 1367 plant descriptions with colour photographs and line drawings. This guide gives instant, colour-coded..... More
Planning Melbourne: lessons for a sustainable city.
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2016. Octavo, paperback, photographs, maps. Over the past decade, Melbourne has had the fastest-growing population of any Australian capital city. It is expanding outward and upward with an estimated 1.6 million additional homes needed by 2050. With so much growth, planners and policymakers need to address..... More
The early career of Neville Henry Cayley in Victoria.
Melbourne: Naturalistes et Chasseurs, 2014. Quarto, paperback. photographs, colour illustrations, limited to 200 copies. Drawing on over 30 years of research, this monograph presents artworks produced by Neville Henry Cayley whilst living in Victoria. More
Nests and eggs of Australian birds: embracing papers on "Oology of Australian birds" read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, supplemented by other notes and memoranda.
Melbourne: Author, 1883. Octavo, Publisher's printed pink wrappers, a few minor blemishes otherwise a very good copy, boxed, very scarce. Originally published as a series of papers in The Southern Science Record. The first separate publication on Australian oology and the forerunner to the author's major work on Nests and..... More
Wilson's Promontory National Park and its avifauna.
Melbourne: Birds Observers Club, 1975. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
The snakes of Victoria: a guide to their identification.
Melbourne: DCE, 1991. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
The world of the book.
Carlton, Miegunyah Press, 2007. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Celebrates the book using the rare books collection of the State Library of Victoria. This book helps readers discover the world of the book - the history of book production, design and illustration, the materials used, the changing technology and its evolution..... More
Deer in Australia.
Melbourne: Deer Advisory Council of Victoria, (1979. Octavo, photographs, wrappers. More
A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria, with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them, part one [only].
Melbourne: Victorian Department of Agriculture, 1891. Octavo, chromolithographs by G. C.Brittlebank. Publisher's cloth, some blemishes and sunned as usual. More
A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria, with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them, part two [only].
Melbourne: Victorian Department of Agriculture, 1893. Octavo, chromolithographs by G. C.Brittlebank. Publisher's cloth, some blemishes and sunned as usual. More
A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria, with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them, part five [only].
Melbourne: Victorian Department of Agriculture, 1911. Octavo, chrmolithographs by G. C.Brittlebank. Publisher's cloth, some blemishes and sunned as usual. More
Sponges: a Museum Victoria field guide.
Melbourne: Museum of Victoria, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. Sponges come in all shapes and sizes, occur in all oceans of the world, and have amazing lives. Sponges have lived in our oceans for 600 million years. Ancient forms even built reefs bigger than the Great Barrier Reef..... More
Forests of ash: an environmental history.
Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, black and white photographs, maps. WAS $40. This beautifully written book tells the story of Australia's giant eucalypt, the Mountain Ash, which is the world's tallest hardwood. Visited seasonally by indigenous people and later a site of mining and sawmilling..... More
The coast: a journey along Australia's eastern shores.
Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2012. Octavo, black and white photographs, map. Good copy in paperback. The coast and its people help define our identity. Most Australians live in suburbia, but our hearts are elsewhere. This book is a celebration of the Australian seascape, from its natural grandeur to the..... More
Sea and river-side rambles in Victoria.
Geelong: Heath and Cordell, 1860. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's printed stiff card, upper cover detached, stain on title page, scarce. Printed in Geelong. More
Rainforest trees and shrubs: a field guide to their identification.
Nambucca Heads: Gwen Harden Publishing, (2018. second edition), Quarto, paperback, text illustrations. A field guide to the rainforest trees and shrubs of Victoria, New South Wales and subtropical Queensland using vegetative characters. Most traditional floras or identification guides to plants use flowers and fruits as the main means of identification..... More
Moths of Victoria: part seven, Bark moths and allies, Geometridae (D).
Melbourne: Entomological Society of Victoria, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, CD-ROM. Part seven in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part is the final of the geometrids covering the bark moths and others. Part one see [stock id 28859], part..... More
Moths of Victoria: part five, Satin moths and allies, Geometroidea (A).
Melbourne: Entomological Society of Victoria, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, CD-ROM. Part five in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part covers the Satin moths and allies. Part one see [stock id 28859], part two [28868, part three [32931], part..... More
A bushman's year.
Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire, 1959. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Jack Hyett was a schoolteacher and popular newspaper columnist of the 1950's and 1960's. He became editor of The Emu in the 1960's. More
Moths of Victoria: part six, Ghost moths Hepialidae and allies.
Melbourne: Entomological Society of Victoria, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, CD-ROM. Part six in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part covers the Ghost moths and allies. Part one see [stock id 28859], part two [28868, part three [32931], part..... More
Bee-keeping in Victoria
Melbourne: Melbourne Department of Agriculture 1964, Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Forest Phoenix: how a great forest recovers after wildfire.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2010. Oblong format, paperback, colour photographs. This book tells the story of ecological forest recovery in the wet forests of Victoria following major wildfires in February 2009. It also focuses on the science of ecological recovery – a major body of information that is not well known..... More
Marine molluscs of Victoria.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1962. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More