Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia: animals in space and time.
Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1984. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Palaeontology
The dinosaur heresies: new theories unlocking the mystery of the dinosaurs and their extinction.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1986. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Horns and beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod dinosaurs.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. Large octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Part of a series on the major dinosaur types, this book on armoured, carnivorous, and sauropodomorph dinosaurs collects information reflecting the discoveries and research on these two groups of animals. The Ornithopods include Iguanodon and..... 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
Hitherto unpublished plates of Tertiary Mammalia and Permian Vertebrata.
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
An introduction to palaeontology.
London: Thomas Murby, 1925. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. 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
The Dodo: the bird that drew the short straw.
Marum: Art Revisited, 2003. Octavo, colour illustrations, laminated boards. More
Pictures of time beneath: science, heritage and the uses of the deep past.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2010. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, line drawings. Examines three celebrated scientific landscapes: Adelaide's Hallett Cove, Lake Callabonna in the far north of South Australia, and the World Heritage listed Willandra Lakes Region of New South Wales. It offers philosophical insights into significant issues of heritage..... More
Avian community, climate, and sea-level changes in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Florida Peninsula.
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 1998. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 50. More
Oceans of Kansas: a natural history of the Western Anterior Sea.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Octavo, colour illustrations, black and white photographs, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Tells the story of the five million years when giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaurs, pteranodons, and birds with teeth flourished in and around this shallow sea. The abundant and well-preserved remains..... More
The complete Ice Age: how climate change shaped the world.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2009. Octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. In this book, four leading scientists present the most up-to-date discoveries in the different fields of Ice Age Research. They reveal how the epoch was discovered, the profound climatic fluctuations it generated as ice sheets waxed and waned..... 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
Fossils: the key to the past.
London: Natural History Museum, (2015. revised edition). Octavo, colour photographs, illustrations, maps, softcover. In his accessible introduction to the study and meaning of fossils, the world-renowned palaeontologist Richard Fortey provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of fossils and their use in reconstructing the history of life on Earth. Extensively..... More
Shaking the tree: readings from Nature in the history of life.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. 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
Dodo: the bird behind the legend.
Cassis: Imprimerie & Papeterie Commerciale Ltd, 2005. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. This book allows the reader to examine various eyewitness writings, drawings, paintings and skeletal remains, which depict the Dodo as it actually was, and helps us to understand how it was driven to extinction. It also traces what happened after..... 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
Dinosaurs and other mesozoic reptiles of California.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Octavo, colour illustrations, text illustrations and photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $65. Richard Hilton reconstructs the fascinating ecosystem that thrived on the ancient west coast, and its dinosaurs and reptiles of land, sea and sky that lived during the Mesozoic era, in addition..... More
Fossil frogs and toads of North America.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Large octavo, text illustrations, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Detailed systematic accounts of the known fossil frogs and toads of North America. Extinct fossil frogs and toads are fully discussed and illustrated and in some cases, rediagnosed and redescribed. 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
The building of Australia and the succession of life: with special reference to South Australia.
Adelaide: Government Printer, 1925-1930. Octavo, text illustrations. binder's cloth, the three parts bound together, a fine 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
Quest for the African dinosaurs: ancient roots for the modern world.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, (2000. reprint). Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. More
The ancestry of the vertebrates.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1986. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Mammals from the age of dinosaurs: origins, evolution, and structure.
Irvington: Columbia University Press, 2004. Quarto, text illustrations. Organised according to phylogeny, this book covers all aspects of the anatomy, palaeobiology, and systematics of all early mammalian groups, in addition to the extant mammalian lineages extending back into the Mesozoic. More