Life on earth: a natural history.
Sydney: William Collins Sons and Co., (1979. second edition), Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Results
Zoological Catalogue of Australia, volume five: Mammalia.
Sydney: AGPS, 1988. Octavo, bookplate, signature, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
A text-book of zoogeography.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895. Octavo, maps, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
The Tower menagerie: comprising the natural history of the animals contained in that establishment; with anecdotes of their characters and history.
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
The Tower menagerie: comprising the natural history of the animals contained in that establishment; with anecdotes of their characters and history.
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
No specimen left behind: mass digitization of natural history collections.
Moscow: 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
The ark in the park: the zoo in the nineteenth century.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. Octavo, illustrations, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Sailing with Noah: stories of the world of zoos.
Kansas City: 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..... More
The Tantanoola tiger: the legend lives on.
Tantanoola: Neville Bonney, (2025. third edition), Octavo, paperback, photographs, map. An interesting cryptozoological tale of a 'tiger' shot in the Mount Gambier region of South Australia in 1895, which turned out to be an Arabian Wolf. More
Zoo 2000: a look beyond the bars.
Sydney: BBC Books, 1984. Octavo, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Zoological catalogue of Australia volume 19.3A Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (part one).
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
Zoogeography of the land and inland waters.
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
Captivity and behavior: primates in breeding colonies, laboratories, and zoos.
Sydney: Van Nostrand, 1979. Octavo, photographs, signature, dustwrapper. More
Breeding food animals: live food for vivarium animals.
Malabar 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
Cloning wild life: zoos, captivity, and the future of endangered animals.
New York: New York University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, 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 also working to..... More
Biomedical and surgical aspects of captive reptile husbandry.
Malabar FL: Krieger Publishing Company, (1991. second edition). Folio, colour photographs, dustwrapper. WAS $300. A magnficent two volume revision, first published in 1981. The author is a leading authority on veterinary aspects of reptile husbandry. FREIGHT WILL BE EXTRA. More
The Tower menagerie: the amazing 600-year history of the royal collection of wild and ferocious beasts kept at the Tower of London.
London: 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
Care and handling of Australian native animals: emergency care and captive management.
Sydney: Surrey Beatty, (1990. first edition). Large octavo, illustrations, diagrams, photographs, stamp, fine copy in laminated boards. The chapters in this volume are largely papers presented at the symposium entitled "The care and handling of Australian native fauna" held by the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales in September..... More
Animal attractions: nature on display in American zoos.
Princeton NJ: 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..... More
Zoological Catalogue of Australia, volume six: Ephemeroptera: Megaloptera, Odonata, Plecoptera, Trichoptera.
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988. Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
Zoological Catalogue of Australia, volume 22. Protura, Collembola, Diplura.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1994. Octavo, illustrations. More
The Noah's Ark syndrome (one hundred years of acclimatization and zoo development in Australia)
Perth: Zoological Gardens Board Western Australia, 1977. Octavo, photographs. . "To Dom Serventy with happy memories of our early visits to the zoo and chats with 'the colonel' C. F. H. Jenkins", very good copy in dustwrapper, with errata. More
Zoo tails.
London: Transworld Publishers, (2015. reprint). Octavo, paperback, One puff adder, one antelope, one crocodile - This was the list of sick animals presented to Oliver Graham-Jones on his first day as a new vet at London Zoo in 1951. And his time at the zoo didn't get any less strange..... More
Wild mammals in captivity: principles and techniques.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Octavo, photographs, signature, dustwrapper. "[This] is a book for zoo people entering the twenty-first century because it synthesizes the theoretical and practical knowledge of wild mammals in captivity acquired so rapidly and abundantly in the last three decades. More
On Okapia, a new genus of Giraffidae, from central Africa.
London: Zoological Society of London, 1903. Quarto, three plates, including one chromolithograph of the Okapi. Binder's cloth, two small library stamps including one on the title page, corners of pages creased and crushed. The full volume of Transaction of the Zoological Society of London, volume 16, with the following papers..... More