Australian insects.
Sydney: William Brooks & Company, [1907]. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, 37 uncoloured plates and text illustrations. Publisher's handsome decorated cloth, lightly sunned, a near fine copy, scarce in this condition. More
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Notes on the ornithology of tropical East Africa.
Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1937. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 81, number one. More
Mate choice.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. second edition). Octavo, text illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Antarctic research.
London: Butterworths, 1964. Quarto, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Flowers and plants of Western Australia.
Sydney: Reed, (1988. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The collection and preservation of insects.
Brisbane: The Australian Entomological Society, 1966. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. The Australian Entomological Society, Handbook number one. More
Embedding insects and other specimens in clear plastic.
Greenwich: Australian Entomological Press, 1975. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Keys to the orders of insects.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, printed wrappers. More
British mosquitoes and how to eliminate them.
London: Hutchinson and Co., [c1930]. Octavo, uncoloured plates, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Caterpillars of Eastern North America.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Octavo, colour photographs. Inscription to owner from author, softccover. More
The book of British hawk-moths.
London: L Upcott Gill, 1895. Octavo, uncoloured plates, very good copy in publisher's decorated cloth. More
Introduction to plant pathology.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1937. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
Industrial microbiology.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1940. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
The British whaling trade.
Hamden: Archon Books, 1978. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Whaling in the Falkland Islands Dependencies 1904-1931.
Herefordshire: Pequena, 2006. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The Charles W. Morgan: the last wooden whaleship.
New York: Duell, Sloane and Pearce, 1967. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
A whaling enterprise: Salvesen in the Antarctic.
Wilby: Michael Russell, 1998. Octavo, text illustrations, book plate, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Topics in plant population biology.
London: Macmillan Press, 1979. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Subtropical and dry climate plants: the definitive practical guide.
Portland OR: Timber Press, 2006. Quarto, colour photographs. More
Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance.
London: Taylor & Francis, 1980. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Gardener's companion to weeds.
Collingwood: Ken Fin, (1998. second edition, reprint). Small octavo, colour photographs, softcover. Shows how to identify and control more than 150 common weeds in Australia. Presented alphabetically for easy reference with clear colour pictures, this useful volume also features new up-to-date control methods. More
The physiology of mosquitoes.
Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1963. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. Pure and Applied Biology, volume 17. More
The dance language and orientation of bees.
Cambridge MA: Belknap Press, 1967. Quarto, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Describes in non-technical language what von Frisch discovered in a lifetime of study about honeybees - their methods of orientation, their sensory faculties, and their remarkable ability to communicate with one another. Thomas Seeley's new foreword traces the..... More
Bees, wasps, ants and allied insects of the British Isles.
London: Frederick Warne, 1932. Small octavo, colour plates, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. The Wayside and Woodland Series. More
Biology of Australasian frogs and reptiles.
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1985. Quarto, illustrations, signature and grubby dustwrapper. Based on papers presented at the 1984 Australian Herpetological Conference held at the University of Sydney. Together, the information presented comprises a major review of frog and reptile biology. More