Adelaide: Crawford House, 2004. Quarto, colour illustrations, limited to 100 numbered and signed copy, softcover. The trade version of this title was abandonned and replaced with: Dawes, Sean. John Gould: an Australian perspective. Stepney: Axiom Publishing, 2011. More
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1975-1986. reprint). Octavo, very good set in slightly worn dustwrappers, with the Addenda. More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2007. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper. The Mitchell Library is based on the collection of David Scott Mitchell, Australia's first and greatest collector of Australiana. The Library was opened in 1910 with the exceedingly generous endowment of 70,000 pounds from David Mitchell, and many thousands of..... More
Adelaide: Publishers Limited, 1956. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2014. Octavo, paperback. The annual collection celebrating the finest Australian science writing of the year. Why are Sydney's golden orb weaver spiders getting fatter and fitter? Could sociology explain the recent upsurge in prostate cancer diagnoses? Why were Darwinites craving a good storm during 'The Angry Summer'..... More
Oxon: Routledge, 2013. Octavo, paperback. Today's celebrity conservationists play a major role in drawing public attention to an increasingly threatened world. One of the first books to address this contribution, it focuses on five key figures: English naturalist David Attenborough, French marine adventurer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, American primatologist Dian Fossey, Canadian..... More
Melbourne: Lothian, (1989. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2010. Octavo, black and white photographs. A fascinating collection of more than 70 profiles of Australian scientists from 15 fields of physical, biological and medical science. These scientists have been selected because their research is inspiring, intriguing or simply quirky, or because they have taken an unusual..... More
Sydney: Australian Historical Monographs, (1977. reprint). Octavo, photographs, softcover. The Franklins became close to John and Elizabeth Gould on their Australian visit. More
Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1986. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Canberra: Verity Hewitt Bookshop, 1942. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's wrappers, inscription, limited to 200 copies, numbered and signed by the author. More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1966. Quarto, publisher's wrappers. Gregory Mathews was one of the great bird book collectors of his time. He donated his library to the Australian National Library in 1939. More
[Melbourne]: Melbourne Council of the National Museum of Victor, 1975. Octavo, wrappers, plus folding chart. More
South Melbourne: Sun Books, 1979. Quarto, photographs, bookplate of Sophie Ducker, paperback. More
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2015. Octavo, softcover. The annual collection celebrating the finest Australian science writing of the year. How does dust connect the cosmos with our bed sheets? Why do lobsters do the Mexican Wave backwards? And what makes us feel 'wetness' when there's no such thing as 'wet' nerve..... More
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2010. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. When Silvester Diggles arrived in 1855 there was little artistic or scientific talent in the small frontier town of Brisbane. By the time of his death in 1880, his paramount legacy was a large book on Australian birds, profusely illustrated with hand-coloured..... More
Edinburgh: Birlinn General, 2014. Octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Tom Pow's beautiful, powerful poems examine the remarkable life of Thomas Watling. Watling was born in Dumfries in September 1762 and raised by a long-suffering maiden aunt. Convicted of forging Bank of Scotland one-guinea notes he was sentenced to..... More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, (1983-1986. reprint). Octavo, very good set in dustwrappers. More
Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, [1963]. Octavo, color illustations by Deirdre East, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979. Quarto, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1970. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's printed wrappers, a fine copy. More
Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1975. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover, a fine copy. More
Sydney: Royal Australasian Historical Society, 1933. Octavo, binder's cloth, stiff wrappers retained. More
Perth: Paterson Brokensha, 1954. Small quarto, illustrations. Binder's cloth, a fine copy. The standard bibliography of Australian ornithology with an elegant and useful introductory essay. More
Perth: Paterson Brokensha, 1954. Small quarto, illustrations. binder's cloth, bottom of spine badly chewed (probably by the owner's puppy), priced accordingly. The standard bibliography of Australian ornithology. The introductory essay is a valuable summary of the history of Australian ornithology. More