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
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British Pyralid and Plume moths.
London: Frederick Warne, (1954. second edition), Octavo, colour plates, fine copy in slightly worn unclipped dustwrapper. The Wayside and Woodland Series. More
The origin and history of the British Fauna.
London: Methuen and Co., 1952. Octavo, maps, lacks dustwrapper. 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
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
The birds of the district of Geelong, Australia.
Geelong: W. J. Griffiths, [1914]. Octavo, photographs, Publisher's cloth, some slight wear and small splits to top of spine, a good copy. The finest of all regional Australian bird books. Sir Charles Frederic Belcher 1876-1970); lawyer, British colonial jurist, and amateur ornithologist was born in Geelong. He was a founding..... 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 light blue cloth, a very good copy. Sir Charles Frederic Belcher 1876-1970) , lawyer, British colonial jurist, and amateur ornithologist was born in Geelong. He was a founding member of the Geelong Field Naturalists' Club, the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union..... More
Marsupials in New Zealand.
Wellington: Victoria University, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. Proceedings on the First Symposium on Marsupials in New Zealand, Victoria University of Wellington, May 9-10 1977. 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 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
The fringe of the sea.
Adelaide: Rigby, (1966. first edition). Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Shores of Macquarie Island.
Adelaide: Rigby, 1971. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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
Birds of Lebanon and the Jordan area.
London: ICBP, 1970. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, bookplate, dustwrapper. 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 marsh birds.
New York: Dover Publications, 1963. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Life histories of North American shore birds: in two parts. Part one.
New York: Dover Publications, 1962. Octavo, softcover. 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