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 Although superceded by the later edition (Pratt and Beehler), plus the new guide by Phil Gregory, this is still a very useful book which covers over 700 species of birds and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

London: Witherby & Co, 1911. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, very good copy. More

London: Frederick Warne, (1954. second edition), Octavo, colour plates, fine copy in slightly worn unclipped dustwrapper. The Wayside and Woodland Series. More

Lisse: Rebo Publishers, (2006. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. For a pot boiler hardly complete) this is a surpsingly good collection of decent photographs. More

Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Describes aspects of Cougar natural history, such as its rugged habitat and how the males struggle to claim territory. This book features conservationists who relate the political history of America's greatest cat. Also available in hardcover [stock id 27414]. More

London: Hutchinson, (1975. fourth edition). Octavo, paperback, text illustrations, signature. More

Wimborne: Intercept Limited, 2005. Octavo, laminated boards. More

London: Robert Jennings, 1829. Octavo, vignettes by William Harvey. Publisher's quarter morocco over plain boards, a very good copy. A history of the strange and exotic collection of wild animals kept in the Tower of London, which were used at various times for both entertainment and scientific study by royalty..... More

London: Richard Bentley, 1834. Octavo, aquatint frontispieces (some spotting). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, all edges coloured, a handsome set. Dr George Bennett (1804-1893) settled permanently in Sydney in 1836 and died in 1893. He established a successful medical practice and became a leading figure in Colonial science. He..... More

London: Linnean Society of London, 1903. Quarto, three uncoloured plates. Contemporary quarter morocco and cloth, the bookplate of John Calaby. From the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, volume nine, part three. More

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. American wildlife biologists first began fitting animals with radio transmitters in the 1950s. By the 1980s the practice had proven so useful to scientists and nonscientists alike that it became global. This book is a study of the..... More

Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1953. Octavo, photographs, wrappers, partly unopened. Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 203, More