Birds of Australia: a selection of prints.
Adelaide: Oaklands Publishing, [c1985]. Small folio, four colour plates in printed folder. Major Mitchell Cockatoo, Nankeen Kestrel, White-backed Magpie and Kookaburra. More
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British stalk-eyed crustacea and spiders: with an account of their structure, classification and habitats.
London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey and Co, 1887. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
A manual of British butterflies and moths, volume one.
London: John Van Voorst, 1857. Duodecimo, text illustrations. Contemporary half morocco and coloured edges, some slight wear. More
Silkworms.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, (1929. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, softcover, some wear. The Young Collector Series. More
Insects: builders and craftsmen.
London: Burke Publishing, 1959. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Insects: hunters and trappers.
London: Burke Publishing, 1957. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The fossil hunter: dinosaurs, evolution, and the woman whose discoveries changed the world.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy dustwrapper. The story of Mary Anning. More
Medical entomology: a textbook on public health and veterinary problems caused by arthropods.
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, (2004. revised edition). Quarto, photographs, fine copy in laminated boards. More
The great evolution mystery.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1983. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Ornithomimus: pursuing the bird-mimic dinosaur.
Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2001. Octavo, oblong format, photographs, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The arboretum book: forests of the National Arboretum Canberra.
Canberra: National Arboretum Canberra, 2014. Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. More
Ecology of Jarrah (eucalyptus marginata) in the northern Jarrah forest of Western Australia.
Perth: Department of Conservation and Land Management, 1986. Quarto, photographs, graphs, softcover. More
Vertebrate fauna in the southern forests of Western Australia: a survey.
Western Australia: Forests Department, 1985. Quarto, colour photographs, graphs, softcover. More
A handbook of British birds: showing the distribution of the resident and migraory species in the British islands.
London: John C. Nimmo, 1901. Octavo, 35 handsome chromolithographic plates (unusually, of bird heads). Publisher's cloth, worn and flecked. More
The vegetable world: being a history of plants, with their structure and peculiar properties.
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., [c1880]. Octavo, text illustrations, lacks front blank endpaper, publisher's cloth. More
Cooperative breeding in birds: long-term studies of ecology and behavior.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Large octavo, photographs, text illustrations, laminated boards. First-hand summaries of many of the major empirical studies of cooperatively breeding birds. More
The snakes of Malaya.
Singapore: Government Printing Office, (1961. second edition), Octavo, photographs, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Australia's wet tropics rainforest life.
Paluma: Authors, 1987. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Comparative breeding behavior of four species of North American herons.
Cambridge MA: The Nuttall Ornithologocal Club, 1960. Octavo, text illustrations, graphs, printed wrappers. More
Rare, vanishing and lost British birds: compiled from notes by W. H. Hudson.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1923. Octavo, 25 colour plates by H. Gronvold, a very good copy. More
A history of British birds, with coloured illustrations of their eggs.
London: Author, 1884. Octavo, four volumes and supplement, text illustrations, Publisher's cloth, a few short tears to the spine of volume one. bookplate and owner's blindstamp, a fine set. More
Birds of our country and of the dominions, colonies and dependencies: their life, eggs, nests and identification.
London: Hutchinson and Co., [c. Octavo, photographs, a fine set in the publisher's cloth. Originally published as a series of 24 paperbacks from 1939 to 1940. David Seth-Smith (1875–1963) was the curator of mammals and birdirds for the Zoological Society of London and long term editor the Bulletin of the..... More
How to know Western Australian wildflowers, part four: key to the flora of the extratropical regions of Western Australia.
Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1982. Octavo, text illustrations, lengthy inscription, laminated boards. More
How to know Western Australian wildflowers [part hree]: a key to the flora of the temperate regions of Western Australia.
Perth: University of Western Australia Press, (1965. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, rubbed and chipped dustwrapper. More
The tropical fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tacinae) of the Australasian and Oceanian regions.
Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1991. Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, inscribed by the author, softcover. Memoirs of the Queensland museum, volume 26. More