A dipterist's handbook.
Middlesex: The Amateur Entomologists' Society, 1978. Octavo, line drawings, softcover. The Amateur Entomologist, volume 15. More
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The birds of Kent.
London: H F & G Witherby, 1953. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, owner's embossed ex-libris, lacks dustwrappers, otherwsie a very good set. More
Snakes of Australia.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1983. second edition), Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Gardener's companion to eucalypts.
Sydney: Lansdowne Publishing Pty Ltd., 1989. revised edition). Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Caring for Australian wildlife.
Sydney: Australian Geographic Pty Ltd, 1997. Octavo, colour photographs, black and white illustrations, line drawings, softcover. Simple, concise manual packed with detailed illustrations and photographs, plus vital information on the care and management of native animals. More
Attracting frogs to your garden: creating an ideal habitat for native frogs in your own backyard.
Gravatt: Kimberley Publications, 1996. Octavo, black and white photographs, softcover. The must have guide for transforming a backyard into a welcome habitat for local native frogs. This charming book provides essential advice on tadpole raising, frog identification, frog-spotting techniques, frog calls and frog photography. Practical advice is given on building..... More
A monograph of Australian land shells.
Sydney: William Maddock, 1868. Octavo, 20 handcoloured lithographs by Harriet Forde. Early binder's (publisher's?) cloth, the title wrapper retained, owner's signature on title page dated 1920, a few spots throughout but a very sound copy, scarce. Issued with coloured or uncoloured plates, Ferguson does not mention the existence of coloured..... More
Geographical memoirs on New South Wales; by various hands.
London: John Murray, 1825. Octavo, aquatint frontispiece, two botanical plates by J. W. Lewin and four folding maps. Later full calf, rebacked with red label, all edges speckled, the Bonython copy with bookplate, an excellent copy of a work often found in lesser condition. Octavo, with aquatint frontispiece (offset to..... More
Ants, bees, dragon-flies, earwigs, crickets, and flies.
London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co, 1888. Small octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. The Young Collector's Series. More
Australian weather.
Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1965. Duodecimo, text illustrations, softcover. Jacaranda Pocket Guides. More
The zoology of the voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger, part 59. Report on the Monaxonida.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1887. Quarto, stamps, lithograph plates, printed wrappers, chipped and detached. More
Australian dictionary of biography, Volume ten: 1891-1939. Lat-Ner.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The biology of the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica.
Melbourne: Antarctic Division, 1973. Octavo, owner's stamp, wrappers. ANARE Scientific Reports, publication No. 123. More
Treasures of the Museum. Victoria, Australia.
Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2004. Octavo, colour photographs, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Living in the environment.
Canterbury: Mullaya, 1975. Octavo, photographs, inscription, signed by the author, very good copy in dustwrapper, scarce. More
The herons of the world.
London: London Editions, 1978. Folio, colour plates by Robert Gillmor and Peter Hayman, bookplate, owner's stamp, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The wasp and the orchid: the remarkable life of Australian naturalist Edith Coleman.
Picador, 2018. Octavo, paperback, photographs. In 1922, a 48-year-old housewife from Blackburn delivered her first paper, on native Australian orchids, to the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. Over the next thirty years, Edith Coleman would write over 300 articles on Australian nature for newspapers, magazines and scientific journals. She would..... More
Flora of South Australia, part three.
Adelaide: Government Printer, (1926. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
A collection of botany and zoology papers.
Wellington: Government Printer, 1915. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's boards. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, volume 47. More
collection of botany and zoology papers.
Wellington: Government Printer, 1921. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's boards. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, volume 53. More
Amateur Entomologists' Society leaflets.
London: Amateur Entomologists' Society, 1943- 1956. Octavo, photographs, typed index, binder's cloth Numbers 3-23, missing 1,2,11,17,19. More
General parasitology.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1964. Quarto, text illustrations, chipped and torn dustwrapper. More
Atlas of Chinese butterflies.
1992. Small quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Chinese text. More
Conservation through sustainable use of wildlife.
Brisbane: University of Queensland, 1995. Quarto, text illustrations, laminated boards. More