Search Results: NATURE / Animals from Lawrence Jones

Sydney: Surrey Beatty & Sons Limited, 1989. HEAVY. 2 volume set. xvi, 835pp, index, references, tables, bw & col ills. Or brown cloth in jackets. Light edge wear to jackets, a couple of tiny spots of foxing to edges. The first comprehensive modern review of the macropods of Australia and Papua New Guinea. Each of seven sections deals with a major field of research into macropod biology- Evolution, zoogeography and community ecology; diet, feeding and digestion; energy, water and temperature relations; reproductive biology; development, growth and sexual dimorphism; social organization and behavioural ecology; population ecology and management. There also a further 16 papers reporting results from individual projects.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1923. xv, 256pp, bw ills. Or brown cloth with vignette of lion pride in black to front/title and stork in gilt to spine, no jacket. Prev owner bookplate (with name blacked out) on front pastedown, small bookseller label on front pastedown. Light toning to endpapers, some foxing to page edges. A very nice copy. Observations of South East African wildlife translated from the Afrikaans.. First English Language Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. xiii, 262pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices, bw ills. Pictorial card. Near new. Traces the evolution of zoos from private menageries of the ancient world to the corporatised organisations of today. How successful are today's zoos in preserving endangered species?. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. 189pp, index, bibliography, col ills. Pictorial card. Slight edge wear to covers, endpapers toned. Account of 6 months travel through the outback of the 3 fence states- New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia- plus the dingo country of Western Australia. Always in focus is the Dingo Fence and with it Australia's wild dog, the dingo.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Stein & Day, 1970. 368pp, index, bibliography, bw & col ills, pictporial endpapers. Or green cloth in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket, short tear at bottom left of front panel. The author's experiences a zoologist among the animals of Africa as he works towards their preservation.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1905. viii, 459pp, index, num bw ills. Or green cloth. Spine a bit faded, prev owner name in pencil on front free endpaper, light even toning to page edges.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Random House, 2000. xviii, 300pp, index, bibliography, bw ills. Boards in jacket. Near new. Elephants in zoos and the quest to breed elephants by artificial insemination. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Melbourne: Sun News Pictorial, 1935. 43pp, bw & col ills. Or staples paper wraps. Bookseller label at top of front cover. Short tear at stapled edge, some wear to spine. No date but ANL gives date for this series as 1930s. Includes marsupails, reptiles. Very nice col plates.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. 4to.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1966. 128pp, index, bw & col ills, pictorial endpapers. Or cloth in jacket. Prev owner name etc on front free endpaper, a couple of tears and small chip to jacket. Nearly 200 photos of flora and fauna of Australia and Papua New Guinea.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Very Good. 4to.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. 251pp, bw ills. Or green cloth in jacket. Minor edge wear to top of jacket, spine slightly darkened.The further adventures of Elephant Bill in the jungles and teak forests of Burma.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Pitz, Henry C.. 8vo.

Sydney: Macmillan, 1984. 144pp, references, col plates. Green boards in jacket. Very light edge wear, light foxing to prelims. Beautiful full page colour plates representing a generous selection from Gould's original three volumes on Australian mammals.. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Gould, John.. Folio.

Cape Town: David Philip, 1994. 192pp, index, num col ills. Or red cloth in jacket. Very light foxing to endpapers, a few marks to jacket. The flora and fauna of South Africa's Cape of Good Hope from the mountains and plateau to the shore.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by McMahon, Liz.. 4to.

New York: Abradale, 1986. HEAVY-will require additional postage to most destinations. 243pp, index, bibliography, glossary, bw ills, colour plates, maps. Cloth boards in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket. Faint damp line at bottom margins and some rippling to pages but presents very nicely. The grace and beauty of the big cats portrayed in the wonderful paintings of Guy Coheleach, accompanied by an iformative text by a leading expert on feline species. The text traces the evolutionary basis for the structure and behaviour of each cat, explores the movements of the predatory attack, what gave rise to the unusual coat patterns, the reasons they live where they do and the lore that has grown up around them.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Coheleach, Guy.. Folio.

Selangor, Malaysia: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2008. 97pp, bibliography, col ills, tables, map. Green cloth in jacket with slipcase. Slipcase bumped at one corner. Near new. Biodiversity of the mangrove firest of Sungai Pulai and the Ramsar site in Johor, Malaysia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1880. ix, 49pp + 24 col plates (with 423 figures/diagrams) + 4pp publisher's catalogue at rear. Green cloth with title and mushroom in gilt to front, black decoration. Cloth worn at bottom front corner, light to moderate foxing throughout. "Containing arrangement and explanation, equivalent terms, glossary and classification".. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 4to.

Geneva: World Health Organization, 1954. 172pp, bibliography, appendices, tables, graphs, line drawings. Or blue card. Minor wear to covers, a little toning/foxing to page edges. The mosquito Anopheles gambiae- its biology and role in the spread of malaria including anthropophilic and zoophilic populations. With compliments letter at front from WHO/Director Division of Malaria Education.. First English Language Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Northampton: Interlink Books, 2005. x, 491pp, index, 100+ col plates, line drawings. Pictorial card. Front cover creased. More than 500 insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

London: Bloomsbury, 1989. xii, 410pp, index, bibliography, appendices, bw ills. Or white cloth in jacket. Light toning to edges, slightest of edge wear to jacket. One of the Collins New Naturalist Series.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

USA: Swallow Press, 2005. 384pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills. Pictorial card. Very light edge wear. Several related clippings loosely inserted. From herds that spread as far as the eye could see to near extinction here is the story of the American buffalo or bison. Includes the location of almost every extant animal at the time of publication, instructions of raising buffalo and even some buffalo recipes.. Revised Edition, Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Millennium Books, 1996. viii, 207pp, index, appendix, references, bw ills, maps. Original card. Light foxing to top edge. Through folklore, fantasy and fact, a qualified zoologist looks at Australia's mustery animals- yowiees, bunyips, bigfoots, myterious big cats, sea serpents and mainland thylacines.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.