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Hobart: Ragged Tooth Productions, 2008. Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. A fascinating compendium of shark facts and Tasmanian maritime history. It also represents the first detailed examination of Tasmanian white shark captures, encounters and attacks ever undertaken. Here the reader can chart the course of human/shark interactions in the island state..... More
New York: Griffin Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. In a radical reinterpretation of the nineteenth century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history - the passion for exploration, the violence of the Indian Wars and the "civilizing" of..... More
Adelaide: Government Printer, (1960. second edition). Octavo, text illustrations, wrappers. More
Adelaide: Government Printer, (1964. second edition). Octavo, text illustrations, signature, softcover. More
Adelaide, SA: Government Printer, 1965. Octavo, text illustrations, wrappers. More
Adelaide: Government Printer, (1963. second edition), Octavo, text illustrations, signature, wrappers. revised by John P. Jessop. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Octavo, laminated boards, tables, graphs. Biological invaders represent one of the primary threats to the maintenance of global biodiversity, human health, and the success of human economic enterprises. The continuing globalization of our society ensures that the need to understand the process of biological invasion..... More
Ames: The Iowa State University Press, 1972. Octavo, More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Zoo Keys 209. Centuries of exploration and discovery have documented the diversity of life on Earth. Records of this biodiversity are, for the most part, distributed across varied and distinct natural history collections worldwide. This makes the task of extracting and mobilising the..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. Octavo, colour plates, illustrations , fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1954. reprint). Octavo, colour frontispiece, illustrations, endpaper maps, bookplate, signature, lacks dustwrapper. More
Brisbane: Queensland Herbarium, 1968- 1975. Quarto, text illustrations. Publisher's printed wrappers, a very good set. Each issue is a separate taxonomic paper. More
San Francisco: W H Freeman, 1976. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, (1984. first edition). Quarto, text illustrations, maps, laminated boards. More
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., [1880]. Large quarto, 56 chromolithographs and numerous wood-engravings. Publisher's (?) contemporary half morocco and morocco grained cloth, gilt spine, all edges gilt, owner's inscriptions on upperblank ednpaper, a very good copy. More
Paris: Orstom, 1977. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Faune de Madagascar, 45. More
Gland: IUCN, 2003. Quarto, paperback, tables, maps. The African elephant is the largest living land mammal, and their potential impact on their habitats raises important management issues both for protected areas and unprotected land. This report is rich in data and information on numbers, distribution and current issues, and provides..... More
Calcutta: Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1873-1893. Octavo, 17 ( including twelve handcoloured) lithographs, mainly by Joseph Smit. A collection of 35 offprints and reprints, some author signed, in contemporary binder's cloth. An excellent collection of papers, predominately from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and..... More
Arbroath: Carlisle Natural History Society, 1943. Octavo, photographs, bookplate. More
Arbroath: Transactions of the Carlisle Natural History Society, 1946. Octavo, photographs, folded maps in pocket at back, signature, bookplate. More
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996. Small quarto, tables, fine copy in dustwrapper. Motor skills determine how well we perform in athletics, dance, music and countless daily tasks. The nervous system can learn new motor behaviours through experience and practice - this is motor learning. This text presents research on the..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Small octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. In this entertaining and illuminating book, the biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals (including humans). More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. From two-legged goats and double-headed snakes, to 'Cyclops' infants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead, Mark S. Blumberg looks at 'freak' bodily anomalies in both humans and other animals to reveal how..... More
London: George Rainbird, 1957. Folio, eight plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The Hague: Uitgeverij Dr W. Junk, 1951. Quarto, photographs, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, a very good copy. More