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
Hitherto unpublished plates of Tertiary Mammalia and Permian Vertebrata.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
Notogaea: a historical zoogeographic account of Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand.
Rotterdam: Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Notogaea, the fifth continent" in the Royal Rotterdam Zoological and Botanical Gardens,1977/1978. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations. 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
Dodo: from extinction to icon.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2002. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The most comprehensive illustrated guide to the Dodo yet published. It covers the history, natural history and the cultural legacy of this fascinating bird. 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
Quest for the African dinosaurs: ancient roots for the modern world.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, (2000. reprint). Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. 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
Grave secrets of Dinosaurs: soft tissues and hard science.
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2008. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. In 1999 enthusiastic fossil hunter Tyler Lyson discovered a rare dinosaur mummy, possibly the finest and most complete dinosaur mummy ever unearthed. Here, Manning gives a vivid account of palaeontological pioneers and discoveries during the twentieth century. He reveals the soft..... More
Quaternary extinctions: a prehistoric revolution.
Tucson: University of Arkansas Press, 1984. Quarto, text illustrations, softcover. More
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Observations on new vegetable fossils of the auriferous drifts[second decade].
Melbourne: Government Printer, 1883. Octavo, text illustrations, printed wrappers, fine copy. 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
Dinosaurs of darkness.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. Quarto, black and white illustrations, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This book opens a doorway to a fascinating former world, the dinosaurs and other animals that lived there, and how that world was brought to light. This world existed in Australia between 100 million..... 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
Amniote origins: completing the transition to land.
San Diego: Academic Press, 1997. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, laminated boards. More
