The marine biodiversity of Guam and the Marianas.
Guam: University of Guam Press, 2003. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, signature, softcover. Micronesica, volumes 35-36.
New Arrivals
Climbing Mount Improbable.
London: Viking, 1996. Octavo, black and white illustrations, Slightly used dustwrapper, otherwise a very good copy.
La collezione ornitologica di Tommaso Salvadori.
Bergamo: Museo di Science Naturali, 1997. Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. Italian and English text.
Rafinesque: autobiography and lives.
New York: Arno Press, 1978. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy. A facsimile collection of works by and about the French-born, American naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (1783-1840).
The Wilkes expedition: the first United States exploring expedition (1838-1842).
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1968. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy.
Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, in the Uranie and Physicienne Corvettes, commanded by Captain Freycinet, during the years 1817, 1818, 1819 and 1820
Amsterdam: N. Israel, (1971. facsimile). Quarto, text illustrations, folding map, fine copy in publisher's imitation vellum.
Narrative of a Whaling Voyage round the Globe, from the year 1833 to 1836. Comprises sketches of Polynesia, California, the Indian Archipelago, etc. With an account of Southern whale fishery, and the natural history of the climates visited.
Amsterdam: N. Israel, (1970. facsimile). Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's imitation vellum. First published 1840.
The bay whalers: Tasmania's shore-based whaling industry.
Canberra: Navarine, 2003. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper.
Whaler's eye.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1964. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper.
James Hector: explorer, scientist, leader.
Lower Hutt: Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 2015. Octavo, photographs.
Antarctic sector of the Pacific.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1990. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, fine copy.
Description of the Little Barrier or Hauturu Island, the birds which inhabit it, and the locality as a protection to them.
Auckland: Auckland Institute and Museum, 1886. Octavo, brown wrappers with the author's signature.
Australian insects: an introductory handbook.
Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of NSW, (1944. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, fore-edge stain, signature, bookplate.
The islands of Juan Fernandez.
New York: The Geographical Review, 1918. Octavo, photographs, handsome binder's cloth. Extracted from The Geographical Review, volume five, number.
The offshore islands of northern New Zealand: proceedings of a symposium convened by the Offshore Islands Research Group in Auckland, 10-13 May 1983.
Wellington: Department of Lands and Survey, 1986. Quarto, text illustrations, softcover.
Trogons: a natural history of the Trogonidae.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Folio, dustwrapper, colour illustrations by Albert Earl Gilbert, maps. A very good copy in a defective dustwrapper. This is a definitive natural history of the spectacularly beautiful tropical birds known as the Trogons, a family that includes the legendary Resplendent quetzal, the sacred bird of...
The freshwater life of the British Isles.
London: Frederick Warne, (1969. reprint). Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The Wayside and Woodland Series. First published 1952.
The world in the past: a popular account of what it was like and what it contained.
London: Frederick Warne, (1959. reprint). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The Wayside and Woodland series. Reprint of the 1953 third edition.
The Seas: our knowledge of life in the sea and how it is gained.
London: Frederick Warne, (1928. first edition). Duodecimo, photographs, very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Animal life of the British Isles: a guide to the mammals, reptiles and batrachians of wayside and woodlands.
London: Frederick Warne, (1945. reprint). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The Wayside and Woodland Series.
Wild animals of the British Isles: a guide to the mammals, reptiles and batrachians of wayside and woodlands.
London: Frederick Warne, (1960. first edition). Octavo, photographs, worn dustwrapper. The Wayside and Woodland Series.
Birds of the wayside and woodland, comprising a descriptive history of the families corvidae to Tetraonidae. Based upon the standard work he Birds of the British Isles and their eggs by T. A. Coward.
London: Frederick Warne, (1955. reprint). Octavo, colour plates, clipped dustwrapper. New edition 1941. Reprinted with new introductory chapters 1952.
The spiders and allied orders of the British Isles, comprising descriptions of every family of British spiders, every species of Harvetman and False Scorpions. Also the more familiar of the British mites and Sea-spiders.
London: Frederick Warne, (1953. reprint). Duodecimo, colour plates, dustwrapper.
Symposium. Bass Strait, its coasts and islands. 14 September 1972.
Melbourne: Royal Society of Victoria, 1973. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, volume 85, part two.
Salmon at the Antipodes: a history and review of Trout, Salmon and Char and introduced coarse fish in Australasia.
Melbourne: Author, 1988. Quarto, photographs, laminated boards.