Search Results: Palaeontology from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Angus & Robertson, North Ryde, New South Wales, 1987. First Edition. Softcover (Illustrated). Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Peter Schouten. Introduction by editors list of contributors, glossary and recommended reading bottle green coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with white drawings by Peter Shouten; who, also drawing to the front panel. Dark green coloured paperback binding pale yellow and gold coloured back strip. A reconstruction, from fossils, of the birds, mammals and fishes that swam, flew and walked in prehistoric Australia. A little creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels stop some marks to the front cover laminate and patchy browning of the rear panel. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [6], 90 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Peter Schouten. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Animals & Birds; Palaeontology; Illustration; Australia; Ancient (BC); ISBN:… Read More

Bonanza Books, New York, 1985. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic & Illustrations. Notes, bibliography and index. The text is illustrated with three sections, of eight pages each, of black-and-white photography and illustrations, and throughout the text there are black and white line drawings. Black coloured cloth covered boards with metallic copper coloured titles to the back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound), by Mike Mikos, with orange, red and white coloured titles to the front panel and red and white coloured titles to the back strip. A book on dinosaurs – when they lived, how they lived etc., but, also of the fossil finders many, many millions of years later who found their fossilised remains. Minor rubbing of the book edges with age toning of the text block edges and pages. A few marks to the top text edge. Chipping of the dustwrapper corners and there is a small, 0.25", tear to the top edge of the… Read More

Australian Geographic Pty Ltd An imprint of Bauer Media, Sydney, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover (Laminated Illustrated Boards). Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Illustrated. Glossary. Bright blue coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with colour photographs, maps and coloured illustrations. Colour illustrated laminated boards with black, red and white coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the back strip. Quoting from the rear panel blurb " ... A guide to the dinosaurs from Down Under, ranging from the ferocious carnivores like Ozraptor to the herbivorous giants such as Austrosaurus." Each individually named dinosaur is described in size weight etc., and, where the fossil was found and over which area they roamed. Minor rubbing of the book edges and panels. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 32 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category:… Read More

Chartwell, Secaucus, New Jersey, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographs & drawings. Second-hand copy, no damage to the dust jacket, internally clean, without annotations. Illustrated with over 100 full-colour photographs and 60 black-and-white photographs in line drawings. The book covers 3000 million years, from the 1st appearance of fossils to the 1st appearance of the mammals which appeared in the Mesozoic era. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 124 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographs & drawings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Natural History & Resources; Palaeontology; Science & Technology. ISBN: 0890091161. ISBN/EAN: 9780890091166. Inventory No: 0277966. . 9780890091166

University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004. First Edition. Softcover (Photographic). Good. Illustrator: Photographic. List of illustrations, acknowledgements, suggestions for further reading, and index. The text is illustrated with the occasional black and white photograph, map or graph. Photographic paperback binding with light blue and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. A history of ice ages throughout Earth's history, and, what it may mean for the future. Creasing, multiple, to the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. A little age toning of the text block edges and pages. Gift inscription to the free front end page. Size: Trade Paperback. 256, [4] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Environment & Ecology; Palaeontology; ISBN: 0520248244. ISBN/EAN: 9780520248243. Inventory No: 0130492. . 9780520248243

Blond and Briggs, London, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. To appendices, glossary, general bibliography, notes and references, credits for illustrations, acknowledgements and index. The text is illustrated with numerous black and white illustrations and photographs. Bright green coloured boards with red coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. A re-evaluation of dinosaurs, where the author asks is the Victorian belief that dinosaurs were cold-blooded and and had pea brains, in fact lizards?. Then, how did the 'ostrich dinosaur' maintain speeds of 50 miles an hour, or, how did the Tyrannosaurus and the Triceratops have sustained gladiatorial combat with only of physiology of lizard? With new discoveries of dinosaurs with stereo vision, manipulative fingers and giant brains of newly discovered dinosaurs the author suggests that… Read More

Lonely Planet Publications, London, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover (Laminated Illustrated Boards). Very Good Condition. Illustrator: James Gulliver Hancock. Index. Illustrated end pages and the coloured illustrations within the text have all been drawn by James Gulliver Hancock stop colour illustrated laminated boards, again by James Gulliver Hancock, with green, white and tan coloured titles to the front panel and white, blue and tan coloured titles to the back strip. A book for children on where to find (hopefully) dinosaur fossils and then going back in time to describe the dinosaurs in their own time and environment. Very minor rubbing of the book edges and panels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [7], 160 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: James Gulliver Hancock. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Animals & Birds; Palaeontology; Illustration; Children. ISBN: 1743219075. ISBN/EAN:… Read More

Faber & Faber, Locust Valley, N.Y, 1975. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Illustrated and Maps. Preface to the second edition, foreword by author, list of illustrations, acknowledgements, appendix: the study of geology, glossary of terms and index. The text is illustrated with maps and black and white line drawings. Photographic paperback binding with Tan and black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. The second edition of a book that was first published in 1961. "Professor Ager's book is intended to introduce geology to the educated reader, and takes the form of a simplified and non-technical account what has been discovered about the evolution, through the hundreds of millions of years, of that part of the earth's crust which is now Britain." – from the rear panel blurb. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with foxing and marking to the book panels. Sunning and foxing to the back strip edges; with foxing to the top text block… Read More

Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic & Illustrations. Prologue: My Dinosaur Life, notes, acknowledgements and index. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photography and illustrations. Illustrated grey / green coloured boards with dark grey / green coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper – which folds out into a poster – with aqua and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. The author has had a lifelong addiction to dinosaurs and palaeontology. In this book he takes you on a tour of the latest discoveries and of his favourite dinosaurs. Minor rubbing of the book edges and back strip edges. Black remainder dot to the top text edge. The dustwrapper shows no damage. Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [13], 4 - 256, [6] pages,. Please… Read More

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 back strip. Photographic dustwrapper (wraparound) with brown and blue coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the back strip. A history of the collection of fossils in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the museum itself and, of course the fossils. Minor rubbing of the book corners and back strip corners. A little creasing of the top dustwrapper edge with rubbing of the panels. Size: Folio ( 12"- 15" tall ). [5], 6 - 160 pages,. Please refer… Read More

Golden Press Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic & Illustrations. Introduction by author, acknowledgements, bibliography and index. Photographic end pages, showing fossilised ferns. The text is illustrated with colour photographs, black and white illustrations and photographs. Blue coloured boards with gilt coloured embossed illustration and titles to the front panel with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with black and red coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. Title says it all. Rubbing of the book corners and back strip corners with bumping to the top book corners. Very light age toning of the text block edges and pages. Creasing of the top dustwrapper edge with rubbing of the panels and there is a little sunning of the back strip. Size: Folio ( 12"- 15" tall ). [5], 6 - 191, [1]… Read More

W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. preface by author for appendices, references, credits, glossary and index. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photography, tables, charts, maps and illustrations. Photographic card cover with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. A book on primate palaeontology. Starting at the earliest known fossil remains of primates up to early hominoids that were the precursor to man. Minor creasing to the book corners was rubbing of the book edges and panels. Slipped in to the book is a review request. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [4], V - XIV, [1], 2-492, [6] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Animals & Birds; Palaeontology; Apes & Monkeys; ISBN: 0393956490. ISBN/EAN:… Read More