The quest for life in amber.
Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1994. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. The study of amber fossils provides an accurate picture of life in a tropical rainforest between fifteen and forty five million years ago. More
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Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1994. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. The study of amber fossils provides an accurate picture of life in a tropical rainforest between fifteen and forty five million years ago. More
New York: W W Norton & Company, 1992. Quarto, colour photographs, bookplate, slightly chipped dustwrapper. Treasures and oddities of natural history collectors from Peter the Great to Louis Agassiz. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1926. Octavo, 12 photographic plates. Publisher's cloth, small library stamp and library bookplate, otherwise a very good copy. BM(NH) Supplement p.1062. More
Dunedin: Otago Daily Times, 1971. Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, ex-library stamps on title pages, otherwise a fine set in binder's cloth. Freight will be extra. More
Minocqua: Northword Press, 1989. Quarto, colour photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2011. Octavo, paperback, photographs, black and white illustrations, maps. ZooKeys 130. Celebrates the 75th birthday of Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn, a pioneer in the alaeontology and phylogeny of Hymenoptera, as well as a leader generally in insect systematics and evolution. Born in Moscow, Russia, on 24 September 1936, he..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1985. third edition), Octavo, text illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. More
Oxford: Pergamon Press, [1966. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations. International Series of Monographs in Pure and Applied Biology, Zoology Division, Volume 30. More
Oxford: Pergamon Press, [1966. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. International Series of Monographs in Pure and Applied Biology, Zoology Division, Volume 30. More
London: Dulau and Co., 1888. Octavo, ex-library. More
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1998. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 235. More
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 2001. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 258. More
New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1948-1967. Octavo, photographic plates. Binder's cloth, wrappers retained. George Gaylord Simpson was one of the great twentieth century palaeontologists and is famous for his study of the evolution of the horse. These two massive papers are seminal works on the..... More
London: British Museum, 1928. Quarto, twelve photographic plates. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, fine copy. More
Cambridge MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001. Octavo, photographs, softcover. This title describes a walk with a dinosaur, as two teams of scientists race to bring back to life the long-extinct woolly mammoth, using DNA from a frozen mammoth discovered in a cliff face in Northern Siberia. This title describes a walk..... More
London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848. Quarto, hand coloured frontispiece. Handsome publisher's blind-panelled cloth, front cover with gilt Dodo vignette, bookplate, tipped in a separately published lithographic portrait of Strickland, a fine copy,very scarce in this condition. Anker 486; Fine Bird Books (reprint) p. 145; Nissen IVB 900; Wood p...... More
Lawrence: The Geological Society of America, 1981. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1933. Octavo, text illustrations, quarter cloth and publisher's printed boards. Fossil Insects Number three. More
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, (1975. first edition), Quarto, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1999. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Cambridge MA: Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1955. Octavo, line drawings, signature, wrappers. More
Melbourne: Pioneer Design Studio, 1991. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Chatswood: Reed, 1993. Octavo, colour illustrations, sunned dustwrapper. More
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 2003. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 276. More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996. Octavo, photographs, text llustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More