Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia: animals in space and time.
Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1984. Quarto, text illustrations, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1984. Quarto, text illustrations, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Ray Society, 1846. Small folio, six uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's boards, expertly rebacked retaining original spine title label. More
Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing, 2012. Quarto, photographs and illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper, scarce and sought after. 2013 Winner of the Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize. Perhaps the most unusual family of birds that ever lived, the Moa were a clan of feathered monsters that developed..... More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1925. Octavo, three plates, quarter cloth and publisher's printed boards. More
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, (1923. second edition). Tall octavo, text illustrations, signature, very good copy in publisher's cloth. More
Nelson: Nelson Nikau Press, 1987. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
London: J. Newbery, 1763. Small octavo, uncoloured plates. Contemporary full calf (worn), all volumes rebacked with red label, owner's signature ("Isaac Hitchcock 1763") in each volume. Volume one: The natural history of quadrapedes, including amphibious animals, frogs, and lizards, with their properties and uses in medicine. Volume two: The natural..... More
New Plymouth: Thomas Avery and Sons, 1936. Octavo, photographs, a fine copy with slightly chipped dustwrapper; scarce and made more so by the condition of the dustwrapper. The story of the discovery of the fossil Moa. One critic has said: "It reads like an Edgar Wallace novel" More
Cambridge MA: Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1964. Octavo, wrappers, signature, a fine copy. More
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1929. Quarto, five uncoloured folding plates. Publisher's cloth, apart from library stamp on title page, a fine copy. More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1991. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Albany NY: New York Education Department, 1909. Quarto, uncoulered plates. Publisher's cloth, lightly flecked, some stamps, otherwise an excellent copy. More
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1915. Quarto, 64 uncoloured lithographs with accompanying text leaves. Publisher's blue cloth, a few library stamps of the Royal Society of Victoria, otherwise a very good copy. More
Field: The Yoho-Burgess Shale Foundation, 2000. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's boards. The interval between the Carboniferous and Jurassic is marked by major changes in the structure and character of the Earth, associated with massive earthquakes, volcanic activity, and large scale changes of life at the Permian-Triassic..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Octavo, photographs, signature, publisher's cloth. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1936. Octavo, 13 photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 1998. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 50. More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. Quarto, photographs, illustrations, maps, dustwrapper. More than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ice ages. Describes the history and way..... More
1921-1934. Octavo, photographs, contemporary binder's cloth with title. With a typed index of 24 papers, primarily from The Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. More
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2023. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. When Tim Flannery was a boy he found a fossilised tooth of the giant shark megalodon at a Port Philip Bay beach near his home. This remarkable find-the tooth was large enough to cover his palm-sparked an interest in palaeontology that was..... More
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 2009. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 320. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. Brings together nineteen review articles written for Nature over the past decade by many of the major figures in paleontology and evolution. The editor gives new commentary and updated references. More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1945. Octavo, Publisher's cloth, owner's signature, very good copy. More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2014. Octavo, photographs, maps. WAS $90. An up-to-date synthesis by leading researchers, this book explores Australia’s unique predator communities from prehistoric, historic and current perspectives. It covers mammalian, reptilian and avian carnivores, both native and introduced to Australia. It also examines the debate surrounding how best to..... More