Land of wonder: the best Australian nature writing.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1979. reprint). Quarto, photographs, large inscription, dustwrapper. More
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The Florida scrub jay: demography of a cooperative-breeding bird.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Octavo, graphs, inscription, softcover. More
Helpers at birds' nests: a worldwide survey of cooperative breeding and related behavior.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper, signed by the author. More
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Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania, volume one [all published].
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, (1984. facsimile). Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, sunned dustwrapper. A. J. North's classic work on Australian ornithology was published from 1904-1914. This high quality facsimile was unfortunately never completed but it is still a useful addition to any Australian bird book collection. Walter Boles, former curator of..... More
The principles of insect physiology.
London: Methuen, (1953. fifth edition), Octavo, text illustrations, tape marks otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. A masterpiece of twentieth century entomology. More
The moths of the British Isles: first series [one volume only].
London: Frederick Warne, 91939. second edition), Octavo, colour plates, a very good copy in slightly chipped dustwrapper. The Wayside and Woodland Series. More
The beak of the finch: a story of evolution in our time.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, (1994. first edition). Large octavo, text illustrations, signature, softcover. A great book popularising the Grant's study of Galapagos finches and their observations of evolutionary changes in real time. More
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Natural history of parrots [facsimile].
Sydney: Imprimé, 1989. Quarto, colour plates. Publisher's green cloth [LACKS THE COLOUR INLAY FOR THE COVER], a few flecks. This reduced facsimile has a full English translation from the French of the original text. More
A field guide to the butterflies of North America, east of the Great Plains.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1979. reprint). Octavo, colour plates, softcover. First published 1951. More
An introduction to entomology: or elements of the natural history of insects: with plates.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815-1816-1826. Octavo, four volumes, two steel engraved frontispiece portraits, 30 engraved plates ( five handcoloured). Nineteenth century polished half calf, a mixed set (volume two second edition, the others are first editions), a very good set. More
Great waters: a voyage of natural history to study whales, plankton and the waters of the Southern Ocean.
London: Collins, 1967. Octavo, colour plates, photographs, bookplate and signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Where to watch birds.
London: Andre Deutsch, (1974. reprint). Octavo, photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Birdwing butterflies of the world.
Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1975. Small folio, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper, handsomely presented in a binder's cloth slipcase, scarce. One of the most handsome of all twentieth century butterfly books and the author's finest book. More
Animals of Australia in colour.
Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, [1963]. Octavo, color illustations by Deirdre East, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Wonders of insect life: butterflies and moths.
London: Oxford University Press, (1928. reprint). Duodecimo, photographs, owner's stamps, softcover. More
Flora of South Australia [volume three only].
Adelaide: SA Government Printer, (1986. fourth edition). Octavo, illustrations, a fine copy in publisher's cloth. Volume three: Polemoniaceae-Compositae. More
Flora of South Australia [volume two only].
Adelaide: SA Government Printer, (1986. fourth edition). Octavo, illustrations, a fine copy in publisher's cloth. Volume two: Leguminosae-Rubiaceae. More
Flora of South Australia [volume one only].
Adelaide: SA Government Printer, (1986. fourth edition). Octavo, illustrations, a fine copy in publisher's cloth. Volume one: Lycopodiaceae-Rosaceae. More
Atlas of eastern Canadian seabirds.
Ottawa: Canadian Wildlife Service, 1975. Quarto, paperback, maps, owner's stamp, softcover. More
The ecology of Papua.
Singapore: Periplus Editions, 2007. Octavo, photographs, very good set in dustwrappers, lower corner of colume two slightly crushed, scarce. A definitive guide to the ecology and natural history of Papua, the western half of the island of New Guinea. From the Ecology of Indonesia series, this title, along with Part..... More
Lizards of Australia.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1976. first edition). Octavo, colour photos, softcover. More
Australian insects.
Melbourne: Periwinkle Books, (1976. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
The entomologist's weekly intelligencer for 1856.
London: E. Newman, 1856. Octavo, contemporary binder's cloth. More
Einfuhrung in die insekten-kunde.
Bremen: Verlag von M. Heinsius, 1879. Octavo, text illustrations. contemporary quarter calf, badly worn and ex-library. More
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Catalogue of the Meyrick types of Microlepidoptera, volume seven [only].
London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), 1969. Quarto, uncoloured plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More