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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
London: Witherby & Co, 1911. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, very good copy. More
London: Ward Lock and Co., [1890]. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. 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
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, very good set. Volume one: promorphology. Volume two: organology. 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
Geelong: W. J. Griffiths, [1914]. Octavo, photographs, Publisher's cloth, some slight wear and small splits to top of spine, a good copy. More
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Wellington: Ornithological Congress Trust Board, 1990-1991. Octavo, softcover. More
London: David and Charles, 1984. Quarto, colour plates by Marjorie Lyon, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Wimborne: Intercept Limited, 2005. Octavo, laminated boards. More
London: Thomas Tegg, 1830-1831. Tall octavo, text illustrations. Contemporary full diced calf, badly rubbed, spines fragile and damaged, bookplates; contents sound. Volume one: Quadrupeds; volume two: Birds published by John Sharpe. The Zoological Society (of London) was founded in 1826 and this is the first publication on the zoo's inhabitants..... 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
Milson's Point: Currawong Press, (1982. facsimile). Octavo, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. First published 1860. An important early work on the Platypus. Bennett sent specimens, plus his own observations, to Richard Owen and the mystery was finally solved. 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
Adelaide: Rigby, 1971. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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
Tring: British Ornithologists' Club, 1999. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, paperback. British Ornithologists' Club Occassional Publication, number four. 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
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1946. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1953. Octavo, photographs, wrappers, partly unopened. Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 203, More
Reading: Helix books, 1994. Small quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
