London: Phaidon Press, 2016. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever Following in the footsteps of the international bestseller Map: Exploring the World, this fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity... More
Canada: Firefly Books, 2017. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations. FORTHCOMING, due October 2017. Called 'a milestone in insect photography' and 'simply bigger, prettier and more comprehensive than any previous publication on insects', Professor Stephen Marshall's Insects is now in a new edition, with more than 500 changes to reflect... More
London: Crowood Press, 2017. Paperback. colour illustrations. FORTHCOMING, due September 2017. Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals have always fascinated people but they pose vast problems for the artist. How do you go about recreating the anatomy and behaviour of a creature we've never seen? How can we restore landscapes long... More
Royal Geographical Society, 1875. Octavo, folding maps, quarter brown calf, two volumes bound together. More
Germany: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag, (2013. fourth edition). Hardback. colour illustrations. French patinter and illustrator Bernard Durin (1940-1988) discovered the beauty of insects for himself and for his art during a walk in Provence in 1972. During the following decades he made around 60 portraits of insects, using rare and fascinating specimens... More
[Woolgoolga]: NSW Bird Atlassers Inc. 2014. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps, tables, graphs, slightly bumped corners otherwise good condition. The first of three volumes. When all three volumes are complete, this Atlas will include all land and seabirds in mainland NSW, the ACT, the islands and waters of the... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, (1913. reprint). Octavo, Black and white photographs, bookplate. Handsome publisher's cloth, slight wear, bumped corners. Albert Meek travelled extensively around New Guinea and the Solomons, primarly collecting natural history specimens for Walter Rothschild. "At Choisel I discovered a very wonderful bird, which the Hon. Walter Rothschild... More
Roermond-Maaseik: J J Romen and Zonen, [1934]. Octavo, black and white photographs, text illustrations. More
South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1974. Folio, colour plates, signature, fine copy in blank cardboard slipcase. More
London: Hutchinson, 1953. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Sydney: New South Wales Naturalists' Club, 1903. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers. Memoirs of the New South Wales Naturalists' Club, Number one. More
Brisbane: Queensland Naturalists' Club, 1979. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, softcover. More
Sydney: New South Wales University Press, 1980. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Houghton Mifflin, 2017. Octavo, paperback with plastic cover, The first comprehensive guide to the sounds of eastern North American birds, featuring an innovative visual index that allows readers to quickly look up unfamiliar sounds in the field. Bird songs and calls are just as important as visual field marks in... More
London: John Van Voorst, 1860. Octavo, eight handcoloured lithographs by George French Angas. Later half morocco and marbled boards, a very good copy. Bennett made a serious contribution to the unravelling of the Platypus mystery and his account of this extraordinary mammal is a classic. "The drawings, with a few... More
Wellington: John Mackay, Government Printer, 1903. Octavo, ten plates. Binder's green cloth, wrappers retained, very scarce. Richard Henry became the caretaker of Resolution Island and realised if New Zealand's birds were to be saved from extinction then their best chance was relocation from the mainland to predator free islands. This... More
London: David Nutt, 1897, Octavo, photographs and uncoloured plates. Publisher's decorated cloth, a very good copy. More
Berlin: W K Gleerup, 1849. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers, some foxing. More
London: John Murray, 1889. Octavo, two folding coloured maps, twenty-nine plates, four chromolithographs of Tree Kangaroos, and text illustrations. Publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth, grubby and some wear. The first English edition. Lumholtz spent a lot of time in Queensland where he shot a pair of Paradise Parrots and had a Tree... More
London: Jarrolds, 1933. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1891. Octavo, uncoloured plates. Publisher's decorated cloth, a little grubby. More
London: Hippolyte Balliere, 1846. Octavo, 22 lithographed plates (eleven handcoloured), text illustrations. Modern full polished morocco with coloured label, the uncoloured plates badly oxidised and chipped, the coloured plates in good condition, the copy of Ronald Strahan, scarce. A classic early study devoted primarily to Australian marsupials. A second volume... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Mainland Ecuador's spectacular wildlife makes it a magnet for nature tourists, but until now there hasn't been a go-to, all-in-one guide geared to the general reader. With this handy and accessible guide, visitors now have everything they need to identify... More
Seaford: Aquatic Photographics, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A pictorial guide that includes all the known freshwater species of Victoria, including many of the recently recognised species of Galaxidae, some probably now extinct. Quick-guide with small images are presented instead of keys to the families and the genera containing... More
Moorooka: Boolarong Publications, (2000. reprint). Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. 50th anniversary edition of this classic work. More