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Melbourne: Author, 1996. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Two volumes bound in one: Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Volume 2: Gymnospermae. Companion volume to Flora of the Shanghai area: Book 2, Volume 3. Dicotyledoneae: Casuarinaceae to Apiaceae [stock id 25189]. The only books in English on the local flora of the..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. Octavo, paperback, colour plates, text illustrations. Sunned spine, otherwise a good copy. More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2004. Octavo, 147 colour plates, maps, paperback, slight wear. This field guide format of the outstanding handbook covers 1285 species occurring in the western countries of Africa: Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Rio Muni..... More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1989. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps. More
Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 1987. Octavo, laminated boards, line drawings. More
London: Duckworth, 1926. Octavo, text illustrations. More
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1914. Quarto, 300 colour plates by Mrs. Henry Perrin. Publisher's buckram cloth, limited to 100 numbered copies, a very good set. More
London: Macmillan, 1961. Octavo, fine copy. This is the text volume of a separately published portfolio of thirty plates, titled Macmillan's Australian nature plates. More
Paris: Payot, 1951. Quarto, signature, illustrations, softcover, front wrapper missing. French. More
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1983. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Khartoum: Sudan Government Museum (Natural History), 1926-1931. Octavo, publisher's wrappers, a very good set. Part one: Struthionidae to Picidae. Part two: Alaudidae to Fringillidae. More
London: Macmillan, 1925. Octavo, illustrations, bookplate, inscription by author pasted onto titlepage. More
London: Collins, 1951. Octavo, photographs, signature, unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist 9. More
London: Collins, 1990. Octavo, photographs, paperback, scarce. New Naturalist 76. More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2011. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. A stunning selection of butterfly and moth illustrations held by the National Library of Australia. The works span the years from the 1770s, through the early colonial period to the turn of the twenty-first century. As well as containing a...... More
Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2018. Quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, (2004. first edition). Octavo, colour photographs, other illustrations, maps. Some sunning to front and back cover, otherwise a fine copy. This complete field guide to all butterfly species on Australia's mainland and its remote islands includes the five major family groups: Hesperiidae, Paplionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae and Lycaenidae..... More
Tring: British Ornithologists' Union, 2000. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. BOU Checklist 19. Presents an analysis of the breeding and migrant avifauna of the three islands since the first ornithologists visited in 1886. Status, distribution and habitats are described for all 222 species, with accompanying breeding data for 49..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2002. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, laminated boards. Fire is pivotal to the functioning of ecosystems in Australia, affecting the distribution and abundance of the continent's unique and highly diverse range of plants and animals. Conservation of this natural biodiversity therefore requires a good understanding..... More
Chalfont St Peter: Bradt Publications, 1996. Octavo, colour photographs, owner's signature, fine paperback copy. In addition to descriptions of key species, it includes the most important parks and reserves, plus features on evolution, camouflage, conservation, wildlife watching and photography. More
London: David Bogue, 1880. Quarto, 29 partially coloured chromothographs. Publisher's cloth, a fine copy. More
London: Mitchell Beazley, 1974. Quarto, colour illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper, slipcase. More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. More
New York: Edwynn Houk Editions, 2016. Quarto, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Three years after the conclusion of his epic trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls Across the Ravaged Land, Nick Brandt returns to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent's natural world..... More