Bird books and bird art. An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology [facsimile].
Amsterdam: Junk, 1973. Quarto, uncoloured illustrations. More
Amsterdam: Junk, 1973. Quarto, uncoloured illustrations. More
Melbourne FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 2006. Octavo, text illustrations and diagrams, laminated boards. WAS $120. Snakes responsible for severe envenomations are considered a real public health problem, especially in tropical countries. Yet, snake venom, which is made up of hundreds of specific substances, is used more and more in biomedical..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Quarto, black and white illustrations. Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival. Understanding dispersal has become..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs and illustrations. Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival. Understanding..... More
Perth: WA Museum, 2005. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. WAS $40. An introduction to the coral reef biology and ecology in a full-colour identification guide to the better-known coral genera of the Indo-Pacific region. The book features living coral colonies, brilliantly coloured fishes, sponges, algae, cowries and giant clams. Following the..... More
New York: Macmillan, (1946. first edition). Octavo, illustrations, very good copy lacking dustwrapper. More
New York: Macmillan, 1947. Octavo, text illustrations, chipped and faded dustwrapper, scarce. More
Surrey: Spur Publications, (1982. second edition). Quarto, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Widely acclaimed as the most comprehensive and authoritative work published on pheasants. Covers 49 species of pheasant and includes life habits and distribution as well as breeding information. First published in 1951. More
London: Country Life, (1956. first edition). Octavo, colour plates by Peter Scott, very good copy in dustwrapper, owner's signature on endpaper. More
London: Collins, (1995. reprint). Octavo, colour plates, bookplate, laminated boards. More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1982. reprint). Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, fine set in dustwrappers. More
Nairobi: Evans Brothers, 1985. Octavo, photographs, wrappers. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, illustrations, maps, graphs. From the Arctic Ocean and ice sheets of Greenland, to the glaciers of the Andes and Himalayas, to the great frozen desert of Antarctica, "The White Planet" takes readers on a spellbinding scientific journey through the..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Quarto, colour photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. Starts with an overview of hawkmoth morphology and biology, including discussion of the moths' immature stages, their roles as pollinators and as pests, and their imortance in conservation issues. The authors then propose a new system for..... More
Konigswinter: Konemann, 2005. Quarto, colour photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. Mushrooms are astonishing life forms. Those with a trained eye find them just about everywhere and marvel at the variety of their forms and shapes. Featuring more than 1,000 colour photographs, this title talks about almost 500 varieties and..... More
Tananarive: Orstom, 1973. Octavo, colour plates, maps. Fine copy with slight chip to publisher's wrappers, two parts with the plates in the second part. More
London: British Museum (Natural History). 1939. Octavo, photographs. Binder's cloth, library stamp. More
Utrecht: Chez Guillaume de Walcheren, 1682. Octavo, 13 engraved (some folding) plates. Contemporary full polished calf and raised bands, some wear, bookplate, Text in French. More
London: New Holland, 2009. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This sophisticated photographic anthology chronicles the behaviour of European invertebrates in their natural habitats over the course of three seasons with vibrant close-up photography. The stunning images leap off the page and give the reader a real glimpse into..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Quarto, laminated boards, line drawings. Describes the evolutionary biology of herbivorous insects, including their relationships with host plants and natural enemies. This book focuses on the dynamic relationships between insects and plants from the standpoint of evolutionary change at different levels of biological organization..... More
Kew: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2010. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, line drawings, maps. An edited volume based on the proceedings of the eighteenth Association for the Taxonomic Study of the Flora of Tropical Africa Congress held in Yaounde, Cameroon, "Systematics and Conservation of African Plants "includes one hundred..... More