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London: SAGE Publications, 2014. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. This book provides clear and intuitive explanations of the most important migration concepts as used in classrooms, among policymakers, and in popular and academic discourse. Arguing that there is a clear need for a better public understanding of migration, it seeks to..... More
Washington DC: Island Press, 2005. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. This study of the soils of earth, examines the world of bacteria and fungi, microscopic nematode worms, springtails, and mud shrimp and their contribution to environmental health. The author also explores the alarming threats that air pollution, trawl fishing, wetland..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Large octavo, paperback, line drawings. This book is a comprehensive review of the ecology of tropical rainforest insects and spiders. Arthropods are the most diverse group of organisms on our planet and the tropical rainforests represent the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. This book..... More
New York: Johnson Reprint, (1973. facsimile). Folio, 40 colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, limited to 1000 numbered copies, a fine copy. First published 1837-1842. More
Ontario: Madison Press Books, (1981. first edition). Oblong format, colour and black and white plates, good copy in dustwrapper. More
Petaluma: Pomegranate, 2006. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Originally published in 1981, The art of Robert Bateman was the first of many best-selling books by the internationally acclaimed wildlife artist and naturalist. In this twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Bateman's exquisitely rendered paintings, accompanied by the artist's recollections and observations, are..... More
Neptune City: TFH, 1969. Octavo, ccolour photographs, fine copy in laminated boards. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Oblong format, colour illustrations, dustwrapper. From tiny ruby-throated hummingbirds to the majestic red-tailed hawk, this book examines the many creatures that commute on the Mississippi Flyway as part of an annual migration. This magnificent migrational dance takes place every year in Chicagoland, yet it..... More
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1991. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1952. Octavo, text illustrations. Very good copy. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. second edition). Octavo, text illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Christchurch: University of Canterbury Press, 2003. Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. The deep sea is home to millions of species, most of them yet undiscovered. It hosts a level of biodiversity that rivals that of lush tropical rainforests. Mostly unexplored, the deep sea is perhaps the last true biological frontier. Deep..... More
London: Poyser, 1990. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, (1943. first edition). Octavo, illustrations by D. J. Watkins-Pitchford, publisher's quarter cloth. shelved under Watkins-Pitchford in General. More
Stonyhurst: Harrier Publications, 1994. Octavo, paperback, The aim of this new work is two-fold: to provide an up-to-date working checklist for the Palearctic region; and to make a sensible contribution to the on-going debate about which English names for birds should be adopted as standard. More
College Station: Texas A & M UP, 1992. Small octavo, publisher's boards, illustrations. Vast numbers of people travel to this region to see the abundant and diverse birdlife that exists there. This detailed account of the bird species provides information on when, where and in what numbers each species should..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2009. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. The class of Arachnida does not consist of spiders alone but also contains ten other orders - harvestmen, ticks and mites, wind spiders, tailless whip spiders, whip spiders, scorpions, palpigrades, pseudoscorpions, schizomids and ricinuleids - nearly all of which..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 1956. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
Leiden: E J Brill, 1989. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: The Library of New South Wales, (1970. second edition). Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: New York Zoological Society, 1917. Octavo, four colour plates, photographs. Publisher's cloth, bookplate of H. L. White, a fine copy. More
New York: Garden City Publishing, (1906. first edition). Octavo, frontispiece, spine sunned. The American and English editions were published in the same year. More
Garden City: New York Zoological Society, (1931. first edition). Quarto, colour plates by Lodge and others, a fine set in publisher's cloth. The reduced format version of Beebe's monumental 'A monograph of the pheasants', 1914-1918. More
New York: New York Zoological Society, 1926. Quarto, colour plates. Publisher's vellum cloth, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, limited to to 250 numbered copies, signed by the author. First published as A Monograph of the Pheasants 1918-1922, in four folio volumes. The abridged edition was subsequently published as..... More
Melbourne: RAOU, 1985. Octavo, softcover. More