The fringe of the sea.
Adelaide: Rigby, (1966. first edition). Octavo, photographs, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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The Great Barrier Reef.
Sydney: Lansdowne, (1981. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
On the seashore.
Australia: Rigby, 1969. Duodecimo, photograps, wrappers. More
Type specimens of bird skins in the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, Unitied Kingdom.
Tring: British Ornithologists' Club, 1999. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, paperback. British Ornithologists' Club Occassional Publication, number four. More
Life histories of North American diving birds: Order Pygopodes.
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1946. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
Life histories of North American wood warblers: order Passeriformes.
Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1953. Octavo, photographs, wrappers, partly unopened. Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 203, More
To Africa with the migratory birds.
London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
Hawaiian birdlife.
Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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Proceedings of the [twelfth] International Ornithological Congress: Helsinki, 5-12 June 1958.
Helsinki: Publisher unknown, 1960. Large octavo, two volumes, text illustrations, publisher's wrappers, a very good set. More
Invertebrate taxonomy.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1987. Octavo, text illustrations. Binder's cloth, a fine copy. More
The natural history of Orkney.
London: Collins, 1985. Octavo, photographs, texta line on bottom edge, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist 70. One of the rarest of all New Naturalist, only 750 copies of the hardcover were produced. This is a genuine first with 'NN' on the spine, 500 copies of the paperback were..... More
Variation in mammalian populations.
London: Academic Press, 1970. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in worn dustwrapper. Symposium of the Zoological Society of London, number 26. More
Inheritance and natural history.
London: Bloomsbury Books, (1990. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, a very good copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 61. More
Inheritance and natural history.
London: Collins, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 61. More
The natural history of Shetland.
London: Collins, (1980. first edition). Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, scarce. New Naturalist 64. More
Larousse encyclopedia of animal life.
London: Paul Hamlyn, (1968. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Novi commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis, tomus tertius.
Bologna: Dall' Olmo et Tio, 1839. Quarto, 14 handcoloured (five folding) engraved plates. Modern binder's cloth, contents fine and crisp. Four papers by Bertoloni. 1. Continuatio historiae horti botanici et scholae botanicae Archigymnasii Bononiensis adjectis descriptionibus trium novarum plantarum, [1834]. Pp. 1-18, two handcoloured engraved plates (one folding). 2. Commentarius..... More
The Ostrich communal nesting system.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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A general history of the quadrupeds [facsimile].
Leicester: Windward, (1980. reprint). Octavo, illustrations, owner's signature, very good in dustwrapper. First published in 1790. "Such animals as I knew, I drew from memory on the wood; others which I did not know were copied from 'Dr Smellie's Abridgement of Buffon,' and other naturalists, and also from the animals..... More
Notes by F. G. Stephens on a collection of drawings and woodcuts by Thomas Bewick, exhibited at the Fine Art Society's Rooms, 1880. Also a complete list of all works illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick, with their various editions.
London: The Fine Art Society, 1881. Quarto, 32 illustrations from original wood blocks. Publisher's leather-grained cloth, all edges coloured, a few spots throughout, otherwise a very good copy. More
The grasshoppers (Acrididae) of New Zealand: their taxonomy and distribution.
Christchurch: University of Canterbury, 1967. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Empire of shadows: the epic story of Yellowstone.
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
Flora of South Australia: parts two and three.
Adelaide: Government Printer, (1977. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy, softcover. More
Guide to the taxonomic literature of vertebrates.
Ames: The Iowa State University Press, 1972. Octavo, More
Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, central America, the West Indies, and South America.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, (1982. reprint). Octavo, publisher's cloth. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 185, parts 1-6 bound in one volume. More