The Ostrich communal nesting system.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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In search of mermaids: the manatees of Guiana.
London: Petaurus Press, 1963. Octavo, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
A field guide to nests and eggs of Australian birds.
Adelaide: Rigby, (1980. first edition). Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Larger land birds of Australia.
Australia: Rigby, 1972. Duodecimo, colour photographs, wrappers. More
The Besler florilegium: plants of the four seasons.
New York: Abrams, 1989. Folio, 373 full-page colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper and slipcase. More
The Francis Walker types of Trichoptera in the British Museum.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1940. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Notes by F. G. Stephens on a collection of drawings and woodcuts by Thomas Bewick, exhibited at the Fine Art Society's Rooms, 1880. Also a complete list of all works illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick, with their various editions.
London: The Fine Art Society, 1881. Quarto, 32 illustrations from original wood blocks. Publisher's leather-grained cloth, all edges coloured, a few spots throughout, otherwise a very good copy. More
Chemical biomarkers in aquatic ecosystems.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, line drawings. This textbook provides a unique and thorough look at the application of chemical biomarkers to aquatic ecosystems. Defining a chemical biomarker as a compound that can be linked to particular sources of organic matter identified in..... More
Bird census techniques.
London: Academic Press, (1992. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in laminated boards. More
Fauna of New Zealand Number 23: Sciapodinae, Medeterinae (Insecta: Diptera) with a generic review of the Dolichopodidae.
Lincoln: Manaaki Whenua Press, 1991. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. More
The grasshoppers (Acrididae) of New Zealand: their taxonomy and distribution.
Christchurch: University of Canterbury, 1967. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The ecology of place: contributions of place-based research to ecological understanding.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, line drawings. Ecologists can spend a lifetime researching a small patch of the earth, studying the interactions between organisms and the environment, and exploring the roles those interactions play in determining distribution, abundance, and evolutionary change. With so..... More
A distributional survey of the birds of the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 1989. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 43. More
A history of ornithology.
London: Harper Collins, 2007. Octavo, photographs, Ian Rowley's signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 104. What did we know about birds a thousand years ago, and how has our understanding developed? This book offers a complete history of birdwatching in Britain from 1066 to the mid-1970's. Also available..... More
The Mute Swan.
London: Croom Helm, 1986. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The magpies: the ecology and behaviour of Black-billed and Yellow-billed Magpies.
London: Poyser, 1991. Octavo, illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Empire of shadows: the epic story of Yellowstone.
New York: Griffin Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. In a radical reinterpretation of the nineteenth century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history - the passion for exploration, the violence of the Indian Wars and the "civilizing" of..... More
Flora of South Australia: parts two and three.
Adelaide: Government Printer, (1977. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy, softcover. More
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How to know Western Australian wildflowers, parts [one, two and three]: a key to the flora of the temperate regions of Western Australia, Parts 1, 2 and 3.
Perth: University of Western Australia Press, (1975. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Avian invasions: the ecology and evolution of exotic birds.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Octavo, laminated boards, tables, graphs. Biological invaders represent one of the primary threats to the maintenance of global biodiversity, human health, and the success of human economic enterprises. The continuing globalization of our society ensures that the need to understand the process of biological invasion..... More
Guide to the taxonomic literature of vertebrates.
Ames: The Iowa State University Press, 1972. Octavo, More
No specimen left behind: mass digitization of natural history collections.
Sofia: 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
Manual of neotropical birds, Volume one: Spheniscidae (Penguins) to Laridae (Gulls and allies) [all published].
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. Octavo, colour plates, illustrations , fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Birds of Mexico: a guide for field identification.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1954. reprint). Octavo, colour frontispiece, illustrations, endpaper maps, bookplate, signature, lacks dustwrapper. More
Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium, numbers 1-19.
Brisbane: Queensland Herbarium, 1968- 1975. Quarto, text illustrations. Publisher's printed wrappers, a very good set. Each issue is a separate taxonomic paper. More