Photography for bird-lovers: a practical guide.
London: Witherby & Co, 1911. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, very good copy.
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New World parrots in crisis: solutions from conservation biology.
Washington: Smithsonian, 1992. Octavo, black and white photographs, paperback.
Principles of comparative anatomy of invertebrates.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, very good set. Volume one: promorphology. Volume two: organology.
Traveller's Wildlife Guides: Southern Mexico. The Cancun Region, Yucatan Pininsula, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Tabasco.
Northampton: Interlink Publishing, 2006. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, colour plates, black and white illustrations, maps. Covers Southern Mexico's insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and plant and sea life.
Travellers' wildlife guides: Belize and Northern Guatemala.
Northampton: Interlink Publishing, 2005. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, text illustrations. There are colour illustrations for about 500 of Belize's most common reef fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals and information on their ecology, behaviour and conservation. Also includes information on habitats of Belize and Northern Guatemala and on the most...
Some common Australian birds.
London: Oxford University Press, 1956. Octavo, colour plates by Shirley Bell, lacks dustwrapper.
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Acta [Twentieth] Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici: Christchurch, New Zealand, 2-9 December 1990.
Wellington: Ornithological Congress Trust Board, 1990-1991. Octavo, softcover.
Reptiles.
London: Hutchinson, (1975. fourth edition). Octavo, paperback, text illustrations, signature.
The life of reptiles.
New York: Universe Books, (1970. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, fine set in dustwrappers.
Bellamy's new world a botanical history of America.
London: BBC Books, 1983. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper.
The gardens and menagerie of the Zoological Society delineated.
London: Thomas Tegg, 1830-1831. Tall octavo, text illustrations. Contemporary full diced calf, badly rubbed, spines fragile and damaged, bookplates; contents sound. Volume one: Quadrupeds; volume two: Birds published by John Sharpe. The Zoological Society (of London) was founded in 1826 and this is the first publication on the zoo's inhabitants...
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Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia [facsimile].
Milson's Point: Currawong Press, 1982. Octavo, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. An important early work on the Platypus. Bennett sent specimens, plus his own observations, to Richard Owen and the mystery was finally solved.
The Great Barrier Reef.
Sydney: Lansdowne, (1981. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper.
Watching wildlife Australia.
Melbourne: Lonely Planet, 2001. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, paperback. This is the first title in the Watching Wildlife series, Watching Wildlife Australia. Bouncing off the page in spectacular full colour, animals and their habitats are presented in an easy-to-read format with stunning photography. Watching Wildlife are the first guides to...
Reptiles and frogs of the Australian Capital Territory.
Woden: National Parks Association of the ACT, (2011. reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. The book combines concise descriptions with superb photography to allow accurate identification of all fifty-four reptiles and fifteen frogs found in the region. Additional information describes their distribution and gives an insight into their private and often...
Life histories of North American diving birds: Order Pygopodes.
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1946. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper.
Life histories of North American wood warblers: order Passeriformes.
Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1953. Octavo, photographs, wrappers, partly unopened. Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 203,
Flora Australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory.
London: Lovel Reeve, 1863-1878. Octavo, Binder's rexine, ex-library with stamps and pockets. WORKING COPY ONLY and priced accordingly, contents sound. For well over a century the standard reference on Australian flora, describing over 8000 plant species prepared by Bentham at Kew using the collection of the National Herbarium of Victoria...
Whose bird?: men and women commemorated in the common names of birds.
London: Christopher Helm, 2003. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations. Birders often wonder about the people commemorated in the names of many of our familiar birds. In this book biographies detail the life and work of the individual involved, often revealing fascinating insights about the nature of bird...
The Exotic Birds of Hawaii.
Norfolk Island: Island Heritage, 1977. Octavo, colour plates. Notes on the history and effect of over thirty introduced species.
Hawaiian birdlife.
Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper.
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Proceedings of the [twelfth] International Ornithological Congress: Helsinki, 5-12 June 1958.
Helsinki: Publisher unknown, 1960. Large octavo, two volumes, text illustrations, publisher's wrappers, a very good set.
William Beebe: an annotated bibliography.
Hamden: Archon Books, 1977. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper.
Invertebrate taxonomy.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1987. Octavo, text illustrations. Binder's cloth, a fine copy.
The natural history of Orkney.
London: Collins, 1985. Octavo, photographs, texta line on bottom edge, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist 70. One of the rarest of all New Naturalist, only 750 copies of the hardcover were produced. This is a genuine first with 'NN' on the spine, 500 copies of the paperback were...