Moorooka: Boolarong Publications, (1994. reprint). Octavo, black and white photographs, creased corner, softcover. 50th anniversary edition of this classic work. David Fleay achieved international fame for being the first person to breed the platypus in captivity at the Sir Colin McKenzie Sanctuary at Healsville Victoria. More
Adelaide: Rigby, 1977. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, sunned spine, dustwrapper. More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2005. Octavo, illustrations, laminated boards. Proceedings of the Conference Held in UFZ Leipzig, 5-9th of December, 2005. Contains abstracts on a variety of issues concerning the ecology and conservation of butterflies. More
London: John Wiley and Sons, 2012. Octavo, black and white photographs, line drawings, laminated boards with worn corners. Biodiversity offers great potential for managing insect pests. It provides resistance genes and anti-insect compounds; a huge range of predatory and parasitic natural enemies of pests; and community ecology-level effects operating at..... More
London: Methuen and Co., (1924. third edition), Octavo, text illustrations, a fine copy in publisher's cloth. Alfred Wegener is credited with developing the now accepted theory of continental drift. More
Paris: Libraire de Fitmin-Didot, 1878. Quarto, uncoloured plates. Contemporary quarter morocco. More
Buitenzorg: Royal Botanic Gardens of Indonesia, 1949. Octavo, 20 colour plates, inscription, a fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Lisse: Rebo Publishers, (2006. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. For a pot boiler hardly complete) this is a surpsingly good collection of decent photographs. More
Jakarta: P. T. Ichtiar Baru- van Hoeve, 1981. Octavo, photographs, owner's stamp and signature, laminated boards. More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1971. Octavo, photographs, owner's stamp and signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Quarto, fine set in publisher's cloth and slipcase. More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., (1889. third edition), Octavo, three folding maps (two coloured). Publisher's cloth, a fine copy, scarce in this condition. Freeman 277. More
Sydney: Government Printer, 1916. Octavo, colour plates. Publisher's green decorated cloth, hinges badly cracked and loose, contents sound. More
London: Henry G. Bohn, (1862. fourth edition). Octavo, 29 uncoloured engraved plates including frontispiece, folding chart. Publisher's blindstamped cloth, ex library with a stamp on the title page and blank verso of every plate. The second, and superior, edition with a new introduction, a substantially revised text and three additional..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, (1880. second edition). Octavo, Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, a fine copy. "New edition, considerably enlarged, incorporating the former supplement, and including an index of the popular names of Coniferae, English and foreign, to which is now added An alphabetical reference- list of all the..... More
Bethlehem, PA: Moravian Publications, 1884. Octavo, 53 chromolithographs, publisher's cloth, slight wear, otherwise a very good copy. More
London: W H Allen, (1883. second edition), Octavo, four chromolithographic plates, a very good copy in the publisher's cloth. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1875. Octavo, 14 handcoloured plates by Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, worn, lacks front endpaper. Volume four from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. cuckoo-shrikes and Australian Gerygone are figured. More
London: Richard and John Taylor, 1850. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers. More
London: Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1894. Octavo, four handcoloured plates by Smit (Green Ringtail Possum, Herbert River Ringtail possum, Lemuroid Pussum and Lumholtz's Tree Kangaroo). Extract. This paper describes Lumholtz specimens collected in far north Queensland. More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1862. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers. More
Lancaster: American Ornithologists Union, 1933. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers. More
Wellington: Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department, 1880. Octavo, 36 uncoloured plates, publisher's printed wrappers. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1929. Small oblong format, illustrations. Publisher's cloth with green tree-snake design, cloth buckled, contents sound One of the classics of Australian herpetological literature. A very desirable book published in an attractive and unusual format. More
Sydney: Author, (1888. second edition). Small quarto, folding map. Contemporary binder's cloth with red label, a fine copy, scarce in this condition. More