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
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
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
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
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2016. Quarto, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. Australia's riverine landscapes are among the most threatened ecosystems on the continent and have been dramatically altered as a result of human activities and climate change. Vegetation communities in Australia's riverine landscapes are ecologically, economically and culturally significant..... More
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
Melbourne: Birds Observers Club, 1975. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Melbourne: DCE, 1991. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
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
Melbourne: Deer Advisory Council of Victoria, (1979. Octavo, photographs, wrappers. More
Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This guide aims to provide naturalists, bushwalkers and interested others with a detailed account of butterflies found in Victoria and beyond. Illustrates the full life-cycle of the butterfly. The latest imaging technology has been used to photograph butterfly eggs which, when..... More
Melbourne: Victorian Department of Agriculture, 1891. Octavo, chromolithographs by G. C.Brittlebank. Publisher's cloth, some blemishes and sunned as usual. More
Melbourne: Victorian Department of Agriculture, 1893. Octavo, chromolithographs by G. C.Brittlebank. Publisher's cloth, some blemishes and sunned as usual. More
Melbourne: Victorian Department of Agriculture, 1911. Octavo, chrmolithographs by G. C.Brittlebank. Publisher's cloth, some blemishes and sunned as usual. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Seaford: Aquatic Photographics:, 2015. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. And 19 page Supplement. Now comprising of close to 1,200 images, this bestselling guide has effectively doubled in size. This new edition has greatly expanded sections on bees and flies demonstrating how amazing they are and what little was known about them..... More
Seaford: Aquatic Photographics, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A pictorial guide that includes all the known freshwater species of Victoria, including many of the recently recognised species of Galaxidae, some probably now extinct. Quick-guide with small images are presented instead of keys to the families and the genera containing..... More
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