A colour atlas of fruit pests: their recognition, biology and control.
Glasgow: Wolfe Publishing, 1984. Quarto, colour photographs, laminated boards. More
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Handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan: together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Sri Lanka
Delhi: Oxford University Press, (1971- 1982. Octavo, 113 colour plates, very good set in dustwrappers. A mixed set; the first five volumes are second editions (1978-1987), volumes six to ten are first editions (1971-1982). More
Handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan: together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. Volume seven: laughing thrushes to the mangrove whistler.
Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1972. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour plates, dustwrapper. More
Handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan: together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, volume two: megapodes to crab plover.
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1969. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Talking of moths.
Faringdon: E W Classey, 1975. Octavo, uncoloured plate, publisher's boards. More
Estuaries of South Africa.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, other illustrations. A review of the current status of the country's estuarine research and management. Information is provided on a wide range of topics, including geological, physical and chemical processes, diversity and productivity of plant and animal communities, interactions between..... More
Stalking birds with color camera.
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, (1963. revised edition). Octavo, colour photographs, lacks dustwrapper. More
Into the crocodile nest: a journey inside New Guinea.
London: Macmillan, 1987. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The nature magpie: a cornucopia of facts, anecdotes, folklore and literature from the natural world.
London: Icon Books, 2014. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. A collection of anecdotes, facts, figures, folklore and literature, this book is a veritable treasure trove of humanity's thoughts and feelings about nature. Join naturalists, novelists and poets as they explore the most isolated parts of the planet, see London Zoo through the..... More
Butterfly and angelfishes of the world, volume two: Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Red Sea, Indo-Pacific.
Melle: Mergus, (1981. second edition). Quarto, colour photographs, chipped dustwrapper. More
Preliminary list of works and papers relating to the Mammalian orders Cete and Sirenia (1495-1840) [facsimile].
Hythe: A. D. Lilly, (1977. facsimile). Octavo, softcover. First published 1881. More
Conservation and management of whales.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1980. Octavo, tables, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Falconry in Arabia.
London: Orbis Publishing, 1980. Small quarto, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Dangerous insects.
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1992. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. The Encyclopedia of Danger. More
Birds of the Caribbean.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1962. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Birds of the Caribbean.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1962. Quarto, colour photographs, lacks dustwrapper. More
The politics of wilderness preservation.
Anchorage: University of Alaska, (2008. reprint). Octavo, black and white photographs, softcover. Explores the history of wilderness preservation in the United States. More
Elephas maximus: a portrait of the Indian elephant.
Orlando: Harcourt, 2004. Octavo, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $38. Revered in Indian religion and culture, yet coveted by poachers for its ivory tusks, the Asian elephant has lived, worked, and even fought side by side with humans for 4,000 years. Stephen Alter first encountered Elephas..... More
Baboon mothers and infants.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. Octavo, illustrations, signature, paperback. When originally released in 1980 this book transformed the study of maternal primate relationships by focusing on motherhood and infancy within a complex ecological and sociological context. This paperback edition has a new foreword by the author. More
The Observer's book of lichens.
London: Frederick Warne and Company, 1963. Duodecimo, colour photographs, text illustrations, chipped dustwrapper. More
Super vision: a new view of nature.
New York: Abrams, 2003. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $75. In this volume, scientific images of interest and beauty are accompanied by Ivan Amato's descriptions, which shed light on the images themselves as well as the technologies that created them. More
Check-list of North American birds. The species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian islands.
Lawrence, Kansas: American Ornithologists Union, (1983. sixth edition). Octavo, maps, a fine copy. More
Handbook of capture-recapture analysis.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, other illustrations, tables. Every day, biologists in parkas, raincoats, and rubber boots go into the field to capture and mark a variety of animal species. Back in the office, statisticians create analytical models for the field biologists' data. But..... More
Termites of the top end.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1993. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
The Cactus Wren.
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1973. Octavo, graphs, signature, softcover. More