Photography for bird-lovers: a practical guide.
London: Witherby & Co, 1911. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, very good copy. More
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Beeton's dictionary of natural history. A companion cyclopedia of the animal kingdom.
London: Ward Lock and Co., [1890]. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
New World parrots in crisis: solutions from conservation biology.
Washington: Smithsonian, 1992. Octavo, black and white photographs, paperback. More
The complete encyclopedia of birds.
Lisse: Rebo Publishers, (2006. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. For a pot boiler hardly complete) this is a surpsingly good collection of decent photographs. 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
Listening to Cougar.
Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Describes aspects of Cougar natural history, such as its rugged habitat and how the males struggle to claim territory. This book features conservationists who relate the political history of America's greatest cat. Also available in hardcover [stock id 27414]. 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
Ernest Dieffenbach: rebel and humanist.
Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1976. Octavo, photographs, pencil annotations, dustwrapper. Johann Karl Ernst Dieffenbach (1811-1855) was the first trained scientist to live and work in New Zealand. More
The American cockroach.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1982. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The Queen's hidden garden: Buckingham Palace's treasury of wild plants.
London: David and Charles, 1984. Quarto, colour plates by Marjorie Lyon, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
A systematic catalogue of the scale insect family Margarodidae (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the world.
Wimborne: Intercept Limited, 2005. Octavo, laminated boards. 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 tower menagerie: comprising the natural history of the animals contained in that establishment; with anecdotes of their characters and history.
London: Robert Jennings, 1829. Octavo, vignettes by William Harvey. Publisher's quarter morocco over plain boards, a very good copy. A history of the strange and exotic collection of wild animals kept in the Tower of London, which were used at various times for both entertainment and scientific study by royalty..... More
Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia.
Milson's Point: Currawong Press, (1982. facsimile). Octavo, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. First published 1860. An important early work on the Platypus. Bennett sent specimens, plus his own observations, to Richard Owen and the mystery was finally solved. More
Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China.
London: Richard Bentley, 1834. Octavo, aquatint frontispieces (some spotting). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, all edges coloured, a handsome set. Dr George Bennett (1804-1893) settled permanently in Sydney in 1836 and died in 1893. He established a successful medical practice and became a leading figure in Colonial science. He..... More
On the evolution of the Australian marsupialia; with remarks on the relationships of the Marsupials in general.
London: Linnean Society of London, 1903. Quarto, three uncoloured plates. Contemporary quarter morocco and cloth, the bookplate of John Calaby. From the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, volume nine, part three. 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
Wired wilderness: technologies of tracking and the making of modern wildlife.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. American wildlife biologists first began fitting animals with radio transmitters in the 1950s. By the 1980s the practice had proven so useful to scientists and nonscientists alike that it became global. This book is a study of the..... 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
Bugs in the system: insects and their impact on human affairs.
Reading: Helix books, 1994. Small quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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
The Koala: proceedings of the Taronga Symposium on Koala biology, management and medicine, Sydney 11th and 12th March 1976.
Sydney: Zoological Parks Board of NSW, 1978. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More