The fossil collector.
Melbourne: The Fossil Collectors Association of Australia, 1980-1984. Octavo, roneoed sheets, binder's cloth. Bulletins one to twelve. More
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A guide to the fossil invertebrate animals in the department of geology and palaeontology in the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W.
London: Order of the Trustees, 1907. Octavo, folding plate, text illustrations, library stamp, publisher's boards. More
Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, volume 13.
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
Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, volume eleven.
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
Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, volume twelve.
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
Transactions of the Zoological Society of London: volume 14.
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
Transactions of the Zoological Society of London: volume seven.
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
Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 million years of mammalian evolution in Europe.
Irvington: Columbia University Press, 2002. Octavo, colour illustrations, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. A 65 million year journey showing the complexity of mammalian evolution. More
Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia: animals in space and time.
Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1984. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Riversleigh.
Sydney: Reed, (1991. first edition). Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. A classic account of Australian palaeontology. More
The emerald planet: how plants changed earth's history.
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
Insects from the coal measures of Commentry.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1925. Octavo, three plates, quarter cloth and publisher's printed boards. More
The skeletal biology of earlier human populations.
London: Pergamon Press, 1968. Octavo, text illustrations, signature. More
The discovery of Dinornis: the story of a man, a bone, and a bird.
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
Gondwana geology. Papers presented at the Third Gondwana Symposium, Canberra, Australia, 1973.
Canberra: ANU Press, 1975. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
The carnivorous dinosaurs.
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
Horns and beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod dinosaurs.
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
A guide to earth history.
London: Chatto and Windus, (1967. reprint). Octavo, coloured frontispiece, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Early evolution of the dissorophid amphibians.
Cambridge MA: Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1964. Octavo, wrappers, signature, a fine copy. More
The rise of amphibians: 365 million years of evolution.
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
Description of the skull of a new form of Phytosaur: with notes on the characters of described North American Phytosaurs.
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
Dinosaurs and dioramas: creating natural history exhibitions.
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
Athlon: essays on palaeontology in honour of Loris Shano Russell.
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1976. Octavo, text illustrations, photographs, signature, dustwrapper. More
Early Devonic history of New York and eastern North America.
Albany NY: New York Education Department, 1909. Quarto, uncoulered plates. Publisher's cloth, lightly flecked, some stamps, otherwise an excellent copy. More
Wandering lands and animals.
London: Hutchinson, (1974. first edition). Octavo, photographs, signature, dustwrapper. More