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NEW GUINEA

 

 

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THE FISHES OF NEW GUINEA by Ian S Munro 

A VERY RARE TITLE

Dept Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries Port Moresby New Guinea 1967. First edition. Illustrated boards, colour & b & w plates, line illustrations, 650pp + 78 plates. F/o inscription o/w very good condition plus dust cover.lightly stained spine inside.

Our price £99.50 including UK postage

FIELDGUIDE

 
  FIRST FIELD GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN FISH

An amazing compact little pocketbook ideal for rapid identification of species by visitors or newcomers

One copy only

Our Price £2.75 plus £1.05p UK postage

All pages intact and in good condition. Front & rear covers have
some scuff marks and minor edge wear. 

Our Price £15.00 plus £4.00 part UK postage

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The Marine Fishes of North-Western Australia  
by GERALD R ALLEN & ROGER SWAINSTON
A FIELD GUIDE FOR ANGLERS AND DIVERS.
Pictures and Descriptions
Revised edition 1990 by West Australian Museum.
All pages intact and in good condition. Front cover has bend & rear 
cover has some scuff marks and minor edge wear.
Price sticker on front cost new $29.95

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VICTORIA
 

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Fishes of Victoria  by Neville Coleman pp.96 including about 50 full-page colour plates. PB

Lots of local data

Our Price £ 6.95 plus £2 UK postage

 

Carcasson

 

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A Field Guide to the Reef Fishes of Tropcal Australia and the Indo-Pacific Region

 by R. H. Carcasson.

A Superb hardback pocketbook in full colour in the Collons series of field guides. (All other books in this series are also in stock for other areas). Copy shows some staining on external edges.

This was originally only available in Australia

Our Price £ 29.90 post paid in the UK

 

QGUIDE

 

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GUIDE TO FISHES 

by E M GRANT

DEPARTMENT OF HARBOURS AND MARINE QUEENSLAND 1965

280 PAGES COLOUR PLATES

SOME FADING AND A FEW MARKS TO THE BOARDS, GLOSSY TEXT IN GOOD CONDITION

£24.90 plus £5 UK Postage

 
 

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HANDBOOK OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES

 by  G.P.Whitley

629 PAGES OF VARIOUS PHOTO'S AND DESCRIPTIONS OF FISHES IN AUSTRALIA.BOOK  "HANDBOOK OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES"   EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY JACK POLLARD CIRCA 1980.BOOK IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH DUST COVER.

£13.40 plus £4. UK Postage

 

 

NZCOASTAL

 

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Guide to the Coastal Fishes of New Zealand 

by Malcolm Francis. REED. 72 large pages

 Superbly photographed and detailed

ISBN 0 790005 12 3

Price £4.90 plus £2.50 postage

"Coverage ..deals with the three main groups of sea fishes - jawless, cartilaginous and bony - to be found in New Zealand's 200 mile limit.

Newzeal

 

 

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Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand

 by Tony Ayling and Geoffrey J. Cox. HB

Usual superb Collins Guide Format. Very uncommon book due to limited print run. Condition Pretty Good.

Our Price £15 plus £4.30 postage

Arrangement - This follows the taxonomic groupings in the presumed evolutionary sequence.size = 13 X 20 cms

Treatment - ...lists and illustrates 170 families; provides keys to the salient identification points. Covers 486 species, with fullest information available on size, growth rates, feeding, breeding, distribution and habitats..."
Well illustrated
343 pages.

RAINBOW
 

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Rainbow Fishes

 of Australia and New Guinea. by Derek Lambert 

An Aquarium guide to maintenance and breeding.64 Glossy pages packed with excellent data and pictures.  TFH.1998 NEW 

ISBN 0 7938 0376 4

Our Price £5.75 plus £2 postage

SULAWESI

 

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Sulawesi Seas

 by Mike Severns. A Superbly photographed  160 page large format hardback book with slightly damaged dust cover. Hundreds of large photographic plates

ISBN 0964226 90 1

Our Price £11.90 plus £4 part UK postage

 AUS11
 

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What fish is that in Australian Waters

An excellent all-round guide despite the title! , by Lance Wedlick

£5.50 plus £3.00 postage

 

EIO

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Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Central Pacific.

  Fish Identification Sheets.

AVAILABLE ON CD

£15.99 Worldwide postage included

DOWNLOADABLE   £4.99

 

 

NEWZ

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Freshwater Fishes of New Zealand. HB. by G. Stockell. pp.146. Simpson and Williams, Christchurch. Very hard to find title.

Our Price including postage £8.50

 

One is a Collectors item quite badly damaged but all plates in good condition. Damage is to Cover and first intro pages, not main text.  The other is in Good Condition and is NOT ILLUSTRATED (£15.50 inc.post)

Barrier ( Intact)

BARRIER (Damaged)

 

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Tropical Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef  by Tom C. Marshall 238pp. Angus and Robertson.

TWO COPIES AVAILABLE

1966. RARE Tropical Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef" by Tom Marshall, Sydney 1966. This is a quarto size book of 239 pages with 80 full-page colour plates and 66 full-page b&w plates depicting 497 fishes. An excellent and classic reference work which describes in text and photographs the huge variety of fish to be found on the Australian Great Barrier Reef. A comprehensive study. The author was Government Ichthyologist from the 1940's to 1960's. Introduction by Gilbert Whitley

Our Price £ 8 plus £6.50 postage.

  NEWG1
 

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Reef Fishes of New Guinea. by Gerald Allen Fully Colour Illustrated.  

NEWG 1

Our Price £8.90 plus £3.50 postage

SEAUSTRAL

 

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Freshwater Fishes of South Eastern Australia  by Robert Mc.Dowall. Reed.  1996 248 pages

Our price including postage £12.90

BARRIER1

 

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Marine Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef  by Gerald Allen

 Illustrated; Periplus Editions; 3rd revised edition, 1997 292 pages. The book is a field guide for divers and anglers covering the areas of tropical Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, and Malaysia, Indonesia, Phillipines, New Guinea and Solomon Islands of SE Asia. Selected chapter headings: Biology of Reef Fishes; Ecology of Reef Fishes; Classification of Fishes; Dangerous Fish; etc... Excellent color photos.

Creased front cover.
£14.50 plus £5.20 postage

 

AUS10
 

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Mammals and Fishes of Northern Australia  by Thomson

  Superb book. Not many fish (as most of the area is desert?) but a really interesting natural history book for zoologists worldwide.

£14.00 plus £4.00 postage

SOUTHA
 

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Sea Fishes of Southern Australia
by Barry Hutchins, Roger Swainston

This book is new, it has never been read. Softcover. 179 pages. 
The most popular of all the fish identification titles ever published in Australia. Over 1000 superb colour drawings next to limited identification text provide the most concise guide to over 700 southern species. A must for all serious divers and fisherman
Includes all the fishes of surrounding areas.

Our Price £14 plus £4.80 postage

Similar in Cover format to Volume 7 below

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Fishes of Western Australia

.Pacific Marine Fishes Volume 9.  PUBLISHER - T.F.H.  Hardcover.   268 pages 
full-colour pictures. 8.5" x 11.25"

Second User Copy £15.99 plus postage

 

 

BARRIERREEF3

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Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef  . Pacific Marine Fishes Volume 7.  PUBLISHER - T.F.H.  Hardcover.   268 pages 
full-colour pictures. 8.5" x 11.25"

New Copy £15.00 plus postage

Second User Copy £12.99 plus postage

 

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The Freshwater Fishes of New Guinea  

by Gerald Allen 268pp Most species illustrated in colour. 1991. Christensen Research Institute

Price including postage £7.00

MARAUS
 

 

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Marine Fishes of Australian Waters  by KENNETH PULLEY

HB/DJ 1st ed 1974  LANSDOWNE PRESS.Melboure,pp104

Colour photos as well as text illustrations and diagrams. Book and jacket in good condition with only minor wear.The book is an in-depth study of fish biology and requirements centred on Australian species

Our Price £26 plus £4.30 postage

SOUTHERNSEAS

Would US customers please order this book from The Aquatic Bookshop in CA where you will receive a much faster service

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Under Southern Seas      The ecology of Australia’s rocky reefs

  Edited by Neil Andrew 2000, hardback, 256 pages $49.95 

A colourful and refreshing publication about marine life of the Australian rocky reefs, this hardcover, oversize volume provides readers with comprehensive materials on the ecology of Australia's rocky reefs and their fisheries. Divided into three parts and containing 26 chapters, UNDER SOUTHERN Seas is a pleasure to the eye. Richly illustrated with around 200 colour photographs, and contributions of 32 marine biologists, Neil Andrew's work maintains a good balance between text and photos."--Xavier Gros, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, The Netherlands, Electronic Green Journal, Issue 14, Spring 2001.This comprehensive volume includes chapters on sharks, rock lobsters, abalone and fishes, as well as many of the less familiar inhabitants of rocky reefs. It is suitable for marine biologists, oceanographers, underwater photographers, or anyone willing to discover Australia's underwater world.

UK £29.90 plus £6.90 post and packing. NEW

FAO Species identification sheets for fishery purposes. Southern Ocean (Fishing areas, 48, 58 and 88) (CCAMLR Convention Area). Prepared and published with the support of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). R
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