Into Africa.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
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Eyre bird observatory, report 6 1988-1992.
Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1996. Quarto, graphs, softcover. More
South African red data book- birds.
South Africa, South African National Scientific Programmes, 1984. Quarto, maps, softcover, slight damamge. More
The bird watcher's anthology.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1957. Large octavo, coloured frontispiece, text illustrations, very good copy in slipcase (slightly flecked), limited to 750 copies, signed by the author. An excellent compilation of essays on birds by the best known names in ornithology. More
The birds of the district of Geelong, Australia.
Geelong: W. J. Griffiths, [1914]. Octavo, photographs, Publisher's cloth, some slight wear and small splits to top of spine, a good copy. More
An Australian bird book: a complete guide to identification of the Australian species.
Melbourne: Whitcombe & Tombs, (1950. eighth edition). Octavo, colour plates, photographs. Revised and editied by Charles Barrett. More
Review of the genus Cisticola.
London: The Ibis, 1930. Octavo, 20 folding colour plates. Binder's green cloth with red labels, all edges coloured, a fine copy. The plates are produced in folding chart form and are highly attractive examples of measured drawings. Published as a Supplement to The Ibis, Twelfth Series, Volume 6... More
A natural history of Australian bats: working the night shift.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2012. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, huge annoying inscription, laminated boards . Focuses on the natural history of Australian bats. The authors take the reader through the nation's broad bioregions, describe what bats do in them, the ecosystem services that they provide, and some of the places where..... More
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Tropical Queensland: a natural history of Australia, [volume] one.
Sydney: Collins, (1970. first edition). Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sparrows and Buntings: a guide to theSparrows and Buntings of North American and the world
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Octavo, colour plates, maps, dustwrapper. More
Report on the birds collected by the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea [drop title].
[London]: The Ibis, 1915. Quarto, 8 chromolithographs by Gronvold, two folding maps. Contemporary half polished morocco, uncut, a very good copy. The Ibis, Jubilee Supplement 2 from The report of the Wollaston Expedition originally published as a large quarto, two-volume account covering all aspects of natural history. This is the..... More
Butterflies of South Africa: where, when and how they fly.
Cape Town: Maskew Miller, 1953. Quarto, 17 colour plates, signature, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, volume twelve, part one. Monograph of the Bombycine moths of North America... part three.
Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1914. Quarto, 93 (34 chromolithographs) plates, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, expertly rebacked with new endpapers. More
Researches on mimicry on the basis of a natural classification of the papilionidae. Part two: researches on mimicry
Stuttgart: Erwin Nagele, 1896. Quarto, eight coloured plates. Modern binder's cloth, small library stamp, all edges uncut. More
Illustrations of exotic entomology, containing upwards of six hundred and fifty figures and descriptions of foreign insects, Interspersed with remarks and reflections on their nature and properties. By Dru Drury [TEXT ONLY].
London: Henry G Bohn, 1837. Quarto, Contemporary half morroco and marbled boards, rebacked. The three volume text bound in one. There are no plates. More
An introduction to entomology: or elements of the natural history of insects: with plates.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816-1826. second edition), Octavo, two steel engraved frontispiece portraits, 30 engraved plates (five handcoloured). Modern half polished calf and marbled boards,with labels, all edges coloured, a very good set. More
Skandinaviens insecter, en handbok 1 entomologi.
London: Tryckt I Berlingska Boktryckeriet, 1862. Octavo, text illustrations. Contemporary marbled boards, expertly rebacked with new endpapers. More
Traité anatomique de la Chenille, qui ronge le bois de Saule...
Amsterdam: Author, [1767. Quarto, one engraved plate (lacking folding plates). Contemporary polished calf, rebacked, bookplates, small library stamp on title page. More
The Macleay collectors: a working notebook.
Sydney: The Macleay Museum, 1992. Quarto, text illustrations, softcover. With useful potted biographies of nineteenthe century scientists. More
Ce qu'il faut savoir des insects: volume three.
Paris: Paul Lechevalier, 1942. Octavo, colour plates, bookplate, softcover. More
The songs of insects: with related material on the production, propagation, detection, and measurement of sonic and supersonic vibrations.
1948. Octavo, text illustrations, photographs, lacks dustwrapper. More
British insects (general].
London: Chapman & Dodd, Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. The Abbey Nature Books. More
Instructions for collectors No. 4A: insects.
London: Order of the Trustees, 1940. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's boards. More
Ornithology.
New York: W. H. Freeman, (1995. second edition). Small quarto, black and white illustrations, sunned and sloppy dustwrapper. Covers evolution; development of anatomical features (feathers, bills, wings), social and reproductive behaviour, survival methods, communication, and conservation. More
The birds of Borneo.
Kota Kinabalu: Sabah Society, (1981. third edition). Octavo, colour plates by A. M. Hughes, folding map, bookplate, crusshed spine and pasted in note from booksller apologising about condition, publisher's printed paper boards. A marvellous book, first published in 1941. More