Edward Lear's Indian journal: watercolours and extracts from the diary of Edward Lear (1873-1875).
London: Jarrolds, 1953. Octavo, colour plates, bookplate of Margaret Stones, chipped dustwrapper. More
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Audubon: a retrospective.
Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1990. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Flower drawings: Redoute and his pupils.
Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum, 1997. Octavo, colour plates, softcover. More
Botanica: the illustrated A-Z of 1000 garden plants for Australian gardens and how to cultivate them.
Sydney: Random House, (1997. first edition). Folio, colour photographs, fine copy dustwrapper. More
Wildflowers of Unalaska Island: a guide to the flowering plants of an Aleutian Island.
Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2003. Octavo, photographs, signed by the author, softcover. More
Ecology of a protozoa.
Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1987. Octavo, text illustrations, laminated boards. Slight damage to back cover and corners, sunned spine, otherwise a good copy. More
Kangaroos: biology of the largest marsupials.
Sydney: UNSW Press, (1995. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations. Some sunning, otherwise a fine copy. Covers many features of kangaroo biology, such as reproductive patterns, social structure and locomotor characteristics as well as other facets of biology, ecology and behaviour. Australian Natural History Series. More
Contemporary botanical artists: the Shirley Sherwood collection.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. Minor wear to dustwrapper, otherwise a fine copy. This text celebrates the renaissance of botanical art, presenting work collected during the early 1990s from over 100 painters living in 16 different countries around the world. Each painting is fully augmented with..... More
John Banister and his natural history of Virginia 1678-1692.
Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1970. Octavo, black and white photographs. Margaret Stones bookplate, lengthy inscription to Margaret Stones from authors, chipped dustwrapper otherwise a fine copy. More
Animal research and ethical conflict.
New York: Springer Verlag, 1989. Octavo, laminated boards. Minor wear to front cover, otherwise a fine copy. More
Animal partners and parasites.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1975. Octavo, text illustrations. Good copy in dustwrapper. More
Snakes of Central and Western Africa.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2019. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, text illustrations, distribution maps. Provides detailed accounts of the more than 200 species of snakes that inhabit the region. More
An Oak Spring Herbaria: herbs and herbals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. A selection of rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon.
Upperville: Oak Spring Garden Library, 2009. Quarto, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
America 1585: the complete drawings of John White.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. Quarto, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The copy of Margaret Stones with her bookplate, a lengthy inscription from the author, and tipped in cards. More
Nature classics: a catalogue of the E. A. McIlhenny natural history collection at Lousiana State University.
Baton Rouge: Freinds of the LSU Library, 1987. Quarto, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, the bookplate of Margaret Stones, signed by Perrauly, Kathryn Morgon (Preface) and David Lank (Introductory essay). More
Pierre-Joseph Redoute: botanical artist to the court of France.
Haarlem: Teylers Museum, 2013. Quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. A very useful account of Redoute and his illustrations. More
Advances in tropical acacia research.
Canberra: ACIAR, 1991. Octavo, softcover. More
Australia's protection and conservation of wildlife.
1992. Octavo, softcover. More
Colonization, succession and stability: the 26th dymposium of the British Ecological Society held jointly with the Linnean Society of London.
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1987. Octavo, text illustrations, two small stamps, dustwrapper. More
The common shells of the sea-shore.
London: Frederick Warne, 1865. Duodecimo, twelve uncolored lates. Publisher's decorated green cloth, all edges gilt, a very good copy. More
Analytical biogeography: an integrated approach to the study of animal and plant populations.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1988. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, very good copy in sunned dustwrapper. More
Burke and Wills: the scientific legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2011. Octavo, laminated boards, colour illustrations. Signed by editors. Co-published with State Library of Victoria and The Royal Society of Victoria. This book challenges the common assumption that little or nothing of scientific value was achieved during the Burke and Wills expedition. The Royal Society of Victoria..... More
Taphonomy: a process approach.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Taphonomy is the study of decay and fossil preservation. More
A handbook to plants in Victoria, volume one.
Parkville: Melbourne University Press, (1978. reprint). Octavo, two volumes, owner's signature, good copy in publisher's cloth. More
Birds of South-east Asia.
London: Bloomsbury Books, (2019. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. This classic field guide is the definitive volume on South-east Asia's birdlife. This award-winning book, which was first published in 2000, was fully updated in 2008 to include 76 new species for the region that were recent new discoveries for..... More