Wood, Albert E. and Patterson, Bryan

The Rodents of the Deseadan Oligocene of Patagonia and the Beginnings of South American Rodent Evolution.

Cambridge: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1959. First edition. Pp. 148; 35 text-figures. Original printed pale green wrappers, 8vo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 120, no. 3. No ownership marks. The edges of the wrappers are lightly sunned, slight oval mark on the front wrapper; text shows no signs of use; a bright and clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 5117

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Palenotology geology

Wortman, J. L. and Matthew, W. D.

The ancestry of certain members of the Canidae, the Viverridae, and Procyonidae.

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1900. First edition. Pp. 109-138; 10 text-figures, 1 phylogenetic chart, 1 foldout anatomical chart. Early green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, page edges decorated with green speckles, 8vo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 12, article 6. The entire volume 12 of this Bulletin of the AMNH is offered here with 342 pages and 9 other articles. The volume includes three other articles of paleontological importance: Article 4: Matthews - Classification fresh-water Tertiary of the West; Article 7: Wortman - Restoration of Oxyaena lupine and Article 11: Osborn - Forelimb and Hind limbs of Carnivorous and Herbivorous Dinosaurs from the Jurassic of Wyoming. Bookplate of the Reading Public Museum on the front endpaper, white call number on the spine and name stamp on the rear endpaper, shellac has been added to the spine as a preservative. No other ownership marks and no signs of use. A tight, bright and clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 5537

Catalogue: Paleontology

Wortman, J. L.

Studies of Eocene Mammalia in the Marsh collection, Peabody Museum, Part II: Primates.

New Haven, CT: American Journal of Science, 1903. First edition. Pp. 147-250; 49 text-figures, 2 full page halftone plates (of aye-aye). Offprint with the outer wrappers missing, 8vo. Offprint from: American Journal of Science, volume 15. Outer wrappers missing, the text is bright and clean, some annotations in red pencil in the first part of the text; a clean, very good copy..

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Book number: 4949

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Palenotology geology

Yadagiri, P., Satsangi, P. P. and Prasad, K. N.

The Piscean Fauna from the Kota Formation of the Pranhita-Godavari Valley, Andhra Pradesh.

Calcutta: Geological Survey of India, 1980. First edition. Pp. (6), 22, (2); 6 full page photo-plates, 10 text-figures. Publisher's original light yellow printed wrappers, lg 4to. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Palaeontologia Indica, new series, volume 45. Circular library stamp on front wrapper and a few pages inside, no other ownership marks. Some soiling and wear to the wrappers, top outer corner of the first several pages with small folds; a good solid copy..

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Book number: 5082

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Palenotology geology

Young, C. C.

Miscellaneous Mammalian fossils from Shansi and Honan (Palaeontologia Sinica, series C, volume 9, fascicle 2)

Peking: Geological Survey of China, 1935. First edition. Pp. 57, (2); 7 full page black-and-white plates each with a descriptive leaf of text, 13 text-figures. Original printed olive green wrappers, 4to. This monograph describes large and small mammalian fossils from Shansi and Honan in northern China including Stegodon, Mastodon, Gazella, Machairodus, Caprolagus, Canis and Bison. From the series: Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C, Volume 9, Fascicle 2. The text is entirely in English. Small name stamps of U.C. Berkeley paleoanthropologist Theodore McCown and his wife, Elizabeth McCown on the title page. Light edge wear to the paper on the spine, small marginal chips missing from the bottom corner of the front wear wrapper, the text is bright and clean; a near fine copy..

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Book number: 7609

Catalogue: Paleontology

Young, C. C.

On a new Nodosaurid from Ninghsia.

Peiping (Peking): Geological Survey of China, 1935. First edition. Pp. 34, (3); 3 full page photo-plates, each with descriptive leaf of text, 18 text-figures. Original printed gray wrappers, 4to. Palaeontologia Sinica, series C, volume XI, fascicle 1. This is the first description of Pinacosaurus (""the plank lizard""), a new genus of medium-sized ankylosaur dinosaurs that lived from the late Santonian to the late Campanian stages of the late Cretaceous Period (roughly 80-75 million years ago), in Mongolia and China. This type specimen is from Ningxia (Ninghsia), China. Pinacosaurus had between two and five additional holes near each nostril, the function of which is not well understood. Pinacosaurus was a lightly built, medium-sized ankylosaur that reached a length of 5 meters (about 16 feet). Like all ankylosaurids, it had a bony club at the end of its tail which it used as a defensive weapon against predators such as Velociraptor (adapted from Wiki). Old oval ink stamp on the rear wrapper and last page of text, small (one-half inch wide) sticker on the spine, no other ownership marks and few signs of use. Rare work seldom offered. Wrappers with slight wear along the spine and some sunning, small marginal tear to bottom edge of front wrapper neatly repaired; a tight and clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 5216

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Paleontology geology Nodosaurid Pinacosaurus ankylosaur Santonian Campanian Cretaceous Ninghsia Ninghsia China Asia

Young, C. C.

Selected works of C. C. Young (1897-1979)

Beijing: Academia Sinica, 1982. First edition. Pp. iii (i), 1-219; 16 black-and-white photo plates, some text-figures (line-drawings). Original tan printed boards, lettered in black, with one-quarter cloth on the spine, sm 4to. This volume presents the principal publications of the vertebrate paleontologist, C. C. Young who lived from 1897 to 1979. This volume is from the research collection of Dutch vertebrate paleontologist D. A. Hooijer with his bookplate on the front endpaper and his signature on the title page. No other ownership marks. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 9571

Catalogue: Paleontology

Yu, Chang-Min

Devonian - Carboniferous Boundary in Nanbiancun, Guilin, China - Aspects and Records.

Beijing: Science Press, 1988. First edition. Pp. (4), 379; 87 full page plates (2 plates in color), 114 text-figures and geological charts (1 is folding biostratigraphic chart). Original printed blue wrappers, boldly lettered in gilt on the front cover and in white on the spine, sm 4to. This volumes provides a fully-illustrated systematic descriptive of 14 fossil groups including including conodonts, foraminifers, algae, corals, blastoids, bryozoans, trilobites, ostracods, brachiopods, ammonoids, gastropods and bivalues. Coverage also includes sea cucumbers (holothuroids) and fish scales found in the Nanbiancun. The text is entirely in English. From the research library of paleontologist Brian F. Glenister with his signature on the front endpaper. Signed letter from the author to Glenister is laid in at front. A fine (as new) copy..

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Book number: 5433

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Invertebrate paleontology Devonian Carboniferous conodonts foraminifers algae corals blastoids bryozoans trilobites ostracods brachiopods ammonoids gastropods bivalues sea cucumbers holothuroids fish scales Nanbiancun Guilin China Asia Brian F. Glenister

Zangerl, Rainer.

Die Triasfauna der Tessiner Kalkalpen IX: Pachypleurosaurus edwardsi, Cornalia sp. Osteologie - Variationsbreite - Biologie

Basel: E. Birkhauser & Cie., 1935. First edition Pp. 80, 43 text-figures, 2 large folding plates. Abhandlungen Schweizerischen Palaeontologischen Gesellschaft volume 56. Name stamp of John A. Dorr Jr. on front wrapper. This was Zangerl's thesis - a photograph of the title page of his thesis is stapled in to the front wrapper. Some ink notes and circles by Dorr on the front wrapper, otherwise a very good copy..

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Book number: 2577

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Palenotology geology

Zdansky, Otto

Die Alttertiaren Saugetiere Chinas nebst stratigraphischen Bemerkungen (Palaeontologia Sinica, series C, volume 6, fascicle 2)

Peking: Geological Survey of China, 1930. First edition. Pp. 87; 5 full-page black-and-white plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text, 7 text-figures (line-drawings). Original printed olive green wrappers, 4to. This monograph describes the early Tertiary fossil mammals of China and their stratigraphic positions. From the series: Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C, Volume 6, Fascicle 2. The text is in German. No ownership marks and no signs of use. Light tanning to the wrappers, the text is bright and clean; a tight and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 7356

Catalogue: Paleontology

Zdansky, Otto

Fossile Hirsche Chinas (Palaeontologia Sinica, series C, volume 2, fascicle 3)

Peking: Geological Survey of China, 1925. First edition. Pp. (4), 90, (5); 16 full page black-and-white plates each with a descriptive leaf of text, 2 text-figures. Original printed olive green wrappers, 4to. This monograph describes the fossil Cervidae (deer) of China. From the series: Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C, Volume 2, Fascicle 3. The text is in German. No ownership marks and no signs of use. Small chip missing from the rear wrapper outer corner, faint superficial stain to the top edge of the spine, the text is very bright and clean; a near fine copy..

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Book number: 7347

Catalogue: Paleontology

Zeuner, F. E.

The goats of early Jericho

London: Palestine Exploration Committee, 1955. First edition Pp. 70-86, 1 plate. Original printed wrappers, stapled at spine, sm 4to. From: Palestine Exploration Quarterly, April, 1955. Jericho is a Palestinian city in the West Bank. It is located in the Jordan Valley, with the Jordan River to the east and Jerusalem to the west (from Wiki). Early Jericho has biblical significance. No ownership marks. Bumps to two outer corners, a very good copy..

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Book number: 9609

Catalogue: Paleontology

Zong, Guanfu, Xu, Qinqi, et al.

Cenozoic Mammals and Environment of Hengduan Mountains Region

Beijing: Academia Sinica, 1996. First edition. Pp. (iii), 1-279; 35 full page black-and-white photos of fossils, numerous text-figures (line drawings of geological strata and fossils). Publisher’s original pictorial green wrappers, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, sm 4to. The text is mostly in Chinese but there is a long summary in English at the end. Inscribed by one of the co-editors, Xu Qinqi, on the title page. No other ownership marks. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 9573

Catalogue: Paleontology