Seventy years of birdwatching.
Berkhamsted: Poyser, 1974. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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Handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan, together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka: compact edition.
Delhi: Oxford University Press, (1983. first edition). Folio, 104 colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. First published in ten volumes (1968 to 1975) by Oxford University Press. More
Handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan: together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. First six volumes.
Delhi: Oxford University Press, (1978-1987. second edition). Octavo, first five volumes of this set, dustwrappers, colour plates, fine set. More
The fall of a sparrow.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1988. reprint). Octavo, paperback, illustrations. More
Estuaries of South Africa.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, other illustrations. A review of the current status of the country's estuarine research and management. Information is provided on a wide range of topics, including geological, physical and chemical processes, diversity and productivity of plant and animal communities, interactions between... More
Books and naturalists: a survey of British natural history.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2010. Octavo, colour and black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 112. Natural history, perhaps more than any other pursuit or study, has always relied very heavily on books to help it develop and gain momentum. Without a way of defining and categorizing... More
The naturalist in Britain: a social history.
London: Allen Lane. 1976. Octavo, photographs, illustrations, dustwrapper. More
The Victorian fern craze: a history of pteridomania.
London: Hutchinson, 1969. text illustrations, owner's stamp and bookplate, dustwrapper. More
Birds of the Caribbean.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1962. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Birds of the Caribbean.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1962. Quarto, colour photographs, lacks dustwrapper. More
A book of dolphins.
London: John Murray, 1960. Octavo, photographs,very good copy in like dustwrapper. More
Baboon mothers and infants.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. Octavo, illustrations, signature, paperback. When originally released in 1980 this book transformed the study of maternal primate relationships by focusing on motherhood and infancy within a complex ecological and sociological context. This paperback edition has a new foreword by the author. More
Check-list of North American birds. The species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian islands.
Lawrence, Kansas: American Ornithologists Union, (1983. sixth edition). Octavo, maps, a fine copy. More
Check-list of North American birds.
Place of publication unknown: American Ornithologists Union, (1910. third revised edition). Quarto, publisher's cloth, library stamps of the Raou, bumped corners, cracked hinge. Working copy. More
A monograph of the Chaetomiaceae.
Washington DC: The united States Army Research and Development Team, (1961. first edition). Quarto, illustrations, publisher's cloth, signature. More
Some birds and mammals of Africa: with a descriptive text by Hilary Hook.
London: Tryon Gallery, 1979. Folio, 14 colour plates. Publisher's blue quarter calf and marbled boards, slipcase. Limited to 505 copies. More
Bird-song and New Zealand song birds.
Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1926. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, numbered subscriber's copy signed by the author, library stamp and library pocket, a very good copy, scarce. More
The reptiles of Missouri.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1965. Octavo, illustrations. Near fine copy in slightly sunned dustwrapper. More
Distribution, variation and relationships of the Montane vole, Microtus montanus.
Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1959. Octavo, wrappers, text illustrations. University of Kansas Publications, volume nine, number 17. More
A brief history of the Royal Society.
London: The Royal Society, 1960. Octavo, photographs, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. Includes a pamphlet on the Society's Portraits and Busts by Gillian Hammill (reprinted from the Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 24, No. 1, June 1969). More
A monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Physical features and geology. With descriptions of the fauna and flora.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1900. Octavo, one map, 7 chromolithographs (four birds by Keulemans, three mammals by Smit) and 15 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's brown cloth, British Museum presentation bookplate, a fine crisp copy, very scarce in this condition. Wood p. 193. More
The southern ark: zoological discovery in New Zealand 1769-1900.
Auckland: Century Hutchinson, 1986. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The atlas of breeding birds in New York State.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. Quarto, text illustrations, maps, fine copy. More
Snow monkeys: the gentle giants of the forest.
Rickmansworth: Evans Mitchell Books, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Wildlife Monographs, a series of fabulous, full-colour books led by stunning photographic images with fresh, informative and vivid new text charting our favourite wild animals on their home terrain. Japan's sole monkey - the Japanese macaque - lives both in subtropical... More
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Bird books and bird art. An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology [facsimile].
Amsterdam: Junk, 1973. Quarto, uncoloured illustrations. More