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
Australia
A coastal diary: a study of one of Australia's wildest and most beautiful coastlines.
Chippendale: Macmillan, 1993. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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
Bee-keeping in Victoria
Melbourne: Melbourne Department of Agriculture 1964, Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. 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
The kangaroo keepers.
St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1985. Octavo, colour plates, photographs, very good in dustwrapper. More
Wild life in Australia.
Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, [1908]. Octavo, one colour plate by Ellis Rowan, photographs, very good copy in publisher's cloth (later issue binding?). Dudley Le Souef succeeded his father as director of Melbourne Zoo. He was a well known egg collector and a pioneering bird photographer. 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
Australian native fishes for aquariums.
Sydney: J. R. Merrick Publications, 1987. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards, very good copy. Information on 73 species illustrated in colour, with emphasis on aquarium care. More
The Cane Toad: the history and ecology of a successful colonist.
Otley: Westbury Academic and Scientific Publishing, 2001. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. The Cane Toad, as a result of human intervention, has become the most widely distributed terrestrial vertebrate in the Pacific and Caribbean regions. This book describes the biology, history, and ecological and socio-economic impacts of a...... More
The seabirds of Australia.
North Ryde: Angus and Robertson, 1986. Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. National Photographic Index, number three. More
Green guide to mammals of Australia.
Sydney: New Holland, (2000. reprint). Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Fact panels throughout cover a wide range of topics. The pages are alive with entertaining and informative text accompanied by exciting action photography. Other green guides in the series are frogs; parrots; spiders; birds; snakes and other reptiles; and sharks..... More
Encyclopedia of Australian animals: birds.
Pymble: Angus and Robertson, 1992. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. More
Taming the great south land: a history of the conquest of nature in Australia.
St Leonards: Allen and Unwin, (1991. first edition). Octavo, illustrations. Owner's signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Studies of sea mammals in south latitudes.
Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 1985. Octavo, illustrations, bookplate, softcover. More
Birds of our bush, or photography for nature-lovers.
Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, [1919]. Octavo, illustrated from photographs by the authors. Publisher's decorated cloth, bookplate, chipped dustwrapper (scarce), a fine copy. The National Library's website has two separate entries and gives the publication dates respectively 1927 and 1920. However I have seen a copy with a contemporary inscription dated..... More
A handbook of the birds of Tasmania and its dependencies.
Launceston: Author, 1910. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's printed boards and cloth spine, a few marks, bookplates of John Calaby and Bob Green, a very good copy. More
Prehistoric mammals of Australia and New Guinea: one hundred million years of evolution.
Sydney: UNSW Press, 2002. Quarto, colour photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The book is a comprehensive reference to the extinct mammals of ancient Australia and New Guinea, including carnivorous kangaroos, the first koalas, huge Diprotodons, bizarre "thingadontans", marsupial lions, ancient bats and rats, and marine mammals. Each animal..... More
A synopsis of the vertebrate animals of Tasmania.
Hobart: Oldham, Beddome, and Meredith, 1924. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth, bookplate. More
The animals of Australia: mammals, reptiles and amphibians.
Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1909. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, photographs. Publisher's light brown cloth, ablemished frontispeice and corner missing from front endpaper. More
The birds of Australia.
Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1911. Octavo, colour frontispiece and other plates by Ellis Rowan, photographs. Publisher's cloth, a little grubby, bookplate. More
Forensics, fossils and fruitbats: a field guide to Australian scientists.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2010. Octavo, black and white photographs. A fascinating collection of more than 70 profiles of Australian scientists from 15 fields of physical, biological and medical science. These scientists have been selected because their research is inspiring, intriguing or simply quirky, or because they have taken an unusual..... More