The dinosaur heresies: new theories unlocking the mystery of the dinosaurs and their extinction.
Sydney: William Morrow & Company, 1986. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Palaeontology
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.
New York: New York Education Department, 1909. Quarto, uncoulered plates. Publisher's cloth, lightly flecked, some stamps, otherwise an excellent 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
Tertiary faunas: a textbook for oilfield palaentologists and students of geology. Volume one, the composition of tertiary faunas.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1971. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. First published 1935. More
Late Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic circum-Pacific events and their global correlation.
Cambridge: 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 and..... More
Environmental archaeology: principles and practice.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Octavo, laminated boards, illustrations. A guide to a variety of archaeological methods ranging from techniques for measuring time with isotopes and magnetism to the sciences of climate reconstruction, geomorphology, sedimentology, soil science, paleobotany and faunal paleoecology. More
Avian community, climate, and sea-level changes in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Florida Peninsula.
Chicago: American Ornithologists' Union, 1998. Octavo, paperback, photographs. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 50. More
Catalogue of type specimens of fossils in the Australian Museum, Sydney.
Sydney: Order of the Trustees, 1971. Octavo, wrappers. 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
Principles of micropalaeontology.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1945. Octavo, Publisher's cloth, owner's signature, very good copy. More
Bully for Brontosaurus: reflections in natural history.
London: Hutchinson Radius, 1991. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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
Cercidiphyllum and fossil allies: morphological interpretation and general problems of plant evolution and development.
Moscow: Pensoft, 2010. Octavo, paperback, photographs, text illustrations. 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.
Sydney: Watts & Co, 1911. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, some wear. More
Dinosaurs of Australia and New Zealand and other animals of the Mesozoic era.
Wellington: University of New South Wales Press, 1998. Quarto, colour photographs, fine dustwrapper. Comprehensively reviews and illustrates every known species of dinosaur, pterosaur, marine reptile, bird, mammal and amphibian that lived in Australia and New Zealand during the Mesozoic Era, the age of dinosaurs. 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, black and white illustrations, stamp. fine copy in softcover. Comparisons are made between living and extinct animals with reference to gigantism and intellect. The natural history of the Mesozoic Era is explored. More
General features of the paleobiological evolution of Cetacea.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, (1984. reprint). Octavo, 32 plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Treatise on invertebrate palaeontology, part R: Arthropoda volume four [crustacea].
Sydney: The Geological Society of America, 1969. Octavo, text illustrations, very good in cloth binding, signed by the author for Edgar Riek. More
Tertiary siphoneous algae in the W. K. Parker collection, with descriptions of some Eocene Siphoneae from England.
London: British Museum (Natural History). 1939. Octavo, photographs. Binder's cloth, library stamp. 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
Fossil revolution: the finds that changed our view of the past.
London: Collins, 2003. Quarto. colour photographs, fine copy in softcover. The first specimen of a dinosaur to be found in Australia and recognised as such, was discovered on 7 May 1903, near Inverloch, Victoria. This book marks the centenary of that event. Interweaving the stories of the collectors who found..... More
The complete guide to fossils and fossil-collecting.
London: Hermes House, 2009. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in softcover. An illustrated practical encyclopedia of over 375 plant and animal fossils from around the world and how to identify them, featuring over 950 photographs and artworks. More