The birds of Indonesia: a checklist (Peters' sequence).
Jakarta: Indonesian Ornithological Society, 1992. Octavo, softcover. More
Asia
Flora of the Shanghai area set: Volumes one, two and three.
Melbourne: Authors, 2002. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Volumes one and two bound in one: Flora of the Shanghai area: Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Volume 2: Gymnospermae. [stock id 11566]. Volume three: Flora of the Shanghai area: Book 2, Volume 3. Dicotyledoneae: Casuarinaceae to Apiaceae[stock id 25189]. The only books..... More
A birdwatcher's guide to Malaysia.
Adelaide: Waymark Publishing, 1993. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, softcover. Describes 40 sites in west (Peninsular) Malaysia and east Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo). More
Wild China: the hidden wonders of the world's most enigmatic land.
London: Yale University Press, 2008. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. China has more varied habitats for wildlife than anywhere else in the world: rivers carve immense gorges through the world's loftiest mountain peaks; vast deserts range from searing heat to mind-numbing cold; wild horses gallop across grass steppe land; shallow seas..... More
Wild India: the wildlife and scenery of India and Nepal.
London: William Collins and Son, 1985. Quarto, colour photographs, very good in dustwrapper. More
A photographic guide to birds of Peninsula Malaysia and Singapore.
London: New Holland, 1995. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, softcover. Compact, easy to use format; the ideal pocket-size travelling companion with authoritative text describing key identification features and full-colour photographs illustrating each of the 252 species. More
Indian Ocean reef guide: Maldives, Sri Lanka, Thailand, South Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, East Africa, Seychelles.
Frankfurt: Ikan - Unterwasserarchiv, (2006. fourth edition). Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in laminated boards. Covers the complete Indian Ocean rim, inclduing Western Australia, Cocos and Christmas Islands, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and eastern African coast. More
The birds of northern Thailand.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 186, 1945. Octavo, photographs, chipped and worn wrappers. More
Birds of the Philippines.
New York: Macmillan, (1946. first edition). Octavo, illustrations, very good copy lacking dustwrapper. More
Birds of Malaysia.
New York: Macmillan, 1947. Octavo, text illustrations, chipped and faded dustwrapper, scarce. More
The birds of the Philippines: an annotated checklist.
Tring: British Ornithologists' Union, 1991. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. BOU Checklist 12. This checklist covers the 556 species so far recorded, of which 169 are endemic. Includes species notes, gazetteer and complete systematic list. More
The retreat of the elephants: an environmental history of China.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Octavo, softcover. This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand years for which there are written records. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views..... More
Across the Tibetan plateau: ecosystems, wildlife and conservation.
New York: WW Norton & Co, 2007. Oblong format, colour photographs, dustwrapper. The beauty and diversity of Tibet is staggering: from Mount Everest to the world's deepest gorge, from tropical jungles to arctic-like tundra, from trees twenty feet in diameter to vast herds and solitary specimens of some of the..... More
The birds of the Malay Peninsula, Singapore and Penang: an account of all the Malayan species, with a note of their occurrence in Sumatra, Borneo, and Java and a list of the birds of those islands.
Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, (1978. reprint). Octavo, colour plates, softcover. More
The birds of the Malay Peninsula, Singapore and Penang: an account of all the Malayan species, with a note of their occurrence in Sumatra, Borneo, and Java and a list of the birds of those islands.
Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, (1985. reprint). Octavo, colour plates, softcover. More
India: land of Tigers and temples.
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2014. Quarto, oblong format, colour photographs, map, dustwrapper. In this new pictorial work by Axel Gomille, you can experience the magic of a world of contrasts, of ever-changing colours, exotic scents and unfamiliar sounds, that seduces all of your senses all at once. Axel Gomille is..... More
The birds of Korea.
Seoul: Royal Asiatic Society, 1971. Octavo, colour plates, photographs, fine copy in slightly sunned dustwrapper, scarce. Text in Korean and English. More
Birds collected by the Swedish Zoological Expedition to Siam 1911-1912.
Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells, 1913-1916. Quarto, coloured plate (some adhesion damage), photographs. Binder's cloth, some spotting and paper creasing. More
Variations among birds (chiefly game birds).
Tokyo: The Ornithological Society of Japan, 1928. Octavo, photographs, softcover, some wear. More
Birds of Singapore.
Singapore: Times Editions, (1988. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Some Chinese vertebrates.
Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1912. Quarto, six coloured plates. Publisher's printed upper wrapper (lower wrapper missing), badly chipped. Sections on Fish, Amphibians and Reptiles, Birds, Mammals. More
A colour guide to Hong Kong animals.
Hong Kong: Government Printer, 1981. Octavo, colour illustrations, dustwrapper. More
The birds of Sumatra and Kalimantan.
Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1990. Octavo, colour plates, laminated boards. Images of Asia series. More
A photographic guide to birds of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong: Wan Li Book Co. Ltd, 2005. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, softcover. This photographic field guide is a joint effort by members of the Hong Kong Birdwatching Society and includes 768 photographs of 343 bird species of Hong Kong. There are notes on the identification and status of each..... More
Systematics and zoogeography of Philippine amphibia
Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1954. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover, signature. Fieldiana: Zoology, volume 33, number four. More