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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 about The red canary: the story of the first genetically engineered animal
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... More about The wisdom of birds: an illustrated history of ornithology
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 about Thorburn's mammals
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 about Empire of shadows: the epic story of Yellowstone
Nedlands: UWA Press, (1981. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, good paperback copy. More about How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the extratropical regions of...
Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, (1975. first edition). Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. More about How to know Western Australian wildflowers, part four: a key to the flora of the extratropical...
Ames: The Iowa State University Press, 1972. Octavo, More about Guide to the taxonomic literature of vertebrates
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. Octavo, colour plates, illustrations , fine copy in dustwrapper. More about Manual of neotropical birds, Volume one: Spheniscidae (Penguins) to Laridae (Gulls and allies)...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1954. reprint). Octavo, colour frontispiece, illustrations, endpaper maps, bookplate, signature, lacks dustwrapper. More about Birds of Mexico: a guide for field identification
San Francisco: W H Freeman, 1976. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. More about Field photography: beginning and advanced techniques
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, (1985. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, maps, laminated boards, More about The atlas of Australian birds
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, (1984. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, maps, laminated boards. Owner's book plate, fine copy. More about The atlas of Australian birds
Paris: Orstom, 1977. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Faune de Madagascar, 45. More about Reptiles, Sauriens, Iguanidae
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... More about African Elephant Status Report 2002: An update from the African Elephant Database
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. More about John James Audubon: the watercolours for The birds of America
New York: Grove Press, 2006. Octavo, dustwrapper. Pigeons are athletes of the highest caliber. While racehorses receive all the glory with their 35 mph sprints around a one-mile racetrack, homing pigeons--a mere pound of flesh and feathers--routinely fly more than five hundred miles in a single day at speeds exceeding... More about Pigeons: the fascinating saga of the world's most revered and reviled bird
Arbroath: Carlisle Natural History Society, 1943. Octavo, photographs, bookplate. More about The birds of Lakeland
Arbroath: Transactions of the Carlisle Natural History Society, 1946. Octavo, photographs, folded maps in pocket at back, signature, bookplate. More about Lakeland natural history
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Small octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. In this entertaining and illuminating book, the biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals (including humans). More about Body heat: temperature and life on earth
London: George Rainbird, 1957. Folio, eight plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about Old garden roses, part two
Poole: Blandford Press, 1982. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper. More about The Kingfisher
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. Quarto, illustrations, softcover. A richly illustrated archeological and economic history of the whaling industry. More about Whales, ice and men: the history of whaling in the western Arctic
London: Thames and Hudson, 1965. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about Plants of the world: the lower plants
Edinburgh: Stationery Office, 2006. Quarto, laminated boards, illustrations. Waterbirds are one the world's most attractive group of birds and among the most threatened. These include albatrosses, flamingos, swans, geese, ducks, cranes, waders, gulls, terns and auks... They share a dependency on the world's wetlands-seas, coasts, estuaries, lagoons, lochs, rivers, marshlands... More about Waterbirds around the world
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1940. Large quarto, Publisher's wrappers, partly unopened, a fine copy. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 77, article one. More about Herpetological results of the Vernay Angola Expedition