In a desert garden: love and death among the insects.
New York: W W Norton & Company Inc Publishers, 1997. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Biology
The kookaburras' song: exploring animal behavior in Australia.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988. Octavo, text illustrations, stamp, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Super vision: a new view of nature.
New York: Abrams, 2003. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $75. In this volume, scientific images of interest and beauty are accompanied by Ivan Amato's descriptions, which shed light on the images themselves as well as the technologies that created them. More
Handbook of capture-recapture analysis.
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, other illustrations, tables. Every day, biologists in parkas, raincoats, and rubber boots go into the field to capture and mark a variety of animal species. Back in the office, statisticians create analytical models for the field biologists' data..... More
Biostatistics: a computing approach.
Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor and Francis, 2012. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white illustrations, tables. The emergence of high-speed computing has facilitated the development of many exciting statistical and mathematical methods in the last 25 years, broadening the landscape of available tools in statistical investigations of complex data. Biostatistics: A Computing Approach..... More
Recent advances in embryology in Japan.
Tokyo: Arthropodan Embryological Society of Japan, 1985. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Reproductive behaviour of insects: individuals and populations.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1991. Octavo, photographs, laminated boards. More
Bird navigation: the solution of a mystery?
Sydney: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1984. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Insect photoperiodism.
London: Academic Press, 1968. Octavo, signature and stamp, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The seventy great mysteries of the natural world: unlocking the secrets of our planet.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Large octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Divided into seven sections: origins; the earth; evolution; biogeography and environments; plants and animals; animal behaviour; and the future of the planet. This title answers such questions as: were the dinosaurs warm-blooded or not; why do mammals..... More
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Proceedings of the [twelfth] International Ornithological Congress: Helsinki, 5-12 June 1958.
Sydney: Publisher unknown, 1960. Large octavo, text illustrations, publisher's wrappers, a very good set. More
Gli insetti: loro organizzazione, sviluppo, abitudini e rapporti coll'uomo.
Sydney: Societa Editrice Libraria, 1909. Quarto, text illustrations. Publisher's wrappers, text completely loose in sections, some foxing. In Italian. Volume one: embryology and morphology. More
Variation in mammalian populations.
London: Academic Press, 1970. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in worn dustwrapper. Symposium of the Zoological Society of London, number 26. More
The Ostrich communal nesting system.
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The acquisition of motor behavior in vertebrates.
Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 1996. Small quarto, tables, fine copy in dustwrapper. Motor skills determine how well we perform in athletics, dance, music and countless daily tasks. The nervous system can learn new motor behaviours through experience and practice - this is motor learning. This text presents research on..... More
Freaks of nature: and what they tell us about development and evolution.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. From two-legged goats and double-headed snakes, to 'Cyclops' infants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead, Mark S. Blumberg looks at 'freak' bodily anomalies in both humans and other animals to reveal how..... More
Animals for man.
London: Edward Arnold, 1977. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, softcover. Studies in biology, number 78. More
Wetware: a computer in every living cell.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex sequences of movements without the benefit of a nervous system? This book..... More
Perspectives in ornithology: essays presented for the centennial of the American Ornithologists' Union.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Just like an animal.
Sydney: Book Club Associates, 1978. Octavo, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The evolution of language.
Sydney: World Scientific Publishing, 2014, Octavo, tect illustrations, owner's irritatingly large signature on two pages, laminated boards. More
Bird song: biological themes and variations.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Octavo, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Explores the study of bird song from the biological viewpoint and reviews the extensive literature on the subject. More