A guide to earth history.
London: Chatto and Windus, (1967. reprint). Octavo, coloured frontispiece, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Chatto and Windus, (1967. reprint). Octavo, coloured frontispiece, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Albany NY: New York Education Department, 1909. Quarto, uncoulered plates. Publisher's cloth, lightly flecked, some stamps, otherwise an excellent copy. More
London: Thomas Murby, 1925. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
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
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
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
Adelaide: Government Printer, 1925-1930. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's wrappers, a very good set. More
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
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
London: Watts & Co, 1911. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, some wear. More
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
Lawrence: The Geological Society of America, 1969. Octavo, text illustrations, very good in cloth binding, signed by the author for Edgar Riek. More
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
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
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
San Diego: Academic Press, 1997. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, laminated boards. More
Lawrence: The Geological Society of America, 1981. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
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
Melbourne: Pioneer Design Studio, 1991. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Pioneer Design Studio, 1991. Quarto, text illustrations, signature, lacks dustwrapper. More
Sydney: Transpareon Press, 1983. Octavo, photographs, signed by the author, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
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