The Noah's Ark syndrome: one hundred years of acclimatization and zoo development in Australia.
[Perth:]: Zoological Gardens Board of WA, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Australia
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Flora of South Australia [volume one only].
Adelaide: SA Government Printer, (1986. fourth edition). Octavo, illustrations, a fine copy in publisher's cloth. Volume one: Lycopodiaceae-Rosaceae. More
Flora of South Australia [volume three only].
Adelaide: SA Government Printer, (1986. fourth edition). Octavo, illustrations, a fine copy in publisher's cloth. Volume three: Polemoniaceae-Compositae. More
Flora of South Australia [volume two only].
Adelaide: SA Government Printer, (1986. fourth edition). Octavo, illustrations, a fine copy in publisher's cloth. Volume two: Leguminosae-Rubiaceae. More
A guide to whales and whale watching in South Australia.
Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 1992. Octavo, photographs, wrappers. More
Biogeography and ecology in Australia.
Den Haag: Junk, 1959. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Birds of eucalypt forests and woodlands: ecology, conservation, management.
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1985. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. A collection of papers on forest and woodland birds by various authors. Divided into three sections: Bird communities; Ecology and adaptations; and Human impact. A very important reference. More
Australasian marsupials and monotremes: an Action Plan for their conservation.
Gland: IUCN, 1992. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
The conservation status of Australia's insect fauna.
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1978. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
The ecology of pests: some Australian case histories.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations, scuffed softcover otherwise good copy. More
Birds of Australian gardens.
Sydney: Weldon Publishing, 1990. reprint). Folio, colour plates by Peter Trusler, a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Two papers on the vertebrata of the Lower Murray and Darling; and on snakes observed in the neighbourhood of Sydney.
Sydney: Reading and Wellbank, Printers, 1865. Octavo, Modern binder's cloth with gilt title, very scarce. The author's reprint with a separately published title page. Originally published in the Transactions of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales. Both Krefft papers are of great interest, the first paper particularly so as..... More
An aviary on the plains.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1949. Octavo, publisher's papered wrappers on card, spine damaged. The Junior Library of Australian Books. First published 1934. More
Creature life in Australian wilds.
London: Henry J. Drane, [c1912]. Octavo, photographs by the author. Publisher's handsome decorated cloth, a near fine copy. An early photographic account of the author's travels in southern Australia. He also published a companion account of his Queensland travels, Advetures in the big bush, 1928. More
Contested country: local and regional natural resources management in Australia.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2009. Octavo, paperback, tables, figures. This book brings together the leading researchers from relevant disciplines (planning, geography, environmental studies, public policy) to critically review environmental management over the past decade, and to identify the challenges in environmental management that must be met by the new government. Instead..... More
Musee botanique de M. Bejamin Delessert.
Codicote: Wheldon and Wesley, 1970. Octavo, publisher's cloth, bookplate. with an introduction by F. A. Stafleau. More
Sharks and rays of Australia.
Melbourne: CSIRO, (1994. first edition). Quarto, colour plates, distribution maps, fine copy in laminated boards. The first review of the cartilaginous fishes in Australia since the 1940s and one of the finest Australian natural history books ever published. Covers 180 species of sharks, 100 rays and 13 ghost sharks. The..... More
List of birds in Queensland.
Canberra: Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, 1967. Octavo, wrappers. More
Wild ducks and other waterfowl in Queensland.
[Brisbane]: Department of Primary Industries, 1971. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, a fine copy. More
The kangaroo keepers.
St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1985. Octavo, colour plates, photographs, very good in dustwrapper. More
Zoological Catalogue of Australia, volume four. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga.
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1987. Octavo, More
The wild animals of Australasia: embracing the mammals of New Guinea and the nearer Pacific islands. With a chapter on The bats of Australia and New Guinea by Ellis Le G. Troughton.
London: George G. Harrap, 1926. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's handsome decorated cloth, a fine crisp copy, scarce in this condition. More
An Australian bird book: a complete guide to identification of the Australian species.
Melbourne: Whitcombe & Tombs, (1950. eighth edition). Octavo, colour plates, photographs. Revised and editied by Charles Barrett. More
Australian nature studies: a book of reference for those interested in nature-study.
Melbourne: Macmillan, (1922. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, some light wear. A minor classic which went through many printimgs through to the 1960's. More
Memorandum and Articles of Association of Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.
Melbourne: Walker, May and Co., 1917. Octavo, binder's cloth, wrappers retained. J. A. Leach was the editor of the Emu at the time of pubication of the Memorandum and it is reasonable to assume he assembled the articles of assocation and wrote the introduction explaining the formation of the organisation..... More