Marine life of Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Hong Kong: Periplus Editions, 1996. Quarto, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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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
Flora of the Shanghai area: Book 2, Volume 3. Dicotyledoneae: Casuarinaceae to Apiaceae.
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
Flora of the Shanghai area: Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Volume 2: Gymnospermae
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
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
Natural wonders of Asia: the best national parks of India, Thailand, The Philippines and Malaysia.
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
Animal life and nature in Singapore.
Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1973. Octavo, colour photographs, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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
Checklist of the birds of Thailand.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1963. Octavo, wrappers, Bulletin 226. 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
Birds of Malaysia.
New York: Macmillan, 1947. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy. 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
Philippine birds.
Greenville: Delaware Museum of Natural History, 1971. Quarto, 85 colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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
British naturalist in Qing China: science, empire, and cultural encounter.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. "Fa-ti Fan's study of the encounter between the British culture of the naturalist and the Chinese culture of the Qing is both a delight and a relevation. The topic has scarcely been addressed by historians of science, and this work fills..... 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
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
Birds collected by the Swedish Zoological Expedition to Siam 1911-1912.
Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells, 1913-1916. Quarto, two volumes, bound in one, coloured plate (some adhesion damage), photographs. Binder's cloth, some spotting and paper creasing. More
A comparative hand list of the birds of Japan and the British Isles.
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
Variations among birds (chiefly game birds).
Tokyo: The Ornithological Society of Japan, 1928. Octavo, photographs, softcover, some wear. 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
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
Birds of Japan in natural colours.
Osaka: Hoikusha, (1966. revised edition). Octavo, colour plates, illustrations. Publisher’s slipcase and dustwrapper, inscribed by the author. Text in Japanese. More