Miner, Roy Waldo

The Pectoral Limb of Eryops and Other Primitive Tetrapods.

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1925. First edition. Pp. 145-312; 104 text-figures (figures 18 and 19 laid in at page 182, they were never bound in and are often missing from the work). Original printed gray wrappers, lg 8vo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 51, article 7. Eryops was a semi-aquatic temnospondyl amphibian found primarily in the Lower Permian beds. It is an important creature for understanding the transition from water to land. This paper is from the research library of herpetologist Kevin W. Marx with his signature on the front endpaper. Small chip missing from the outer border of the front wrapper, a clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 6003

Catalogue: Paleontology

Mitchell, E. and Tedford, R.H.

The Enaliarctinae, a new Group of Extinct Aquatic Carnivora and a Consideration of the Origin of the Otariidae.

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1973. First edition Pp. 84, 27 text-figures (most are line-drawings, some are full page photographic plates). Original printed blue stiff wrappers, sm 4to. From the library of the University of Michigan paleontologist John A. Dorr with his namestamp on the front wrapper. Small ink circle on front wrapper, a bright and clean copy in fine condition..

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Book number: 3852

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Geology paleontology marine mammals Enaliarctos pinniped Carnivora carnivore Otariidae eared seal

Muir-Wood, Helen M.

The British Carboniferous Producti, II: Productus (sensu stricto) - semireticulatus and longispinus groups.

London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1928. First edition. Pp. 1-217; 12 full page photo-plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text. Early red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, gray endpapers, 4to. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Palaeontology, volume 3, part 1. No ownership marks and few signs of use. Crease to the top outer corner of a few pages of the text near the center of the work; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 5439

Catalogue: Paleontology

Naef, Adolf

Die fossilen Tintenfische. Eine paläozoologische Monographie

Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1922. First edition. Pp. vi, 322; 101 text-figures. Publisher's original printed brown boards with cloth spine, both lettered in brown, lg 8vo. Provides an overview of fossil and recent cephalopods including classes that are extinct. Eleven new taxa are described. From the research library of paleontologist A. K. Miller with his book plate and signature on the front attached wrapper. No other ownership marks. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 8591

Catalogue: Paleontology

Nakaya, Hideo (editor)

Northern Hemisphere Geo-Bio Traverse, Numbers 1-4: Report of Evolutionary History of Mammalian Fauna and Paleoenvironments - Late Cenozoic Eurasia and North America

Takamatsu, Japan: Kagawa University, 1993-1997. First edition. Pp. 60; text-figures and foldout stratigraphic charts; pp. 71, (1); text-figures and foldout stratigraphic charts; pp. 118; numerous stratigraphic charts (some folding), maps, line-drawings and black-and-white photos of fossil teeth; pp. 149; some folding stratigraphic charts, maps, black-and-white plates of localities, charts. Original printed wrappers, 4to. This four part collaborative work was published over a five year period. The first three parts document a joint Japanese-Chinese paleontology project that investigated the late Cenozoic Leijahe Formation in Ligtai, Ganzu, China. Part 4 presents results of a joint Japanese-Chinese project to the Yuanmou hominid site in Yunnan, Southwest China. The papers are in Japanese and in English with summaries in Chinese. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A bright and clean set in fine (new) condition..

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Book number: 8266

Catalogue: Paleontology

Napier, J. R.

Fossil Metacarpals from Swartkrans.

London: British Museum (Natural History), 1959. First edition. Pp. (2), 18; 2 full page photo-plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text. Publisher's original gray stiff wrappers, lettered in black on the front cover, sm folio (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches). From the series: Fossil Mammals of Africa, no. 17. Napier describes and compares two hominin metacarpals from Swartkrans Cave; he concludes one metacarpal is assignable to Paranthropus and the other to 'Telanthropus' now called early Homo. Small tape repair to front wrapper, light sunning to wrappers, a tight and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 6065

Catalogue: Paleontology

National Academy of Science

Paleontological Collecting.

Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1987. First edition. Pp. x, 243; some text-figures (line-drawings). Original printed wrappers, 4to. A guide to the rules and regulations of fossil collecting in the USA. Developed by a twelve person committee of paleontologists chaired by David M. Raup, University of Chicago. No ownership marks. Bump to bottom outer corner; a tight and clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 6342

Catalogue: Paleontology

Nitecki, Matthew H. and Nitecki, Doris V. (editors)

The Evolution of Human Hunting (first edition: 1987)

New York: Plenum Press, 1987. First edition. Pp. viii, 464; some black-and-white photos, line-drawings, plan-views and cluster diagrams. Publisher's original laminated pictorial boards (hardcover), lettered in black on the spine and front cover, sm 4to. There is a rapidly growing number of paleontologists and paleoanthropologists who are concerned with hominin foraging and the evolution of hunting. This volume presents ten chapters by notable authorities in the field. The volume is the result of the Ninth Annual Spring Systematics Symposium, on the Evolution of Human Hunting, held on May 10, 1986, in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. This is the first edition published in New York in 1987. Small signature of former owner on the front endpaper. No signs of use. A fine (new) copy..

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Book number: 7425

Catalogue: Paleontology

Novacek, Michael J.

The Skull of Lepticid Insectivorans and the higher-level classification of Eutherian mammals.

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1986. First edition. Pp. 112; 35 text-figures (fine line-drawings, black-and-white photos and CT scans). Original printed blue wrappers, lg 8vo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 183, article 1. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (new) copy..

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Book number: 4893

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Palenotology geology

Osborn, Henry Fairfield

Bibliography of the Published Writings of Henry Fairfield Osborn, for the years 1877-1910

Lancaster, PA: The New Era Printing Company, 1911. First edition. Pp. 29, (1). Original gray printed wrappers, lg 8vo. This work includes a three-page supplement (p. 27-29) that is laid in at the end of the work. Signature name-stamp of Henry Fairfield Osborn is stamped on the front wrapper. Annotation in ink on page 29 likely in the hand of Osborn. Printed 3x5 inch card from Osborn seeking exchange of offprints is inserted at page 1. No ownership marks and few signs of use. Near fine copy..

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Book number: 9598

Catalogue: Paleontology

Osborn, Henry Fairfield

The Cranial Evolution of Titanotherium

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1896. First edition. Pp. 157-197; 13 text-figures, 2 large folding plates. Original self-wrappers, original staples on spine, lg 8vo. From the series: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume 8, Article 9. Small chip to front wrapper at the top inner corner of the spine; a near fine copy with no signs of use..

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Book number: 9597

Catalogue: Paleontology

Packard, E. L.

A New Turtle From the Marine Miocene of Oregon.

Corvallis, OR: Oregon State College Press, 1940, First edition. Pp. 31, 4 full page monochromatic plates, 3 text-figures. Publisher's brown wrappers lg 8vo. Ex-library from the Reading Public Museum with single ink stamp on front wrapper, no other ownership marks of any kind, slight browning to pages, a near fine, tight copy..

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Book number: 2132

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Paleontology turtle Chelonia miocene Pacific Northwest Oregon taxonomy Natural Sciences Natural Science

Pfizenmayer, E.W.

Les Mammouths de Siberie: La découverte de cadavres de mammouths préhistoriques sur les bords de la Berezovka et de la Sanga-Iourakh

Paris: Payot, 1939. First edition Pp. 313, (5, ads), 16 full page photo-plates, 15 text-figures, 1 double page map. Early quarter black morocco with four raised bands and gilt-lettered in one panel, over marbled boards with marbled endpapers (original printed wrappers bound in), 8vo. This volume is from the French series ''Bibliothèque Scientifique.'' From the private collection of ichthyologist George Sprague Meyers with his signature on the half-title. Documents the discovery of fossilized wooly mammoths in Siberia. A fine copy in a very attractive leather binding..

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Book number: 2736

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Palenotology geology

Pilgrim, Guy E.

The Artiodactyla of the Eocene of Burma.

Calcutta: Geological Survey of India, 1928. First edition. Pp. (6), 39; 4 full page photo-plates. Publisher's original tan printed wrappers, folio. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Palaeontologia Indica, new series, volume 13. This covers the artiodactyls of the late middle Eocene Pondaung Formation. Some soiling to the rear wrapper, a few marginal worm holes to the front section, a tight copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 6404

Catalogue: Paleontology

Pilgrim, Guy E. and Hopwood, Arthur T.

Catalogue of the Pontian Bovidae of Europe in the Department of Geology (British Museum).

London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1928. First edition. Pp. vii, 106, (1); 9 full-page plates (photos and line-drawings), 2 text-figures (line-drawings). Publisher's original blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, folio (12.25 x 10 inches). Presents a detailed catalogue of all of the late Miocene Bovidae collected from the UK and Europe prior to 1928. The Pontian is defined as the uppermost Miocene Paratethys stage, coeval with the Messinian. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A bright and clean copy in fine (as new) condition..

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Book number: 5498

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Vertebrate paleontology Pontian Bovidae bovines Miocene Europe Paratethys stage Messinian Geology British Museum Pilgrim Hopwood