Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia: animals in space and time.
Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1984. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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The dinosaur heresies: new theories unlocking the mystery of the dinosaurs and their extinction.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1986. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in 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
Hitherto unpublished plates of Tertiary Mammalia and Permian Vertebrata.
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
Tertiary faunas: a textbook for oilfield palaentologists and students of geology. Volume two the sequence of tertiary faunas.
London: George Allen and Unwin, (1975. second edition), Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. First published 1934. More
The complete Ice Age: how climate change shaped the world.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2009. Octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. In this book, four leading scientists present the most up-to-date discoveries in the different fields of Ice Age Research. They reveal how the epoch was discovered, the profound climatic fluctuations it generated as ice sheets waxed and waned..... More
The evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2005. second edition). Quarto, illustrations, laminated boards. This new edition of The evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs is a unique, comprehensive treatment of this fascinating group of organisms. It is a detailed survey of dinosaur origins, their diversity, and their eventual extinction. More
Fossils: the key to the past.
London: Natural History Museum, (2015. revised edition). Octavo, colour photographs, illustrations, maps, softcover. In his accessible introduction to the study and meaning of fossils, the world-renowned palaeontologist Richard Fortey provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of fossils and their use in reconstructing the history of life on Earth. Extensively..... More
Quaternary environmental micropalaeontology.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Octavo, black and white illustrations, softcover. 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
Lone star dinosaurs.
College Station: Texas A & M Uinversity Press, 1995. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. 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
Quest for the African dinosaurs: ancient roots for the modern world.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, (2000. reprint). Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. More
The ancestry of the vertebrates.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1986. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Cercidiphyllum and fossil allies: morphological interpretation and general problems of plant evolution and development.
Sofia: Pensoft, 2010. Octavo, paperback, photographs, line drawings. Cercidiphyllum is a relict angiosperm bringing to us a flavor of Cretaceous Period. Its reproductive morphology was interpreted, in the spirit of the dominant evolutionary paradigm, as inflorescences of reduced flowers represented by solitary pistils and groups of stamens. Evolutionary significance of..... More
Dinosaur tracks, and other fossil footprints of Europe.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Twilight of the mammoths: ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Octavo, black and white photographs, text illustrations, dustwrapper. As recently as 11,000 years ago mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest..... More
Dragons in the dust: the paleobiology of the giant monitor lizard.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. Large octavo, text illustrations, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. The story of Australia's ice-age reptiles, and how scientists have reconstructed the way these animals lived and what factors encouraged their evolution. More
Discovering dinosaurs in the American Museum of Natural History.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1995. Quarto, colour illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the fossil Reptilia of South Africa in the collection of the British Museum.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1876. Quarto, 70 uncoloured lithographic plates (eight folding). Binder's cloth, the text mounted on stubs and configured to align in height with the larger plates, a cancelled library stamp on the title page, otherwise a fine clean copy. BM(NH) p. 1491. More
Palaeontology or a systematic summary of extinct animals and their geological relations.
London: Adam and Charles Black, (1861. second edition), Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's blindstamped cloth, some slight wear, otherwise a very good copy. More
Flying dinosaurs: how fearsome reptiles became birds.
Sydney: UNSW Press, 2014. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover, Dinosaurs didn't die out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago. Get ready to unthink what you thought you knew as award-winning journalist John Pickrell takes you on a journey into the deep, dark depths of the Jurassic. The discovery..... More
Catalogue of the Caenozoic plants in the Department of Geology British Museum (Natural history), volume one: the Bembridge flora [all published].
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1926. Octavo, 12 photographic plates. Publisher's cloth, small library stamp and library bookplate, otherwise a very good copy. BM(NH) Supplement p.1062. More
Mammoth: the resurrection of an ice age giant.
Cambridge MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001. Octavo, paperback, photographs. This title describes a walk with a dinosaur, as two teams of scientists race to bring back to life the long-extinct woolly mammoth, using DNA from a frozen mammoth discovered in a cliff face in Northern Siberia. This title describes a walk..... More
Mammoth: the resurrection of an ice age giant.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, (2002. second edition). Octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This title describes a walk with a dinosaur, as two teams of scientists race to bring back to life the long-extinct woolly mammoth, using DNA from a frozen mammoth discovered in a cliff face in Northern..... More
The dodo and kindred allies.
London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848. Quarto, hand coloured frontispiece. Handsome publisher's blind-panelled cloth, front cover with gilt Dodo vignette, bookplate, tipped in a separately published lithographic portrait of Strickland, a fine copy, rare in this condition. Anker 486; Fine Bird Books (reprint) p. 145; Nissen IVB 900; Wood p...... More