Carnivorous marsupials.
Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1982. Quarto, illustrations, signature, fine set in dustwrappers. More
MAMMALS - Marsupials and Monotremes
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The Koala: proceedings of the Taronga Symposium on Koala biology, management and medicine, Sydney 11th and 12th March 1976.
Sydney: Zoological Parks Board of NSW, 1978. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, softcover. More
The life of the kangaroo.
New York: Taplinger, 1967. Quarto, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The Platypus.
Adelaide: Rigby, (1974. facsimile). Octavo, photographs, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Kangaroos: their ecology and management in the sheep rangelands of Australia.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in laminated boards. More
The mammals of Australia: incorporating the three original volumes.
Melbourne: Macmillan, 1983. Small folio, colour plates, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. with modern notes by Joan M. Dixon. More
The platypus: a unique mammal.
Sydney: NSW University Press, (1989. first edition). Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, signature, paperback. 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 kangaroo keepers.
St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1985. Octavo, colour plates, photographs, very good in dustwrapper. More
Kangaroo management in Western Australia.
Como: Department of Conservation and Land Management, 1986. Quarto, maps, softcover. Wildlife Management Program No. 3. More
The Native Bear of Australia.
Sydney: Koala Park, 1933. Octavo, oblong format, photographs, unpaginated, pictorial wrappers. More
Koala: a historical biography.
Collingwood: CSIRO, 2008. Small octavo, colour and black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This book examines the Koala's long seclusion from discovery (1803), its slow penetration of the European classificatory system, its distinctive history, and its emergence through observation, artistic and scientific depiction. It also covers Koala destruction..... More
The red kangaroo in Central Australia: an early account by A.E. Newsome.
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2016. Octavo, photographs, maps., softcover. The heart of Australia's ecological identity and restricted to the arid interior, the red kangaroo is Australia's largest terrestrial land mammal, and the largest extant marsupial. Almost nothing was known about the ecology of the red kangaroo when a young Alan..... More
The brain of the Opossum (Didelphus marsupialis).
Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1968. Folio, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Thylacine: the tragic tale of the Tasmanian tiger.
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, (2003. first edition). Small octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. An historical account of the demise of the Thylacine which examines the reasons for it's extinction and what is known about the biology of this marsupial predator. More
Spotlight on possums.
Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1980. Large octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
A key and field guide to the possums, gliders and Koala.
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1997. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. WAS $20. 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..... More
Marsupials of Australia: the kangaroos, wallabies and rat-kangaroos.
Melbourne: Mallon Publishing, 2005. Folio, 49 full colour plates by Rosemary Woodford Ganf. The complete book but UNBOUND. The book is in its publisher's block and the sections are stitched together. Signed by Rosemary Ganf and Tim Flannery and inscribed 'out of series'. The book will be sold in its..... 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
Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History).
London: [British Museum], 1888. Octavo, 28 lithographed plates (three coloured), bookplate. Publisher's cloth, some splitting, stamp on front endpaper, otherwise a crisp copy. More
Handbook of Canadian mammals, 1. Marsupials and Insectivores.
Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Nature, 1983. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations, maps. Describes and illustrates some of Canada's most interesting mammal species. With detailed illustrations showing the whole animal, the skull and other diagnostic characters. More
Some revision in Antechinus (Marsupilaia).
Melbourne: Fisheries and Wild Life Department, 1963. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Wildlife Contribution number four. More
The year of the kangaroo.
Sydney: A H and A W Reed, [1977]. Octavo, text illustrations, stamp on bottom edge, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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