Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Octavo, laminated boards, BRAND NEW. This reference book answers all your questions about the origins of the vernacular and scientific names of reptiles across the globe. This dictionary covers everyone after whom an extant or recently extinct reptile has been named. The entries include... More about The eponym dictionary of reptiles
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations, maps. Maps the 169 fish families that swim in fresh water around the world. This book includes the class, subclass, and order; a pronunciation guide to the family name; life cycle information; and various natural history facts. It... More about Freshwater fish distribution
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2014. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, maps. Having finished the Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW), Lynx has now published a checklist in association with BirdLife: HBW And Birdlife International Illustrated Checklist Of The Birds Of The World. This is not part of the HBW collection... More about HBW and BirdLife International illustrated checklist of the birds of the world, volume one:...
London: A & C Black, 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 about Mammals of the world: a checklist
Oxford: The Bodleian Library, 2014. Small octavo, publisher's boards, black and white illustrations. 'A murder of crows', 'a charm of goldfinches', 'an ostentation of peacocks': collective nouns for British birds have existed since at least the mid fifteenth century. They are thought to originate in texts about hunting, but have... More about A conspiracy of ravens: a compendium of collective nouns for birds
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centers, full of... More about Curators: behind the scenes of natural history museums
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, graphs, tables. Ornithological Monographs No.66. More about Cladistics and the origin of birds: a review and two new analyses
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 about Mammalian diversification: from chromosomes to phylogeograph (a celebration of the career of...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (1999. sixth edition). Quarto, photographs, very good set in dustwrappers. One of the classics of mammalian literature, constantly upgraded and always value for money. More about Walker's mammals of the world
Ludlow: Merlin Unwin Books, (2014. reprint). Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. The collective nouns of animals and birds have long inspired and intrigued. Many have their roots in medieval times, in particular applied to those creatures hunted by man, and subject to the etiquette of their proper group names. Palin has... More about A murmuration of starlings: the collective nouns of animals and birds
Greenwood: Roberts & Company, 2008. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. In 1990 Sibley and Monroe compiled a list of the world's birds. On that list were 9,672 species. In what has been something of a taxonomic revolution more have been added as vocalizations have been studied and DNA sequenced. Now there... More about Speciation in birds
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Mammals first evolved at about the same time as dinosaurs, and their story is perhaps the more fascinating of the two--in part because it is also our own story. In this literate and entertaining book, eminent naturalist David Rains Wallace brings... More about Beasts of Eden: walking whales, dawn horses, and other enigmas of mammal evolution
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Octavo, laminated boards, colour and black and white photographs, line drawings. In an age when biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, it is vital that floristic and faunistic information is up to date, reliable and easily accessible for the formulation of effective conservation... More about Descriptive taxonomy: the foundation of biodiversity research