Shells: the new compact study guide and identifier.
Leichhardt: Sandstone Books, 1998. reprint). Small octavo, colour photographs. Owner signature, a fine copy. More
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British sea-weeds. Drawn from Professor Harvey's "Phycological Britannica": with descriptions, an amateur's synopsis, rules for laying out sea-weeds, an order for arranging them in the herbarium, and an appendix of new species.
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
Illustrated index of British shells. Containing all the recent species with names and other information.
London: Author, 1859. Tall octavo, 24 chromolithographic plates. Publisher's blindstamped cloth with gilt title, bookplate, a fine copy. More
Birds of Western Australia (with the exception of the Kimberley Division).
Perth: Patersons Press, (1948. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations. Owner's signature, lacks dustwrapper. One of the classics of twentieth century Australian ornithology. More
Vulture: nature's ghastly gourmet.
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1997. Octavo, colour photographs. A fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The painted stream: a river warden's life.
London: J M Dent & Sons, 1985. Quarto, text illustrations. Minor wear to dustwrapper, otherwise a fine copy. More
Elephant slaves and pampered parrots: exotic animals in Eighteenth Century Paris.
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
The overloaded ark.
London: Faber and Faber, 1953. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper, very scarce in this condition. Gerald Durrell's first book. More
Mosquitoes, malaria and man: a history of the hostilities since 1880.
New York: E P Dutton, 1978. Octavo, text illustrations. A good copy in dustwrapper. More
The science of entomology.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, (1981. second edition), Quarto, text illustrations, laminated boards. More
What's bugging me?: identifying and controlling household pests in Hawai'i.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. Octavo, colour photographs. Author signatures, a fine copy. More
What bit me?: identifying Hawai'i's stinging and biting insects and their kin.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. Octavo, colour photographs. Author signatures, a fine copy. More
Living insects.
Sydney: Collins, 1975. Octavo, photographs, laminted boards. More
The biology of gall insects.
New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., (1984. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations. Owner stamp, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Butterflies.
London: Collins, (1990. reprint). Octavo, photographs. Very good copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 1. More
Ninety-nine gnats, nits, and nibblers.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Octavo, text illustrations. Minor tear on title page, otherwise a good copy. More
Insects and insecticides.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1969. Octavo, black and white photographs. Slightly damaged upper spine, stamp on title page. More
The call of the Koala.
Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, 1937. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. More
The art of natural history.
London: Bracken Books, (1981. reprint). Quarto, colour plates, dustwrapper. First published 1978 as 'The art of natural history: animal illustrators and their work'. More
Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania.
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914. Quarto, 25 egg plates. Contemporary green binder's cloth, a very good clean set. A. J. North was one of the greatest of all Australian ornithologists. He was appointed Assistant Curator of Birds at the Australian Museum, under E. P. Ramsay, in 1891, a position he held..... More
Tropical wild life in British Guiana: Zoological contributions from The Tropical Research Station of the New York Zoological Society, volume one [all published].
New York: New York Zoological Society, 1917. Octavo, four colour plates, photographs. Publisher's cloth, bookplate of H. L. White, a fine copy. More
A naturalist's life in New York.
London: Bodley Head, 1954. Octavo, photographs. some foxing, dustwrapper. More
The log of the sun: a chronicle of nature's year.
New York: Garden City Publishing, (1906. first edition). Octavo, frontispiece, spine sunned. The American and English editions were published in the same year. More
Galapagos: world's end.
New York: G P Putnam's Sons, (1927. reprint). Octavo, photographs, a presentation copy signed bt the author dated 1928, a very good copy. More
The Arcturus adventure: an account of the New York Zoological Society's first oceanographic expedition.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1926. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, photographs,fine copy in chipped dustwrapper, very scarce in this condition. More