Simpson, George G.

Glossary and Correlation Charts of North American Tertiary Mammal-Bearing Formations

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1933. First edition. Pp. 79-121; 8 text-figures (mostly charts). Original printed gray wrappers (inside a protective card cover), 8vo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 67, number 3. The front wrapper bears a rectangular stamp of the New York State Museum, December 13, 1933 and the circular name stamp of the New York State Library, January 6, 1934; there are no other library marks. Small name stamp of ""Library of R. Mark Ryan"" at the top outer corner of the front wrapper. Later from the library of marine vertebrate paleontologist Edward D. Mitchell with his signature on the front card cover and the front wrapper. No signs of use; a fine copy..

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Book number: 8370

Catalogue: Paleontology

Simpson, G. G.

Paleobiology of Jurassic Mammals

Wien und Leipzig: Emil Haim & Co., 1933. First edition. Pp. 127-158; 6 text-figures (line-drawings). Original printed pale green wrappers, lg 8vo. From: Palaeobiologica band V, lief 1. This is an original offprint from the German journal Palaeobiologica. The front wrapper bears an ink name-stamp of Kretzoi Budapest, July 29, 1962. Kretzoi was a Hungarian paleontologist. There is also another ink name-stamp of marine paleontologist Edward Mitchell on the front wrapper. Light sunning to the edges of the outer edges of the wrappers, a very good copy..

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Book number: 9596

Catalogue: Paleontology

Simpson, George Gaylord

Review of the Mammal-Bearing Tertiary of South America

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1940. First edition. Pp. (2), 649-709; some text-figures and maps. Publisher's original self-wrappers with publisher's stiff card cover, lg 8vo. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 83. Simpson has written numerous papers on the evolution of mammals in South America. This small monograph presents his view in 1940. This is the original offprint issued by the publisher. From the research library of marine vertebrate paleontologist Edward D. Mitchell with his signature on the front wrapper. Rare work. A tight and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 8364

Catalogue: Paleontology

Sitholey, Rajendra V.

Jurassic Plants from Afghan-Turkistan.

Calcutta: Geological Survey of India, 1940. First edition. Pp. (4), 25; 8 full page photo-plates, 7 text-figures. Publisher's original light yellow printed wrappers, folio. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Palaeontologia Indica, new series, volume 29, memoir no. 1. No ownership marks. Some soiling to the wrappers; a tight copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 5081

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Palenotology geology

Stearn, Colin W. and Carroll, Robert L.

Paleontology: The Record of Life

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1989. First edition. Pp. x, 453, numerous text-figures. Publisher’s black pictorial laminated boards, lettered in white on cover and spine, 4to. This volume is a introductory textbook to paleontology including descriptions of organisms, distribution, and principles of paleontology deduced from the fossil record. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the front endpaper. Neat underlining or highlighting on 64 pages with a few notes. Bumps to outer corners, a very good copy..

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Book number: 9334

Catalogue: Paleontology

Stensio, Erik Andersson

On the Head of the Macropetalichthyids, with certain remarks on the head of the other arthrodires

Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1925. First edition. Pp. (2), 87-197; 13 full page black-and-white plates (each with a printed tissue guard explanation of the plate), 26 text-figures (a few color tinted). Original pale green printed wrappers, lg 8vo. Field Museum of Natural History, Geological Series, volume 4, no. 4 (publication no. 232). In this monograph the author describes a skull of Macropetalichthys rapheidolabis which shows the primordial neurocranium of the specimen especially well preserved. This specimen helps establish the phylogenetic position of this primitive arthrodire. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (new) copy..

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Book number: 7710

Catalogue: Paleontology

Stevens, M. S., Stevens, J. B. and Dawson, M. R.

New early Miocene Formation and vertebrate local fauna, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas

Austin, TX: Texas Memorial Museum, 1969. First edition. Pp. 53; 15 text-figures (line-drawings of fossils, maps, and geological sections). Original printed white wrappers, lg 8vo. The Pearce-Sellards Series, no. 15, of the Texas Memorial Museum. From the research library of marine mammal paleontologist Edward Mitchell with his circular name stamp on the front wrapper. Stamp of ""Received from Author, Nov. 17, 1969, Montreal, Quebec."" No other ownership marks. Top outer corner with small bump; a tight and clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 8407

Catalogue: Paleontology

Stockmans, F.

Vegetaux Eocenes des Environs de Bruxelles.

Bruxelles: Musee Royal D'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, 1936. First edition. Pp. 56, (1); 3 full-page fold-out black-and-white photo-plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text, 27 text-figures and photos. Original printed pale green wrappers, sm folio (12 1/2 x 10 inches). Memoires de Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, no. 76. Single 'discarded' stamp on the front and rear wrappers, no other ownership marks and no signs of use - all pages are uncut and unopened. Sunning to wrappers on the spine and to outer wrapper margins only, wrappers slightly chipped at base of the spine, contents are bright and clean; a tight, very good copy..

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Book number: 5445

Catalogue: Paleontology

Swinton, W.E.

THE CROCODILE OF MARANSART (Dollosuchus dixoni [Owen]).

Brussels: Musee royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique, 1937. Pp. 46, 1 large folding plate. Original printed blue wraps, folio. Memoires du Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique no. 80. Text is in English. Stamp on front wrap states ""Discarded"", no other ownership marks, slight chipping and sunning to the edges of the outer wraps, a tight, clean, very good copy..

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Book number: 1760

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: crocodile Europe Belgium Pliocene Miocene Dollosuchus Natural Sciences Natural Science

Sze, H. C.

Older Mesozoic Plants from the Yenchang Formation, Northern Shensi.

Peking: Science Press, 1956. First edition. Pp. 217, (1); 56 full plate black-and-white photo-plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text. Publisher's original blue cloth with spine and front cover lettered in white in Chinese characters, 4to (315 x 230 mm). Palaeontologia Sinica, whole number 139, new series A, no. 5. Text is bilingual in both Chinese and English. The text in Chinese precedes the text in English. No ownership marks. Some sunning to the margins of the cloth on the front cover, spine cloth near base of the spine has a worn section, text block is bright and clean; a very good copy..

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Book number: 5415

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Paleontology paleobotany plants Mesozoic Yenchang Formation Northern Shensi China Palaeontologia Sinica 139 A no 5 Chinese English Sze

Tate, G. H. H.

The Taxonomy of the Genera of Neotropical Hystricoid Rodents.

New York: American Museum, 1935. First edition. Pp. 153. Original printed gray wrappers, lg 8vo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 68, article 5. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine copy..

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Book number: 4684

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Paleontology geology fossil mammals Neotropical Hystricoid Rodents Hystricognathi

Teichert, Curt

Ordovician and Silurian Faunas from Arctic Canada.

Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1937. First edition. Pp. 169; 1 large folding map, 24 black-and-white photo-plates. Contemporary blue ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, lg 8vo (280 x180 mm). Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921-24, volume 1, no. 5 by the Danish Expedition to Arctic North America in charge of Knud Rasmusswen. The contents include: General Geology of the Paleozoic Areas - Southampton Island - Melville Peninsula and Iglulik Island - Brodeur Peninsula - Cockburn Land - King William Land; Late Pre-Cambrian Sedimentary Formations of Cockburn Land; General Remarks on Stratigraphy and Correlation: Ordovician - Silurian; Description of the Fossils. Newspaper clipping of Arctic explorer Freuchen Spurns laid in at front - Spurns was a member of the 1924 Thule Expedition that explored Arctic Canada. From the research library of Arthur K. Miller with his bookplate and signature on the front endpaper. Light edge wear to cloth; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 5373

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Invertebrate paleontology Ordovician Silurian fauna Paleozoic Pre-Cambrian Canada North America Southampton Island Melville Peninsula Iglulik Island Brodeur Peninsula Cockburn Land King William Land Arctic Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921-24 volu

Teichert, C.; Liu, Lu; Chen, Pei-ji (editors)

Paleontology in China, 1979: Selected Papers Presented at the Third General Assembly and Twelfth National Meeting of the Paleontological Society of China, April 1979 (GSA Special Paper 187)

Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America, 1981. First edition. Pp. viii, 264; numerous full page black-and-white photo-plates, maps and line-drawings of fossils. Green stiff wrappers, lettered in white on the spine and front cover, 4to. Geological Society of America, Special Paper no. 187. Presents 26 papers by noted authorities in the field in Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic invertebrates. No ownership marks and almost no signs of use. Light edgewear, a tight and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 9577

Catalogue: Paleontology

Teilhard De Chardin, P. and Young, C. C.

Fossil Mammals from the Late Cenozoic of Northern China (Palaeontologia Sinica, series C, volume 9, fascicle 1)

Peking: Geological Survey of China, 1931. First edition. Pp. (6), 66, (6); 10 full-page black-and-white plates or full page line-drawings, each with a descriptive leaf of text, 1 map, 23 text-figures (line-drawings). Original printed olive green wrappers, 4to. This monograph describes the Pliocene and Pleistocene fossil mammals of northern China. The senior author is the great French paleontologist and philosopher, Pierre Teilhard De Chardin. Teilhard De Chardin worked in China as a vertebrate paleontologist from 1926 into the early 1940s. He served as an excavator at Zhoukoudian, the now-famous 'Peking Man site' and wrote many papers on the discoveries made at Zhoukoudian. From the series: Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C, Volume 9, Fascicle 1. The text is in English. From the research library of anthropologist Robert H. Lowie with his name-stamp on the front endpaper. Later from the research library of physical anthropologist Theodore D. McCown with his name-stamp on the front wrapper. The last owner of the work was Elizabeth R. McCown (wife of Theordore D. McCown) with her name-stamp also on the front wrapper. Two of these researchers were professors in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. Robert Lowie was a faculty member from 1925 to 1950 when he retired. McCown was a faculty member from 1938 to 1969 when he died. His wife, ""Libby"" McCown was awarded a Ph.D. from U. C. Berkeley in the late 1970s. This is a rare work with significant associations. Wrappers on the spine are partially chipped away, light sunning to the outer margins of the wrappers, a tight and clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 7357

Catalogue: Paleontology

Thewissen, J. G. M.

Evolution of the Paleocene and Eocene Phenacodontidae (Mammalia, Condylarthra).

Ann Anbor: Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 1990. First edition. Pp. 107; 59 maps, photos, stratigraphic sections and diagrams. Color pictorial stiff wrappers, 4to. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology, no. 29. The first detailed review of the Condylarthra since 1976 stressing a new biochronological framework. No ownership marks. A fine copy..

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Book number: 4671

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Paleontology geology fossil mammals Condylarthra Phenacodontidae Paleocene Eocene Thewissen