Evolution: the triumph of an idea.
New York: Harper Collins, 2001. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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Rambles round the zoo.
Melbourne: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1923. Octavo, photographs, fine copy but lacks front endpaper. More
Bird speciation on the Australian continent.
Cambridge: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1961. Octavo, text illustrations, binder's cloth, the copy of Hugh Officer with his signature. A seminal essay on the biogeography and speciation of Australian birds. More
Australian mammals in colour.
Sydney: Reed, (1983. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, laminated boards. More
Whale watching in Australian and New Zealand waters.
Sydney: New Holland, (2001. second edition). Octavo, colour photographs, maps, softcover. Includes the ecology and behaviour of whales and dolphins; identification notes, accompanied by detailed colour illustrations and locator maps for each species; and a comprehensive guide to sites, highlighting the best places to see whales. More
Grasses of South Australia: an illustrated guide to the native and naturalised species.
Kent Town: Wakefield Press, (2018. second edition), Large octavo, laminated boards, black and white text illustrations. South Australia's grasses have been carefully drawn, including more than 450 line drawings and 20 coloured paintings illustrating typical members of each tribe. More
Handbook of the birds of the world [HBW], volume twelve: Picathartes to tits and chickadees.
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2007. Quarto, colour plates and photographs, maps, hinges cracked, contents slightly loose, dustwrapper. This is the fifth passerine volume and covers many Australian families written by Australian experts. Covers Picathartes, babblers, parrotbills, Australasian babblers, logrunners, jewel-babblers and allies, whistlers, Australasian robins, fairywrens, bristlebirds, thornbills, Australian chats, sittellas..... More
The Australian Great Barrier Reef in colour.
Frenchs Forest: Reed Books, (1984. revised edition). Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. More
The link: uncovering our earliest ancestor.
London: Little, Brown and Company, 2009. Octavo, colour photographs, paperback. The astonishing new discovery that could change everything ...Lying inside a high-security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world's leading natural history museums, is the scientific find of a lifetime - a perfectly fossilized early primate, older..... More
Tasmanian devil: a unique and threatened animal.
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2005. Small octavo, photographs. Good copy in dustwrapper. Comprehensive and easily readable book on the animal that has the distinction of being the world's largest marsupial carnivore. It is packed with information that has either never been published or has only been found in scientific..... More
Here be dragons: how the study of animal and plant distributions revolutionized our views of life and earth.
London: Oxford University Press, 2011. Octavo, line drawings and colour illustrations. Good copy in dustwrapper. In this book, McCarthy tells the story of biogeography, from the 19th century to its growth into a major field of interdisciplinary research in the present day. It is a story that encompasses two great..... More
Restoring farm woodlands for wildlife.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2018. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. Millions of hectares of temperate woodland and billions of trees have been cleared from Australia’s agricultural landscapes. This has allowed land to be developed for cropping and grazing livestock but has also had significant environmental impacts, including erosion, salinity and..... More
The mammals of Tasmania.
Launceston: Mary Fisher Bookshop, 1973. Octavo, photographs, quarter cloth and linen boards, wrappers retained. More
The waders of Sydney (County of Cumberland) New South Wales.
Sydney: RAOU, 1954. Octavo, photographs, stiff card wrappers, signed by Hindwood. Reprinted from The Emu, volume 54. More
Australian parrots in captivity.
London: The Avicultural Society, 1951. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, photographs. Binder's cloth, owner's signature, a fine copy. A minor classic of aviculture literature. Alan Lendon was prominent medical practioner in Adelaide pre and post World War Two. He contributed extensively to the Aviculture Magazine and this pamphlet is a compilation of..... More
Australian parrots in captivity.
London: The Avicultural Society, 1951. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, photographs. Half morocco, wrappers retained, owner's signatures, some foxing. A minor classic of aviculture literature. Alan Lendon was prominent medical practioner in Adelaide pre and post World War Two. He contributed extensively to the Aviculture Magazine and this pamphlet is a compilation..... More
The South Australian Naturalist: the journal of the field naturalist's section of the Royal Society of South Australia.
Adelaide: Royal Society of South Australia, 1934--1935. Octavo, 16 volumes (bound in two), binder's cloth, wrappers retained, scarce. The first 16 volumes, with contributions by well known names such as S. A. White, Edgar Wait, J. M. Black and Bernard Cotton. More
The food of Australian birds: an investigation into the character of the stomach and crop contents.
Sydney: Department of Agriculture, New South Wales, 1918. Octavo, binder's cloth, wrappers not retianed, scarce. With contributions by J. H. Maiden, Walter Froggatt and others. More
Mammals of the world: a checklist.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Octavo, dustwrapper. This book is a complete listing of all recognised mammal species in the world and covers 5,027 species. English and scientific names are given for each species as well as a brief summary of each species' range. An invaluable reference. More
Birds: the art of ornithology.
London: Scriptum Editions, (2008. reprint). Small octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This beautiful small format book tells the story of the development of bird art through the ages. It ranges from the early decorative but often fanciful images of birds, through more accurate portrayals resulting from exploration and..... More
Birds of the south-west Coral Sea.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1963. Octavo, photographs. Binder's half morocco, wrappers retained, the bookplate of Geoffrey Ingleton, More
The birds of Sumatra: an annotated check-list.
Tring: British Ornithologists' Union, 1988. Octavo, photographs, stamp, softcover. BOU Checklist 10. More
Records of parrot-like birds bred in the United States of America.
London: Author, 1949. Octavo, text printed recto only. Publisher's blue cloth, the bookplate of Jack Vincent, tipped in a signed note from the author to the editor of 'The Ostrich', a fine copy. More
Possums: brushtails, ringtails and the greater glider.
Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2001. Octavo, colour photographs, paperback, good secondhand copy. Focuses on the larger possums of Australia and their habitats, eating habits and entire lifestyle. Australian Natural History Series. More
Bird minds: cognition and behaviour of Australian native birds.
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2015. Octavo, black and white photographs, paperback. The first attempt to shine a critical and scientific light on the cognitive behaviour of Australian land birds. Demonstrating how intelligent and emotional birds can be, Kaplan describes complex behaviours such as grieving, deception, problem solving and the use..... More