North Fremantle: Cape to Cape, 2019. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This guide to the flora of the Margaret River and its surrounds features photographs and descriptions of 290 plants you can find in the diverse range of habitats encountered on the river’s journey from its source to the sea. Facts..... More
London: Poyser, 2019. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. The Eagle Owl is one of the largest owls in the world, and is considered the most eclectic in terms of habitat, nest site and diet. An undisputed top predator, it can prey on a range of mammals up to the size of..... More
Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, (2019. revised edition). Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. Marine plants of Australia is fully referenced and has numerous descriptions and line drawings, detailing many of the intricacies of this surprisingly complex group of plants. It will be an invaluable identification guide. More
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2019. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Acclaimed author David Mabberley provides a ground-breaking analysis of early European understanding of Australia’s flora. Combining science, horticulture, art and economics, this lavishly illustrated book – with many neverbefore-published images – reveals the motives and complex networks that led to the international..... More
London: Bloomsbury Books, 2020. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs and illustrations, maps. With more than 1,000 meticulous and specially commissioned illustrations, complete with flukes, blows and dive sequences, it includes detailed annotations pointing out significant field marks, as well as extensive distribution and migration maps. Many of the world's most..... More
[Perth]: Author, 2012. Small quarto, paperback, colour photographs, maps. In the year 2000, Malcolm considered he should do more to assist those in doing the many revegetation projects underway across the wheatbelt particularly with their eucalypt identifications and plant selection for the many various soil types. Malcolm was also keen..... More
[Perth]: Author, 2019. Small quarto, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Every eucalypt species occurring along the south-west coast and ranges of Western Australia is comprehensively described (147 species and subspecies in total). The region covered by the book extends from Dongara on the west coast to Ravensthorpe on the south coast..... More
Mountfield: Pica Press, (1998. first edition). Octavo, 88 colour plates, maps, faulty end paper. The first identification guide to parrots. One-fifth of the world's parrots are on the threatened list and this book includes up-to-date information on their conservation Winner of the 1999 British Library Association's McColvin Medal for an..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Quarto, colour plates. Later handsome green half morocco, gilt spine, top edge gilt, a fine copy. Louis Agassiz Fuertes was killed in a train accident in 1927. He is one of the great natural history illustrators of the twentieth century. More
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, [1960]. Octavo, photographs, text illustarions by Ennion, lacks dustwrapper. More
Entebbe: Government of Uganda, 1964. Quarto, photographs, maps. Publisher's cloth with map satchel, bumped. More
Wellington: Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand, (1959. third edition), Quarto, 24 plates with single leaf of letterpress, publisher's wrapper, inscription on title page, a very good copy. More
Cape Town: Books of Africa, 1968. Octavo, photographs, papered boards. Effectively a monograph on ostriches and the ostrich industry. More
London: Bell and Daldy, 1872. Tall octavo, 80 chromolithographs with accompanying text leaves. Handsome contemporary half morocco with gilt spine, some flecking, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; a very good set. More
London: Author, 1859. Tall octavo, 24 chromolithographic plates. Publisher's blindstamped cloth with gilt title, bookplate, a fine copy. More
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1997. Octavo, colour photographs. A fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: J M Dent & Sons, 1985. Quarto, text illustrations. Minor wear to dustwrapper, otherwise a fine copy. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Octavo, text illustrations. Sunned spine, otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper. Robbins considers nearly every aspect of France's obsession with exotic fauna, from the vast literature on exotic animals and the inner workings of the oiseleurs' (birdsellers') guild to how the animals were transported..... More
London: Royal Horticultural Society, (1969. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, limited to 265 numbered copies, signed by both authors. Full green morocco with inlaid red leaves, gilt inner dentelles and marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, specially bound by Zaensdorf, a magnificent copy. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2019. second edition), Octavo, colour photographs. Plants and plant-derived products make up the bulk of what we eat and drink every day, and people often wonder where their favourite food or drink comes from. This scientifically accurate photographic guide provides quick and informative answers. Food Plants of..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2019. second edition), Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. This second edition of Australian Bird Names is a completely updated checklist of Australian birds and the meanings behind their common and scientific names, which may be useful, useless or downright misleading! For each species, the authors examine..... More
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London: B. and J. White, 1794. Quarto, engraved frontispiece. Quarter calf and speckled boards, a fine copy. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1953. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper, very scarce in this condition. Gerald Durrell's first book. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations. A lavishly illustrated celebration of these glorious animals and a poignant lament for their future Elephants are among the most beloved of all creatures. Their behavior can seem almost human, from their complex social interactions to their need..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs and text illustrations. Over 300 million years ago, an early land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be deposited on land. This moment marked the first step in the fascinating and complex..... More