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- BARRETT CHARLES Australian Nature Wonders.
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- BARRETT CHARLES Koala.
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- BARRETT CHARLES & A.N. Burns Butterflies Of Australia And New Guinea.
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- BOOTH EVELYN M. All About The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
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BRAZENOR C.W. The Mammals Of Victoria. And
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- BREWSTER MABEL N. & Agnes A. Brewster, Naomi Crouch, Life Stories Of Australian Insects illus.
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- CAMERON HECTOR CHARLES Sir Joseph Banks
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- CHISHOLM ALEC H. Nature Fantasy In Australia.
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- CERNOHORSKY WALTER O. Tropical Pacific Marine Shells
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- CLARKE H. EDWARDS The Modern Greyhound.
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- CLYNE DENSEY A Guide To Australian Spiders.
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- COLEMAN NEVILLE Shell Collecting In Australia.
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- COMMON I.F.B. & D. F. Waterhouse. Butterflies Of Australia.
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- COMMON I.F.B. Moths Of Australia.
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- CONDER PAMELA With Wings On Their Fingers
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- COOKE TONY Exhibition And Pet Mice.
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- CORBETT DAVID Yorke Peninsula.
A Natural History. illus. with 54 b/w. photographs, 42
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- COTTON BERNARD C. South Australian Shells. illus. with 6 full page plates t/out. pub. Adel. S.A. Museum 1946 or. grey wps. 4to. pp.14.
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- CRONIN LEONARD Ed. by. Dr. Archer Michael, Stephen Cork, Suzanne hand, Stephen Phillips and Malcolm Smith. Koala Australia's Endearing Marsupial.
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Banks. Ed. By J.b. Currey. illus. with facsimile geographic chart with
handwritten notes on end-papers, maps, line drawings, appendices,
bibliography, index; pub. Melb. Lansdowne Press 1966 1st.ed. or. cl.
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- D'ABRERA BERNARD Butterflies Of The Australian Region.
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pp.416. Important, work on the butterflies of Australia, Papua
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- D'ABRERA BERNARD Butterflies Of The Oriental Region.
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- D'ABRERA BERNARD Butterflies Of The Oriental Region.
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- DAKIN W.J. Australian Seashores.
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some col. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1956 or.cl. d/w. 8vo.
pp.XII.372. Tides and gravity, and explores the marine inhabitants of
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- DALZIEL HUGH The Greyhound;
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- DARWIN CHARLES On The Structure And Distribution Of Coral Reefs.
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South America visited during the voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle. illus.
with portrait, maps, some folding, plates and numerous illustrations;
pub. London, Ward, Lock & Co., n.d. c.1900 original decorated red
cloth 8vo. pp.XVI.560.6. fine copy.
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- DENLINGER MILO G. The Complete Pekingese.
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history of the breed, outline of the points of the well-bred dog,
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- DENLINGER, MILO G. The Complete Dachshund. illus. with drawings by Edwin Megargee, and text plates t/out. pub. Denlinger. Richmond VA. 1954 3rd ed. or.cl. gilt. roy.8vo. pp.144,4 with list of champions. Very good copy. Price: $40.00
- DAVEY KEITH Our Arid Environment
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pp.144. Extra: two col. bird plates loosely inserted, Examines how the
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- DEWAR DOUGLAS and Frank Finn The Making Of The Species
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- DOBROTWORSKY N.V. The Mosquitoes Of Victoria.
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- DOMM STEVEN Corals Of The Great Barrier Reef
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- EADIE ROBERT The Platypus Its Life And Habits.
With sidelights on `Splash' the tame
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1935 1st.ed. or. cream & sepia tinted pict. boards d/w.
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- EDWARDS HUGH Crocodile Attack In Australia.
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- EDWARDS HUGH Crocodile Attack .
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- EMMEL THOMAS C. Butterflies.
Their World, Their Life Cycle, Their
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- ELLIS ROSS, Bungonia Caves.
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plates, maps t/out. pub. Syd. The Sydney Speleological Society 1972 1st
ed. or. black & orange bds. cr.4to. pp.XII.230 map in pocket at
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- FINNEY C.M. To Sail Beyond The Sunset.
Natural History in Australia 1699-1829. profusely illus. with plates
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- FLANNERY Australia's Vanishing Mammals.
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- FLANNERY TIMOTHY Mammals Of New Guinea.
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- FLEAY DAVID We Breed The Platypus.
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- FLEAY DAVID Living With Animals.
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- FRANKEL EDGAR Bibliography Of The Great Barrier Reef Province.
illus. with 1 full-page map; appendices, index; pub. Canberra
Aust. Govt. Pub. Service 1978 or. white and blu. illus. bds.
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- HILL ROBIN The Corner.
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- JONES FREDERIC WOOD The Mammals Of South Australia.
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- LEE CHRISTOPHER Fish For Australian Freshwater Aquariums
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- LE SOUEF A. S. & Harry Burrell with a chapter on the Bats of Australia and New Guinea by Ellis Le G. Troughton The Wild Animals Of Australasia.
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- LORD CLIVE E. & H.H. Scott A Synopsis of the Vertebrate Animals Of Tasmania.
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- LOW TIM Bush Medicine.
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- LOWE WILLOUGHBY P. The Trail that is Always New
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- LUCAS A.H.S. and Mrs. Florence Perrin The Seaweeds of South Australia. Part II The Red Seaweeds.
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- LUNNEY DANIEL DANIELLE AYERS Ed. by. Herpetology In Australia.
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- McCUBBIN CHARLES Australian Butterflies.
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- McKEEN KEITH C. Nature In Australia.
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- McKEOWN KEITH C. Australian Spiders.
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- McKEOWN KEITH C. Spider Wonders Of Australia.
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- McKEOWN KEITH C. Insect Wonders Of Australia.
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- MacPHERSON J. HOPE & C.J. Gabriel Marine Molluscs Of Victoria.
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- MARSHALL A.J. (Ed.) The Great Extermination.
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- MARTIN MIA Dog Heraldry - The
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- MATHEWS V.A.H. The Cocker Spaniel.
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- MONRO RONALD K. Australian Nature Stories.
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- MONTAGU-HARRISON H. "The Guvnor" The Greyhound Trainer
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- MOORE J.L. The Canine King:
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- MOORE RAYMOND C. Cecil, G. Lalicker & Alfred G. Fischer Invertebrate Fossils.
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- MORLEY W. S Bee-Keeping For Profit illus. with frontis. & 7 full page plates t/out. pub. London Cassell & Co 1914 or. light brown cloth, 12mo. pp.124. Very good copy. Price: $60.00
- MORRISON CROSBIE Along The Track.
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- MORUS RICHARD LEWINSOHN Animals Men And Myths
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- NAPIER S. ELLIOTT On The Barrier Reef.
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moss green cl. 8vo. pp.XII.174. Natural history articles first
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- NAYLOR LEONARD E. The Irish Setter.
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- NEWMAN PETER The Miniature Schnauzer Club
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- NIALL IAN Portrait Of A Country Artist
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- NICHOLAS ANNA K. The Book of the Miniature Schnauzer
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- OVINGTON DERRICK Australian Endangered Species.
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- PENDER W.S. Australasian Queen Rearing
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- PHILLIPS W. J. and Buttles and Keefe The Modern Airedale
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- POOLEY BEATRICE "Millefleurs"
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- POPE E.C. & P.M. McDONALD Exploring Between Tidemarks.
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- PRATT AMBROSE The Call Of The Koala.
with illus. e/papers frontis. & 17 full page plates
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- RATCLIFFE FRANCIS Flying Fox And Drifting Sand.
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intoduction by Julian Huxley. illus. with 16 plates
pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1951 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.332. Classic
account of travel/natural history, originally published in England in
1938. The adventures of Francis Ratcliffe biologist and naturalist in
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- RAUP DAVID M. STEVEN M. STANLEY Principles Of Paleontology.
profusely illus. with dwgs., plates, dgms., t/out. pub.
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pp.X.388. Contents: Part I: Description and Classification of
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Species as a Unit. 6 Grouping of Species into Higher Categories. 7
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- RAYMENT TARLTON Money In Bees In Australasia.
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- RAYMENT TARLTON Profitable Honey Plants Of Australasia
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- RIDE W.D.L. A Guide To The Native Mammals Of Australia.
with e/paper maps & 62 b/w. full page drawings by Ella
Fry pub. Melb. Oxford Uni. Press 1980 or.cl. d/w. 4to.
pp.XIV.250. Written by a zoologist who, as a mammologist of many
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- ROGERS KEITH C. Across Mountain And Plain.
Writings of an East Gippsland Field Naturalist. illus. with 4
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- ROLLS ERIC C. They All Ran Wild.
The enthralling story of pests on the land in Australia. illus.
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- ROSS CHARLES A. Crocodiles And Alligators.
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- ROSS ESTELLE The Book Of Noble Dogs
with frontis. & 16 illustrations, biographical notes, bibliography.
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- ROUGHLEY T.C. Wonders Of The Great Barrier Reef.
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- ROUGHLEY T.C. The Goldfish In The Home.
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Technological Museum 1932 or.crm. & grn. wps. cr. 4to.
pp.26. v/good copy. Price: $25.00
- ROWE R.K. Report. A Study Of The Land In The Victorian Catchment Of Lake Hume.
illus. with fold-out dgms. plates t/out. col. folding map
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- ROWE R.K. Report. A Study Of The Land In The Mount BuffaloNational Park.
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- SANBORN HERBERT - The Dachshund Or Teckel illus.
with 239 b/w. illus. pub. New York Orange Judd Publishing Company 1955
or. grey cl. 8vo. pp.464 A Complete Treatise on the History,
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- SLATER DOROTHY The Book On Pekingese
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from 1900 to the present day (founded on facts): their care, breeding
& rearing in detail. Originally written by Queenie Verity-Steele.
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- SMITH CROXTON A. Dogs Since 1900.
illus. with frontis. & 62 full page plates t/out. reports on new
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dog in Britain in the first half of the 20th century. pub. Lond. Andrew
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- SMITH MEREDITH J. Illustrations by ROSEMARY WOODFORD GANF Marsupials Of Australia.
Vol.1. Possums, the Koala and Wombats. illus.
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- SNELGROVE LOUIS EDWARD Queen Rearing illus. with 35 full page plates t/out. index, . biblio pub. Bleadon, Somerset: privately printed by Miss I. Snelgrove, 1949 2nd
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- SPARKS JOHN TONY SOPER Penguins.
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- STAHEL C. and R. GALES
Little Penguin.
Fairy Penguins in Australia. illus. with photo plates and graphs,
title-page and diagrams, drawings t/out. by Jane Burrell. pub. Sydney
NSW University Press 1991 or. stiff wrappers, cr.4to. pp.120.
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- STANBURY PETER & Graeme Phipps Australia's Animals Discovered.
illus. with e/paper maps, and profusely illus. with text plates t/out.
some col. pub. Sydney, Pergamon Press 1980 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to.
pp.120. Price: $40.00
- STRAHAN RONALD Ed. by. The Australian Museum. Complete Book Of Australian Mammals.
The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. profusely
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- STRAHAN RONALD (editor) The Mammals Of Australia.
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illustrated with colour photographs t/out. pub. Sydney, Chatswood,
N.S.W. Reed Books, 1995 Revised Edition. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.756
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existed in Australia since European settlement & every introduced
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- STEVENS CHRISTINE Tin Mosques & Ghantowns.
A History of Afghan Camel Drivers in Australia. profusely
illus. with plates t/out. 8 full page & col. pub.
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- STRINGER COL The Saga Of Sweetheart.
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who attacked over 15 boats on a N.T. river during the
1970's. profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full
page & col. line and col. dwgs. by
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- TARONGA PARK ZOO Official Illustrated Guide to Taronga Park Zoo and Aquarium
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Tennant, Government Printer, NSW: n.d. c. 1950’s Stapled soft bound in
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- "TE WHARE" A Bush Cinema.
Made in Australia. Nature stories. illus. with 48 plates
pub. Sydney Carter's Printing Works 1922 or.illus.bds. cr.8vo.
pp.96. A compilation of natural history articles, several on reptiles,
that were previously published in The Bulletin, Syndey Mail, Smith's
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THE ANIMAL BOOK
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THOMSON DONALD Mammals And Fishes
Of Northern Australia. Ed. and annotated by
Joan M. Dixon and Linda Huxley profusely
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d/w. roy.4to. pp.XII.210.
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TILLYARD R.J. The Insects Of Australia And New Zealand.
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- TRIGGS BARBARA
The Wombat. Common Wombats in Australia illus. with b/w. sketches
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- TROUGHTON ELLIS Furred Animals Of Australia.
illus. with 170 reproduced dwgs. in col. by Neville W. Cayley (25
full page plates) pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1957 A
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or.grn.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.XXX.376. Closed tear to d/w.
Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine.
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- TYLER MICHAEL J. Frogs.
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pp.256. Fine. Price: $40.00
- TYLER MICHAEL J. Australian Frogs.
A Natural History profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page
& col. index, appendix, bibliog, maps, pub. Sydney Reed
1994 2nd ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp. 192. Fine copy. Price: $40.00
- VERCO JOESPH (Ed. by B.C. Cotton) Combing The Southern Seas.
illus. with frontis. & 18 plates some col. pub. Adel. 1935
or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.174. with 24 pages appendix: 20 page catalogue
and index of marine mollusca of South Australia. An account of dredging
for marine molluscs and their shells in the Indian Ocean south of
Australia, between 1890 and 1912. Near fine copy.
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- VICKERS-RICH P. & J.M. Monaghan, R.F.Baird, T.H.Rich Vertebrate Palaeontology of Australasia
profusely illus. with b/w. plates, drawings, diagrams, graphs, t/out.
some full page; pub. Melbourne Pioneer Design Studio, 1991
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fossil vertebrates of Australia and the Pacific islands. Very fine
copy. Price: $375.00
- WATERHOUSE G.A. & LYELL G. The Butterflies of Australia.
A monograph of the Australian Rhopalocera. Introducing a complete
scheme of structural classification, and giving descriptions and
illustrations of all the Butterflies found in Australia, including a
number now recorded for the first time. illus. with a map,
39 plain and 4 coloured plates of 888 figures. pub. Sydney,
Angus & Robertson, 1914 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to.
pp.VI.239,22 Standard work on Australian lepidoptera. Very sl.
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- WEIGEL JOHN Care of Australian Reptiles
in Captivity illus. with colour photographs, text illustrations.
pub. Sydney, Reptile Keepers Association, 1989 or. card wrappers,
(paperback), cr.8vo. pp.144 Covers all aspects of husbandry
including legal considerations, housing, breeding, health, and feeding.
Also includes a section on the safe maintenance of venomous snakes, and
specific information on the keeping of 40 highly varied species.
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- WENDT HERBERT Before The Deluge.
The Story of Palaeontology.
Translated from the German by Richard and Clara
Winston. illus. with 38 full page plates t/out. text dgms. &
maps pub. Lond. Victor Gollancz 1968 or.cl. d/w. 8vo.
pp.XII.410. fine. Price: $30.00
- WHITE ELINOR Lessor Lives.
Booklet written by a member of The Queensland Society
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or.illus.wps. 12mo. pp.160. fine. $45.00
- WHITNEY LEON F. How To Breed Dogs
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- WILKIE A. A. W. and Mrs. A. R. Osborn. Almost Human.
Reminiscences From The Melbourne Zoo. Told by Wilkie and written by
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Whitcombe and Tombs c.1920s or.cl. 4to. pp.236. Interesting animal
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- WILSON B.R. K. GILLETT Australian Shells.
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- WILSON B.R. K. GILLETT Australian Shells.
Illustrating and describing 600 species of
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- WORRELL ERIC
Reptiles Of Australia.
Crocodiles, Turtles, Tortoises, Lizards, Snakes. Describing all
Australian species, their appearance, their beauty, their haunts, their
habits. illus. with over 300 plates pub. Syd. Angus &
Robertson 1966 or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.XVI.208. Light edgewear,
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YOUNG LYNETTE
The Melody Lingers On.
Biography of Tarlton Rayment. illus. with portrait frontispiece,
3 full page plates, 1 diagram, includes bibliography of Tarlton
Rayment, pub. Melbourne, The Hawthorn Press, 1967
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hymenoptera (four winged insects), particularly bees, and a nature
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YONGE C.M. A Year On The Great Barrier Reef.
The story ofcorals & of the greatest of their creations. illus.
with 69 plates 17 dgms. 6 maps one col. & folding pub. Lond. Putnam
1931 or.orng.cl. roy.8vo. pp.XXII.246. C. M. Yonge was a leading
authority on the physiology and morphology of marine animals,
especially corals, molluscs and crustaceans, and one of the most
distinguished British zoologists of the previous century. This book
arose out of the 1928-29 Great Barrier Reef Expedition which he led,
and chronicles a significant episode in the history of Australian
marine biology. Slightly faded to spine, gilt
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- YOUNGER R.M. Kangaroo.
Images Through the Ages. illus. with plates, dwgs.
t/out. some col. tinted end-papers, pub. Melb. Hutchinson 1988
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earliest aboriginal paintings to today where it is a national symbol
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