The kangaroo.
Sydney: Kevin Weldon, 1985. Quarto, colour photographs.
MAMMALS - Marsupials and Monotremes
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Marsupials of Australia, volume two: carnivorous marsupials and bandicoots.
Chatswood: Lansdowne, 1987. Folio, colour plates by Rosemary Woodford Ganf. Publisher's cloth covered boards with embossed brown calf inset, limited edition of 1000 copies signed and numbered by author and artist, fine copy.
Monotreme biology: proceedings of a Symposium held in Sydney, May 1978.
Sydney: Australian Zoologist Special Symposium Issue, Volume 20, Part 1, [1978]. Octavo, wrappers, illustrations, wrappers.
Living marsupials.
Sydney: Collins, 1970. Quarto, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper.
The Platypus: its discovery, zoological position, form and characteristics, habits, life history, etc.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson/ Harper Collins, Publisher, (1927. first edition). Octavo, coloured fronispiece, photographs; a magnificent copy in a near pristine unclipped dustwrapper, almost free of foxing, rare in this condition.
Paradoxical Platypus: hobnobbing with duckbills.
Milton: Jacaranda Press, (1980. first edition), Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper.
Kangaroos.
Melbourne: Cheshire, 1969. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. A classic account of the biology of Australian macropods.
Australian marsupials and monotremes.
New York: Doubleday, (1975. reprint). Folio, colour plates, very good copy in slipcase.
Australian marsupials and monotremes: with modern commentaries by Joan Dixon.
South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1974. Folio, colour plates, bookplate, fine copy in blank cardboard slipcase.
Kangaroos: with modern commentaries by Joan Dixon.
Melbourne: Macmillan, 1973. Folio, colour plates, Publisher's cloth and slipcase.
![A monograph of the Macropodidae, or family of kangaroos [facsimile]. John Gould.](/pictures/thumb/13996.jpg?v=1550887241)
A monograph of the Macropodidae, or family of kangaroos [facsimile].
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981. Folio, 30 colour plates. Publisher's cloth with locket portrait, limited edition of 750 copies numbered and signed by Joan M. Dixon, a very good copy. This is a facsimile edition of the two-part work, A Monograph of the Macropodidae of Family of Kangaroos, published by John...
The Tasmanian Tiger in pictures.
Hobart: St David's Park Publishing, 1991. Oblong format, photographs, Tasmanian Devil bookplate, softcover. An excellent little book with some lovely early photographs of Thylacines.
The development of the Monotremata.
London: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 1933]. Large quarto, ten photographic plates. Modern half calf and marbled boards, wrappers retained, a fine copy. Part one: The histology of the oviduct during gestation Part two: The structure of the egg-shell. Extracted from the Transactions of the Zoological Society of...
On the generation of the marsupial animals, with a description of the impregnated uterus of the Kangaroo [drop title].
London: Philosophical Transactions, [1834]. Large quarto, two lithographic plate, later stiff wrappers, the bookplate of P. J. Moors.
![On the mammary glands of the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus [drop title]. Richard Owen.](/pictures/thumb/34637.jpg?v=1550889064)
On the mammary glands of the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus [drop title].
London: Philosophical Transactions, [1834]. Large quarto, four lithographic plates, later stiff wrappers, the bookplate of P. J. Moors. One of a series of brilliant papers published in the Philosophical Transactions by Richard Owen which lead to the conclusion that the Monotremata were egg laying mammals.
The last Tasmanian Tiger: the history and extinction of the Thylacine.
Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, (2000. reprint). Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. A complete and up to date examination of the behaviour, social history and extinction of the thylacine. The author challenges many conventional ideas about the species and the causes of its extinction.
Bush animals of Australia.
Sydney: Shepherd Press, 1950. Folio, photographs, softcover. In the original publisher's printed envelope.
A key and field guide to the possums, gliders and Koala.
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1997. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. The photographs originally appeared in "Possums and gliders" by Smith and Hume. This field key uses characteristics that will enable the user to identify the larger (greater than 100 gm) species of Australian phalangeroids at a distance, but smaller species may...
Marsupials of Australia, volume one: possums, the Koala and wombats.
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1980. Folio, colour plates by Rosemary Woodford Ganf. Publisher's cloth covered boards with embossed brown calf inset, limited edition of 1000 copies signed and numbered by author and artist, fine copy.
Marsupials of Australia, volumes one and two.
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1980- 1987. Folio, colour plates by Rosemary Woodford Ganf. Publisher's cloth covered boards with embossed brown calf inset, limited edition of 1000 copies signed and numbered (number 123) by author and artist, bookplates, a fine set. Freight is extra. Volume one: possums, the Koala and wombats. Volume...
Kangaroos and men: a symposium of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales and held at the Australian Museum, Sydney, on 4th July, 1970.
Sydney: Australian Zoologist, 1971. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's wrappers. Australian Zoologist, volume 16, part one.
Reproductive physiology of marsupials.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustrapper.
Mammalia. Marsupialia or pouched animals.
Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, [1855. second edition]. Duodecimo, handcoloured half title and 34 handcoloured plates. Contemporary half calf and cloth boards, marbled endpapers, some shelf wear otherwise a very good copy. The naturalist's library, volume 24. Most Australian species are covered with an accompanying handcoloured plate.
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