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
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
Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1984. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: Reed, (1991. first edition). Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. A classic account of Australian palaeontology. 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: British Museum (Natural History), 1925. Octavo, three plates, quarter cloth and publisher's printed boards. 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
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
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
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
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. Large octavo, dustwrapper, text illustrations, colour photographs. Meat-eating theropod dinosaurs have been recognized as potential ancestors of birds since the 19th century, but it was not until the 1960s that work on Deinonychus revealed the startling similarities between dinosaurs and birds. With each new small..... More