Audubon and his journals: with zoological and other notes by Elliott Coues.
London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. Octavo, photographic plates. Publisher's blindstamped cloth, inscription on front endpaper, a fine set. More
GENERAL - Biography and Literature
Thomas Bewick. My life.
London: The Folio Society, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's quarter cloth. More
Asa Fitch and the emergence of American entomology.
Albany NY: The University of the State of New York, 1988. Quarto, black and white photographs, softcover. More
The life of Captain James Cook.
London: A & C Black, 1974. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The wonderful Mr. Willoughby: the first true ornithologist.
London: Bloomsbury Books, 2018. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Linnaeus: progress and prospects in Linnean research.
Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1980. Octavo, publisher's printed cloth. More
Charles Darwin: the power of place.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2002. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. In 1858, Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside. He was not yet a focus of debate; his "big book on species" still lay on his desk as..... More
Charles Darwin: Voyaging. Volume one of a biography.
London: Jonathon Cape, (1995. first edition). Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. An acclaimed biography, which covers Darwin's life up until 1856, the year he decided to commence work on the book he planned to call Natural Selection. More
Windward road: adventures of a naturalist on remote Caribbean shores.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. Octavo, photographs, maps, softcover. Originally published in 1956, Archie Carr's landmark publication helped set in motion a movement to protect sea turtles that spread throughout the world and remains strong today. Archie Carr's unmatched style of nature writing, accessible to experienced naturalists and laypersons..... More
Charles Darwin.
London: West Brothers, 1973. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. More
The journeys and plant introductions of George Forrest.
London: Oxford University Press, 1952. Octavo, folding map, black and white plates. Publisher's cloth, very slight rubbing, inscription, a very good copy. More
The lady and the Panda: the true adventures of the first American explorer to bring back China's most exotic animal.
New York: Random House, 2005. Octavo, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $50. The true story of Ruth Harkness, a bohemian socialite and dress designer who in 1936 took over her dead husband's expedition into Tibet to capture the first live Giant panda. More
The hound and the hawk: the art of medieval hunting.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
John Gould and the fauna of Southern Australia.
Adelaide: Crawford House, 2004. Quarto, colour illustrations, limited to 100 numbered and signed copy, softcover. The trade version of this title was abandonned and replaced with: Dawes, Sean. John Gould: an Australian perspective. Stepney: Axiom Publishing, 2011. More
Dear Mr. Darwin: letters on the evolution of life and human nature.
London: Orion Publishing, 2000. Octavo, paperback, line drawings. 'Dear Mr Darwin - You might find it presumptuous of me, if not a little macabre, that I should take up my pen and write to you more than a hundred years after your death...Despite the gulf that separates us in time..... More
Francois Péron: an impetuous life.
Carlton South: Miegunyah Press, 2006. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. In 1800 François Péron, an ambitious young medical student not long released from the French revolutionary army, gained a place as an assistant zoologist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australian waters. As his colleagues either deserted or died..... More
Gorilla Mountain: the story of wildlife biologist Amy Vedder.
New York: Franklin Watts, 2005. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. Biography of the life and work of Amy Vedder. More
A memoir of Thomas Bellerby Wilson, M.D., prepared in pursuance of a resolution of the entomological society of Philadelphia, by a committee.
Place of publication unknown: Printed for private publication, 1939. Large octavo, roneograph facsimile (recto only), binder's brown boards, a fine copy. More
The life of George Bass: surgeon and sailor of the enlightenment.
St Leonards: Allen and Unwin, 2005. Octavo, maps, a fine copy in dustwrapper. Brings to bear exhaustive research in the archives and libraries of the world, to present an account of the life and death of this most complicated man. More
John Banister and his natural history of Virginia 1678-1692.
Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1970. Octavo, black and white photographs. More
John Banister and his natural history of Virginia 1678-1692.
Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1970. Octavo, black and white photographs. Margaret Stones bookplate, lengthy inscription to Margaret Stones from authors, chipped dustwrapper otherwise a fine copy. More
The 1826 journal of John James Audubon. An account of his journey to England and Scotland to arrange the publication of The Birds of America. Transcribed from the original, in the collection of Henry Bradley Martin, and with a foreword and notes.
New York: Abbeville Press, (1987. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The 1826 journal of John James Audubon. An account of his journey to England and Scotland to arrange the publication of The Birds of America. Transcribed from the original, in the collection of Henry Bradley Martin, and with a foreword and notes.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1967. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, some wear, softcover. More
John James Audubon.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1964. reprint). Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
In nature's name: an anthology of women's writing and illustration, 1780-1930.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, softcover. The varied works in this volume include passionate essays on the protection of animals, vivid accounts of travel and adventure from the English seashore to the Himalayas, poetry and fiction, and marvellous tales of nature for children. Special features..... More