Life on earth: a natural history.
Sydney: William Collins Sons and Co., (1979. second edition), Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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Sydney: William Collins Sons and Co., (1979. second edition), Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Canberra: AGPS, 1988. Octavo, bookplate, signature, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895. Octavo, maps, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
London: Robert Jennings, 1829. Octavo, vignettes by William Harvey. Publisher's quarter morocco over plain boards, a very good copy. A history of the strange and exotic collection of wild animals kept in the Tower of London, which were used at various times for both entertainment and scientific study by royalty..... More
London: Robert Jennings, 1831. Octavo, wood-engraved illustrations; finely bound by Ramage in plum morocco, spines elaborately gilt, sides with ornamental corner-pieces within rules, top edges gilt (spines faded), a superb set bound by John Ramage. A history of the strange and exotic collection of wild animals kept in the Tower..... More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Zoo Keys 209. Centuries of exploration and discovery have documented the diversity of life on Earth. Records of this biodiversity are, for the most part, distributed across varied and distinct natural history collections worldwide. This makes the task of extracting and mobilising the..... More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1993. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
London: Seeley Service & Co., (1895. third edition). Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's green stamped cloth, a fine copy. More
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1951. Octavo, text illustrations, maps, minor pencil annotations. Publisher's cloth, some spotting on fore-edges, owner's stamp and signature, otherwise a good copy. A volume in the Text-books of Animal Biology series. More
New York: Van Nostrand, 1979. Octavo, photographs, signature, dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, (1944. second edition). Octavo, photographs. Binders cloth, with tipped in cuttings and wrappers retained. David Fleay achieved international fame for being the first person to breed the platypus in captivity at the Sir Colin McKenzie Sanctuary at Healsville Victoria. More
New York: Penguin, 2004. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. A history of the strange and exotic collection of wild animals kept in the Tower of London, which were used at various times for both entertainment and scientific study by royalty and members of English society. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Octavo, photographs, other illustrations, dustwrapper. David Hancocks, an architect and zoo director for thirty years, is passionately opposed to the poor standards that have prevailed and still exist in many zoos. He reviews the history of zoos in light of their failures and successes..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. A fascinating behind the scenes look at an important but historically neglected institution - the American zoo. On a rainy day in May 1988, a lowland gorilla named Willie B. stepped outdoors for the first time in twenty-seven years..... More
London: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2001. Octavo, inscribed by the authors,softcover. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, volume 132, number 3. More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988. Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1994. Octavo, illustrations. More
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1994. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Octavo, photographs, signature, dustwrapper. "[This] is a book for zoo people entering the twenty-first century because it synthesizes the theoretical and practical knowledge of wild mammals in captivity acquired so rapidly and abundantly in the last three decades. More
New York: Tom Doherty, 1990. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1987. Octavo, More
London: Hutchinson, 1903. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy. More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1985. Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1997. Quarto, colour paintings and drawings by Pamela Conder, fine copy in dustwrapper. Examines the role of zoos, particularly in relation to education and conservation, as well as exploring some of the aspects of animal diversity, evolution and behaviour. More