Life on earth: a natural history.
Sydney: William Collins Sons and Co., (1979. second edition), Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: William Collins Sons and Co., (1979. second edition), Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Canberra: AGPS, 1988. Octavo, bookplate, signature, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Adelaide: Reed and Harris, 1946. Octavo, photographs, publisher's boards. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895. Octavo, maps, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
London: Robert Jennings, 1829. Octavo, vignettes by William Harvey. Publisher's quarter morocco over plain boards, a very good copy. A history of the strange and exotic collection of wild animals kept in the Tower of London, which were used at various times for both entertainment and scientific study by royalty..... More
London: Robert Jennings, 1831. Octavo, wood-engraved illustrations; finely bound by Ramage in plum morocco, spines elaborately gilt, sides with ornamental corner-pieces within rules, top edges gilt (spines faded), a superb set bound by John Ramage. A history of the strange and exotic collection of wild animals kept in the Tower..... More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Zoo Keys 209. Centuries of exploration and discovery have documented the diversity of life on Earth. Records of this biodiversity are, for the most part, distributed across varied and distinct natural history collections worldwide. This makes the task of extracting and mobilising the..... More
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. A personal, behind-the scenes look at modern zoos. From the day-to-day aspects of caring for some of the world's most exotic creatures to the role of zoos as field conservation organizations, saving wild things in wild places, this..... More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1993. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
London: Seeley Service & Co., (1895. third edition). Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's green stamped cloth, a fine copy. More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2002. Octavo, publisher's cloth, illustrations. Covers the commercially important crustacean species - shrimps, prawns, lobsters and yabbies, listing over 1200 species known from Australian waters. The volume opens with a general introduction to the Malacostraca, giving an historical overview of the work on this group. The Catalogue..... More
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1951. Octavo, text illustrations, maps, minor pencil annotations. Publisher's cloth, some spotting on fore-edges, owner's stamp and signature, otherwise a good copy. A volume in the Text-books of Animal Biology series. More
New York: Van Nostrand, 1979. Octavo, photographs, signature, dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, (1944. second edition). Octavo, photographs. Binders cloth, with tipped in cuttings and wrappers retained. David Fleay achieved international fame for being the first person to breed the platypus in captivity at the Sir Colin McKenzie Sanctuary at Healsville Victoria. More
Melbourne FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 2004. Octavo, black and white photographs, text illustrations, laminated boards. WAS $60. Instructions for the development of long-term breeding environments for food animals, with information on how to raise a wide variety of live food such as plankton, worms, crustaceans, molluscs, insects and mammals. Note..... More
New York: New York University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. The natural world is marked by an ever-increasing loss of varied habitats, a growing number of species extinctions, and a full range of new kinds of dilemmas posed by global warming. At the same time, humans are..... More
Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, (1991. second edition). Folio, colour photographs, dustwrapper. WAS $300. A revised, updated and enlarged edition of the one-volume work first published in 1981. The author is a leading authority on veterinary aspects of reptile husbandry. Postage will be at cost. More
New York: Penguin, 2004. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. A history of the strange and exotic collection of wild animals kept in the Tower of London, which were used at various times for both entertainment and scientific study by royalty and members of English society. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Octavo, photographs, other illustrations, dustwrapper. David Hancocks, an architect and zoo director for thirty years, is passionately opposed to the poor standards that have prevailed and still exist in many zoos. He reviews the history of zoos in light of their failures and successes..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. A fascinating behind the scenes look at an important but historically neglected institution - the American zoo. On a rainy day in May 1988, a lowland gorilla named Willie B. stepped outdoors for the first time in twenty-seven years..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. A fascinating behind the scenes look at an important but historically neglected institution - the American zoo. Now in paperback. On a rainy day in May 1988, a lowland gorilla named Willie B. stepped outdoors for the first time in twenty-seven years..... More
London: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2001. Octavo, inscribed by the authors,softcover. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, volume 132, number 3. More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988. Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1994. Octavo, illustrations. More