Tasmania's native mammals
Hobart: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations by Jane Burrell, softcover. More
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Hobart: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations by Jane Burrell, softcover. More
Sydney: Kevin Weldon, 1985. Quarto, colour photographs. More
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1981. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
London: Linnean Society of London, 1903. Quarto, three uncoloured plates. Contemporary quarter morocco and cloth, the bookplate of John Calaby. From the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, volume nine, part three. More
Sydney: Zoological Parks Board of NSW, 1978. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
London: Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1894. Octavo, four handcoloured plates by Smit (Green Ringtail Possum, Herbert River Ringtail possum, Lemuroid Pussum and Lumholtz's Tree Kangaroo). Extract. This paper describes Lumholtz specimens collected in far north Queensland. More
Sydney: UNSW Press, (1995. first edition). Octavo, photographs, text illustrations. Some sunning, otherwise a fine copy. Covers many features of kangaroo biology, such as reproductive patterns, social structure and locomotor characteristics as well as other facets of biology, ecology and behaviour. Australian Natural History Series. More
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 2009. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 320. More
London: R H Porter, 1881. Tall octavo, frontispiece, 31 lithographed plates including eleven coloured and seven either folding or double page. Contemporary black half morocco, the bookplate John Calaby. Alfred Henry Garrod (1846-1879) was an anatomist and physiologist with a strong interest in zoology. He was the first person to..... More
Melbourne: Cheshire, 1969. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. A classic account of the biology of Australian macropods. More
Melbourne: Macmillan, 1973. Folio, colour plates, fine copy in slipcase. More
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Folio, 30 colour plates. Publisher's cloth with locket portrait, limited edition of 750 copies numbered and signed by Joan M. Dixon, a very good copy. This is a facsimile edition of the two-part work, A Monograph of the Macropodidae of Family of Kangaroos, published by John..... More
Sydney: NSW University Press, (1989. first edition). Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, signature, paperback. More
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1990. Large octavo, illustrations, laminated boards. Marsupials and monotremes are of special value for examining the deepest questions of mammalian genetics and evolution. Thus, there is intense and increasing interest in all aspects of the breeding, genetics and evolution of these mammals. In this book, contributors from major..... More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1989. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine set in dustwrappers. The volumes are divided into seven sections, each devoted to a major field of research on macropod biology. The sections are evolution, zoogeography and community ecology; diet, feeding and digestion; energy, water and temperature relations; reproductive biology; development..... More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2007. Small octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The koala is universally recognised and revered as an Australian icon. It is also one of the most well-adapted and resilient of Australia's marsupials, described by some as a triumph of evolution. How does it survive, and..... More
Gland: IUCN, 1992. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations, scuffed softcover otherwise good copy. More
St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1985. Octavo, colour plates, photographs, very good in dustwrapper. More
Como: Department of Conservation and Land Management, 1986. Quarto, maps, softcover. Wildlife Management Program No. 3. More
Sydney: Reed, (1983. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, laminated boards. More
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2016. Octavo, paperback, photographs, maps. The heart of Australia's ecological identity and restricted to the arid interior, the red kangaroo is Australia's largest terrestrial land mammal, and the largest extant marsupial. Almost nothing was known about the ecology of the red kangaroo when a young Alan..... More
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1892. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers, scarce. Australian Museum Catalogue number 16. More
Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1968. Folio, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2005. Small octavo, photographs. Owner's signature, sunned spine, some wear to dustwrapper, otherwise a good copy. Comprehensive and easily readable book on the animal that has the distinction of being the world's largest marsupial carnivore. It is packed with information that has either never been..... More