The birds of Indonesia: a checklist (Peters' sequence).
Jakarta: Indonesian Ornithological Society, 1992. Octavo, softcover. More
Asia
Flora of the Shanghai area set: Volumes one, two and three.
Melbourne: Authors, 2002. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Volumes one and two bound in one: Flora of the Shanghai area: Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Volume 2: Gymnospermae. [stock id 11566]. Volume three: Flora of the Shanghai area: Book 2, Volume 3. Dicotyledoneae: Casuarinaceae to Apiaceae[stock id 25189]. The only books..... More
Flora of the Shanghai area: Book two, Volume three. Dicotyledoneae: Casuarinaceae to Apiaceae.
Melbourne: Authors, 2002. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Companion volume to Flora of the Shanghai area: Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Volume 2: Gymnospermae [stock id 11566]. The only books in English on the local flora of the Shanghai region. Also available as a set [stock id 25190]. More
Flora of the Shanghai area: Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Volume two: Gymnospermae
Melbourne: Author, 1996. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Two volumes bound in one: Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Volume 2: Gymnospermae. Companion volume to Flora of the Shanghai area: Book 2, Volume 3. Dicotyledoneae: Casuarinaceae to Apiaceae [stock id 25189]. The only books in English on the local flora of the..... More
The gardens of the sun: a naturalist's journal of Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago.
Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1991. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Wild China: the hidden wonders of the world's most enigmatic land.
London: Yale University Press, 2008. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. China has more varied habitats for wildlife than anywhere else in the world: rivers carve immense gorges through the world's loftiest mountain peaks; vast deserts range from searing heat to mind-numbing cold; wild horses gallop across grass steppe land; shallow seas..... More
Wild India: the wildlife and scenery of India and Nepal.
London: William Collins and Son, 1985. Quarto, colour photographs, very good in dustwrapper. More
A photographic guide to birds of Peninsula Malaysia and Singapore.
London: New Holland, 1995. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, softcover. Compact, easy to use format; the ideal pocket-size travelling companion with authoritative text describing key identification features and full-colour photographs illustrating each of the 252 species. More
The birds of northern Thailand.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 186, 1945. Octavo, photographs, chipped and worn wrappers. More
Checklist of the birds of Thailand.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1963. Octavo, wrappers, Bulletin 226. More
The botanical gardens of China.
Beijing: Science Press, 1983. Oblong format, photographs, signature, dustwrapper. More
Birds of the Philippines.
New York: Macmillan, (1946. first edition). Octavo, illustrations, very good copy lacking dustwrapper. More
Birds of Malaysia.
New York: Macmillan, 1947. Octavo, text illustrations, chipped and faded dustwrapper, scarce. More
The birds of the Philippines: an annotated checklist.
Tring: British Ornithologists' Union, 1991. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. BOU Checklist 12. This checklist covers the 556 species so far recorded, of which 169 are endemic. Includes species notes, gazetteer and complete systematic list. More
Philippine birds.
Greenville: Delaware Museum of Natural History, 1971. Quarto, 85 colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Philippine birds.
Greenville: Delaware Museum of Natural History, 1971. Quarto, 85 colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The retreat of the elephants: an environmental history of China.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Octavo, softcover. This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand years for which there are written records. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views..... More
L'eruption de Krakatoa et les tremblements de terre.
Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, [c1868}. Duodecimo, uncoloured frontispiece of the eruption. Contemporary quarter binder's cloth and marled boards, some wear. More
Across the Tibetan plateau: ecosystems, wildlife and conservation.
New York: WW Norton & Co, 2007. Oblong format, colour photographs, dustwrapper. The beauty and diversity of Tibet is staggering: from Mount Everest to the world's deepest gorge, from tropical jungles to arctic-like tundra, from trees twenty feet in diameter to vast herds and solitary specimens of some of the..... More
Notes on a collection of birds from Bataan, Luzon, Philippine Islands.
New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1950. Octavo, wrappers. More
The birds of the Malay Peninsula, Singapore and Penang: an account of all the Malayan species, with a note of their occurrence in Sumatra, Borneo, and Java and a list of the birds of those islands.
Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, (1978. reprint). Octavo, colour plates, softcover. More
The birds of the Malay Peninsula, Singapore and Penang: an account of all the Malayan species, with a note of their occurrence in Sumatra, Borneo, and Java and a list of the birds of those islands.
Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, (1985. reprint). Octavo, colour plates, softcover. More
India: land of Tigers and temples.
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2014. Quarto, oblong format, colour photographs, map, dustwrapper. In this new pictorial work by Axel Gomille, you can experience the magic of a world of contrasts, of ever-changing colours, exotic scents and unfamiliar sounds, that seduces all of your senses all at once. Axel Gomille is..... More
The birds of Korea.
Seoul: Royal Asiatic Society, 1971. Octavo, colour plates, photographs, fine copy in slightly sunned dustwrapper, scarce. Text in Korean and English. More
Variations among birds (chiefly game birds).
Tokyo: The Ornithological Society of Japan, 1928. Octavo, photographs, softcover, some wear. More