Buenos Aires: Editora M Pontual Edicoes e Arte Ltda, 2004. Large quarto, colour illustrations from watercolour paintings by Eduardo Brettas, laminated boards. Covers Toucans, Toucanets and Aracaris. Full-page watercolours in incredible detail and colour depict the exotic and eye-catching birds which live in the forests of the Americas from Mexico..... More
Lawrence, Kansas: American Ornithologists Union, (1983. sixth edition). Octavo, maps, a fine copy. More
College Station: Texas A & M UP, 1992. Small octavo, publisher's boards, illustrations. Vast numbers of people travel to this region to see the abundant and diverse birdlife that exists there. This detailed account of the bird species provides information on when, where and in what numbers each species should..... More
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 1989. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 43. More
College Station: Texas A & M Uinversity Press, 2003. Octavo, photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Through his recounting of local lore, Bonta makes the interaction between culture and avifauna in Latin America a key to better understanding the practice of biodiversity protection. He offers a significant contribution to the..... More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. Quarto, paperback, text illustrations. WAS $75 A model study of the ethnobotany of a Mayan people. More
London: Christopher Helm, 2001. Octavo, 32 colour plates by Barry Kent Mackay, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first comprehensive guide to the world's 83 wrens, 5 dippers and 36 thrashers. All but one of the wrens are endemic to the new world, with the highest concentration of species in central..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1976. third edition). Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
Ann Arbor: Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 1967. Octavo, softcover. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, No. 131. More
Christopher Helm, (2000. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour plates. More
Pennsylvania: Livingston Publishing, 1973. Octavo, colour plates, dustwrapper. More
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1997. Octavo, text illustrations, maps. The area covered is broadly representative of the central American fish fauna. More
Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, 1963. Octavo, wrappers, map, signature. University of Kansas Publications, volume 14, number.14. More
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1952. Octavo, wrappers, plates, maps, text figures. Museum of Zoology Miscellaneous Publication, number 77. More
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2001. Octavo, softcover. The most authoritative, detailed, and up-to-date checklist of the 566 bird species reliably recorded in Belize. More
New Haven: Yale University, 1910. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's wrapper, little worn, ex-library with stamps, partly unopened, still a sound copy. More
Cambridge MA: The Belknap Press, 2006. Small quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Features over 100 large-format photographs of caterpillars, which document the dizzying variety of shapes, vivid colours, and cryptic markings among these species. This book focuses on how their features figure in their behaviour and ecology, and..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Octavo, colour photographs, paperback. Every bright Monarch butterfly or striking luna moth started out in a far subtler form of nature's mosaic, a humble caterpillar. It is this early stage of life - crafted by natural selection into machines for converting a vast array..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Oblong format, colour photographs, softcover Walking a forest trail in Costa Rica, a visitor might be struck by the sight of an iridescent blue morpho butterfly fluttering ahead in the filtered daylight, or an enormous silk moth, as magnificently patterned and subtly colored as..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Octavo, 48 colour plates, maps. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1992. second edition). Octavo, colour plates, texta erased inscription, dog-eared softcover. This is the authoritative field guide to Panama birds, completely revised and expanded to include all the birds of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras. More than 1,000 species in this exceptionally rich and varied area..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1989. second edition). Octavo, colour plates, softcover. This is the authoritative field guide to Panama birds, completely revised and expanded to include all the birds of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras. More than 1,000 species in this exceptionally rich and varied area are treated, and about..... More
Baton Rouge: American Ornithologists' Union, 1963. Large octavo, colour frontispiece, illustrations, publisher's cloth, fine copy. More
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 194,1950. Octavo, wrappers, few pale library stamps, edges uncut, good copy. More