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The Great Auk

The Great Auk

by Errol Fuller

Garefowls, Penguins of the North, Riesenalks, Apponaths, Great Auks - all of these were names for a sea bird whose extinction was entirely the work of humankind. The birds existence ended on the morning of the third day of June 1844, when the last two recorded great auks were killed by three fishermen on the island of Eldey. a few miles south of Iceland in the North Atlantic Ocean. For thousands of years, until not so long before that fateful day, great auks swam the Atlantic in their millions and... Read more about this item
Evolution Of Animal Behavior

Evolution Of Animal Behavior

by Matthew H Nitecki

Lucy

Lucy

by Maitland a ; Johanson, Donald C Edey

Dragon Hunter

Dragon Hunter

by Charles Gallenkamp

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Ancient Marine Reptiles

by Jack Callaway

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Ancient Marine Reptiles

by Jack M and Nicholls, Elizabeth L Callaway

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The Southwestern Naturalist

by Southwestern Naturalist

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Dragon Hunter

by Charles Gallenkamp; Foreword-Michael J Novacek

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Dragon Hunter

by Charles; Novacek, Michael J Gallenkamp

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Digging Dinosaurs

by James Gorman, Donna Braginetz John R Horner

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Lucy, the Beginnings Of Humankind

by Donald and Maitland Edey Johanson

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Dragon Hunter

by Charles/Novacek, Michael J Gallenkamp

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Splendid Isolation

by George Gaylord Simpson

Paleontology Books & Ephemera

New Naturalist No 42 Fossils

New Naturalist No 42 Fossils

by Swinnerton, H H

Dragon Hunter

Dragon Hunter

by Gallenkamp, Charles

The Old Red Sandstone

The Old Red Sandstone

by Miller, Hugh

The Riddle of the Dinosaur

The Riddle of the Dinosaur

by John Noble Wilford

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1985. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$10.85
THE OLD RED SANDSTONE; OR, New Walks in an Old Field

THE OLD RED SANDSTONE; OR, New Walks in an Old Field

by Miller, Hugh

Boston: Gould and Lincoln. Fine with no dust jacket. 1852. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 288 pages; Large color fold-out as frontispiece. .
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A$139.87
Die Dinosaurier

Die Dinosaurier

by Steel, R. and H. Haubold

Wittenberg Lutherstadt: A. Ziemsen verlag, 1979. Paperback.
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A$12.43
Oedaleops Campi (Reptilia: Pelycosauria) New Genus and Species from the Lower Permian of New Mexico, and the Family Eothyrididae
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A$4.66
HUMAN EVOLUTION. An Illustrated Introduction

HUMAN EVOLUTION. An Illustrated Introduction

by Lewin, Roger

Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, United Kingdom, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. a very clean copy, with no annotations and no damage to describe. Illustrated throughout with charts and tables, maps, and black-and-white photographs and drawings. the book is an up-to-the-minute presentation on the fast moving field of paleoanthropology asset impinges on the story of human evolution Size: Quarto 9¾" - 12" tall. VIII, 104 pages. Please refer to... Read more about this item
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A$12.74
A Bibliography of the Fossil Mammals of Africa 1950-1972

A Bibliography of the Fossil Mammals of Africa 1950-1972

by Cross, Margaret W. and Maglio, Vincent J

Princeton, NJ: Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences, Princeton University, 1975. First edition.. Light sunning to spine, tape on inside top corner of front wrapper, a near fine copy.. Pp. 291. Publisher’s printed pictorial red stiff wrappers, lettered in black on the cover and spine, 8vo. This volume details the 2,300 publications on African fossil mammals published between 1950 and 1972. No ownership marks.
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A$31.08
Flora Fossilis Arctica: Die Fossile Flora Der Polarlander: Seibenter Band, enthaltend Den zweiten theil der fossilen flora Gronlands.

Flora Fossilis Arctica: Die Fossile Flora Der Polarlander: Seibenter Band, enthaltend Den zweiten theil der fossilen flora Gronlands.

by Heer, Oswald

Zurich. : J. Wurster. , 1883. Publisher’s printed wraps. . Good, lacks back cover, contents very good, unread and uncut. . 4to., 32x24.5 cm. . German text. Seventh volume in the series, second on Greenland. Plates numbered XLVIII-CIX. Heavy book, may require extra shipping. weight: 3.6 lb. Frontis plus 62 plates and one map.
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A$225.34
Agate Fossil Beds

Agate Fossil Beds

by Anonymous

Washington, D. D.: National Park Service, 1980. Paperback.
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A$3.11
Paleoenvironmental Maps of Pennsylvanian Rocks, Illinois Basin and Northern Midcontinent Region

Paleoenvironmental Maps of Pennsylvanian Rocks, Illinois Basin and Northern Midcontinent Region

by Harold R. Wanless; Cynthia Eoseman Wright

The Geological Society of America, 1978-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1978 first edition, Geological Society of America (Boulder, Colorado) 8 x 11 inches tall stapled booklet, 32 pp., plus 165 8 x 11 inches tall full-page figures or maps on slick stock, in the publisher's printed white envelope with black lettering to front of envelope. The containing envelope is rubbed, worn and torn, but has done its job protecting its contents, which are in very good condition. Otherwise contents are clean, bright and... Read more about this item
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A$31.00
Men and Dinosaurs

Men and Dinosaurs

by Colbert, Edwin H

Hardback. Acceptable.
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A$3.57
River Basin Survey Papers Nos 33-38.  Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 189. Inter-Agency Salvage Program

River Basin Survey Papers Nos 33-38. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 189. Inter-Agency Salvage Program

by Roberts, Frank H.H. [Editor]

Washington: Smithsonian Institution. 1964. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Black & white phorographs and diagrams. Fold-out maps. Previous ownership stamps [Royal Society of South Australia] to Title pages. Numbers neatly inked to upper corner of front cover. xiv, 405 pages. Covers archaelogical and paleontological sites in North Dakota, South Dakota and Kansas. The program was formulated for the purpose of recovering remains that would be lost as a result of the numerous... Read more about this item
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A$20.00
Palaeobotanical Investigations Into Some Cormophytic Macrofossils From the Neogene Tertiary Lignites of Central Jutland (PART II: GYMNOSPERMS)

Palaeobotanical Investigations Into Some Cormophytic Macrofossils From the Neogene Tertiary Lignites of Central Jutland (PART II: GYMNOSPERMS)

by Fr. J. Mathiesen

Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, 1970-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1970 First edition, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letter/Munksgaard's Forlag (Copanhagen, Denmark), in English, 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches tall, 69 plus 28 full-page plates with description on the facing page. Paperbound in brown wraps, wraps are mildly creased and edgeworn, with light accession number to the upper left corner of both the front cover and title page. Brown wraps have tiny tears along the edges. 1971 stamped from the... Read more about this item
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A$27.90
Fossile H

Fossile H

by R. Kr

S-Gravenhage - Mouton & Co, 1922-01-01. Paperback. Good. In German. 1922 S-Gravebgage/Miuton and Co., offprint, 7 x 11 inches tall softbound in green wraps, paginated 99-155 pp., plus seven full-page plates. Covers faded, chipped and edgeworn with prior owner's name and inscription (presenting the book to the USGS Paleobotanical Library in 1931) to front cover and tape repair to spine. SCGS stamp to first page of text. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Contributions to... Read more about this item
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A$18.57
The Burgess Shale

The Burgess Shale

by Whittington, H. B

Yale University Press, New Haven, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. In 1909, a discovery was made in southwestern Canada that turned out to be the richest fossil record yet found from the Cambrian Era. Slides of soft mud had covered a single area rather quickly, then hardened to form what is known as the Burgess Shale. Trapped in this formation were hundreds of well-preserved invertebrates that had lived from 500 million to over 600 million years ago. This book contains... Read more about this item
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A$100.10
Fossil Footprints from the Pennsylvanian System in Ohio

Fossil Footprints from the Pennsylvanian System in Ohio

by Carman, J. E

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. 38:385-396, 3 plates., 1927.
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A$4.66
Fossils in America

Fossils in America

by Ransom, Jay Ellis

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1964. First Edition.. A Hardbound Book. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book.
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A$13.75
The Riddle of the Dinosaur

The Riddle of the Dinosaur

by Wilford, John Noble

Paperback. Very Good.
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A$5.74
3 papers: 1) "Bericht uber die Ausgrabungen und Ergebnisse der Tendaguru-Expedition." (385-397 pp.). With: Hans V. STAFF & Hans RECK 2) "Ueber die Lebensweise der Trilobiten." (130-147 pp.) 3) "Die Lebensweise der Zweischaler des Solnhofener lithographischen Schiefers."(157-175 pp.). WITHIN: Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde, Berlin. Sitzungsberichte Der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin.

3 papers: 1) "Bericht uber die Ausgrabungen und Ergebnisse der Tendaguru-Expedition." (385-397 pp.). With: Hans V. STAFF & Hans RECK 2) "Ueber die Lebensweise der Trilobiten." (130-147 pp.) 3) "Die Lebensweise der Zweischaler des Solnhofener lithographischen Schiefers."(157-175 pp.). WITHIN: Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde, Berlin. Sitzungsberichte Der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin.

by [Fossils; Palentology; Dinosaurs] RECK, Hans (1886-1937

Berlin:: R. Friedlander & Sohn, 1911., 1911. 8vo. vii, 449, 15 pp. Figures, plates. Gilt-stamped half black cloth, marbled papered boards. Fine copy. Ownership rubber stamp of P. Claussen. Hans Gottfried Reck was a German volcanologist and paleontologist. In 1913 he was the first to discover the ancient skeleton of a human, which caused quite a stir regarding the origins of mankind, in the Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania. The Tendaguru Beds, originally discovered in 1906, are a fossil-rich... Read more about this item
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A$93.25
Great Auk

Great Auk

by Fuller, Errol

Harry N Abrams Inc, 1999-11-01. Hardcover. Very Good-. //Good+. . 11x9x1. VG-/GOOD+. white illustrated jacket with sun faded edges, dust jacket in archival plastic protector. Oversized, heavy, additional shipping charges may apply, tightly bound, clean text, illustrations, and paper..<p> Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com<p> Orders shipped via USPS.
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A$73.43
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part 1 Mollusca 6

Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part 1 Mollusca 6

by Edited Raymond C Moore

U S A: Geological Society of America, 1964. Very detailed and informative book on invertebrate paleontology, volume 1 of 3. Contains 351 pages in very bright clean condition, many B/w photographs and illustrations, all present as listed plus very informative text, NO dustwrapper, outer boards are bright with just a few very small marks..HEAVY BOOK 1.3 Kg with packing EXTRA POSTAGE REQUIRED FOR OVERSEAS. A very nice example of this book SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Reprint.... Read more about this item
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A$68.60
The Old Red Sandstone; or New Walks in an Old Field

The Old Red Sandstone; or New Walks in an Old Field

by Miller, Hugh

Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1851. 1851 American edition, from the fourth London edition. Include hand colored folding plate and additional plates in black and white. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Heavily worn with chips to wpine head and some pinholes along the spine, sound binding, plate have some foxing that also affects the adjacent pages, some have old transparent stains, some similar stains to endpapers, no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" -... Read more about this item
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A$66.81
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PALEONTOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS: COELENTERATA,MOLLUSCA,ECHINODERMATA,VERTEBRATA

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PALEONTOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS: COELENTERATA,MOLLUSCA,ECHINODERMATA,VERTEBRATA

by Jeffords,R.M.& Bowsher,A.L.et al

U.KS, 1955-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 1955 University of Kansas Publications (Topeka, Kansas) 8 x 10 3/4 inches tall soft bound in grey wraps, containing six articles, all separately paginated. Identification number in pen spine and top of front cover. Prior owner name in pen to top of front cover. very minor edgewear to covers, with sun-fading to spine. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked.~~SP07~~ Association copy: The prior owner, Dr. Leonard Krishtalka, is a well known... Read more about this item
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A$31.00
THE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE KINDERHOOK SERIES OF IOWA: FROM IOWA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY , VOL. XXXV, ANNUAL REPORT 1929, PAGES 333 TO 452

THE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE KINDERHOOK SERIES OF IOWA: FROM IOWA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY , VOL. XXXV, ANNUAL REPORT 1929, PAGES 333 TO 452

by Laudon, Lowell Robert

Des Moines, IA: Iowa Geological Survey/State of Iowa, 1931. Soft cover. Photographs, maps, sections, bibliography and index. Bound in original gray stiff paper covers printed in black. A very good copy.
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A$38.85
A New Look at the Dinosaurs

A New Look at the Dinosaurs

by CHARIG, ALAN JACK

William Heinemann, London, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. a clean copy, no damage to the book or its cover. Illustrated in the main with black-and-white photographs, black-and-white drawings, and maps. The book is published in association with the British Museum [natural history], London. The book is not solely a history of dinosaurs, it is also, a history of the discovery of dinosaurs and the controversies Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 160 pages. Please... Read more about this item
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A$12.74