Vickers Rich P (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover; this is NOT ex-library; dustjacket w/ several small tears/chips along edges; minor edgewear; light creasing of upper corner of first couple of pages; o/w book in very good condition. This is a heavy volume; extra shipping may be required for priority mail or international orders. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Size: Large (27 to 34cm). Item Type: Book. Text body is clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine fine. Minor marks and wear to book and jacket. ISBN: 0691087334. ISBN/EAN: 9780691087337. **Heavy Book. A Postage surcharge may be requested. Contact us BEFORE ordering for a quote. Click Ask Bookseller a Question** *** WE ONLY POST TO AUSTRALIA NZ CANADA USA JAPAN SINGAPORE SWITZERLAND & UK VIA THIS SERVICE*** .…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 284 pp, hardbound, F-/VG, dj light extremity wear & curling, gently bumped tips, else very clean and binding tight, NOT EXLIB, mylar protected.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Well illustrated with full page colour plates by Frank Knight and black and white photograpgs, tall quarto, pp 284, very slight foxing to the fore-edge otherwise extremely clean internally, brown cloth in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. [According to the traditions of some Australian Aborigines, the strange monsters known as "Kadimakara" once lived in a "roof" of vegetation over Central Australia, occasionally foraging for foods in the "lower" world. These Aborigines believed that on one occasion, when the Kadimakara's path back to their home was cut off, they were obliged to roam on earth until they died in Lake Eyre. Their bones, the Aborigines thought, became what we know as fossils. In the richly illustrated volume Kadimakara, pioneers of the bourgeoning field of Australian fossil research provide a broad overview of vertebrate history in that country. Offering a wealth of information on how palaeontologists view their own processes of interpreting what fossil animals and plants were like when alive, the book includes an essay for each of thirty-two extinct vertebrates. The work begins with an engagingly written chapter "Priest-Geologists and Knighted Explorers: A Short History of the Discovery of Vertebrate Fossils in Australia" by P. V. Rich, continues with an essay "The Stirton Years, 1953-1966" by R. H. Tedford, and goes on to a discussion of changing Australian environments throughout geological time by E. M. Truswell and G. E. Wilford. The essays on fossil vertebrates constitute the remaining two-thirds of the book.]. Frank Knight (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near Fine In A Very Good Jacket Pp 284 Index Illustrations. Frank Knight (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. The definitive resource for the subject. The full spectrum of vertebrate palaeontology of Australia and the Pacific islands is covered in 29 authoritative chapters. NOTE: The purchaser of this book will also receive the separate softcover "Vertebrate Palaeontology of Australia Update" which brings the first edition fully up to date for 1996 and is in as new condition. Extra postage may need to be charged for this very large and heavy book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1437 pages. Thick 4to. Fine copy of this state of the art resume of Knowledge concerning vertebrate fossils of the Australasian region. ***This book weighs 3kg and will require additional postage if sent out of Australia***.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. The Proterozoic and early Phanerozoic was a time punctuated by a series of significant events in Earth history. Glaciations of global scale wracked the planet, interfingered with dramatic changes in oceanic and atmospheric chemistry and marked changes in continental configuration. It was during these dynamic and weedy times that metazoans first appeared. Their subsequent diversification culminated in the appearance of hard tissue skeletons and deep farming of the marine substrate in late Proterozoic and first few millions of years of the Phanerozoic. The papers in this book deal specifically with the precise timing of physical events and teasing out of the effects which these changing environments, climates, global chemistry and palaeogeography had on the development and diversification of animals, resulting in the spectacular Ediacaran/Vendian faunas of the late Precambrian.…

Thick 4to. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 1437pp. Many b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. A state-of-the-art resume of knowledge of vertebrate fossils in the Australasian region.

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers Fine large octavo xi + 660pp., text ills., index, Definitive & standard. Scarce.

(Sydney: Reed, 1993). Folio. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket (spine a little faded). (276pp.). Profusely illust. mostly in colour with full-page and double-page plates, text-illusts., maps, and printed endpapers. 1st ed. Fine. Assoc. ephemera loosely inserted. NOTE: The 500-million-year history of vertebrate animals from the ancient southern supercontinent.…

Quarto,1438 pp.,text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper.