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Devonian Trilobites
by Bruton, Chillpac, Franco, McNamara, Tripp, Thomas, Whittington, Shand, Woodward, Tomczykowa Et Al Barrois
De Corporibus Marinis Lapidescentibus Quae Defossa Reperiuntur Auctore Augustino Scilla Addita Dissertatione Fabii Columnae De Glossopetris, 1747
by Augustino Scilla
Wild New World, Recreating Ice-Age North America
by Miles: Bean, Nigel: Dunleavy, Stephen: Gray, Ian: and White, Adam Barton
The Mistaken Extinction Dinosaur Evolution and The Origin Of Birds
by Lowell, and Rowe, Timothy Dingus
Fossils Books & Ephemera
Fossil Foraminifera of the USSR: Globigerinidae, Hantkeninidae and Globorotaliidae.
by Subbotina, N.N
Collet's (Publishers) Ltd., 1971. 1st Edition. . Book Book Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Collet's (Publishers) Ltd., 1971. 1st Edition . Very Good/Good. First English edition. Book in VG condition in a good jacket, now in removable protective sleeve, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, illustrated. 321pp. Will incur extra overseas postage.
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£45.00
The Fossil World
by Richard Moody
How plants and animals have been fossilized enabling us to discover much about Earth's early history and the process of evolution, how to collect and prepare fossils with the minimum of damage, and the importance of fossils in such fields as geology, biology and oil exploration. 124 pages with over 100 colour photographs and 60 black and white photographs and line drawings. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good condition with minor wear to edges (see photo).
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£13.23
Next of Kin: Great Fossils at the American Museum of Natural History
by Dingus, Lowell
Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic & Illustrations. Acknowledgements, preface and introduction by author, index and illustration credits. Burnt orange coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs, plans, colour and black-and-white illustrations and line drawings. Black coloured boards with self embossed title to the front panel and silver coloured titles to the...
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£10.59
MARVELLOUS WORLD OF FOSSILS
by PAJAUD, DANIEL, Tallon, J. Peter (translator)
Previous owners ex libris to front end paper. Clean and well bound. No inscriptions or annotations. Colour photographs throughout.
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£12.72
Eight Little Piggies, Reflections in natural history
by Stephen Jay Gould
History on the broadest scale of life's evolution during 3.5 billion years told in a series of essays. 479 pages with illustrations throughout the text. Book in very good condition.
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£6.35
The Riddle of the Dinosaur
by John Noble Wilford
The myths and truths about dinosaurs and the palaeontologists who pursued them. 304 pages with 6 colour illustrations and black and white illustrations throughout the text. Book in good- condition as it is split in the centre, ex library with reference on first page, part stamp on last page and borrowing sleeve remnants inside back cover, very readable text clear. Dust jacket in good condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back.
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£6.35
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated) Vol. LV
by Howchin, Walter [Edited by] Assisted by Arthur M. Lea
Adelaide: Royal Society of South Australia. 1931. Small Quarto Size. Very Good condition. Some age discolouration to edges . Illustrated with black and white plates and drawings. Fold-out map. 210 pages + 8 plates. Contains 15 articles, including: Delineation of the Pre-Cambrian Plateau in Central and North Australia (with fold-out map) (Chewings); two contributions by Dr H. Fry, Adelaide University Field Anthropology, Central Australia on the Class Relations of the Aranda and Class System, Kinship...
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£18.52
A Guide to Rocks & Fossils
by Arthur B Busbey, Robert R Coenraads, Paul Willis, David Roots
A fascinating reference source on the formation and identification of rocks and fossils, where to find various types and how to collect and care for them, and a field guide to the most significant geological and paleontological sites in the world.288 pages with colour photographs throughout. Book in very good+ condition.
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£9.52
Records Of The South Australian Museum Vol. XI. No 1
by Various Edited by the Museum Director
Adelaide: The Museum Board. 1953. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with black and white plates and drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 90pages. Articles on Australian Aborigines and Natural History. Article on Australian Aborigines: "Native Arts and Industries on the Archer, Kendall and Holroyd Rivers, Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland" by Ursula McConnel Natural History articles on Rhopalocera,...
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£10.58
The World of Fossils
by Giovanni Pinna
Discusses - Fossils and Fossilization, The Science of Palaeontology, and concentrates on Invertebrate Fossils - animals without backbones such as Sponges, Worms, Molluses. 128 pages with 126 mainly colour plates. Book in very good+ condition.
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£9.52
The Fossil Hunters; Stories from the Palaeontologists Volume 3
by Sue Mikkelsen (Editor)
A collection of stories by ten palaeontologists about their journeys of discovery and passion for the natural world and about inquiring minds, fate, dreams and achievements, and the fossil regions of South Australia. 116 pages with colour photographs throughout. Book in as new condition.
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£6.35
The Procession of Life
by Alfred S Romer
The history of the various great families of animals, the variety found in each, the evolutionary development within each family and how they interrelate.323 pages with 48 black and white illustrations and 56 line drawings in the text. Book in very good+ condition with presentation sticker inside front cover. Dust jacket in very good condition price clipped with a small tear bottom back and some minor knocks and wear.
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£9.52
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated) Vol. 64 Part 2 1940
by Womersley, Herbert [Hon Editor]
Adelaide: Royal Society of South Australia. 1940. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with black and white plates and drawings. 395 pages. A range of anthropological, natural history and geological papers. Includes ' Notes on the Sign Language of the Jaralde Tribe of the Lower River Murray, South Australia' by R.M. Berndt and Aboriginal Stone Structures by C P Mountford. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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£13.23
The Elements of Geology
by William Harmon Norton
Introduction - scope and aim of Geology; Part I - External Geological Agencies; Part II - Internal Geological Agencies; Part III - Historical Geology. 464 pages with 376 Figures. Book in very good+ condition ex library with stamp on front endpaper and some wear to cover (see photo).
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£18.52
Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
by Richard Fortey
The author's homage to trilobites covering 300 million years. 269 pages with 34 plates and 39 illustrations throughout the text. Book in good+ condition ex library with stamps on first, title and last pages. Cover in clear wrapper with library stickers.
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£9.52
Collins Eyewitness Guides: Fossil
by Paul D Taylor
What fossils are, how they formed, and how the creatures lived. 64 pages with hundreds of colour photographs. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners names on front endpapers.
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£10.58
Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution
by Lieberman, Philip
London: Picador. 1998. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. xvi, 192 pages. Basing his work on fossil records and neuroscientific discoveries on brain functioning, the author challenges the dominant scientific theories of the origins of language. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Softcover.
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£7.94
Bone Hunters
by Stephen Dedman
Who were the first people to unearth dinosaur fossils and why did they do it? 107 pages drawings throughout the text and a map. Book in near fine condition with some minor marks to top.
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£13.23
Flying Dinosaurs; How fearsome reptiles became birds
by John Pickrell
How dinosaurs developed flight, the latest discoveries in China, the USA, Europe and Australia, and can we use a chicken to bring back dinosaurs. 215 pages with 16 pages of colour illustrations. Book in near fine condition.
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£14.81
The Wisdom of Bones. In Search of Human Origins
by Walker, Alan & Shipman, Pat
Melbourne: TSP. 1996. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 270 pages. The story of the excavation of the 'Narikotome Boy' in Kenya in 1984, the most complete skeleton of Homo erectus ever found. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.
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£7.41
Die Verhaal Van LEWE EN DIE OMGEWING,
by Van As, Jo; Johann Du Preez, Leslie Brown, Nico Smit
Ongelees, ongemerkd. Baie veelsydig en baie omvatend oorsig van Afrika. Unread, Unmarked. A very comprehensive , wide- ranging view of Africa. Extra oorseeposgeld kan verwag word.
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£21.20
Stromatolites
by McNamara, Ken
Perth, Western Australia: Western Australian Museum. 1997. Small Quarto Size [approx 18x24cm]. A Near Fine copy. As new condition. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 28 pages. . Revised Edition. Softcover.
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£7.94
The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs
by Adrian J Desmond
Dinosaurs represent the most successful order of creation so far achieved, what did they look like, how did they live and why did they vanish. 287 pages with 24 pages of illustrations. Book in good+ condition with previous owners name on first page and tanning.
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£6.35
Survivors. The Animals and Plants that Time Has Left Behind
by Fortey, Richard
London: Harper Press. 2011. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ spine very slightly sunned & now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. B/W drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 336 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£18.52
Prehistoric Australia; 4000 million years of evolution in Australia
by Brian Mackness
Insight into the forces and processes responsible for sculpturing Australia's unique animals and plants from the earliest single-celled organisms to the recent lumbering giant marsupials. 191 pages with illustrations on nearly every pages many in colour. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition.
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£23.81
