High jungle.
New York: Duell, Sloane and Pearce, (1949. first edition). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. An English edition was published in 1950. More
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The log of the sun: a chronicle of nature's year.
New York: Garden City Publishing, (1906. first edition). Octavo, frontispiece, spine sunned. The American and English editions were published in the same year. More
A naturalist's life in New York.
London: Bodley Head, 1954. Octavo, photographs. some foxing, dustwrapper. More
Pheasants: their lives and homes.
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
Pheasants: their lives and homes.
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
Species-checklist of the birds of New Guinea.
Melbourne: RAOU, 1985. Octavo, softcover. More
A biological assessment of the Reserve Naturelle Integrale d'Ankarafantisika, Madagascar.
Chicago: Conservation International, 2002. Quarto, illustrations, paperback. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment # 23. Text in French and English. More
Photography for bird-lovers: a practical guide.
London: Witherby & Co, 1911. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, very good copy. More
New World parrots in crisis: solutions from conservation biology.
Washington: Smithsonian, 1992. Octavo, black and white photographs, paperback. More
Principles of comparative anatomy of invertebrates.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, very good set. Volume one: promorphology. Volume two: organology. More
The birds of Nyasaland: being a classified list of the species recorded for the Nyasaland Protectorate up to the year 1930, with brief descriptions and field notes, and a map.
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1930. Octavo, folding map. Publisher's blue cloth, very light rubbing otherwise a very good copy. More
Traveller's Wildlife Guides: Southern Mexico. The Cancun Region, Yucatan Pininsula, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Tabasco.
Northampton: Interlink Publishing, 2006. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, colour plates, black and white illustrations, maps. Covers Southern Mexico's insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and plant and sea life. More
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Acta [Twentieth] Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici: Christchurch, New Zealand, 2-9 December 1990.
Wellington: Ornithological Congress Trust Board, 1990-1991. Octavo, softcover. More
The natural history and antiquities of Selborne, in the county of Southampton. By the late Rev. Gilbert White.
London: John Van Voorst, 1887. Octavo, engraved plates. Contemporary half green morroco and marbled boards, a handsome set. More
The life of reptiles.
New York: Universe Books, (1970. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, fine set in dustwrappers. More
Bellamy's new world a botanical history of America.
London: BBC Books, 1983. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The gardens and menagerie of the Zoological Society delineated.
London: Thomas Tegg, 1830-1831. Tall octavo, text illustrations. Contemporary full diced calf, badly rubbed, spines fragile and damaged, bookplates; contents sound. Volume one: Quadrupeds; volume two: Birds published by John Sharpe. The Zoological Society (of London) was founded in 1826 and this is the first publication on the zoo's inhabitants..... More
The Great Barrier Reef.
Sydney: Lansdowne, (1981. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Reptiles and frogs of the Australian Capital Territory.
Woden: National Parks Association of the ACT, (2011. reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. The book combines concise descriptions with superb photography to allow accurate identification of all fifty-four reptiles and fifteen frogs found in the region. Additional information describes their distribution and gives an insight into their private and often..... 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
Flora Australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory.
London: Lovel Reeve, 1863-1878. Octavo, Binder's rexine, ex-library with stamps and pockets. WORKING COPY ONLY and priced accordingly, contents sound. For well over a century the standard reference on Australian flora, describing over 8000 plant species prepared by Bentham at Kew using the collection of the National Herbarium of Victoria..... More
Whose bird?: men and women commemorated in the common names of birds.
London: Christopher Helm, 2003. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations. Birders often wonder about the people commemorated in the names of many of our familiar birds. In this book biographies detail the life and work of the individual involved, often revealing fascinating insights about the nature of bird..... More