An Australian bird book: a complete guide to the birds of Australia.
Sydney: Whitcombe & Tombs, (1968. ninth edition). Octavo, colour plates, publisher's printed boards. More
New Arrivals
Ecosystems of the World, volume 22: river and sream ecosystems.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1995. Octavo, 643 pp. More
The log of H. M. S. Providence, 1791-1793.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1976. Large quarto, 40 plates. Publisher's polished half morocco and gilt designed green cloth, slipcase, limited to 500 numbered copies, a mint copy. More
The log of H. M. S. Bounty, 1787-1789.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1977. Large quarto, 40 plates. Publisher's polished half morocco and gilt designed green cloth, slipcase, limited to 500 numbered copies, a mint copy. More
Tiger: the ultimate guide.
New York: CDS Books, 2004. Small quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The spotted one: the fragile feline of the savannah.
Nairobi: Camerapix Publishers International, 1984. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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Students flora of north eastern New South Wales [four parts.]
Sydney: University of New England (Botany Department), 1971-1980. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's wrappers. More
In the weeds: nuturing community through Landcare.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2026. Octavo, paperback, Presents seven stories of communities who have worked to control weeds over the past 30 years. Weeds are everywhere. If you've ever been frustrated by weeds erupting into your garden, overgrowing your favourite reserve or popping up in your paddock, then this book is..... More
The Emu, volumes 1-13.
Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1900-2016. Octavo, binder's cloth; "Emu" bindings (green cloth, round back, bevelled boards, gilt Emu design), wrappers retained, all in magnificent crisp condition. Volume one on the front endpaper has the stamp "H. M. Customs Melbourne" with Campbell's signature, plus "The editor, The Emu". The retained..... More
Reader's Digest photographic field guide: Birds of Australia.
Sydney: Reader's Digest, (1994. first edition). Octavo, colour photos, softcover, SOUND WORKING COPY. More
Wildcat haven.
St Albans: Whittles Publishing, 2009. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover, some wear. Some seven years after abandoning the life of an international journalist for a life in the wilds, Mike Tomkies began a remarkable experiment, rearing the most ferocious animal to roam wild in Britain - the Scottish wildcat. The true..... More
Notes on the flora of Costa Rica, I.
United States: Field Museum of Natural History, 1968. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, wrappers. More
Birds of Southeat Asia.
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Octavo, colour illustrations, maps, signature, softcover. WAS $98.00 Thailand is the mecca of birding in Southeast Asia. It's convenient to get to and get around, and its birdlife is wondrously diverse, exotic, and plentiful. With Birds of Thailand, Craig Robson and fourteen leading illustrators..... More
Field guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago.
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2007. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover, SOUND WORKING COPY. This is a comprehensive and portable field guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago. 107 colour plates, taken from Birds of Northern South America, illustrate all 470 species found on the islands, including vagrants. Includes..... More
Patridge Pigeon Geophaps smithii.
Watercolour on card, signed Pater Slater bottom right, 30cm by 38cm. The original plate from Rare and vanishing Australian birds. Adelaide: Rigby, 1978, pp 40-41. "The form occuring in the Kimberely differs in having yellow skin about the eyes rather than scarlet ..." More
Black and White Wren Malurus leucopterus.
Watercolour on card, signed Pater Slater bottom right, 50cm by 37cm The original plate from Rare and vanishing Australian birds. Adelaide: Rigby, 1978, pp 70-71. First discovered in 1818 on the Freycinet voyage,The Black and White Wren occurs only on Dirk Hartog Island and Barrow Island, off the West Australian..... More
List of New Guinea birds: a systematic and faunal list of the birds of New Guinea and adjacent islands.
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1941. Octavo, folding map, bookplate, contemporary binder' s cloth, wrappers retained, a handsome copy. More
Dr. Burgers' ornithologische ausbeute im Stromgebiet des Sepik. Ein beitrag zur kenntnis der vogelwelt Neuguineas.
Berlin: Verlags-Buchandlung R. Stricker, 1923. Octavo, handsome quarter morocco and marbled boards, the copy of William Peckover with a tipped in photograph of a Yellow-billed Kingfisher. Text in German. More
The Sun Zoo Book.
Melbourne: The Sun News Pictorial, Quarto, photographs, wrappers. Sun Nature Book number nine. More
Australian birds and blossoms.
Melbourne: Sun Nature Book, [c1950]. Octavo, photographs, colour plates, pictorial wrappers. Sun Nature Book. More
Nieuwe nalezingen op de ichthyologie van Japan.
Leiden: Royal Netherlands Institute, 1854. Quarto, eight uncoloured lithographed plates; handsome half morocco and marbled boards with title label. More
Systematic account of the geology of Tasmania.
Sydney: J Walsh and sons, 1888. Quarto, frontispiece, folding map, 57 monochrome plates. Contemporary half brown calf, patterned cloth, with title label on spine, all edges coloured, owner's signature, a handsome copy. The first major book on the geology and palaeontology of Tasmania with some of the earliest plates of..... More
The mammals of China and Mongolia.
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1938-1940. Quarto. eleven plates, text illustrations, distribution maps, a superb set in dustwrappers. The Central Asiatic Expeditions, lead by Roy Chapman Andrews, explored the natural history of Mongolia and China in the years 1921 –1930. Field work was conducted in Mongolia during the..... More
Insects of Somoa, part seven, fascicle four: Mallophaga.
London: Order of the Trustees, 1928. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's wrappers. More
Insects of Somoa, part seven, fascicle two: Plectoptera (mayflies.)
London: Order of the Trustees, 1928. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's wrappers. More