Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia: animals in space and time.
Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1984. Quarto, text illustrations, signature and bookplate, very good copy in chipped and slightly torn dustwrapper. More
GENERAL - Palaeontology
An Australian geographic guide to rocks and fossils.
Sydney: Australian Geographic, 1996. Quarto, colour photographs, text llustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Illustrated guide to the world of geology and palaeontology, looking at how the study of rocks and minerals reveals information about the Earth's history, touring some of the world's most notable sites, and offering details on various..... More
A guide to earth history.
London: Chatto and Windus, (1967. reprint). Octavo, coloured frontispiece, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. 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
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
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
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
The age of the dinosaurs.
London: World University Library, 1968. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The Kingdom of man.
London: Watts & Co, 1911. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, some wear. 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
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
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
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
Dinosaur impressions - postcards from a paleontologist.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. First published in French in 1994, this edition translated by Kevin Padian. An account of 30 years of of travel and paleontological exploration. More
Treatise on invertebrate palaeontology, part F: Coelenterata.
Lawrence: The Geological Society of America, 1981. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
Thunder-lizards: the Sauropodomorph dinosaurs.
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005. Quarto, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The large quadrupedal herbivores known as sauropods roamed the planet from the Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous. With the longest necks and tails of all of the dinosaurs, some sauropods were 40 meters in..... More
The Dinosaur papers, 1676-1906.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2003. Quarto, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This unique collection of journal articles and book excerpts takes the reader on a journey of discovery through one of the most exciting periods of science. Here are the beginnings of the history of paleontology, from..... More
The nature of hidden worlds: animals and plants in prehistoric Australia and New Zealand.
Sydney: Reed Books, 1990. Quarto, colour illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More