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 and unique family of birds that ever lived, the moa were a clan of feathered monsters..... More
London: Angus and Robertson, (1984. third edition), Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. First published 1954 by by Charles Laseron. More
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
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
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
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1936. Octavo, 13 photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 1998. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 50. 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
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, (2000. reprint). Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. 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
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
London: Watts & Co, 1911. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, some wear. More
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
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
Lawrence: The Geological Society of America, 1969. Octavo, text illustrations, very good in cloth binding, signed by the author for Edgar Riek. More
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
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
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