London: Zoological Society of London, 1895. Quarto, 62 handcoloured and uncoloured lithographic plates, some double page. Restored green half morocco, new endpapers, some plates spotted otherwise a very good copy. The papers are: 1. Stebbing, Thomas R. R. On the Genus Urothoe and a new Genus Urothoides. pp. 1-30 plates..... More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1874. Quarto, 82 handcoloured and uncoloured lithographic plates, some double page. Restored green half morocco, new endpapers, a small library stamp on title page. Volume eight of the Transactions contains the two papers by Viscount Walden which form his monograph on the birds of the..... More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1885. Quarto, 97 handcoloured and uncoloured lithographic plates, some double page. Restored green half morocco, marbled endpapers, a very good copy. The papers are: 1. Flower, William Henry. On the external characters of two species of British Dolphins (Delphinus delphis, Linn., and Delphinus tursio, Fabr.)..... More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1879. Quarto, 95 handcoloured and uncoloured lithographic plates, some double page. Restored green half morocco, new endpapers, a few light spots and a single small library stamp, otherwise a very good copy. The papers are: 1. Mivart, George. On the axial skeleton of the Struthionida..... More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1890. Quarto, 65 handcoloured and uncoloured lithographic plates, some double page. Contemporary green half morocco, marbled endpapers, a few spots. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON In 1826 the Zoological society of London was formed with the specific intention of establishing a menagerie, museum..... More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1872. Quarto, 47 handcoloured and uncoloured lithographic plates, some double page. Contemporary green half morroco, new endapers, a very good copy. With papers by Boulenger on fish and a handsomely illustrated paper on the mammls of the Phillippines by John Whitehead. More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1872. Quarto, 73 handcoloured and uncoloured lithographic plates, some double page. Contemporary green half morroco, marbled endpapers, a few spots. Volume seven of the Transactions contains papers that were assembled to form part of Owen's Extinct and wingless birds ... plus Murie's classic papaers on..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2015. second edition), Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact, falling back..... More
Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1984. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1986. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white illustrations. In The emerald planet, David Beerling puts plants centre stage, revealing the crucial role they have played in driving global changes in the environment, in recording hidden facets of Earth's history, and in helping us to predict its..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. The greatest mass extinction in Earth's history happened some 251 million years ago. In this cataclysm at least 90 percent of life was killed, both on land and in the sea, almost bringing evolution to a halt. What caused destruction on such..... More
London: Pergamon Press, 1968. Octavo, text illustrations, signature. More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, text illustrations. The meat-eating dinosaurs, or Theropoda, include some of the fiercest predators that ever lived. Some of the group's members survive to this day - as birds. The theropod/bird connection has been explored in several recent works, but..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. Large octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Part of a series on the major dinosaur types, this book on armoured, carnivorous, and sauropodomorph dinosaurs collects information reflecting the discoveries and research on these two groups of animals. The Ornithopods include Iguanodon and..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations. Living amniotes - including all mammals, birds, crocodilians, snakes, and turtles - comprise an extraordinarily varied array of more than 21,000 species. Found in every major habitat on earth, they possess a truly remarkable range of..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, (1967. reprint). Octavo, coloured frontispiece, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Cambridge MA: Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1964. Octavo, wrappers, signature, a fine copy. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Quarto, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, colour illustrations, line drawings. Explores a pivotal moment of vertebrate evolution, the rise of amphibians. This title traces their origin back 365 million years, when particular species of fish travelled down an evolutionary pathway of fin modification that..... 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
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (2015. second edition). Quarto, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. A small set of fossilised bones discovered almost thirty years ago led palaeontologist Sankar Chatterjee on a lifelong quest to understand their place in the history of life. They were clearly the bones of something unusual..... More
Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, diagrams. Two experienced exhibit designers take you through the detailed process of design and installation of natural history exhibitions. The authors introduce the history and function of natural history museums and their importance in teaching visitors the basic..... More
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1976. Octavo, text illustrations, photographs, signature, dustwrapper. More
Albany NY: New York Education Department, 1909. Quarto, uncoulered plates. Publisher's cloth, lightly flecked, some stamps, otherwise an excellent copy. More
London: Hutchinson, (1974. first edition). Octavo, photographs, signature, dustwrapper. More