Subantarctic Campbell Island.
Sydney: Denver Museum of Natural History, 1962. Octavo, photographs, signature, softcover. More
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The subantarctic island of New Zealand. Reports on the geo-physics, geology, zoology, and botany of the islands lying to the south of New Zealand.
Wellington: Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 1909. Quarto, text illustrations, coloured folded map in rear paste-down pocket of volume two. Publisher's handsome gilt cloth with the original plain brown dustwrappers, a magnificent copy and very scarce in this condition (without the all too prevalent adhesion damage to sections of the text)..... More
The subantarctic island of New Zealand. Reports on the geo-physics, geology, zoology, and botany of the islands lying to the south of New Zealand.
Christchurch: Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 1909. Quarto, text illustrations, coloured folded map in rear paste-down pocket of volume two. Publisher's handsome gilt cloth, a few spots otherwise a near fine copy. More
A hostile beauty: life on Macquarie Island.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2011. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, map. Macquarie Island - a small, wind-blasted rocky outcrop between Tasmania and Antarctica - is one of the few places today that can still be considered truly wild. Using exquisite photographs and words, this book tells the story of this extraordinary..... More
Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica.
Wellington: Te Papa Press, (2010. fourth edition). Octavo, maps, softcover. This substantially revised and expanded edition of the Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand is the official list of all the birds in the New Zealand region, including Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. Published in..... More
South Georgia, the British Empire's subantarctic post: a synopsis of the history of the island.
London: John Wright and Sons, 1931. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, a very good copy, very scarce. Leonard Harrison Matthews (1901-1986) was for much of his life the world expert on marine mammals and a major authority on British mammals. He wrote many books including four volumes for the New..... More
Cephalopods of Australia and Sub-Antarctic territories.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2016. Quarto, colour photographs, illustrations, text illustrations, maps, laminated boards. WAS $280. Australian waters are home to the highest diversity of cephalopods (squid, cuttlefish and octopus) found anywhere in the world. Highly significant ecologically, they are both top-level predators and prey for numerous vertebrates, including fishes, seals..... More
The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross: Insects.
London: E. W. Janson, 1874. Quarto, ten uncoloured lithograhic plates. Publisher's quarter cloth and printed stif card with title, a fine copy. The complete Janson printing of the Insect volume of the Zoology of the Erebus and Terror. The title page reads 'Insects by Adam White and Arthur Gardiner Butler'..... More
Ichthyology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Ross.
London: E. W. Janson, 1844-1847. Quarto, 60 uncoloured lithographed plates. Modern half calf and marbled boards, wrappers retained, uncut, a fine copy, scarce. The complete fishes section from The Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus & Terror edited by John Richardson and John Edward Gray. British Museum..... More
Ichthyology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross.
London: E. W. Janson, 1839-1843. Quarto, text double column, 60 lithographed plates. Modern quarter morocco and boards, retaining original publisher's printed title wrapper, a fine copy. More
The Light-Mantled Sooty Albatross at Campbell Island.
Sydney: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1950. Octavo, photographs, printed wrappers. Cape Expedition, Scientific Results of the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Expedition, 1941-45. Bulletin No. 8. More
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