Check-list of North American birds. The species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian islands.
New York: American Ornithologists Union, (1983. sixth edition). Octavo, maps, a fine copy. More
Central America
The birds of Tikal: an annotated checklist for Tikal National Park and Peten, Guatemala.
College Station: Texas A & M UP, 1992. Small octavo, publisher's boards, illustrations. Vast numbers of people travel to this region to see the abundant and diverse birdlife that exists there. This detailed account of the bird species provides information on when, where and in what numbers each species should..... More
The ecotravellers' wildlife guide: Belize and northern Guatemala.
London: Academic Press, 1999. Octavo, colour plates, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps. Sunned spine, softcover. Includes identification, distribution, and conservation information on Belize and Northern Guatemala's frequently spotted animals. Also includes information on the ecology, behaviour, and conservation of profiled animals; information on habitats and on the most common plants;..... More
A distributional survey of the birds of the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Chicago: American Ornithologists' Union, 1989. Octavo, paperback, photographs. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 43. More
Seven names for the Bellbird: conservation geography in Honduras.
College Station: Texas A & M Uinversity Press, 2003. Octavo, photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Through his recounting of local lore, Bonta makes the interaction between culture and avifauna in Latin America a key to better understanding the practice of biodiversity protection. He offers a significant contribution to the..... More
The flowering of man: a Tzotzil botany of Zinacantan.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. Quarto, paperback, text illustrations. WAS $75 A model study of the ethnobotany of a Mayan people. More
Wrens, dippers and thrashers.
London: Christopher Helm, 2001. Octavo, 32 colour plates by Barry Kent Mackay, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first comprehensive guide to the world's 83 wrens, 5 dippers and 36 thrashers. All but one of the wrens are endemic to the new world, with the highest concentration of species in central..... More
A field guide to the mammals: field marks of all North American species found north of Mexico.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1976. third edition). Octavo, illustrations, signature, softcover. More
Intrageneric relationships among colubrid snakes of the genus Geophis Wagler.
Ann Arbor: Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 1967. Octavo, softcover. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, No. 131. More
A guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago.
London: Christopher Helm, (2000. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour plates. More
A guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago.
Livingstone: Livingston Publishing, 1973. Octavo, colour plates, dustwrapper. More
Hummingbirds of Costa Rica.
Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2005. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Features 44 of the 45 species of hummers that inhabit Costa Rica. (The Plain-capped starthroat, the missing species, lives only in the highest treetops. The authors have never encountered one at a height low enough to photograph.) Each..... More
The mammals of Veracruz.
Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, 1963. Octavo, wrappers, map, signature. University of Kansas Publications, volume 14, number.14. More
Wild Costa Rica: the wildlife and landscape of Costa Rica.
San Jose: Jadine, 2008. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. The small Central American country of Costa Rica--less than one-eighth the size of California--boasts the highest density of plant and animal species in the world. Its wild and rugged landscapes include dense rainforests where jaguars roam, a volcano that..... More
A systematic review of the harvest mice (Genus Reithrodontomys) of Latin America.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1952. Octavo, wrappers, plates, maps, text figures. Museum of Zoology Miscellaneous Publication, number 77. More
A guide to the birds of Mexico and northern central America.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2001. reprint). Octavo, colour plates, maps, a sound copy for the field, softcover. More
Annotated checklist of the birds of Belize.
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2001. Octavo, softcover. The most authoritative, detailed, and up-to-date checklist of the 566 bird species reliably recorded in Belize. More
The Amphipoda of Bermuda.
New Haven: Yale University, 1910. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's wrapper, little worn, ex-library with stamps, partly unopened, still a sound copy. More
100 caterpillars: portraits from the tropical forests of Costa Rica.
Boston: The Belknap Press, 2006. Small quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Features over 100 large-format photographs of caterpillars, which document the dizzying variety of shapes, vivid colours, and cryptic markings among these species. This book focuses on how their features figure in their behaviour and ecology, and on..... More
100 Caterpillars: portraits from the tropical forests of Costa Rica.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Octavo, colour photographs, paperback. Every bright Monarch butterfly or striking luna moth started out in a far subtler form of nature's mosaic, a humble caterpillar. It is this early stage of life - crafted by natural selection into machines for converting a vast array..... More
100 Butterflies and Moths: portraits from the tropical forests of Costa Rica.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Oblong format, colour photographs, softcover Walking a forest trail in Costa Rica, a visitor might be struck by the sight of an iridescent blue morpho butterfly fluttering ahead in the filtered daylight, or an enormous silk moth, as magnificently patterned and subtly colored as..... More
A field guide to the mammals of central America and southeast Mexico.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Octavo, 48 colour plates, maps. More
A guide to the birds of Panama.
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Proceedings thirteenth International Ornithological Congress: Ithaca, 17-24 June 1962.
Chicago: American Ornithologists' Union, 1963. Large octavo, colour frontispiece, illustrations, publisher's cloth, fine copy. More
An annotated checklist and key to the amphibia of Mexico.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 194,1950. Octavo, wrappers, few pale library stamps, edges uncut, good copy. More