The Mississippi Kite: portrait of a southern hawk.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1988. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. National Photographic Index, volume five. More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. CD-ROM, Barry Bolton's "New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World", published in 1995, was the first attempt in more than one hundred years to collect all taxonomic decisions for ants worldwide, including extinct as well as extant taxa. One reviewer said of..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. Quarto, laminated boards, Organized by family group, genus group, and species group, this meticulously detailed but easily used volume is the ultimate resource for myrmecology. Along with Bolton's Identification guide to the ant genera of the world, it will be the essential reference for..... More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1925. Octavo, three plates, quarter cloth and publisher's printed boards. More
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..... More
London: Blandford Press, 1989. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: British Antarctic Survey, 1968. Quarto, photographs, tables, softcover. More
London: Christopher Helm, 1989. Octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Chez Samuel Fauche, 1779. Octavo, four uncoloured engraved plates. Original papered boards with handwritten labels, all edges uncut. Complete in twelve volumes. Charles Bonnet 1720-1793), naturalist and philosopher, discovered parthenogenetic reproduction in aphids and observed insects respiration through their spiracles. More
College Station: Texas A & M Uinversity Press, 2003. Octavo, photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Through his recounting of local lore, Bonta makes the interaction between culture and avifauna in Latin America a key to better understanding the practice of biodiversity protection. He offers a significant contribution to the..... More
Sydney: David Ell Press, 1988. Octavo, 27 full-page watercolours. Publisher's cloth and slipcase, limited to 550 copies, a fine copy. The manuscript, now held in the Mitchell Library, was created in 1813 by the colonial official Thomas Skottowe, using the illustrations of the convict artist Robert Browne. More
Carlton South: Miegunyah Press, (2000. first edition). Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Taking art as his starting point, Bonyhady explores how issues such as the preservation of endangered species, the protection of forests, the maintenance of public rights over the foreshore and even the likelihood of climate change already..... More
South Australia: Woods and Forests Department, [1980]. Octavo, text illustrations, colour photographs, map in rear pocket, signature, softcover. More
Keston: Keston foreign bird Farm, 1934-1938. Octavo, coloured and uncoloured plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt cockatoo, a very good set, scarce. The Keston Bird Farm, established by Edward Boosey in the 1920's was a very successful operation until World War Two and beyond. Although the business imported birds its..... More
London: Rockliff, 1956. Octavo, photographs, lacks dustwrapper. Edward Boosey was the head birdkeeper for the Duke of Bedford, after leaving his employ he set up the Keston Bird Farm in the 1930's. His two best known books, the other being foreign Bird keeping, are entertaining and well written. More
Adelaide: Oaklands Publishing, [c1985]. Small folio, four colour plates in printed folder. Major Mitchell Cockatoo, Nankeen Kestrel, White-backed Magpie and Kookaburra. More
Adelaide: Oaklands Publishing, 1985. Quarto, 19 tipped-in colour plates. Publisher's quarter cloth, a fine copy. An edition of 19 colour plates and selected drawings with accompanying text by Shane Parker, Curator of Birds, South Australian Museum. More
New York: Abrams, 1992. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
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
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
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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. Octavo, paperback, colour plates, text illustrations. Sunned spine, otherwise a good copy. More
Canberra: Australian National University, 2003. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. There is no denying that the unpredictability of Australia's climate poses real challenges for the agricultural community, especially as most conventional farming practices were developed on the relative predictability of a European climate. More recently though policy has been rejecting the..... More