The speaking parrots: a scientific manual.
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1884. Octavo, eight chromolithographs. Publisher's handsome coloured cloth (the best of all the cloth variants), hinges cracked. More
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The call of the Koala.
Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, 1937. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. More
The art of natural history.
London: Bracken Books, (1981. reprint). Quarto, colour plates, dustwrapper. First published 1978 as 'The art of natural history: animal illustrators and their work'. More
Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania.
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914. Quarto, 25 egg plates. Contemporary green binder's cloth, a very good clean set. A. J. North was one of the greatest of all Australian ornithologists. He was appointed Assistant Curator of Birds at the Australian Museum, under E. P. Ramsay, in 1891, a position he held..... More
Tropical wild life in British Guiana: Zoological contributions from The Tropical Research Station of the New York Zoological Society, volume one [all published].
New York: New York Zoological Society, 1917. Octavo, four colour plates, photographs. Publisher's cloth, bookplate of H. L. White, a fine copy. More
A naturalist's life in New York.
London: Bodley Head, 1954. Octavo, photographs. some foxing, dustwrapper. More
A handbook to the birds of Egypt.
London: John Van Voorst, 1872. Octavo, 14 handcoloured plates by J.G. Keulemans. Modern redhalf morocco, a very good copy. More
The log of the sun: a chronicle of nature's year.
New York: Garden City Publishing, (1906. first edition). Octavo, frontispiece, spine sunned. The American and English editions were published in the same year. More
Galapagos: world's end.
New York: G P Putnam's Sons, (1927. reprint). Octavo, photographs, a presentation copy signed bt the author dated 1928, a very good copy. More
The Arcturus adventure: an account of the New York Zoological Society's first oceanographic expedition.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1926. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, photographs,fine copy in chipped dustwrapper, very scarce in this condition. More
Wildfowl and waders: nature and sport in the coastlands.
London: Country Life, 1928. Quarto, plates by Frank Southgate. Publisher's half vellum cloth and marbled boards, some wear and splitting, the signature and bookplate of F. L. Berney. More
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The birds of east Africa, [volume one: Ploceidae]. A collection of lithographs prepared from the originals drawn from nature by V. G. L. van Someran between the years 1909 and 1937. A limited edition.
Sarasota: Allyn Museum of Entomology, 1888. Quarto, 93 colour plates with text tissue guards. Publisher's full blue morocco and gilt spine, a fine copy. More
Nesting birds: the breeding habits of Southern African birds.
Cape Town: Fernwood Press, (1996. first edition). Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Animal life of the British Isles.
London: Frederick Warne, (1948. reprint). Small octavo, photographs. The Wayside and Woodland Series. More
Ecosystems of the world, volumes nine A and nine B: heathlands and related sgrublands. Descriptive studies [and] analytical studues.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1979-1981. Quarto, text illustrations, fine set in publisher's cloth. More
Ecosystems of the world, volume 14A: tropical rain forest ecosystems. Structure and finction.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1983. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Ecosystems of the world, volume five: temperate deserts and semi-deserts.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1983. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Ecosystems of the world, volume one: wet coastal ecosystems.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1977. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Ecosystems of the world, volume ten: temperate broad-leaved evergree forests.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1983. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Ecosystems of the world, volume 13: tropical savannas.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1983. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Ecosystems of the world, volume eleven: Mediterranean-type shrublands.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1981. Quarto, text illustrations, fine set in publisher's cloth. More
The vultures of Africa.
London: Academic Press, 1992. Quarto, colour plates. Publishers half red morocco and marbled boards, slipcase, subscriber's numbered limited edition signed by the four authors, a fine copy. A handsome book which discusses all 22 of the world's species, thoroughly covers the eleven African species, takes a comparative look at foraging..... More
Edge of the jungle.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1921. first edition), Octavo, Publisher's cloth, slight wear, inscribed by the author and dated 1921. Berra p. 115. Later editions were published, including an English edition of 1923. More
Mark Catesby's Natural history of America: the watercolours from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle.
London: Merrell Holberton, 1997. Quarto, 60 colour plates, bookplate of Margaret Stones, tipped in letters from the author on Royal Trust letterhead to Stones, fine copy in dustwrapper. The watercolours in this book were taken from the special edition of Natural history of America purchased by King George III. Natural..... More
In for a penny. A prospect for Kew Gardens: their flora, fauna and falballas.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970. Octavo, photographs, the bookplate of argaret Stones, dustwrapper. More