Refocus on New Zealand birds.
Wellington: A H and A W Reed, 1967. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. More
New Arrivals
What bird is that? A guide to the birds of Australia.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1931. first edition), Octavo, colour plates. Half green morocco with raised bands and two title labels, contents crisp. The first comprehensive Australian bird guide and the most successful Australian natural history book ever published. Probably over a million copies have been sold and it has been..... More
Australian barkers and biters.
Sydney: Endeavour Press, (1933. second edition), Octavo, photographs. publisher's cloth, some light flecking otherwsie a very good copy, scarce. The classic work on Australian dog breeds, especially cattle dogs and kelpies. More
Reptiles of Australia: crocodiles-turtles-tortoises-lizards-snakes.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1970. second edition), Octavo, photographs, fine copy in chipped dustwrapper. More
An explorer and his birds: John Gilbert's discoveries in 1844-45.
Melbourne: [Author], [1945]. Octavo, photographs. Binder's half red morocco with cover label, wrappers retained. First published in The Emu. More
Birdroom and aviary: trials and triumphs of a Yorkshire parson.
London: F. V. White, [no date]. Octavo, photographic frontispiece. Publisher's cloth, corner of blank endpaper removed, otherwise a bright copy. The Reverend Farrar's two little books (the other is "Through a Birdroom window") are probably the wittiest and most enjoyable books ever written on aviculture. More
Tawny frogmouth.
Collingwood: CSIRO, (2018. second edition), Octavo, paperback, photographs. A fully revised, easy-to-read second edition providing the most comprehensive single study of tawny frogmouths. The tawny frogmouth is one of Australia’s most intriguing and endearing birds. Written by award-winning author Gisela Kaplan, one of Australia’s leading authorities on animal behaviour and..... More
Some useful Australian birds.
Sydney: Government Printer, 1921. Octavo, colour plates. Publisher's red cloth, flecked, otherwise internally crisp. More
The parrot-keeper's guide. Containing the natural history of macaws, cockatoos, parrots, lories, parroketts and love-birds; with general observations on the best modes of treatment, the diseases to which they are subject, and methods of cure.
London: Thomas Dean, [c1870's]. Duodecimo, seven partly coloured lithographic plates. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, a near fine copy, scarce. More
Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia: being observations principally on the animal and vegetable productions of New South Wales, New Zealand, and some of the Austral islands.
London: John Van Voorst, 1860. Octavo, eight handcoloured plates by George French Angas, text engravings. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine with title label, top edge gilt, an excellent copy The best general account of Australian natural history at the time of publication and still a useful work..... More
Biology of bats.
New York: Academic Press, 1970-1977. Octavo, text illustrations, owner's signature, a very good set in slightly worn dustwrappers, scacre. More
My country book.
London: The Studio, 1942. Octavo, text illustrations by C. F. Tunnicliffe. More
Tigers of the Raj: pages from the Shikar Diaries1894 to 1949 of Colonel Burton, spartsman and conservationist.
Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1987. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
La Collezione Ornitolica del Museu de Zoologia dell'Universita di Torino.
Torino: Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, 1986. Octavo, five colour plates, softcover. Revied Emu 1987. Lists Australiasian specimens including those from the Magenta voyage. More
Extinct and endangered birds in the collection of The Natural History Museum.
Tring: British Ornithologists' Club, 1994. Octavo, softcover. British Ornithologists' Club Occassional Publication, number one. 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
Tide's ending
London: Michael Joseph, (1980. second edition]. Octavo, illustrations by D. J. Watkins-Pitchford, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The idle countryman.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, (1943. first edition). Octavo, illustrations by D. J. Watkins-Pitchford, publisher's quarter cloth. More
Penguins: past and present, here and there.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. Octavo, text illustrations. More
Canids of the world: wolves, wild dogs, foxes, jackals, coyotes and their relatives.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This stunningly illustrated and easy-to-use field guide covers every species of the world's canids, from the Gray Wolf of North America to the dholes of Asia, from African jackals to the South American Bush Dog. It features more than 150..... More
Field guide to the carnivores of the world.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white illustrations, maps. Ranging from the largest terrestrial carnivore, the Polar bear, and hyper-predatory wild cats, to the tiny Least weasel that can squeeze through a wedding ring, the true carnivores - order Carnivora - include some of the world's..... More
Dark emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture.
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2018. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. This book puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing behaviours inconsistent with the..... More
Green infrastructure: incorporating plants and enhancing biodiversity in buildings and urban envirnoments.
New York: Earthscan Publications, 2015. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. With more than half of the world's population now living in urban areas, it is vitally important that towns and cities are healthy places to live. The principal aim of this book is to synthesize the disparate literature on the use..... More
Europe: the first 100 million years.
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2019. Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs. It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was a dynamic island arc whose individual landmasses were made up of diverse geological types, including ancient continental fragments, raised segments..... More
Europe: a natural history.
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2018. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. More