Butterfly and angelfishes of the world, volume two: Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Red Sea, Indo-Pacific.
Sydney: Mergus, (1981. second edition). Quarto, colour photographs, chipped dustwrapper. More
Taxonomy
Type specimens of bird skins in the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, Unitied Kingdom.
Sydney: British Ornithologists' Club, 1999. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, paperback. British Ornithologists' Club Occassional Publication, number four. More
No specimen left behind: mass digitization of natural history collections.
Moscow: Pensoft, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Zoo Keys 209. Centuries of exploration and discovery have documented the diversity of life on Earth. Records of this biodiversity are, for the most part, distributed across varied and distinct natural history collections worldwide. This makes the task of extracting and mobilising the..... More
Systematic dictionary of mammals of the world.
Sydney: Museum Press, 1962. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The Clements checklist of birds of the world: sixth edition.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (2007. sixth edition). Quarto, endpaper maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $90. This comprehensive and completely revised edition with: the scientific name of each species and subspecies; its best-known English name; a description of the range of each species and subspecies; a gazetteer with geographic coordinates..... More
Birds of the world: a checklist. English name index and Supplement No. 1.
New York: Ibis, 1992. Octavo, paperback. Supplement No. 2 (10 loose pages) is available free with Supplement No. 1. More
A list of the names proposed for genera and subgenera of recent mammals from the publication of T. S. Palmer's 'Index Generum Mammalium' 1904 to the end of 1951.
London: British Museum, 1953. Octavo, binder's cloth, signature. More
The mammals of the palaearctic region: a taxonomic review.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1978. Octavo, maps, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
A world list of mammalian species.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1991. third edition). Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
HBW and BirdLife International illustrated checklist of the birds of the world, volume one: non-passerines.
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2014. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, maps, very good copy in dustwrapper. Having finished the Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW), Lynx has now published a checklist in association with BirdLife: HBW And Birdlife International Illustrated Checklist Of The Birds Of The World. This is not..... More
Howard and Moore complete checklist of birds of the world, volume one: non-passerines.
Eastbourne: Aves Press, (2013. fourth edition). Quarto, fine copy in laminated boards. Revised extensively with additional new features, this edition has been updated to reflect the considerable change in our understanding of the evolution of birds derived from the study of their DNA over the past decade. This has resulted..... More
A contribution to the distribution and taxonomy of Afrotropical and Malagasy birds.
Johannesburg: Tauraco, 1993. Octavo, 387 pp., softcover. More
Mammals of the world: a checklist.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Octavo, dustwrapper. This book is a complete listing of all recognised mammal species in the world and covers 5,027 species. English and scientific names are given for each species as well as a brief summary of each species' range. An invaluable reference. More
Phylogenetic analyses of postcranial skeletal morphology in Didelphid marsupials.
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 2009. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 320. More
Mammal collection management.
Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1987. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
Fauna of Australia, volume 2A: Amphibia and Reptilia.
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1993. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in apine-sunned dustwrappe. The morphology and physiology, natural history, biogeography and phylogeny, and economic significance are described for each order and family. Keys to each family and its genera are included. More
Birds: an illustrated survey of the bird families of the world.
Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1975. Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Animal Taxonomy.
London: Edward Arnold, 1982. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. Studies in Biology, number 143. More
Papers in honour of Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1788).
Perth: Records of the Western Australian Museum, 2008. Quarto, photographs, softcover. Records of the Western Australian Museum, volume 24, part four. More
The systematics and evolution of the oriental Colubrid snakes of the genus Calamaria.
Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1965. Octavo, text illustrations. modern, quarter morocco, wrappers retained, a fine copy. Fieldiana Zoology Volume 49. More
Mammalian diversification: from chromosomes to phylogeograph (a celebration of the career of James L. Patton).
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Large octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations. James L. Patton served as Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and as Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1969 until 2001. This book aims to bring..... More
Birds alternative names: a world checklist.
London: Blandford Press, 1991. Octavo, Embossed owner's stamp, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Populations, species and evolution: an abridgement of animal species and evolution.
Cambridge MA: Belknap Press, 1970. Octavo, maps, diagrams, signature, dustwrapper. More
Avian systematics and taxonomy.
Sydney: British Ornithologists' Club, 1992. Octavo, publisher's boards. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club: Centenary volume. More
A world checklist of birds.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. Large octavo, dustwrapper. An important new checklist, based on Sibley and Monroe's Distribution and taxonomy of birds of the world (1990) and the 1993 Supplement. More