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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 about The gardens and menagerie of the Zoological Society delineated
![Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia [facsimile]. G. Bennett](/pictures/thumb/3635.jpg?v=1550829629)
Milson's Point: Currawong Press, 1982. Octavo, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. An important early work on the Platypus. Bennett sent specimens, plus his own observations, to Richard Owen and the mystery was finally solved. More about Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia [facsimile
Sydney: Lansdowne, (1981. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More about The Great Barrier Reef
Melbourne: Lonely Planet, 2001. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, paperback. This is the first title in the Watching Wildlife series, Watching Wildlife Australia. Bouncing off the page in spectacular full colour, animals and their habitats are presented in an easy-to-read format with stunning photography. Watching Wildlife are the first guides to... More about Watching wildlife Australia
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 about Reptiles and frogs of the Australian Capital Territory
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1946. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More about Life histories of North American diving birds: Order Pygopodes
Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1953. Octavo, photographs, wrappers, partly unopened. Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 203, More about Life histories of North American wood warblers: order Passeriformes
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 about Flora Australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory
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 about Whose bird?: men and women commemorated in the common names of birds
Norfolk Island: Island Heritage, 1977. Octavo, colour plates. Notes on the history and effect of over thirty introduced species. More about The Exotic Birds of Hawaii
Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about Hawaiian birdlife
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Helsinki: Publisher unknown, 1960. Large octavo, two volumes, text illustrations, publisher's wrappers, a very good set. More about Proceedings of the [twelfth] International Ornithological Congress: Helsinki, 5-12 June 1958
Hamden: Archon Books, 1977. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about William Beebe: an annotated bibliography
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1987. Octavo, text illustrations. Binder's cloth, a fine copy. More about Invertebrate taxonomy
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 about The natural history of Orkney
London: Poyser, 2000. Large octavo, colour photographs, illustrations by John Holloway, fine copy in dustwrapper. Brings the islands' animals, plants and scenic history to life for casual readers and specialists alike. More about Orkney nature
London: Academic Press, 1970. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in worn dustwrapper. Symposium of the Zoological Society of London, number 26. More about Variation in mammalian populations
London: Collins, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 61. More about Inheritance and natural history
London: Collins, (1980. first edition). Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, scarce. New Naturalist 64. More about The natural history of Shetland
London: Paul Hamlyn, (1968. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about Larousse encyclopedia of animal life
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 about Novi commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis, tomus tertius
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about The Ostrich communal nesting system
![A general history of the quadrupeds [facsimile]. Thomas Bewick](/pictures/thumb/10636.jpg?v=1550887232)
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 about A general history of the quadrupeds [facsimile
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 about Notes by F. G. Stephens on a collection of drawings and woodcuts by Thomas Bewick, exhibited at...
London: Phoenix, (2004. reprint). Octavo, photographs, paperback. The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990's was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. But the idea of genetic engineering began much earlier. In the 1920's an amateur scientist, Hans Duncker, decided... More about The red canary: the story of the first genetically engineered animal