Camels and the outback.
London: Angus and Robertson, 1964. Octavo, photographs, tape marks on endpapers, otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. More
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London: Angus and Robertson, 1964. Octavo, photographs, tape marks on endpapers, otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. More
Gland: IUCN, 1997. Quarto, paperback, illustrations. More
London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Octavo, colour and black and white illustrations, bookplate, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series.Known for their haughty demeanour, woolly charm and propensity to spit when threatened, llamas have had a rich and varied history. Since their domestication high in the Andes, they have been sacrificed, farmed, smuggled and..... More
Gland: IUCN, 1992. Quarto, paperback, illustrations. More
Gland: IUCN, 1998. Quarto, maps, softcover. More
[London]: Harper Collins, 1993. Octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. The story of the African elephant and its fight for survival. More
London: Reaktion Books, 2015. Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations. Reaktion Animal Series. Found in nearly every part of the world where humans live, our relationship with this familiar animal is oddly ambivalent. Here, Joy Hinson explores the reasons behind this unease, from our interaction with the endangered wild goat species of..... More
London: Printed by order of the trustees, 1916. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth, bookplate, small library stamp on blank endpaper, a very good copy. Volume five: Perissodactyla (horses, tapirs, rhinoceroses), Hyracoidea (huraxes), Proboscidae (elephants). More
Chicago: Chicago University Press, (2002. second edition). Octavo, softcover. Pummeled by a century of drought, depopulation, and soil erosion, America's Great Plains are in dire straits. With farms closing left and right, large parts of the region now have about the population they had in frontier days. Frank and Deborah..... More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1969. Octavo, photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1969. Octavo, photographs, inscription in felt pen, very good copy in slightly chipped dustwrapper. More
London: Reaktion Books, 2015. Octavo, colour and black and white illustrations, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. Bison once ranged across the Great Plains of North America in vast herds - early eighteenth century explorers described them as 'innumerable' - and at the beginning of the nineteenth century they numbered in the..... More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Jeddah: Immel, 1984. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Christopher Helm, 1988. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. Octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Surry Hills: RD Press, 1992. Quarto, colour photographs, pale foxing first and last leaves, good in dustwrapper. Contributors include Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Dr Anthony Hall-Martin, Dr Philip J. Viljoen, Dr Richard Leakey and Cynthia Moss. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. Octavo, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Gland: IUCN, 1994. Quarto, paperback, illustrations. More
Gland: IUCN, 1983. Quarto, paperback, unpaginated. More
London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Octavo, photographs and illustrations, bookplate, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. Hippos are well-loved, cumbersome, rotund mammals famous for lounging around semi-submerged in muddy pools. Gregarious herbivores, they emerge after dusk from the water into the cool night air to graze on grass and plants before returning to..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Octavo, colour and black and white illustrations, bookplate, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. Tough, resourceful and omnivorous, wild boar are the ancestors of domestic pigs. From earliest times, wild boar have presented humans with both opportunity and threat: they are a valuable food source, but also a...... More