The fur seal of South Georgia.
London: British Antarctic Survey, 1968. Quarto, photographs, tables, softcover. More
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Ocean frontiers: explorations by oceanographers on five continents.
New York: Abrams, 1992. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
Flora of the Shanghai area set: Volumes one, two and three.
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..... More
Flora of the Shanghai area: Book 2, Volume 3. Dicotyledoneae: Casuarinaceae to Apiaceae.
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]. More
Flora of the Shanghai area: Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Volume 2: Gymnospermae
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..... More
A field guide to insects: America north of Mexico.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. Octavo, paperback, colour plates, text illustrations. Sunned spine, otherwise a good copy. More
Field guide to the birds of Western Africa.
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..... More
Observing British and European mammals.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1989. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps. More
Arthropod phylogeny with special reference to insects.
Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 1987. Octavo, laminated boards, line drawings. More
A naturalist at the zoo.
London: Duckworth, 1926. Octavo, text illustrations. More
British flowering plants.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1914. Quarto, 300 colour plates by Mrs. Henry Perrin. Publisher's buckram cloth, limited to 100 numbered copies, a very good set. More
Reference book to Australian nature plates.
London: Macmillan, 1961. Octavo, fine copy. This is the text volume of a separately published portfolio of thirty plates, titled Macmillan's Australian nature plates. More
Vie et moeurs des mammiferes: locomotion, alimentation, abri, protection, reproduction, migrations, vie sociale, ecologie.
Paris: Payot, 1951. Quarto, signature, illustrations, softcover, front wrapper missing. French. More
Ecosystems of the world, volume 13: tropical savannas.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1983. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
The ape people.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Catalogue of Sudan birds, based on the Collection in the Sudan Government Museum (Natural History).
Khartoum: Sudan Government Museum (Natural History), 1926-1931. Octavo, publisher's wrappers, a very good set. Part one: Struthionidae to Picidae. Part two: Alaudidae to Fringillidae. More
Plants and man: a series of essays relating to the botany of ordinary life.
London: Macmillan, 1925. Octavo, illustrations, bookplate, inscription by author pasted onto titlepage. More
A country parish: Great Budworth in the County of Chester.
London: Collins, 1951. Octavo, photographs, signature, unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist 9. More
The Hebrides: a natural history.
London: Collins, 1990. Octavo, photographs, paperback, scarce. New Naturalist 76. More
Butterflies of Australia: their identification, biology and distribution.
Collingwood: CSIRO, 2000. Quarto, colour photographs, laminated boards, a fine set. An outstanding new reference and guide to the identification of Australia's 397 species of butterflies, plus the 17 species from Australia's offshore islands. More
A flutter of butterflies.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2011. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. A stunning selection of butterfly and moth illustrations held by the National Library of Australia. The works span the years from the 1770s, through the early colonial period to the turn of the twenty-first century. As well as containing a...... More
The complete field guide to butterflies of Australia.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, (2004. first edition). Octavo, colour photographs, other illustrations, maps. Some sunning to front and back cover, otherwise a fine copy. This complete field guide to all butterfly species on Australia's mainland and its remote islands includes the five major family groups: Hesperiidae, Paplionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae and Lycaenidae..... More
Birds of the Cayman Islands.
Tring: British Ornithologists' Union, 2000. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. BOU Checklist 19. Presents an analysis of the breeding and migrant avifauna of the three islands since the first ornithologists visited in 1886. Status, distribution and habitats are described for all 222 species, with accompanying breeding data for 49..... More
Flammable Australia: the fire regimes and biodiversity of a continent.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2002. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, laminated boards. Fire is pivotal to the functioning of ecosystems in Australia, affecting the distribution and abundance of the continent's unique and highly diverse range of plants and animals. Conservation of this natural biodiversity therefore requires a good understanding..... More