Other origins: the search for the giant ape in human prehistory.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1991. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Palaeontology
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
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, black and white photographs. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 50. More
The riches of Ancient Australia: an indispensable guide for exploring prehistoric Australia.
Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, (1999. third edition). Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, softcover. 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
Quaternary environmental micropalaeontology.
Oxford: 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 contemporary..... More
The building of Australia and the succession of life: with special reference to South Australia.
Sydney: 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
Bone, tooth and horn tools of palaeolithic man: an account of the 0steodontokeratic discovery in Pin Hole Cave, Derbyshire.
Sydney: Manchester University Press, 1963. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Terrestrial paleoecology and global change.
Moscow: 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
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
Feathered dinosaurs: the origins of birds.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2008. Quarto, colour illustrations by Peter Schouten, fine copy in dustwrapper. New fossil evidence has recently shown that not all the dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago. It's a revelation that has profoundly changed the way we perceive the natural world and has given us a...... 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, 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
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
Catalogue of the Caenozoic plants in the Department of Geology British Museum (Natural history), volume one: the Bembridge flora [all published].
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
Kadimakara: extinct vertebrates of Australia.
Sydney: Pioneer Design Studio, 1985. Quarto, colour plates by Frank Knight, fine copy in dustwrapper. According to the traditions of some Australian Aborigines, the strange monsters known as "Kadimakara" once lived in a "roof" of vegetations over Central Australia, occasionally foraging for foods in the "lower" world. These Aborigines believed..... More
A bibliography of the Foraminifera, recent and fossil from 1565-1888: with notes explanatory of some of the rare and little-known publications.
London: Dulau and Co., 1888. Octavo, ex-library. More