Inheritance and natural history.
London: Collins, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist number 61. More
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The natural history of Shetland.
London: Collins, (1980. first edition). Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, scarce. New Naturalist 64. More
Novi commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis, tomus tertius.
Bologna: Dall' Olmo et Tio, 1839. Quarto, 14 handcoloured (five folding) engraved plates. Modern binder's cloth, contents fine and crisp. Four papers by Bertoloni. 1. Continuatio historiae horti botanici et scholae botanicae Archigymnasii Bononiensis adjectis descriptionibus trium novarum plantarum, [1834]. Pp. 1-18, two handcoloured engraved plates (one folding). 2. Commentarius..... More
The Ostrich communal nesting system.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
In search of mermaids: the manatees of Guiana.
London: Petaurus Press, 1963. Octavo, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Larger land birds of Australia.
Australia: Rigby, 1972. Duodecimo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Raptor identification: field guide to the identification of Australian birds of prey.
Brisbane: Author, 1995. Octavo, photographs, inscription in green texta, softcover. More
Which bird of prey is that? A field guide to the identification of Australian birds of prey.
Brisbane: Author, 1995. Octavo, text illustrations, maps, signature, softcover. 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
A general history of quadrupeds: the figures engraved on wood.
London: Ward Lock Reprints, (1970. facsimile). Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. First published in 1790. "Such animals as I knew, I drew from memory on the wood; others which I did not know were copied from 'Dr Smellie's Abridgement of Buffon,' and other naturalists, and also from the..... More
A history of British birds.
Newcastle: R. E. Bewick, 1847. Octavo, woodcuts, the bookplate of Walter Froggatt, worn publisher's cloth. Volume one: History and description of land birds. Volume two: History and description of water birds. 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
A field guide to the waterbirds of Asia.
Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993. Small octavo, colour plates, softcover. 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
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
Thorburn's mammals.
London: Ebury Press, [1983. reprint). Octavo, colour plates by Archibald Thorburn, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
White pointer south: the Tasmanian white shark chronicles.
Hobart: Ragged Tooth Productions, 2008. Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. A fascinating compendium of shark facts and Tasmanian maritime history. It also represents the first detailed examination of Tasmanian white shark captures, encounters and attacks ever undertaken. Here the reader can chart the course of human/shark interactions in the island state..... 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, part one: Cyathereaceae, Orchidaceae.
Adelaide: Government Printer, (1960. second edition). Octavo, text illustrations, wrappers. More