On the Barrier Reef: notes from a no-ologist's pocket-book.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1928. first edition). Octavo, photographs, bookplate. More
Australia
An introduction to systematic and applied entomology.
Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1994. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
An introduction to systematic and applied entomology.
Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1994. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover, creased. More
Mr J W Lewin: painter and naturalist.
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2012. Small quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. In 1813, author, illustrator, printmaker and natural historian, John William Lewin created the first illustrated book ever published in Australia - Birds of New South Wales. Featuring more than 150 exquisite artworks, Neville takes a fascinating look at Lewin's life and..... More
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Australian rainforest plants [volume one]: in the forest and in the garden.
The Channon: Terania Rainforest Publishing, (1996. fifth edition), Octavo, colour photographs, map, softcover. Part one of six. Each plant is beautifully illustrated with a superb full-colour photograph. A concise and informative text describes each plant and provides pointers for easy identification. Additional information details natural occurrences and characteristics in the..... More
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Australian rainforest plants [volume one]: in the forest and in the garden.
The Channon: Terania Rainforest Publishing, (1990. fourth edition). Octavo, colour photographs, map, softcover. Part one of six. Each plant is beautifully illustrated with a superb full-colour photograph. A concise and informative text describes each plant and provides pointers for easy identification. Additional information details natural occurrences and characteristics in the..... More
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Australian rainforest plants [volume two]: in the forest and in the garden.
The Channon: Terania Rainforest Publishing, (1995. third edition). Octavo, colour photographs. Part two of six. Each plant is beautifully illustrated with a superb full-colour photograph. A concise and informative text describes each plant and provides pointers for easy identification. Additional information details natural occurrences and characteristics in the wild and..... More
Ferdinand Bauer: the Australian natural history drawings.
Melbourne: Lothian, 1989. Quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. More
Descriptive catalogue of the nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania.
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1889. Octavo, 21 uncoloured egg plates. Contemporary half morocco, marbled endpapers and edges, pencil inscription, a fine copy. The 1889 edition of North is the precursor to his great four volume work on Nests and Eggs. More
A list of the insectivorous birds of New South Wales.
Sydney: Government Printer, 1896-1897. Octavo, 12 chromolithographs. Publisher's printed wrappers, some chipping and detachment, otherwise a sound set, scarce. Originally published in the New South Wales Agricultural Gazette in five parts. Only parts one and two were published as separates. More
A list of the insectivorous birds of New South Wales.
Sydney: Government Printer, 1896-1897. Octavo, 14 [12 coloured] plates. Modern binder's cloth, wrappers retained, a few inssignificant spots otherwise a bright copy, scarce in theis condition. A scarce work complete in five parts originally published in the New South Wales Agricultural Gazette. The first two parts (as with this copy)..... More
Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania.
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914. Quarto, 25 egg plates. Rebound with the original titled spine, a few spots but otherwise an excellent well presented set. A. J. North was one of the greatest of all Australian ornithologists. He was appointed Assistant Curator of Birds at the Australian Museum, under E. P...... More
Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania.
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914. Quarto, 25 egg plates. Contemporary green binder's cloth, a very good clean set. A. J. North was one of the greatest of all Australian ornithologists. He was appointed Assistant Curator of Birds at the Australian Museum, under E. P. Ramsay, in 1891, a position he held..... More
Deserts: the living drylands.
London: New Holland, 2004. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Covers the unique arid lands of Africa and Madagascar, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and the Americas. Reveals the astounding adaptations of dryland species and the abundance of life in desert regions. Details changes in desert ecology and the..... More
An annotated checklist of the birds of South Australia, part one: emus to spoonbills.
Adelaide: South Australian Ornithological Association, 1979. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
An annotated checklist of the birds of South Australia, part two A: waterfowl.
Adelaide: South Australian Ornithological Association, 1985. Octavo, softcover. More
The Leeuwin Current: an influene on the coastal climate and marine life of Western Australia.
Perth: journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 1991. text illustrations, bookplate, softcover. More
Drawings by William Westall: landscape artist on board HMS Investigator during the circumnavigation of Australia by Captain Matthew Flinders RN in 1801-1803.
London: Royal Commonwealth Society, 1962. Folio, folding map, uncoloured plates. Publisher's blue cloth, a very good copy. More
The Science Museum of Victoria: a history of its first hundred years.
Melbourne: Science Museum of Victoria, 1972. Quarto, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The field guide to the birds of Australia.
Pymble: Harper Collins Publishers, (2007. eighth edition). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. Over 30 years in print - one of the best guides to identifying Australian birds. Revised to include 46 new species. Fully updated and revised by editor Peter Menkhorst, this Pizzey guide contains essential information on 778 species..... More
Birds of paradox: birdlife in Australia and New Zealand.
Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1967. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Occasional papers from the Museum of Victoria, five volumes.
Melbourne: Museum of Victoria, 1984-1992. Foolscap, text illustrations. Binder's cloth, five volumes. More
Woodman Point: a relic of Perth's coastal vegetation.
Perth: Artlook Books, 1981. Quarto, paperback, illustrations. More
Commercial fish of Australia.
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1977. Octavo, 60 colour plates by Robert Ingpen, softcover. More
Fisheries of Australia.
Farnham, Fishing News Books, 1979. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More