The encyclopedia of birds: featuring over 400 species.
London: Parragon, 2007. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. More about The encyclopedia of birds: featuring over 400 species
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Climbing Mount Improbable.
London: Viking, 1996. Octavo, black and white illustrations, Slightly used dustwrapper, otherwise a very good copy. More about Climbing Mount Improbable
La collezione ornitologica di Tommaso Salvadori.
Bergamo: Museo di Science Naturali, 1997. Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. Italian and English text. More about La collezione ornitologica di Tommaso Salvadori
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). More about Rafinesque: autobiography and lives
The Wilkes expedition: the first United States exploring expedition (1838-1842).
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1968. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy. More about The Wilkes expedition: the first United States exploring expedition (1838-1842
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. More about Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, in the Uranie and Physicienne Corvettes, commanded by...
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. More about Narrative of a Whaling Voyage round the Globe, from the year 1833 to 1836. Comprises sketches of...
The bay whalers: Tasmania's shore-based whaling industry.
Canberra: Navarine, 2003. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More about The bay whalers: Tasmania's shore-based whaling industry
Whaler's eye.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1964. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. More about Whaler's eye
James Hector: explorer, scientist, leader.
Lower Hutt: Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 2015. Octavo, photographs. More about James Hector: explorer, scientist, leader
Antarctic sector of the Pacific.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1990. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, fine copy. More about Antarctic sector of the Pacific
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. More about Description of the Little Barrier or Hauturu Island, the birds which inhabit it, and the locality...
Australian insects: an introductory handbook.
Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of NSW, (1944. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, fore-edge stain, signature, bookplate. More about Australian insects: an introductory handbook
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. More about The islands of Juan Fernandez
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. More about The offshore islands of northern New Zealand: proceedings of a symposium convened by the Offshore...
Trogons: a natural history of the Trogonidae.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Folio, colour illustrations by Albert Earl Gilbert, maps, 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 ancient Mayans and Aztecs. A collaboration... More about Trogons: a natural history of the Trogonidae
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. More about The Seas: our knowledge of life in the sea and how it is gained
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. More about Symposium. Bass Strait, its coasts and islands. 14 September 1972
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. More about Salmon at the Antipodes: a history and review of Trout, Salmon and Char and introduced coarse...
The Science Museum of Victoria: a history of its first hundred years.
Melbourne: Science Museum of Victoria, 1972. Quarto, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More about The Science Museum of Victoria: a history of its first hundred years
The seas: our knowledge of life in the sea and how it is gained.
London: Frederick Warne, (1963. third edition), Octavo, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More about The seas: our knowledge of life in the sea and how it is gained
The diversity of life.
Cambridge MA: Belknap Press, (1992. first edition). Octavo, illustrations, signature, softcover. Wilson looks at the diversity of life from its earliest beginnings more than a billion years ago to the current crisis of man-driven extinction. This book is on its way to becoming a classic. More about The diversity of life
Flora Australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory.
London: Lovel Reeve, 1863-1878. Octavo, Binder's rexine, ex-library with stamps and pockets. WORKING COPY ONLY and priced accordingly, contents sound. For well over a century the standard reference on Australian flora, describing over 8000 plant species prepared by Bentham at Kew using the collection of the National Herbarium of Victoria... More about Flora Australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory
A guide to native bees of Australia.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2019. reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations. An illustrated introduction to the estimated 2000 species of Australian bees. Bees are often thought of as yellow and black striped insects that live in hives and produce honey. However, Australia’s abundant native bees are incredibly diverse in their... More about A guide to native bees of Australia
Australian sea turtles: natural history and conservation.
London: Collins, 1972. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More about Australian sea turtles: natural history and conservation