The flora of Mitcham.
Melbourne: Mitcham Naturalists' Club, [1938]. Octavo, softcover with pasted wood block, very good copy, scarce. More about The flora of Mitcham
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Planning Melbourne: lessons for a sustainable city.
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2016. Octavo, paperback, black and white 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... More about Planning Melbourne: lessons for a sustainable city
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 about The early career of Neville Henry Cayley in Victoria
Parks: Victoria's national and state parks.
Melbourne: The Canterbury Press, (1990. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, maps, signed by the author, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about Parks: Victoria's national and state parks
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 Eggs. More about Nests and eggs of Australian birds: embracing papers on "Oology of Australian birds"...
Field guide to useful native plants from temperate Australia.
Ulladulla: Harbour Publishing House, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. A comprehensive outline of how temperate Australian native plants have been used for food, fibre, medicine and everyday convenience. This field guide includes illustrations and descriptions to help identify useful native plants. The plants described in this field guide are found... More about Field guide to useful native plants from temperate Australia
The distribution of Victorian plants.
Melbourne: Royal Botanic Gardens, National Herbarium & Monash University Botany, 1972. Octavo, softcover. More about The distribution of Victorian plants
Wilson's Promontory National Park and its avifauna.
Melbourne: Birds Observers Club, 1975. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More about Wilson's Promontory National Park and its avifauna
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 about The world of the book
Atlas of Victorian birds.
Melbourne: Department of Conservation, Forests & Lands, 1987. Quarto, distribution maps, paperback. More about Atlas of Victorian birds
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 about A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria, with notes on the methods to be adopted to...
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 about A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria, with notes on the methods to be adopted to...
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 about A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria, with notes on the methods to be adopted to...
A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria, part six.
Melbourne: Department of Primary Industries, 2013. Octavo, publisher's cloth, colour illustrations. The long discussed but not seen manuscript for Charles French’s A Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria Part VI was found while clearing out the Knoxfield location of the Department of Primary Industries. The hand written text and..... More about A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria, part six
Fishes of Australia's southern coast.
Frenchs Forest: New Holland, 2008. Quarto, colour photographs, line drawings, maps, slightly bumped corner, otherwise fine copy in dustwrapper. This book brings together the latest scientific knowledge on more than 860 species inhabiting Australia's temperate southern waters, from the Recherche Archipelago at the western end of the Great Australian Bight... More about Fishes of Australia's southern coast
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 about Forests of ash: an environmental history
Victorian hill and dale. A series of geological rambles.
Melbourne: Thomas C. Lothian, 1911. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, slight shelf wear. More about Victorian hill and dale. A series of geological rambles
The coast: a journey along Australia's eastern shores.
Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, map. 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 quirky individualism of... More about The coast: a journey along Australia's eastern shores
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Sea and river-side rambles in Victoria [facsimile].
Warrnambool: Warrnambool Institute Press, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's printed stiff card. With an introduction by Sophie Ducker. More about Sea and river-side rambles in Victoria [facsimile
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 about Sea and river-side rambles in Victoria
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 about Moths of Victoria: part seven, Bark moths and allies, Geometridae (D
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 about Moths of Victoria: part five, Satin moths and allies, Geometroidea (A
Burke and Wills: the scientific legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2011. Octavo, laminated boards, colour illustrations. Co-published with State Library of Victoria and The Royal Society of Victoria. This book challenges the common assumption that little or nothing of scientific value was achieved during the Burke and Wills expedition. The Royal Society of Victoria initiated the Victorian... More about Burke and Wills: the scientific legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition
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 about Moths of Victoria: part six, Ghost moths Hepialidae and allies
The art of science: remarkable natural history illustrations from Museum Victoria.
Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2013. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. Presents the best of Museum Victoria's remarkable collection of natural history artworks. The book opens with the "paper museums" of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, stunning collections of the bizarre and fabulous, each one exquisitely depicted. It presents the valiant artistic efforts... More about The art of science: remarkable natural history illustrations from Museum Victoria