Hawaiian birdlife.
Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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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. More
William Beebe: an annotated bibliography.
Hamden: Archon Books, 1977. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Invertebrate taxonomy.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1987. Octavo, text illustrations. Binder's cloth, a fine copy. More
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... More
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. More
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. More
Inheritance and natural history.
London: Collins, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 61. More
The natural history of Shetland.
London: Collins, (1980. first edition). Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, scarce. New Naturalist 64. More
Larousse encyclopedia of animal life.
London: Paul Hamlyn, (1968. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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... More
The Ostrich communal nesting system.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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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... More
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. More
The paintings of Norman Lighton for Roberts Birds of South Africa.
Cape Town: South African Natural History Publication Company, 1976. Folio, tipped in colour frontispiece, 56 colour plates. Publisher's full blue morocco, limited to 300 numbered copies, a fine copy. More
The red canary: the story of the first genetically engineered animal.
London: Phoenix, (2004. reprint). Octavo, photographs, paperback. The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990's was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. But the idea of genetic engineering began much earlier. In the 1920's an amateur scientist, Hans Duncker, decided... More
Thorburn's mammals.
London: Peerage Books, 1984. Octavo, fifty colour plates. Embossed owner's stamp, dustwrapper slightly worn, otherwise a fine copy. With an introduction by David Attenborough and notes by Iain Bishop. More
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... More
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. More
How to know Western Australian wildflowers, part four: a key to the flora of the extratropical regions of Western Australia.
Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, (1975. first edition). Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. More
Guide to the taxonomic literature of vertebrates.
Ames: The Iowa State University Press, 1972. Octavo, More
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. More
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. More
Field photography: beginning and advanced techniques.
San Francisco: W H Freeman, 1976. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. More
The atlas of Australian birds.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, (1985. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, maps, laminated boards, More