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Marleston: JB Books, (2001. revised edition). Small octavo, colour photographs, softcover. This book describes and illustrates the common plants and flowers of Central Australia. Using 155 colour plates it is arranged in a way to enable you to recognise all the plants and flowers you are likely to see in...
Sydney: Lansdowne Press, (1972. first edition). Octavo, colour photographs,very good copy in dustwrapper.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Small octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. In this entertaining and illuminating book, the biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals (including humans).
London: George Rainbird, 1957. Folio, eight plates, fine copy in dustwrapper.
London: Frederick Warne, (1955. reprint). Octavo, colour plates, clipped dustwrapper. New edition 1941. Reprinted with new introductory chapters 1952.
Poole: Blandford Press, 1982. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. Quarto, illustrations, softcover. A richly illustrated archeological and economic history of the whaling industry.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1965. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper.
Edinburgh: Stationery Office, 2006. Quarto, laminated boards, illustrations. Waterbirds are one the world's most attractive group of birds and among the most threatened. These include albatrosses, flamingos, swans, geese, ducks, cranes, waders, gulls, terns and auks... They share a dependency on the world's wetlands-seas, coasts, estuaries, lagoons, lochs, rivers, marshlands...
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1940. Large quarto, Publisher's wrappers, partly unopened, a fine copy. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 77, article one.
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1940. Quarto, photographs, softcover. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 83, article six.
Melbourne: Nelson, (1985. reprint). Large octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper.
New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1978. Octavo, text illustrations, laminated boards.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This volume explores hominoid evolution in Eurasia during the Miocene. What is the place of Europe in the origin of humankind? Whilst our earliest human ancestors may have come out of Africa, many of our more...
London: British Antarctic Survey, 1968. Quarto, photographs, tables, softcover.
Poole: Blandford Press, 1980. Octavo. colour photographs, text illustrations,bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper.
New York: Abrams, 1992. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper.
Melbourne: Authors, 2002. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Volumes one and two bound in one: Flora of the Shanghai area: Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Volume 2: Gymnospermae. [stock id 11566]. Volume three: Flora of the Shanghai area: Book 2, Volume 3. Dicotyledoneae: Casuarinaceae to Apiaceae[stock id 25189]. The only books...
Melbourne: Authors, 2002. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Companion volume to Flora of the Shanghai area: Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Volume 2: Gymnospermae [stock id 11566]. The only books in English on the local flora of the Shanghai region. Also available as a set [stock id 25190].
Melbourne: Author, 1996. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Two volumes bound in one: Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Volume 2: Gymnospermae. Companion volume to Flora of the Shanghai area: Book 2, Volume 3. Dicotyledoneae: Casuarinaceae to Apiaceae [stock id 25189]. The only books in English on the local flora of the...
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2004. Octavo, 147 colour plates, maps, paperback, slight wear. This field guide format of the outstanding handbook covers 1285 species occurring in the western countries of Africa: Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Rio Muni...
London: BBC Publications, 1986. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1989. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps.
Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 1987. Octavo, laminated boards, line drawings.
London: Duckworth, 1926. Octavo, text illustrations.
