The human nature of birds: a scientific discovery with startling implications.
Melbourne: Bookman, 1993. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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Introduction to forest and shade tree insects.
San Diego: Academic Press, 1989. Octavo, photographs, laminated boards. More
A contribution to the zoogeography of the West Indies, with especial reference to amphibians and reptiles.
Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1914. Quarto, one lithographic plate of frogs. Half green morocco, wrappers retained, a handsome copy. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 44, number two. More
A contribution to the zoogeography of the West Indies, with especial reference to amphibians and reptiles.
Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1914. Quarto, one lithographic plate of frogs. binder's cloth, wrappers retained, owner's stamp, a fine copy. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 44, number two. More
A list of Antillean reptiles and amphibians.
New York: New York Zoological Society, 1930. Quarto, Binder's cloth with title, wrappers retained. Zoologica: volume eleven, number four. More
Sphaerodactylus.
Cambridge: Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1921. Quarto, 35 uncoloured plates, text illustrations, owner's stamp, publisher's cloth. Extracted from volume 47, part three. More
A book of ducks.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1951. Octavo, colour plates, bookplate, paper-covered boards and dustwrapper. A King Penguin Book. More
British birds of lake, river and stream.
Harmondsworth: King Penguin, (1941reprinted). Octavo, colour plates, bookplate, paper-covered boards and dustwrapper. A King Penguin Book. More
The last flight of the Scarlet macaw.
London: Random House, 2008. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. Author Bruce Barcott chronicles Sharon Matola's inspiring crusade to stop a multinational corporation in its tracks. Ferocious in her passion, she and her confederates - a ragtag army of courageous locals and eccentric expatriates - endure slander and reprisals and take..... More
Birds of Iceland.
Reykjavik: Hjalmar R. Bardarson, 1986. Octavo, colour photographs, blemished dustwrapper. More
A field guide to birds of the Gambia and Senegal.
Mountfield: Pica Press, 1997. Octavo, 48 colour plates, maps, signature, very good copy in laminated boards. This small and accessible country shelters a great many Western Palearctic migrants between September to April, as well as having a significant list of resident West African birds. The first field guide to this..... More
Gulls and plovers: the ecology and behaviour of mixed-species feeding groups.
London: Croom Helm, 1985. Octavo, photographs and other illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Grasses and grasslands.
London: Macmillan, 1964. Octavo, inscription, very good copy dustwrapper. More
A guide book to South African whales and dolphins.
Cape Town: South African Museum, 1954. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Identifying British insects and arachnids: an annotated bibliography of key works.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Octavo, fine copy in laminated boards. A reference work providing an annotated bibliography of key works on insect groups. It provides descriptions of all groups, the most useful and up-to-date references for each and notes on their coverage and relevance. Also contains a chapter on..... More
Royal Entomological Society book of British insects.
London: John Wiley and Sons, 2011. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in laminated boards. This book is the only modern systematic account of all 558 families of British insects, covering not just the large and familiar groups that are included in popular books, but even the smallest and least known..... More
Asa Fitch and the emergence of American entomology.
Albany NY: The University of the State of New York, 1988. Quarto, black and white photographs, softcover. More
The desert locust.
London: Eyre Methuen, 1972. Octavo, photographs, maps, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Wildlife in Australia Illustrated.
Melbourne: Colorgravure Publications, [1954. second edition), Quarto, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Australian bird life.
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1945. Octavo, colour plates, photographs, badly chipped dustwrapper. More
The Australian bush.
Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1943. Quarto, photographs, softcover with dustwrapper. More
Australian nature wonders.
Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, 1944. Octavo, photographs, wrappers. There are two variants covers, a Dingo pup and a Frill-necked Lizard. More
An Australian wild flower book.
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, (1942. first edition), Octavo, photographs, signature, chipped and torn dustwrapper (NOT AS PICTURED). More
In Australian wilds: the gleanings of a naturalist.
Melbourne: Melbourne Publishing Company, 1919. Octavo, photographs, owner's signature,very good copy in the publisher's cloth. More
Parrots of Australasia.
Melbourne: N. H. Seward, 1949. Small quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy, lacks dustwrapper. More