Riversleigh.
Sydney: Reed, (1991. first edition). Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. A classic account of Australian palaeontology. More
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Lizards: study in thermoregulation.
London: Edward Arnold, 1979. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, softcover. Studies in Biology number109. More
In search of reptiles and amphibians.
Leiden: E J Brill, 1987. Octavo, photographs, paperback, bookplate of David Mcphee. More
Reptile and amphibian variants: colors, patterns, and scales.
Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 1995. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This is the first published work on the reptile and amphibian variations that occur naturally or through selective breeding. These animals with conspicuously altered colours and patterns are often quite beautiful. Profusely illustrated. More
The bird: its form and function.
New York: (1906. first edition). Octavo, photographs, library stamp on front paste-down, a very good copy in publisher's decorated cloth. More
Type specimens of bird skins in the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, Unitied Kingdom.
Tring: British Ornithologists' Club, 1999. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, paperback. British Ornithologists' Club Occassional Publication, number four. More
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Proceedings of the [twelfth] International Ornithological Congress: Helsinki, 5-12 June 1958.
Helsinki: Publisher unknown, 1960. Large octavo, two volumes, text illustrations, publisher's wrappers, a very good set. More
Variation in mammalian populations.
London: Academic Press, 1970. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in worn dustwrapper. Symposium of the Zoological Society of London, number 26. More
Inheritance and natural history.
London: Bloomsbury Books, (1990. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, a very good copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 61. More
Inheritance and natural history.
London: Collins, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 61. More
The natural history of Shetland.
London: Collins, (1980. first edition). Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, scarce. New Naturalist 64. More
Body heat: temperature and life on earth.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Small octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. In this entertaining and illuminating book, the biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals (including humans). More
Hominoid evolution and climatic change in Europe, volume two: phylogeny of the Neogene hominoid primates of Eurasia.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This volume explores hominoid evolution in Eurasia during the Miocene. What is the place of Europe in the origin of humankind? Whilst our earliest human ancestors may have come out of Africa, many of our more..... More
Fossil men: elements of human palaeontology.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, (1923. second edition). Tall octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, a fine copy. More
Vie et moeurs des mammiferes: locomotion, alimentation, abri, protection, reproduction, migrations, vie sociale, ecologie.
Paris: Payot, 1951. Quarto, signature, illustrations, softcover, front wrapper missing. French. More
The skeletal biology of earlier human populations.
London: Pergamon Press, 1968. Octavo, text illustrations, signature. More
Reed-warblers: an introduction to their breeding-biology and behaviour.
(1949. Octavo, black and white photographs, graphs, line drawings. Bookplate of Roy Cooper, some foxing throughout otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Charles Darwin: Voyaging: Volume one of a biography.
London: Pimlico, 1996. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
The Galathea Deep Sea Expedition, 1950-1952: described by members of the expedition.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1956. Octavo, illustrations, folding map, worn dustwrapper. More
The making of the fittest: DNA and the ultimate forensic record of evolution.
London: Quercus, 2008. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. DNA evidence not only solves crimes - if you know how to read it, it can also reveal the history of life on earth. This fast-paced book guides the general reader on a tour of the DNA record left by three billion years of..... More
Bird song: biological themes and variations.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Octavo, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Explores the study of bird song from the biological viewpoint and reviews the extensive literature on the subject. More
Charles Darwin.
London: West Brothers, 1973. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Synopsis of animal classification.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1971. Octavo, text illustrations, paperback. More