A guide to earth history.
London: Chatto and Windus, (1967. reprint). Octavo, coloured frontispiece, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
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Sheets of many colours: the mapping of Ireland's rocks 1750-1890.
Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1983. Large octavo, text illustrations. More
Late Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic circum-Pacific events and their global correlation.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Quarto, publisher's boards, fine copies. black and white photographs, line drawings. WAS $375. 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... More
Environmental archaeology: principles and practice.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Octavo, laminated boards, illustrations. A guide to a variety of archaeological methods ranging from techniques for measuring time with isotopes and magnetism to the sciences of climate reconstruction, geomorphology, sedimentology, soil science, paleobotany and faunal paleoecology. More
Principles of micropalaeontology.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1945. Octavo, Publisher's cloth, owner's signature, very good copy. More
Quaternary environmental micropalaeontology.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Reconstructing past environments is critical in evaluating modern environmental change and making predictions for the future. Records can be found in a range of natural sources, including microfossils, and their analysis can make important contributions to studies of... More
The building of Australia and the succession of life: with special reference to South Australia.
Adelaide: Government Printer, 1925-1930. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's wrappers, a very good set. More
Organisms and continents through times.
London: The Palaeontological Association, 1973. Octavo, text illustrations, paperback, Special papers in palaeontology No. 12. A symposium volume of 23 papers. More
Lone star dinosaurs.
College Station: Texas A & M Uinversity Press, 1995. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Tells the history of dinosaurs in Texas and the accounts of people who found their fossilized remains. Dinosaurs covered in Lone Star Dinosaurs include Pleurocoelus, Alamosaurus, Tenontosaurus, Quezalcoatus, which flew like a bird, and last, but never... More
Bone, tooth and horn tools of palaeolithic man: an account of the osteodontokeratic discoveire in Pin Hole Cave, Derbyshire.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1963. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Quantitative paleozoology.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Octavo, laminated boards, fine copy. tables, graphs, remainder mark on bottom edge. Quantitative Paleozoology describes and illustrates how the remains of long-dead animals recovered from archaeological and paleontological excavations can be studied and analyzed. The methods range from determining how many animals of each species... More
General features of the paleobiological evolution of Cetacea.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, (1984. reprint). Octavo, 32 plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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Treatise on invertebrate palaeontology, part R: Arthropoda volume four [crustacea].
Lawrence: The Geological Society of America, 1969. Octavo, text illustrations, very good in cloth binding, signed by the author for Edgar Riek. More
Tertiary siphoneous algae in the W. K. Parker collection, with descriptions of some Eocene Siphoneae from England.
London: British Museum (Natural History). 1939. Octavo, photographs. Binder's cloth, library stamp. More
Relationships and evolution of Flamingos (Aves: Phoenicopteridae).
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1980. Octavo, text illustrations, wrappers. More
Prodromus of the fossil avifauna of the Hawaiian Islands.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1982. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in wrappers. More
Paleornithology of St Helena Island, south Atlantic ocean.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1975. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, fine copy in wrappers. More
A natural history of time.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. Fossils and the developing science of geology provided compelling evidence for periods of millions and millions of years - a scale that even scientists had difficulty grasping. By the end of the twentieth century, new tools such as radiometric dating had... More
A bibliography of the Foraminifera, recent and fossil from 1565-1888: with notes explanatory of some of the rare and little-known publications.
London: Dulau and Co., 1888. Octavo, ex-library. More
The beginnings of the age of mammals in America.
New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1948-1967. Octavo, photographic plates. Binder's cloth, wrappers retained. George Gaylord Simpson was one of the great twentieth century palaeontologists and is famous for his study of the evolution of the horse. These two massive papers are seminal works on the... More
Life of the past: an introduction to paleontology.
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1976. reprint). Octavo, illustrations, publisher's cloth, bookplate, fine copy. More
Amniote origins: completing the transition to land.
San Diego: Academic Press, 1997. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, laminated boards. More
Paleoanthropology: Morphology and Paleoecology.
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, (1975. first edition), Quarto, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Vertebrate palaeontology of Australasia.
Melbourne: Pioneer Design Studio, 1991. Quarto, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Raymond Arthur Dart: a pictorial profile. Professor Dart's discovery of 'the missing link'.
Sydney: Transpareon Press, 1983. Octavo, photographs, signed by the author, very good copy in dustwrapper. More