Melbourne: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, 1885-1989. Octavo, The first 32 volumes bound as single volumes in contemporary half calf, the remaining volumes in modern binder's cloth, an excellent set, rare. The leading names of colonial Australian natural history contributed heavily to "Vic. Nat", the most important of all Australian..... More
Melbourne: State Library of Victoria, 2000. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. Octavo, colour photographs. This comprehensive guide describes the 447 species of wild orchids that occur in Victoria, Australia. This region is one of the richest in the world for its diversity of temperate terrestrial orchids. Orchid diversity in Victoria spans some of the smallest to some..... More
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 40 years of intense research, this painstaking monograph presents artworks produced by Neville Henry Cayley when living in Victoria. More
Melbourne: The Canterbury Press, (1990. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, contacted dustwrapper. A very useful book with quality maps and an excellent account of each park. More
Victoria: IPM Technologies, 2018. Duodecimo, colour photographs, spirally bound. 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
Picador, 2018. Octavo, paperback, photographs. In 1922, a 48-year-old housewife from Blackburn delivered her first paper, on native Australian orchids, to the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. Over the next thirty years, Edith Coleman would write over 300 articles on Australian nature for newspapers, magazines and scientific journals. She would..... More
Sydney: A H & A W Reed, (1968. first edition). Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: A H & A W Reed, (1968. first edition). Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2004. Octavo, colour photographs, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Renwick Pride, 1966. Duodecimo, photographs, textllustrations, 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
Croydon: Australian Deer Research Foundation, 1994. Quarto, illustrations, sotfcover. 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, 1909. Octavo, chrmolithographs by G. C.Brittlebank, very good copy in publisher's cloth. 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: Victorian Department of Agriculture, 1900. Octavo, chromolithographs by G. C.Brittlebank. Publisher's cloth, some blemishes and sunned as usual, the folding Wattle Goat Moth folding plate with the usual adhesion damage. More
Melbourne: Ministry for Planning and Environment Victoria, 1986. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1974. Octavo, illustrations, folding tables, wrappers. 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