Breeding birds of Kashmir.
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1991. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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Breeding birds of Kashmir.
London: Oxford University Press, 1952. Octavo, text illustrations. Very good copy. More
Mate choice.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. second edition). Octavo, text illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Deep New Zealand: blue water, black abyss.
Christchurch: University of Canterbury Press, 2003. Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. The deep sea is home to millions of species, most of them yet undiscovered. It hosts a level of biodiversity that rivals that of lush tropical rainforests. Mostly unexplored, the deep sea is perhaps the last true biological frontier. Deep..... More
Red Data birds in Britain: action for rare, threatened and important species.
London: Poyser, 1990. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Inland waters and their ecology.
Melbourne: Longman Australia, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Arguable the best book ever written on Australian limnology. More
The idle countryman.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, (1943. first edition). Octavo, illustrations by D. J. Watkins-Pitchford, publisher's quarter cloth. shelved under Watkins-Pitchford in General. More
Palearctic birds: a checklist of the birds of Europe, North Africa and Asia north of the foothills of the Himalayas.
Stonyhurst: Harrier Publications, 1994. Octavo, paperback, The aim of this new work is two-fold: to provide an up-to-date working checklist for the Palearctic region; and to make a sensible contribution to the on-going debate about which English names for birds should be adopted as standard. More
The birds of Tikal: an annotated checklist for Tikal National Park and Peten, Guatemala.
College Station: Texas A & M UP, 1992. Small octavo, publisher's boards, illustrations. Vast numbers of people travel to this region to see the abundant and diverse birdlife that exists there. This detailed account of the bird species provides information on when, where and in what numbers each species should..... More
Arachnids.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2009. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. The class of Arachnida does not consist of spiders alone but also contains ten other orders - harvestmen, ticks and mites, wind spiders, tailless whip spiders, whip spiders, scorpions, palpigrades, pseudoscorpions, schizomids and ricinuleids - nearly all of which..... More
Open air guides: Beetles. Translated and edited by C.M.F. Von Hayek.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1956. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
Henri Jacob Victor Sody (1892-1959): his life and work.
Leiden: E J Brill, 1989. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Bibliography of Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S., Circumnavigator.
Sydney: The Library of New South Wales, (1970. second edition). Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Tropical wild life in British Guiana: Zoological contributions from The Tropical Research Station of the New York Zoological Society, volume one [all published].
New York: New York Zoological Society, 1917. Octavo, four colour plates, photographs. Publisher's cloth, bookplate of H. L. White, a fine copy. More
Beneath tropic seas: a record of diving among the coral reefs of Haiti.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1928. first edition). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in publisher's cloth. More
Edge of the jungle.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1921. first edition), Octavo, Publisher's cloth, slight wear, inscribed by the author and dated 1921. Berra p. 115. Later editions were published, including an English edition of 1923. More
The log of the sun: a chronicle of nature's year.
New York: Garden City Publishing, (1906. first edition). Octavo, frontispiece, spine sunned. The American and English editions were published in the same year. More
Pheasants: their lives and homes.
Garden City: New York Zoological Society, (1931. first edition). Quarto, colour plates by Lodge and others, a fine set in publisher's cloth. The reduced format version of Beebe's monumental 'A monograph of the pheasants', 1914-1918. More
Pheasants: their lives and homes.
New York: New York Zoological Society, 1926. Quarto, colour plates. Publisher's vellum cloth, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, limited to to 250 numbered copies, signed by the author. First published as A Monograph of the Pheasants 1918-1922, in four folio volumes. The abridged edition was subsequently published as..... More
Species-checklist of the birds of New Guinea.
Melbourne: RAOU, 1985. Octavo, softcover. More
A biological assessment of the Reserve Naturelle Integrale d'Ankarafantisika, Madagascar.
Chicago: Conservation International, 2002. Quarto, illustrations, paperback. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment # 23. Text in French and English. More
Birds of New Guinea.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1986. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, softcover. Although superceded by the later edition (Pratt and Beehler), plus the new guide by Phil Gregory, this is still a very useful book which covers over 700 species of birds and illustrates most of them in colour. The text..... More
Upland birds of northeastern New Guinea: a guide to the hill and mountain birds of Morobe Province.
Wau: Wau Ecology Institute, 1978. Octavo, colour plates, other illustrations, softcover. More
An exaltation of Skylarks.
Pulborough: SMH Books, 1995. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. "..a wonderfully varied anthology of lark-based prose and poetry collected by Stewart Beer, celebrates the efforts of no fewer than 131 writers, from Theocritus in the third century BC to the modern laureate, Ted Hughes." (Daily Telegraph Magazine). More