Tasmania's native mammals
Hobart: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations by Jane Burrell, softcover. More
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The kangaroo.
Sydney: Kevin Weldon, 1985. Quarto, colour photographs. More
Mammals in Australia.
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1981. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
On the evolution of the Australian marsupialia; with remarks on the relationships of the Marsupials in general.
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
The Koala: proceedings of the Taronga Symposium on Koala biology, management and medicine, Sydney 11th and 12th March 1976.
Sydney: Zoological Parks Board of NSW, 1978. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
On some apparently new marsupials from Queensland.
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
Kangaroos: biology of the largest marsupials.
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
Phylogenetic analyses of postcranial skeletal morphology in Didelphid marsupials.
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 2009. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 320. More
The collected scientific papers of the late Alfred Henry Garrod.
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
Kangaroos.
Melbourne: Cheshire, 1969. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. A classic account of the biology of Australian macropods. More
Kangaroos: with modern commentaries by Joan Dixon.
Melbourne: Macmillan, 1973. Folio, colour plates, fine copy in slipcase. More
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A monograph of the Macropodidae, or family of kangaroos [facsimile].
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
The platypus: a unique mammal.
Sydney: NSW University Press, (1989. first edition). Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, signature, paperback. More
Mammals from pouches and eggs: genetics, breeding and evolution of marsupials and monotremes.
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
Kangaroos, wallabies and rat-kangaroos.
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
Koala: origins of an icon.
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
Australasian marsupials and monotremes: an Action Plan for their conservation.
Gland: IUCN, 1992. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
The ecology of pests: some Australian case histories.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations, scuffed softcover otherwise good copy. More
The kangaroo keepers.
St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1985. Octavo, colour plates, photographs, very good in dustwrapper. More
Kangaroo management in Western Australia.
Como: Department of Conservation and Land Management, 1986. Quarto, maps, softcover. Wildlife Management Program No. 3. More
Australian mammals in colour.
Sydney: Reed, (1983. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, laminated boards. More
Red kangaroo in Central Australia: an early account by A.E. Newsome.
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
Catalogue of Australian mammals: with introductory notes on general mammalogy.
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1892. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers, scarce. Australian Museum Catalogue number 16. More
The brain of the Opossum (Didelphus marsupialis).
Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1968. Folio, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Tasmanian devil: a unique and threatened animal.
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