Mate choice.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. second edition). Octavo, text illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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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 Although superceded by the later edition (Pratt and Beehler), plus the new guide by Phil Gregory, this is still a very useful book which covers over 700 species of birds and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, signature, softcover. More
The Birds of Papua New Guinea, including the Bismarck Archipelago and Bougainville.
Brisbane: Dove, 1985-1990. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, a very good set in dustwrappers. One of the better modern New Guinea bird books, the photographs of the Birds of Paradise are spectacular. With introductory chapters and a bibliography. 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
The new flora of the volcanic island of Krakatau.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1908. Octavo, photographs, map. Publisher's cloth, a fine copy. 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
Handbooks of the flora of Papua New Guinea, volume two.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This is the second volume of a series which began in 1978 with the aim of presenting information on the Papuasian flora in a concise and correlated form. A large part of this volume is dedicated to an..... More
Birds of New Guinea.
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1956. Quarto, colour plates by Lillian Medland. Publisher's quarter leather with gilt spine, some light wear, very good set in slipcase. 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
New Guinea vegetation.
Canberra: CSIRO, 1976. Octavo, text illustrations, maps, a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Handbook of New Guinea birds.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967. Octavo, illustrations, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper. Once very sought after, although now superceded by later field guides, Rand and Gilliard is still an important book and essential for any New Guinea natural history collection. More
Birds of New Guinea: illustrations from the lithographs of John Gould.
London: Methuen, 1970. Large octavo, colour plates, inscription, tape marks and dusted top edge, dustwrapper. More
Birds of New Guinea: illustrations from the lithographs of John Gould.
London: Methuen, 1970. Octavo, colour plates, owner's stamp otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Encyclopaedia of Papua and New Guinea.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1972. Large octavo, photographs, folding map, text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, a fine set. An outstanding reference with excellent and lengthy summaries of the flora and fauna. Richard Schodde wrote bird entry, Harold Cogger the reptiles, and Robert Johns the vegetation. More
Contributions to Papuasian ornithology part one:.Report on the birds of the Lake Kutubu area, Territory of Papua and New Guinea.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1968. Octavo, wrappers. More
Contributions to Papuasian ornithology. part six: Survey of the birds of southern Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1977. Octavo, wrappers, maps, photographs, signature, fine copy. 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
Conservation of major plant communities in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Melbourne: Australian Journal of Botany/ CSIRO, 1974. Octavo, a few slight creases, softcover. Australian Journal of Botany, Supplementary Series, number seven. 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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