A guide to earth history.
London: Chatto and Windus, (1967. reprint). Octavo, coloured frontispiece, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
GENERAL - Palaeontology
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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
An introduction to palaeontology.
London: Thomas Murby, 1925. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. 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 Kingdom of man.
London: Watts & Co, 1911. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, some wear. More
Swimming in stone: the amazing Gogo fossils of the Kimberley.
Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2006. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, softcover. When David Attenborough filmed his ground-breaking series Life on Earth in 1978, he chose one place in the world to demonstrate the early evolution of fishes: Gogo. Gogo, in the wild Kimberly district of Western Australia, is one..... 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
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
Amniote origins: completing the transition to land.
San Diego: Academic Press, 1997. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, laminated boards. 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
Vertebrate palaeontology of Australasia.
Melbourne: Pioneer Design Studio, 1991. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Vertebrate palaeontology of Australasia.
Melbourne: Pioneer Design Studio, 1991. Quarto, text illustrations, signature, lacks 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
Fossil vertebrates of Arabia: with emphasis on the Late Miocene faunas, geology and palaeoenvironments of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, diagrams, maps. Very good copy in dustwrapper. This volume presents the results of research on Arabian continental vertebrates discovered in the United Arab Emirates, the Sultanate of Oman, and the Republic of Yemen. The contributors provide information on Arabian palaeontology..... More
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