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Neptune, NJ, U.S.A.: TFH, 1978. HEAVY. 584pp, full-page colour plates, line drawings, distribution maps, bibliography, index. Pictorial boards, no jacket. Some bubbling of surface of front cover, page edges toned in bands. This 'improved' 1978 edition has expanded indices. The definitive work on the world's parrots covering all species and some sub-species. Over 500 birds illustrated in colour..… Read more about this item

Rockhampton: Central Queensland University Press, 2005. 221pp. Pictorial card. Light edge wear to covers. Two brothers from a pioneering pastoralist family in the Kimberley pioneer the fight against land degradation andthe new struggle for ecologically sustainable development in the 1940s. A though provoking sequel to Mary Durack's Kings in Grass Castles.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Small 4to.… Read more about this item

Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 1995. 127pp, index, glossary, num bw & col ills. Pictorial card. Slight bumps to front corners. More valuable than gold, Coober Pedy's quality opal can be worth as much as $5000 per ounce, in its rough state. Coober Pedy produces the bulk of Australia's opal supply to the world. Here is the story of Coober Pedy and… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1988. vii, 261pp, index, glossary, bibliography, num col & bw ills. Pink cloth in jacket. Light foxing to top edge and minor foxing to prelims, small bookseller label to front pastedown, a little wear and tiny mark to edges of boards. Asia has some of the most beautiful and unusual orchid species, yet many are rarely… Read more about this item

New York: Universe Books, 1977. 165pp. Blue cloth in acket. Some silverfishing to bottom edge of cloth. In the 1920s the author, as a young man, sailed Antarctic waters at the height of the whaling and sealing season. Wherever he travelled- the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, South Shetlands and South Orkneys- he encountered penguins. Here he records his observations of… Read more about this item

Townsville: The Authors, 2012. 207pp, index, bibliography/references, 380+ col ills, maps. Pictorial card in publishers plastic cover. Slight crease to top front corner. . Second Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Brisbane: Roy Osborne & Wynand van Eeden., 2007. viii, 116pp, glossary, bibliography, appendices, num col ills, line drawings, mpas. Green cloth in jacket. Generally light wear to jacket edges with 1cm tear at bottom front. Covers all Vietnemese cycad species including Stangerioides, Indosinensis and Cycas and includes toxicity and ethnobotany.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Brisbane: The Author, 2012. viii, 298pp, bibliography, glossary, bw ills. Or white card with picture of lungfish to front. Several small reddish marks to fore-edge, light spotting to top edge and light crease to front cover. States limited edition on cover but no quantity stated. Every aspect of the lungfish is covered from fossils, early discoveries and stories to anatomy… Read more about this item

Sydney: Sydney Speliological Society, 1982. viii, 224pp, index, references, bw ills, graphs, tables, maps, endpaper maps. Blackboards in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket, a few red speckles to top and fore-edge. The history, geology, climate, fossils, flora and fauna of the Wombeyan Caves west of Sydney.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London: Profile Books, 2018. 255pp, index, sources, bw ills. Green cloth in jacket. Near new. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Reed New Holland, 2000. HEAVY. 808pp, index, references, glossary, appendices, hundreds photographs (most color), distribution maps. Red cloth in jacket. Jacket covered with clear adhesive coating, faded on & by spine, slight rubbing to bottom edge of boards. Provides complete identification keys to the entire Australian herpetofauna. These keys together with hundreds of photographs of living frogs… Read more about this item

London: Thames & Hudson in Association with the Natural History Museum, 2007. HEAVY. 3047pp, index, further readinbg, num bw & col ills. Red cloth in jacket. Very small scuff to front free endpaper otherwise near new. The lives of the great naturalists including the ancients, the renaissance, the enlightenment and the 19th century.. First UK Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Queensland Museum Network, 2021. vi, 245pp, index, further reading, map, 400+ col & some bw ills. Pictorial card with integral flaps. As new. Eungella, in the hinterland of Mackay, lies within the longest continuous strtch of rainforest in Australia outside the wet tropics of north Queensland. More than 30 authors-experts in their respective fields of botany, zoology, geology, ecology,… Read more about this item

Utrecht: Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, 2006. 231pp, index, line drawings, col ills. Pictorial card. Minor edge wear to cover.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1988. HEAVY. 216pp, index, bibliography, exhibitions list, 200 plates. Cloth in jacket. Light wear to jacket. Jacket variant showing eagle. A range of the artist's wild portraits covering his wanderings from the Arctic to Australia. As well as works shown in their final painted form, many sheets of preparatory pencil sketches are also included. Over… Read more about this item

Nerang, Qld: Petaurus Publishing, 2002. 85pp, bw ills. Pictorial card. Moderate edge wear to covers, bottom front corner creased. SIGNED and inscribed (To Steve) by compiler (David Fleahy's daughter) on title page. David Fleahy, first to breed the platypus in captiviy and pioneering Australian conservationist, has his writings on Australia's largest raptor compiled in this volume by his daughter.. Signed… Read more about this item

Harare, Zimbabwe: Tutorial Press, 1994. 143pp, index, bibliography, num col photographs, bw sketches, maps, diagrams. Blue boards in jacket. Lightest of edge wear to jacket. The history of the falls, natural history and people of the region-with stunning photographs.. Revised Editio, Fourth Printing.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Norton, Larry (sketches). 4to.

Melbourne: Brolly Books, 2016. 44pp, references, map, col ills (many full page), pictorial endpapers. Pictorial glossy boards. An introduction to the life and work of late 19th/early 20th century Australian artist Ellis Rowan. Her mission was to record the exotic beauty of the native plants, flowers and birds she saw around her. Best known for her flower paintings this book… Read more about this item

Sydney: UNSW, 1995. ix, 160pp, index, bibliography, endnotes. Pictorial card. Light edge wear to cover, very light foxing to page edges. For 50000 years before white settlement the Aboriginal people were an integral part of the Australian environment. They harvested the land and changed the environment to suit themselves. Fire was their tool for doing this. . First Edition. Soft… Read more about this item

San Diego: Sunbelt Publications, 2005. xii, 188pp, index, contributors, references, col ills, map. Pictorial card. Near new. SIGNED by Richard Halsey and 3 other contributors on title page. . Signed by Author & 3 Others. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.