The kangaroo.
Sydney: Kevin Weldon, 1985. Quarto, colour photographs. More
MAMMALS - Marsupials and Monotremes
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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. More
Living marsupials.
Sydney: Collins, 1970. Quarto, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Kangaroos: biology of the largest marsupials.
Sydney: UNSW Press, (1995. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations. Some sunning, otherwise a fine copy. Covers many features of kangaroo biology, such as reproductive patterns, social structure and locomotor characteristics as well as other facets of biology, ecology and behaviour. Australian Natural History Series. More
Paradoxical Platypus: hobnobbing with duckbills.
Milton: Jacaranda Press, (1980. first edition), Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Kangaroos.
Melbourne: Cheshire, 1969. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. A classic account of the biology of Australian macropods. More
Kangaroos: with modern commentaries by Joan Dixon.
Melbourne: Macmillan, 1973. Folio, colour plates, Publisher's cloth and slipcase. More
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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... More
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. More
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... More
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. More
Bush animals of Australia.
Sydney: Shepherd Press, 1950. Folio, photographs, softcover. In the original publisher's printed envelope. More
Australia's amazing Kangaroos: their conservation, unique biology and coexistence with humans.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2012. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, colour illustrations, maps, graphs. WAS $50. This book is an authoritative source of information on kangaroos and their relatives. Chapters discuss topics such as species characteristics and biology, adaptations and function, and conservation. The book also discusses culling and the commercial kangaroo... More
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... More
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. More
The biology of marsupials.
London: Macmillan Press, 1977. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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. More
Reproductive physiology of marsupials.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustrapper. More
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. More
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