Mate choice.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. second edition). Octavo, text illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Papua New Guinea and the Pacific
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Species-checklist of the birds of New Guinea.
Melbourne: RAOU, 1985. Octavo, softcover. More
Birds of New Guinea.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1986. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, softcover. Although superceded by the later edition (Pratt and Beehler), plus the new guide by Phil Gregory, this is still a very useful book which covers over 700 species of birds and illustrates most of them in colour. The text..... More
Upland birds of northeastern New Guinea: a guide to the hill and mountain birds of Morobe Province.
Wau: Wau Ecology Institute, 1978. Octavo, colour plates, other illustrations, softcover. More
The animal world of Nethlerlands New Guinea.
Groningen: J. B. Wolters, 1958. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Report on mammals collected during the Bishop Museum Expedition to Mt. Dayman, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Occasional Papers No. 51, 1997. Octavo, softcover. More
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Roermond-Maaseik: J J Romen and Zonen, [1934]. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations. Modern half morocco, coloured labels. In Dutch. Primarily about Dutch New Guinea, now West Papua. More
Observations of a naturalist in the Pacific between 1896 and 1899.
London: Macmillan, 1903-1906. Octavo, illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, some slight discolouration, a very good set. Volume one: Vanua Levu, Fiji: a description of its leading physical and geological characters. Volume two: plant-dispersal. More
Birds of New Guinea.
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1956. Quarto, colour plates by Lilian Medland. Publisher's quarter morocco and decorated spine, chipped dustwrappers, the stamp of Ian Rowley. More
Trees of Hawai'i.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. An easy to use introduction to the trees and shrubs of Hawaii. Organised by colour with information on identification and distribution. More
The birds of Port Moresby and district.
Melbourne: Nelson, (1970. first edition). Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The Birds of Northern Melanesia: speciation, dispersal and ecology.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Octavo, nine colour plates by H. Douglas Pratt, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. Despite the biological importance of speciation many questions about it remain controversial. This book provides by far the most comprehensive study yet available of speciation in a rich fauna, composed of..... More
Handbook of New Guinea birds.
New York: The Natural History Press, (1968. reprint). Octavo, illustrations, lacks dustwrapper but otherwise a fine copy. Although superceded by the later Beehler field guides, Rand and Gilliard is still a great book and one of the better bird books of the twentieth century. More
The Paliau movement in the Admiralty Islands, 1946-1954.
New York: Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 1965. Small quarto, black and white photographs, very good in wrappers. More
The Ibis, tenth series, volume five.
London: The Ibis, 1917. Octavo, eleven plates. Binder's cloth, a very good copy. This volume has papers of Australian interest including The birds of Dirk Hartog Island by Thomas Carter with two handsome chromolithographic plates of wrens. More
Krakatau 1883: the volcanic eruption and its effects.
Washington: Smithsonian Press, 1983. Octavo, 464 pp, lacks dustwrapper. More
A revision of the genus Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae) in the New Guinean region.
New York: The American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin volume 173, article 3,1982. Octavo, wrappers, photographs, text figures, bookplate. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History volume 173. More
La collezione ornitologica di Tommaso Salvadori.
Bergamo: Museo di Science Naturali, 1997. Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. Italian and English text. More
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