Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia: animals in space and time.
Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1984. Quarto, text illustrations, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
GENERAL - Palaeontology
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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.
Albany NY: 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.
New York: 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..... More
Memoir on fossils of the late pre-cambrian (newer Proterozoic) from the Adelaide series, South Australia.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1936. Octavo, 13 photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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
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
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
Terrestrial paleoecology and global change.
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
The Kingdom of man.
London: Watts & Co, 1911. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, some wear. More
Treatise on invertebrate palaeontology, part R: Arthropoda volume four [crustacea].
Lawrence: The Geological Society of America, 1969. Octavo, text illustrations, very good in cloth binding, signed by the author for Edgar Riek. 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
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
Treatise on invertebrate palaeontology, part F: Coelenterata.
Lawrence: The Geological Society of America, 1981. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
Vertebrate palaeontology of Australasia.
Melbourne: Pioneer Design Studio, 1991. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Fossil vertebrates of Arabia: with emphasis on the Late Miocene faunas, geology and palaeoenvironments of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, diagrams, maps. Very good copy in dustwrapper. This volume presents the results of research on Arabian continental vertebrates discovered in the United Arab Emirates, the Sultanate of Oman, and the Republic of Yemen. The contributors provide information on Arabian palaeontology..... More
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