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 about Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, volume 13
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 about Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, volume eight
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 about Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, volume eleven
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 about Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, volume ten
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 about Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, volume twelve
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 about Transactions of the Zoological Society of London: volume 14
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 about Transactions of the Zoological Society of London: volume seven
Irvington: Columbia University Press, 2002. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, text illustrations. A 65 million year journey showing the complexity of mammalian evolution. More about Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 million years of mammalian evolution in Europe
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 about T. Rex and the crater of doom
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 about The emerald planet: how plants changed earth's history
West Sussex: John Wiley and Sons, (2015. fourth edition). Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white photographs, illustrations, line drawings. This title is not held in stock but we are happy to supply on special order. Please contact us. Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries being reported... More about Vertebrate palaeontology
London: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. 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 about When life nearly died: the greatest mass extinction of all time
London: Pergamon Press, 1968. Octavo, text illustrations, signature. More about The skeletal biology of earlier human populations
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 about The carnivorous 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 about Horns and beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod dinosaurs
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 about Amniote paleobiology: perspectives on the evolution of mammals, birds, and reptiles
London: Chatto and Windus, (1967. reprint). Octavo, coloured frontispiece, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More about A guide to earth history
Cambridge MA: Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1964. Octavo, wrappers, signature, a fine copy. More about Early evolution of the dissorophid amphibians
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 about The rise of amphibians: 365 million years of evolution
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 about Description of the skull of a new form of Phytosaur: with notes on the characters of described...
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 about The rise of birds: 225 million years of evolution
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 about Dinosaurs and dioramas: creating natural history exhibitions
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2011. Large octavo, colour and black and white photographs, line drawings, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More than 300 million years ago, during the period known as the Carboniferous, there emerged a group of four-legged animals known as synapsids. Their descendents, the therapsids, would eventually... More about Forerunners of mammals: radiation, histology, biology
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1976. Octavo, text illustrations, photographs, signature, dustwrapper. More about Athlon: essays on palaeontology in honour of Loris Shano Russell
London: Hutchinson, (1974. first edition). Octavo, photographs, signature, dustwrapper. More about Wandering lands and animals