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Washington DC: National Geographic, 1948. Octavo, photographs, binder's cloth. Exctracted from National Geographic, volume 93. More
Washington DC: National Geographic, 1948. Octavo, photographs, binder's cloth. Exctracted from National Geographic, volume 93. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. Octavo, colour photographs. This comprehensive guide describes the 447 species of wild orchids that occur in Victoria, Australia. This region is one of the richest in the world for its diversity of temperate terrestrial orchids. Orchid diversity in Victoria spans some of the smallest to some..... More
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1923. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's boards. More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, (2016. reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations. A naturalist's equivalent to the Dangerous Book for Boys, this book includes tips on everything from beachcombing, snorkelling and building your own hedgehog hotel, to tree climbing, natural foods and how to make traps for insects and mammals. This hands-on..... More
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This is an easy-to-use identification guide to 280 species of mushroom and toadstool most commonly found in Britain, Ireland, and other parts of Northern Europe. The user-friendly introduction includes an overview of distribution, habitats, mushroom structure and nomenclature. There is useful..... More
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. A user-friendly introduction includes an overview of distribution, the anatomy of a mushroom, nomenclature and useful information on hunting for and cooking with mushrooms. The identification section then divides into three categories: edible mushrooms, inedible (but not poisonous) mushrooms, and poisonous..... More
Berlin: Rugult Schulkes Verlag, (1895. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, modern binder's cloth, scarce. Text in German. More
Stillwater: Voyager Press, 2006. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. A cultural and natural history of butterflies with stunning photographs. It highlights 40 of the most fascinating butterfly species from around the world. Includes an introduction to physical characteristics and behaviour butterfly-human relations, conservation, and the art of photographing butterflies... More
Paris: Paul Lechevalier, 1943. Octavo, text illustrations, binder's cloth. More
Ministry of Information and Culture, (1977. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. Text in Arabic and English. first published 1976. More
Denver: Denver Museum of Natural History, 1965. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper. Inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. R. T. M. Pescott by the authors, April 12, 1966. Letters and newspaper clippings about Alfred Bailey's death from Muriel Bailey tipped in. More
[Denver]: Denver Museum of Natural History, 1967. Quarto, with 124 colour plates, black and white photographs Signed by both authors, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Brisbane: Government Printer, [1910]. Octavo, coloured frontispeice, text illustrations, contemporary inscription, bookplate, fine copy in publisher's cloth, rare in this condition. More
Brisbane: Government Printer, 1899-1905. Octavo, 88 uncoloured plates. Publisher's quarter cloth and printed boards, some wear to cloth, a sound set, scarce with the index. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. Alaska pollock is everywhere. That ubiquity has made pollock the most lucrative fish harvest in America-the fishery in the United States alone has an annual value of over one billion dollars. But even as the money rolls in..... More
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1963. Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, fine set in publisher's cloth and slipcase. More
New York: The MacMillan Company, (1961. sixth edition). Octavo, line drawings, bookplate, very good copy. More
Bathurst: Crawford House, 1990. Octavo, illustrations, laminated boards. WAS $100. Includes chapters by various authors on topics such as the evolution of acoustic communication; anti-predator defences; and karyotypes and meiosis. More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1991. Octavo, photographs, laminated boards. More
London: The Folio Society, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's quarter cloth. More
London: Gordon Fraser, 1981. Octavo, uncoloured plates. Publisher's cloth and slipcase, a fine set. More
New York: Sterling Publishing, 2012. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. This book allows readers a privileged glimpse of seldom seen, fully illustrated scientific tomes from the American Museum of Natural History's Rare Book Collection. Forty essays from the museum's top experts in a variety of natural science disciplines, from anthropology to..... More
Wellington: The Biological Society, (1972. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, stiff wrappers, inscribed by the author. More
Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1983. Octavo, colour photographs, bookplate, softcover, More
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1990. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More