Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia: animals in space and time.
Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1984. Quarto, text illustrations, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Palaeontology
Moa: the life and death of New Zealand's legendary bird.
Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing, 2012. Quarto, photographs and illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper, scarce and sought after. 2013 Winner of the Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize. Perhaps the most unusual family of birds that ever lived, the Moa were a clan of feathered monsters that developed..... More
Other origins: the search for the giant ape in human prehistory.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1991. Octavo, photographs, 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Hitherto unpublished plates of Tertiary Mammalia and Permian Vertebrata.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
Late Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic circum-Pacific events and their global correlation.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's boards. 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 life at the Permian-Triassic..... More
Memoir on fossils of the late pre-cambrian (newer Proterozoic) from the Adelaide series, South Australia.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1936. Octavo, 13 photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Avian community, climate, and sea-level changes in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Florida Peninsula.
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 1998. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 50. More
Megafauna: giant beasts of Pleistocene South America.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. Quarto, photographs, illustrations, maps, dustwrapper. More than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ice ages. Describes the history and way..... More
Dodo: from extinction to icon.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2002. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, crinkled dustwrapper, otherwise a fine copy. 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
Shaking the tree: readings from Nature in the history of life.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. Brings together nineteen review articles written for Nature over the past decade by many of the major figures in paleontology and evolution. The editor gives new commentary and updated references. 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
Terrestrial paleoecology and global change.
Sofia: Pensoft, 2002. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. This text models ecosystem evolution integrating basic geologic, demographic, morphologic, genomic, and biotic interrelated changes. It presents ecosystem evolution as a sustainable oriented process with an increase in the biomass-to-dead mass ratio as a measure of progress. Palaeontology deciphers ecosystem evolution by..... 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
The Kingdom of man.
London: Watts & Co, 1911. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, some wear. 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
Dinosaurs, spitfires and sea dragons.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Comparisons are made between living and extinct animals with reference to gigantism and intellect. The natural history of the Mesozoic Era is explored. More
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
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
Fossils: a photographic field guide.
London: New Holland, 2007. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. For experts and armchair enthusiasts alike, "Fossils: A Photographic Field Guide" will appeal to anyone interested in uncovering the many mysteries of the Earth's fossils. Easy-to-use, highly informative, and illustrated with amazing colour photographs, this photographic field guide covers..... 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
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