Buckland's curiosities of natural history: a selection.
London: The Batchworth Press, 1948. Octavo, line drawings, bookplate, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
London: The Batchworth Press, 1948. Octavo, line drawings, bookplate, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
London: Charles Skilton, 1958. Quarto, seven tipped-in colour plates, other plates. Publisher's cloth with gilt title andcolour cover plate inset, glassine wrapper, a fine copy. More
Greensborough: Author, 1974. Octavo, fine copy in publisher's cloth, tipped in a reprint of Wood Jones' obituary. More
New York: Random House, 2005. Octavo, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $50. The true story of Ruth Harkness, a bohemian socialite and dress designer who in 1936 took over her dead husband's expedition into Tibet to capture the first live Giant panda. More
New York: Franklin Watts, 2005. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. More
London: J M Dent & Sons, 1946. Octavo, text illustrations, owner signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. A curiosity. Many of the illustrations in this book were drawn underwater. More
New York: Picador, 2011. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. An epic account of the extraordinary life and adventures of legendary explorer and taxidermist Carl Akeley, who revolutionized taxidermy and environmental conservation and created the famed African Hall at New York's Museum of Natural History. Akeley risked death time and..... More
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1922. Quarto, oblong format, illustrations, very good copy in publisher's cloth. Text in Swedish. More
Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 1985. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982. Oblong format, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2015. Octavo, softcover. In her nearly 60-year career as a groundbreaking primatologist and a passionate conservationist, Jane Goodall has touched the hearts of millions of people. This book is a collection of testimonies by her friends and colleagues honouring her as a scientific pioneer, an..... More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. Large octavo, colour illustrations, dustwrapper. From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. The Arcana or Museum of Nature ran to 22 monthly parts, with 84 extraordinary hand-coloured plates and over 300 text..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Robbins considers nearly every aspect of France's obsession with exotic fauna, from the vast literature on exotic animals and the inner workings of the oiseleurs' (birdsellers') guild to how the animals were transported, housed and cared for... More
London: George Kearsley, 1809. Octavo, Publisher's boards, uncut, paper spine label, a fine copy. Without the engraved plates. Shaw delivered twelve lectures to the Royal Society and this is how the book is arranged. Various Australian animals are discussed including Echidna, Platypus (Lecture three, pp. 75-81); Kangaroo, Greater Glider, Pygmy..... More
London: Collins, (2005. reprint). Quarto, unpaginated, colour plates. More
Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, [1963]. Octavo, color illustations by Deirdre East, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1982. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Oxford University Press, (1931. first edition). Quarto, coloured frontispiece. Binder's cloth with original label, tipped in an inscription from the author plus brochure. More