Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia: animals in space and time.
Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1984. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
GENERAL - Palaeontology
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The ancestry of the vertebrates.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1986. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Terrestrial paleoecology and global change.
Sofia: Pensoft, 2002. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps, other illustrations. 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..... More
The Kingdom of man.
London: Watts & Co, 1911. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, some wear. More
Swimming in stone: the amazing Gogo fossils of the Kimberley.
Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other black and white illustrations. 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..... More
Nature's clocks: how scientist's measure the age of almost everything.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Octavo, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Examining radiocarbon (C-14) dating and several other techniques that geologists use to decode the distant past, this book unwraps the twentieth century's developments, explaining how they reveal the age of our fossil ancestors, such as..... More
Fossils: a photographic field guide.
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
Flying dinosaurs: how fearsome reptiles became birds.
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
Kadimakara: extinct vertebrates of Australia.
Lilydale: Pioneer Design Studio, 1985. Quarto, colour plates by Frank Knight, bookplate PJ Moors, very good 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"..... More
The beginnings of the age of mammals in America.
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
Amniote origins: completing the transition to land.
San Diego: Academic Press, 1997. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, laminated boards. More
Treatise on invertebrate palaeontology, part F: Coelenterata.
Lawrence: The Geological Society of America, 1981. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
Thunder-lizards: the Sauropodomorph dinosaurs.
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