London: Academic Press, 1998. Octavo, text illustrations. Worn dustwrapper with small tears, otherwise e a good copy. This book examines the history and uses of bird skins and is a very useful for anyone interested in the history of ornithology. There are 160 period photographs showing famous collectors and ornithological expeditions. More
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995. Octavo, black and white photographs, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Surry Hills: Century Hutchinson, 1988. Octavo, text illustrations. Signature, slightly worn dustwrapper, otherwise a fine copy. More
St Leonards: Allen and Unwin, 1995. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Faber & Faber, 2005. Octavo, text illustrations. A fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Utrecht: A. Oosthoek's Uitgeversmaatschappij N.V., 1971. Octavo, black and white illustrations. Occasional pencil annotations, dustwrapper lightly worn, signature, a good copy. More
Sydney: ABC Books, 2005. Quarto, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe from 1766 to 1769. Throughout a long and distinguished life however, he participated in many of the turning points of world history: the birth of the... More
Sydney: J. R. Merrick Publications, 1987. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards, very good copy. Was $60 Information on 73 species illustrated in colour, with emphasis on aquarium care. More
Oatlands, Auscipub, 2006. Quarto, text illustrations and 100 colour plates, paperback. WAS $170. A comprehensive overview of vertebrate diversity within Australasia, together with discussion of the factors that influenced the evolution and distributions of the faunas we see today. By considering the major forces shaping extant vertebrate assemblages, using new... More
West Melbourne: Nelson, 1977. Octavo, text illustrations. Occasional pencil annotations, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. The story of the expedition up the Fly River undertaken by Luigi D'Albertis and Lawrence Hargrave in the 1870s. More
Adelaide: South Australian Government Printer, 1989. Octavo, photographs. Occasional pencil annotations, some wear to dustwrapper including small tear, otherwise a good copy. Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) was the son of Samuel White (1835-1880) of "Reedbeds" South Australia. He was a prominent ornithologist of his day and organised many scientific expeditions... More
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992. Octavo, paperback, More
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1973. Quarto, text illustrations, folding maps, a very good copy. First published 1803. More
Perth: Artlook Books, Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1909-1910. Quarto, 23 chromolithographic plates, one uncoloured. Contemporary half calf, some slight wear, all edges gilt, a fine clean copy. The entire volume nineteen of the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. The expedition to the Ruwenzori Mountains in what was then the British... More
Christchurch: Capper Press, 1974. Octavo, text illustrations, very good set in dustwrappers. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in a spine sunned dustwrapper. Erwin Stresemann (1889-1972) was one of the twentieth century's great ornithological thinkers and a mentor to Ernst Mayr. More
London: Henry Sotheran & Co., [1887-1888]. Quarto, 21 handcoloured lithographs by Keulemans. Publisher's green panelled cloth, all edges uncut, a fine crisp copy, rare in this condition. The first, and superior, issue of the only monograph on the order Charadriiformes. Both first and second issue have the same date and... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1986. reprint). Octavo, 506 pp. softcover. More
Titirangi: Exisle Publishing, 2007. text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Poole: New Orchard Editions, (1987. reprint). Large quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 1999. Octavo, text illustrations, a few pencil annotations, otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: Harper and Row, 1990. Quarto, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Penguin Books, 2003. Octavo, text illustrations, occasional pencil annotations, otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Octavo, text illustrations, paperback. More