Arthropod phylogeny with special reference to insects.
Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 1987. Octavo, laminated boards, line drawings. More
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A naturalist at the zoo.
London: Duckworth, 1926. Octavo, text illustrations. More
British flowering plants.
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
Reference book to Australian nature plates.
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
Vie et moeurs des mammiferes: locomotion, alimentation, abri, protection, reproduction, migrations, vie sociale, ecologie.
Paris: Payot, 1951. Quarto, signature, illustrations, softcover, front wrapper missing. French. More
Ecosystems of the world, volume 13: tropical savannas.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1983. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
The ape people.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Catalogue of Sudan birds, based on the Collection in the Sudan Government Museum (Natural History).
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
Plants and man: a series of essays relating to the botany of ordinary life.
London: Macmillan, 1925. Octavo, illustrations, bookplate, inscription by author pasted onto titlepage. More
A country parish: Great Budworth in the County of Chester.
London: Collins, 1951. Octavo, photographs, signature, unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist 9. More
The Hebrides: a natural history.
London: Collins, 1990. Octavo, photographs, paperback, scarce. New Naturalist 76. More
A flutter of butterflies.
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
The complete field guide to butterflies of Australia.
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
Birds of the Cayman Islands.
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
Flammable Australia: the fire regimes and biodiversity of a continent.
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
Madagascar wildlife: a visitor's guide.
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
The sphagnaceae or peat-mosses of Europe and North America.
London: David Bogue, 1880. Quarto, 29 partially coloured chromothographs. Publisher's cloth, a fine copy. More
The Mitchell Beazley world atlas of birds.
London: Mitchell Beazley, 1974. Quarto, colour illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper, slipcase. More
The hunting of the Buffalo.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. More
Nick Brandt: inherit the dust.
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
Results of the Archbold Expeditions, No. 68: Summary of the 1948 Cape York (Australia) Expedition.
New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1953. Octavo, photographs. Volume 102: Article 2. More
The Red Book: the extinction crisis face to face.
Gland: Cemex/IUCN, 2001. Large quarto, 256 colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This publication combines awe-inspiring imagery with soild science and factual accounts. Drawing on the 2000 IUCN red list of threatened species, the world's most objective and authoritative inventory of species at risk of extinction, it describes the extinction..... More
Reptiles and amphibians of Minnesota.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1944. Octavo, text illustrations. More
A very elegant animal, the dingo.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1988. Octavo, illustrations, bookplate, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Wildlife in the home paddock: nature conservation for Australian farmers.
London: Angus and Robertson, (1984. reprint). Octavo, photographs, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Australian Natural Science Library. Every farmer should have a copy. More