London: The Royal Society, 1960. Octavo, photographs, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. Includes a pamphlet on the Society's Portraits and Busts by Gillian Hammill (reprinted from the Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 24, No. 1, June 1969). More
London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. Octavo, photographic plates. Publisher's blindstamped cloth, inscription on front endpaper, a fine set. More
London: The Folio Society, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's quarter cloth. More
Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1980. Octavo, publisher's printed cloth. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 2002. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. In 1858, Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside. He was not yet a focus of debate; his "big book on species" still lay on his desk as..... More
London: Jonathon Cape, (1995. first edition). Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. An acclaimed biography, which covers Darwin's life up until 1856, the year he decided to commence work on the book he planned to call Natural Selection. More
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. Octavo, photographs, maps, softcover. Originally published in 1956, Archie Carr's landmark publication helped set in motion a movement to protect sea turtles that spread throughout the world and remains strong today. Archie Carr's unmatched style of nature writing, accessible to experienced naturalists and laypersons..... More
London: West Brothers, 1973. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1952. Octavo, folding map, black and white plates. Publisher's cloth, very slight rubbing, inscription, a very good copy. 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
London: Orion Publishing, 2000. Octavo, paperback, line drawings. 'Dear Mr Darwin - You might find it presumptuous of me, if not a little macabre, that I should take up my pen and write to you more than a hundred years after your death...Despite the gulf that separates us in time..... More
Carlton South: Miegunyah Press, 2006. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. In 1800 François Péron, an ambitious young medical student not long released from the French revolutionary army, gained a place as an assistant zoologist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australian waters. As his colleagues either deserted or died..... More
New York: Franklin Watts, 2005. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. Biography of the life and work of Amy Vedder. More
Place of publication unknown: Printed for private publication, 1939. Large octavo, roneograph facsimile (recto only), binder's brown boards, a fine copy. More
St Leonards: Allen and Unwin, 2005. Octavo, maps, a fine copy in dustwrapper. Brings to bear exhaustive research in the archives and libraries of the world, to present an account of the life and death of this most complicated man. More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2002. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Provides fresh insight into the life of Matthew Flinders. Miriam Estensen has drawn on many sources to create a vivid picture of his life and voyages. She has created a well rounded picture of the man as seen..... More
Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1970. Octavo, black and white photographs. More
Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1970. Octavo, black and white photographs. Margaret Stones bookplate, lengthy inscription to Margaret Stones from authors, chipped dustwrapper otherwise a fine copy. More
Liverpool: National Museums & Galleries of Mersyside, 2002. Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. This lavish catalogue was produced to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the bequest of the 13th Earl of Derby's bird and mammal collections, upon which the Liverpool Museum was founded. Lord Derby's zoological collection at Knowsley Hall is..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1967. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, some wear, softcover. More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1964. reprint). Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, softcover. The varied works in this volume include passionate essays on the protection of animals, vivid accounts of travel and adventure from the English seashore to the Himalayas, poetry and fiction, and marvellous tales of nature for children. Special features..... 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
London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. In his final book, the eminent paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been divided against..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 2002. Octavo, phorographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More