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.
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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.
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.
The ape people.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper.
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.
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.
The Hebrides: a natural history.
London: Collins, 1990. Octavo, photographs, paperback, scarce. New Naturalist 76.
The Hebrides: a natural history.
London: Collins, 1990. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 76.
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...
Madagascar wildlife: a visitor's guide.
Chalfont St Peter: Bradt Publications, 1996. Octavo, colour photographs, owner's signature, fine paperback copy. In addition to descriptions of key species, it includes the most important parks and reserves, plus features on evolution, camouflage, conservation, wildlife watching and photography.
The sphagnaceae or peat-mosses of Europe and North America.
London: David Bogue, 1880. Quarto, 29 partially coloured chromothographs. Publisher's cloth, a fine copy.
The Mitchell Beazley world atlas of birds.
London: Mitchell Beazley, 1974. Quarto, colour illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper, slipcase.
Travellers' wildlife guides: Southern Africa.
Northampton: Interlink Publishing, 2007. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Covers Southern Africa's insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and plant and sea life.
The hunting of the Buffalo.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Octavo, paperback, illustrations.
Nick Brandt: inherit the dust.
New York: Edwynn Houk Editions, 2016. Quarto, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Three years after the conclusion of his epic trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls Across the Ravaged Land, Nick Brandt returns to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent's natural world...
The Red Book: the extinction crisis face to face.
Gland: Cemex/IUCN, 2001. Large quarto, 256 colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This publication combines awe-inspiring imagery with soild science and factual accounts. Drawing on the 2000 IUCN red list of threatened species, the world's most objective and authoritative inventory of species at risk of extinction, it describes the extinction...
The mammals of Victoria.
Melbourne: Brown, Prior, Anderson, 1950. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper.
Reptiles and amphibians of Minnesota.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1944. Octavo, text illustrations.
Wildlife in the home paddock: nature conservation for Australian farmers.
London: Angus and Robertson, (1984. reprint). Octavo, photographs, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Australian Natural Science Library. Every farmer should have a copy.
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Australia's north: a natural history of Australia, [volume] three.
Sydney: Collins, 1975. Quarto, photos, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper.
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Australia's south east: a natural history of Australia, [volume] two.
Sydney: Collins, 1972. Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper.
Living marsupials.
Sydney: Collins, 1970. Quarto, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper.
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Tropical Queensland: a natural history of Australia, [volume] one.
Sydney: Collins, (1971. reprint). Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper.
East African wildlife: a visitor's guide.
Chalfont St Peter: Bradt Publications, 2008. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. For visitors to East Africa, the wildlife is certainly the major attraction, with the legendary game reserves of Serengeti and the Maasai Mara. This wildlife guide provides a colourful overview of the region's variety of large mammals together with...
Sharks.
London: Natural History Museum, 2002. Large octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This book is an accessible introduction to the world of sharks. Part of the Life Series.