Butterfly and angelfishes of the world, volume two: Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Red Sea, Indo-Pacific.
Melle: Mergus, (1981. second edition). Quarto, colour photographs, chipped dustwrapper. More
Taxonomy
Type specimens of bird skins in the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, Unitied Kingdom.
Tring: British Ornithologists' Club, 1999. Octavo, coloured frontispiece, paperback. British Ornithologists' Club Occassional Publication, number four. More
No specimen left behind: mass digitization of natural history collections.
Sofia: Pensoft, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Zoo Keys 209. Centuries of exploration and discovery have documented the diversity of life on Earth. Records of this biodiversity are, for the most part, distributed across varied and distinct natural history collections worldwide. This makes the task of extracting and mobilising the..... More
Systematic dictionary of mammals of the world.
London: Museum Press, 1962. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Synopsis of animal classification.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1971. Octavo, text illustrations, paperback. More
Birds of the world: a checklist. English name index and Supplement No. 1.
Vista. Ibis, 1992. Octavo, paperback. Supplement No. 2 (10 loose pages) is available free with Supplement No. 1. More
A list of the names proposed for genera and subgenera of recent mammals from the publication of T. S. Palmer's 'Index Generum Mammalium' 1904 to the end of 1951.
London: British Museum, 1953. Octavo, binder's cloth, signature. More
A world list of mammalian species.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1991. third edition). Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy.
London: Henry G Bohn, (1863. new edition). Small quarto, 33 handcoloured plates, text illustrations. Contemporary full polished morocco, elaborate gilt spine, marbled endpapers and all edges marbled signature, a few spots. New edition with considerable additions by W.B. Carpenter and J.O. Westwood. More
Howard and Moore complete checklist of birds of the world, volume one: non-passerines.
Eastbourne: Aves Press, (2013. fourth edition). Quarto, laminated boards, CD-ROM, WAS $130. Revised extensively with additional new features, this edition has been updated to reflect the considerable change in our understanding of the evolution of birds derived from the study of their DNA over the past decade. This has resulted..... More
Priority! The dating of scientific names in ornithology: a directory to the literature and its reviewers.
Eastbourne: Aves Press, 2011. Quarto, laminated boards, CD-ROM, black and white photographs. Scientific names are vital to communicate clearly and efficiently about the amazing life around us. This is the first book to explain the importance of priority in relation to names in ornithology. Backgrounds are provided on the International..... More
A contribution to the distribution and taxonomy of Afrotropical and Malagasy birds.
Liege: Tauraco, 1993. Octavo, 387 pp., softcover. More
Mammals of the world: a checklist.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Octavo, dustwrapper. This book is a complete listing of all recognised mammal species in the world and covers 5,027 species. English and scientific names are given for each species as well as a brief summary of each species' range. An invaluable reference. More
Every living thing: man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper. In a series of vivid portraits of determined - even obsessed - scientists, Rob Dunn shows that we are not even close to knowing all life on earth. We are not close to naming it, studying it, not even close to knowing..... More
Phylogenetic analyses of postcranial skeletal morphology in Didelphid marsupials.
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 2009. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 320. More
Mammal collection management.
Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1987. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
Birds: an illustrated survey of the bird families of the world.
Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1975. Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Grzimek's encyclopedia of mammals.
New York: McGraw Hill, 1990. Large octavo, colour photographs, fine set in dustwrappers. More
A revision of Colubrid snakes of the subfamily Homalopsine.
Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1970. Octavo, photographs, softcover. University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, volume 20, number two. More
Papers in honour of Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1788).
Perth: Records of the Western Australian Museum, 2008. Quarto, photographs, softcover. Records of the Western Australian Museum, volume 24, part four. More
Index of the books and authors cited in the Zoological works of Linneaus.
London: Ray Society, 2007. Quarto, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The systematics and evolution of the oriental Colubrid snakes of the genus Calamaria.
Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1965. Octavo, text illustrations. modern, quarter morocco, wrappers retained, a fine copy. Fieldiana Zoology Volume 49. More
An annotated checklist of the birds of the Oriental region.
Sandy: Oriental Bird Club, 1996. Octavo, softcover. All 2,586 species recorded in the Oriental region are listed, with relevant taxonomic information and alternative names. Covers the region from Pakistan to China, and south to Wallacea. More
Mammalian diversification: from chromosomes to phylogeograph (a celebration of the career of James L. Patton).
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Large octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations. James L. Patton served as Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and as Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1969 until 2001. This book aims to bring..... More
Populations, species and evolution: an abridgement of animal species and evolution.
Cambridge MA: Belknap Press, 1970. Octavo, maps, diagrams, signature, dustwrapper. More