The rodents of Australia.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations and photographs, signature, grubby dustwrapper, scarce. A classic account and the only Australian mammal book devoted exclusively to rodents. More
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The camel in Australia.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1969. Octavo, photographs, inscription in felt pen, very good copy in slightly chipped dustwrapper. More
Aurora Australis.
Kensington: Bay Books, (1988. facsimile). Octavo, From Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-09. More
Great whales.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2008. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, signed by the author for Bob Warneke, softcover. More
Exploration du Parc National de I'Upemba: introduction.
Brussels: Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Belge, 1941. Octavo, photographs and text illustrations, owner's stamp, publisher's printed wrappers, partly unopened. In French. Fascicle 1. More
Exploration du Parc National de I'Upemba: Batraciens et reptiles.
Brussels: Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Belge, 1941. Octavo, coloured plates, photographs and text illustrations, owner's stamp, publisher's printed wrappers, partly unopened. In French. Fascicle 33. More
Canaries, hybrids and British birds in cage and aviary
London: Waverley Book Company, (1911. second edition), Quarto, 26 colour plates. Publisher's decorated cloth, some wear and splitting, half title detached and the first section loose, otherwise crisp internally. More
Exploration du Parc National de la Garamba: reptiles.
Kinshasa: Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Belge, 1966. Octavo, photographs and text illustrations, owner's stamp, publisher's printed wrappers, partly unopened. In French. Fascicle 48. More
Exploration du Parc National de la Garamba: amphibia.
Kinshasa: Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Belge, 1968. Octavo, photographs and text illustrations, owner's stamp, publisher's printed wrappers, partly unopened. In French. Fascicle 52. More
Exploration du Parc National Albert: genres Afrixalus et hyperolius.
Brussels: Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Belge, 1950. Octavo, photographs and text illustrations, owner's stamp, publisher's printed wrappers, partly unopened. In French. Fascicle 64. More
Exploration du Parc National de I'Upemba: amphibians.
Brussels: Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Belge, 1959. Octavo, photographs and text illustrations, owner's stamp, publisher's printed wrappers, partly unopened. In French. Fascicle 56. More
Exploration du Parc National de I'Upemba: reptiles.
Brussels: Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Belge, 1953. Octavo, photographs and text illustrations, owner's stamp, publisher's printed wrappers, partly unopened. In French. Fascicle 6. More
Sphaerodactylus.
Cambridge: Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1921. Quarto, 35 uncoloured plates, text illustrations, owner's stamp, publisher's cloth. Extracted from volume 47, part three. More
A photographic guide to the birds of India and the Indian subcontinent, including Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Octavo, colour photographs, distribution maps, inscription, softcover. More
Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The birds of the Western Palearctic [BWP], volume three: Waders to gulls.
Oxford: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 1983. Quarto, colour plates, maps, other illustrations, ex library, dustwrapper. The RSPB printing with different dustwrapper. More
Birds as individuals.
London: Readers Union, (1953. reprint). Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
The waterfowl of the world.
London: Hamlyn, (1975. reprint). Quarto, 66 colour plates by Peter Scott, distribution maps, ex-library. More
The art of bird illustration.
London: Quantum Books, 2005. Quarto, illustrations, inscriptions, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Penguins of the Falkland Islands and South America.
Falkland Islands: Environmental Research Unit Publications, 2000. Quarto, colour photographs, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Birds of South America: illustrations from the lithographs of John Gould.
London: Eyre Methuen, 1972. Octavo, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Mammals of the ice.
Braddon: Sedona, 1997. Octavo, colour photographs, signature, softcover. More
Giant pandas: born survivors.
Camberwell: Viking Books, 2012. Small quarto, colour photographs, softcover. More
Eucalypts of the Strzelecki Ranges and surrounding areas.
Tara Valley: Seeds of Gippsland, (2022. third edition), Quarto, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. Includes Identification kit: covering Mornington Peninsula, Wilsons Promontory, Gippsland Plains and Gippsland Lakes. Fully revised since the second edition, this identification kit is and invaluable resource for the region east and south of Melbourne, Australia. It..... More
The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes and their allies.
London: Henry Sotheran & Co., [1887-1888]. Quarto, 21 handcoloured lithographs by Keulemans. Later half green morocco, all edges uncut and partly unopened, the signature of Lord Lilford, a few spots otherwise a very good copy. The first, and superior, issue of the only monograph on the order Charadriiformes. Both first..... More
A popular account of Australian snakes, with a complete list of the species and an introduction to their habits and organisation.
Sydney: Thomas Shine, 1898. Small octavo, 16 chromolithograph plates. Publisher's binding variant pebble-grained cloth, some flecking, inscribed "To my old friend W. D. R. from the author" stamped Jan 22 1899. Edgar Waite was director of the South Australian Museum from 1914 until his death in 1928. He wrote prolifically..... More