Orkney nature.
London: Poyser, 2000. Large octavo, colour photographs, illustrations by John Holloway, fine copy in dustwrapper. Brings the islands' animals, plants and scenic history to life for casual readers and specialists alike.
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Variation in mammalian populations.
London: Academic Press, 1970. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in worn dustwrapper. Symposium of the Zoological Society of London, number 26.
Inheritance and natural history.
London: Collins, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 61.
Inheritance and natural history.
London: Bloomsbury Books, (1990. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 61.
The natural history of Shetland.
London: Collins, (1980. first edition). Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, scarce. New Naturalist 64.
Larousse encyclopedia of animal life.
London: Paul Hamlyn, (1968. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper.
Novi commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis, tomus tertius.
Bologna: Dall' Olmo et Tio, 1839. Quarto, 14 handcoloured (five folding) engraved plates. Modern binder's cloth, contents fine and crisp. Four papers by Bertoloni. 1. Continuatio historiae horti botanici et scholae botanicae Archigymnasii Bononiensis adjectis descriptionibus trium novarum plantarum, [1834]. Pp. 1-18, two handcoloured engraved plates (one folding). 2. Commentarius...
The Ostrich communal nesting system.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper.
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A general history of the quadrupeds [facsimile].
Leicester: Windward, (1980. reprint). Octavo, illustrations, owner's signature, very good in dustwrapper. First published in 1790. "Such animals as I knew, I drew from memory on the wood; others which I did not know were copied from 'Dr Smellie's Abridgement of Buffon,' and other naturalists, and also from the animals...
Notes by F. G. Stephens on a collection of drawings and woodcuts by Thomas Bewick, exhibited at the Fine Art Society's Rooms, 1880. Also a complete list of all works illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick, with their various editions.
London: The Fine Art Society, 1881. Quarto, 32 illustrations from original wood blocks. Publisher's leather-grained cloth, all edges coloured, a few spots throughout, otherwise a very good copy.
The wisdom of birds: an illustrated history of ornithology.
London: Bloomsbury Books, 2008. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Birkhead takes the reader on a journey that not only tells us about the extraordinary lives of birds - from conception and egg, through territory and song, to migration and fully fledged breeder - but also shows how, over centuries...
Empire of shadows: the epic story of Yellowstone.
New York: Griffin Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. In a radical reinterpretation of the nineteenth century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history - the passion for exploration, the violence of the Indian Wars and the "civilizing" of...
How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the extratropical regions of Western Australia, part three B: Epacridaceae-Lamiaceae).
Nedlands: UWA Press, (1981. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, good paperback copy.
Guide to the taxonomic literature of vertebrates.
Ames: The Iowa State University Press, 1972. Octavo,
Historical records of New South Wales.
Sydney: Lansdown Slattery, 1978- 1980. facsimile). Octavo, fine set in dustwrappers with quarto chart volume. First Edition; 8vo; Vol. I. Part I. Cook, pp. xlii,[ii], 526; Vol. I, Part II. Phillip 1783-1792, pp. xxxiv, 748; Vol. II. Grose and Patterson 1793-1795, pp. xxviii, 936; Vol. III. Hunter. 1796-1799, pp. xxxviii...
Manual of neotropical birds, Volume one: Spheniscidae (Penguins) to Laridae (Gulls and allies) [all published].
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. Octavo, colour plates, illustrations , fine copy in dustwrapper.
Birds of Mexico: a guide for field identification.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1954. reprint). Octavo, colour frontispiece, illustrations, endpaper maps, bookplate, signature, lacks dustwrapper.
Field photography: beginning and advanced techniques.
San Francisco: W H Freeman, 1976. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, signature, dustwrapper.
The atlas of Australian birds.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, (1985. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, maps, laminated boards,
The atlas of Australian birds.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, (1984. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, maps, laminated boards, fine copy.
Reptiles, Sauriens, Iguanidae
Paris: Orstom, 1977. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Faune de Madagascar, 45.
African Elephant Status Report 2002: An update from the African Elephant Database.
Gland: IUCN, 2003. Quarto, paperback, tables, maps. The African elephant is the largest living land mammal, and their potential impact on their habitats raises important management issues both for protected areas and unprotected land. This report is rich in data and information on numbers, distribution and current issues, and provides...
John James Audubon: the watercolours for The birds of America.
New York: Random House, (2004. reprint). Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. A showcase for Audubon's stunning colour plates, reproduced directly from the surviving original watercolours.
The birds of Lakeland.
Arbroath: Carlisle Natural History Society, 1943. Octavo, photographs, bookplate.
Lakeland natural history.
Arbroath: Transactions of the Carlisle Natural History Society, 1946. Octavo, photographs, folded maps in pocket at back, signature, bookplate.