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
Melbourne: Authors, 2002. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Companion volume to Flora of the Shanghai area: Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Volume 2: Gymnospermae [stock id 11566]. The only books in English on the local flora of the Shanghai region. Also available as a set [stock id 25190]. More
Melbourne: Author, 1996. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Two volumes bound in one: Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Volume 2: Gymnospermae. Companion volume to Flora of the Shanghai area: Book 2, Volume 3. Dicotyledoneae: Casuarinaceae to Apiaceae [stock id 25189]. The only books in English on the local flora of the..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Octavo, colour plates, laminated boards. More
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
London: New Holland, 2004. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This magnificent book profiles the most exciting parks and key wild areas in India, Thailand, The Philippines and Malaysia. Through illuminating text, compiled by wildlife and conservation experts, and over 300 magnificent photographs, the book reveals the remarkable aspects..... More
London: William Collins and Son, 1985. Quarto, colour photographs, very good in dustwrapper. More
London: New Holland, (2008. fourth edition). Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. Colour photographs illustrate each of the 252 species in this compact, easy to use guide. This new and updated edition includes many taxonomic updates for species such as the Bornean bulbul and Bold-striped tit-babbler for the first time. Covers the..... More
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
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1963. Octavo, wrappers, Bulletin 226. 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
New York: Macmillan, 1947. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy. More
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
Greenville: Delaware Museum of Natural History, 1971. Quarto, 85 colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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
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
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
Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells, 1913-1916. Quarto, coloured plate (some adhesion damage), photographs. Binder's cloth, some spotting and paper creasing. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925. Small quarto, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper, the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates. Hachisuka's first book. "A list not only of Japanese birds but a comparison with them of many similar British birds" (Casey Wood p. 372). More
Tokyo: The Ornithological Society of Japan, 1928. Octavo, photographs, softcover, some wear. More
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
Hong Kong: Government Printer, 1981. Octavo, colour illustrations, dustwrapper. More
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
Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1954. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover, signature. Fieldiana: Zoology, volume 33, number four. More