‎Palaeontology‎

‎"HOFKER, JAN.‎

‎Maestrichtian, Danian and Paleocene Foraminifera. With one Locality Map, 178 Figures, 69 Tables in the text and 44 folders and an Atlas of Foraminifera, comprising Plates 1-86.‎

‎Stuttgart, Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1966. Large 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. 375 pp.,86 plates, textillustr., tables etc.‎

‎"KAASSCHIETER, JOHANNES PAULUS HEIMEN.‎

‎Foraminifera of the Eocene of Belgium. (With 16 Plates).‎

‎Bruxelles, Inst. Royale des Sciences Nat. de belgique, 1961. Large 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. 271 pp., folded maps, textillustr., folded tables and 16 plates.‎

‎"MANTELL, GIDEON ALGERNON.‎

‎On the Fossil Remains of Turtles, discovered in the Chalk Formation of the South-east of England. Received May 11, - Read May 20, 1841.‎

‎(London, Richard and John E., Taylor, 1841.). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1841 - Part II. Pp. 153-158 and 2 lithographed plates, textillustr. Upper left corner of the plates with a faint dampstain. Otherwise fine and clean.‎

‎First printing.‎

Bookseller reference : 42845

‎"NEWTON, E.T.‎

‎On some New Reptiles from the Elgin Sandstones. Received November 28, - Read December 15, 1892. (+) Reptiles from the Elgin Sandstone. - Desription of Two New Genera. Received November 2, - Read december 7, 1893. (2 memoirs).‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1894). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 184 - Series B+ Vol. 185 - Part I, Series B. Pp. 431-503 and 16 plates + pp.573-607 and 4 plates. Both papers fine and clean.‎

‎First printing of 2 of Newton's most importent monographs, describing the reptilian remains from the Permotriassic rocks at Elgin, Scotland. In these two researche ""Newton lacked the actual bones to work with"" he had only their cavities in sandstone, from which, after great labor, he obtainesd and fitted together caasts of gutta-percha. He discovered Diconydonts and pareiasaurs for the first time in Europe showing how closely they resembled the descriptions of those found in Karroo Formation of South Africa.""(DSB).In 1893 Newton was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He was president of the Paleontological Society from 1921 to 1928 and president of the Geologist's Association 1896-1898.‎

Bookseller reference : 42325

‎"NEWTON, E.T.‎

‎On some New Reptiles from the Elgin Sandstones. Received November 28, - Read December 15, 1892. (+) Reptiles from the Elgin Sandstone. - Desription of Two New Genera. Received November 2, - Read december 7, 1893. (2 memoirs).‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1894). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 184 - Series B+ Vol. 185 - Part I, Series B. Pp. 431-503 and 16 plates + pp.573-607 and 4 plates. Both papers fine and clean.‎

‎"OWEN, RICHARD.‎

‎A Description of certain Belemnites, preserved, with a great proportion of their soft parts,in the Oxford Clay, at Christian-Malford, Wilts. Received March 14, - Read March 21, 1844.‎

‎(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1844). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1844 - Part I. Pp. 65-85 and 7 lithographed plates. Plates having some dampstains.‎

‎First printing of Owen's memoir on belemnites.‎

Bookseller reference : 42854

‎"OWEN, RICHARD. - MAGALANIAN REPTILES‎

‎Description of Fossil Remains of Thwo Species of a Megalanian Genus (Meiolania) from ""Lord Howe's Island,"" received March 15, - Read April 1, 1886.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1888). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1886 - Vol. 177 - Part II. Pp. 471-480 a. 4 lithographed plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the two new finds of dinosaurs from Lord Howe's Island, New South Wales. They belongs to the Megalania, a word coined by Owen himself.Megalania (Great roamer) is a giant extinct goanna or monitor lizard.It was part of a megafaunal assemblage that inhibited Southern Australia during the Pleistocene, and appears to have disappeared around 40.ooo years ago. The first aboriginal settlers of Australia may have encountered living Megalania.‎

Bookseller reference : 42799

‎"OWEN, RICHARD. - ESTABLISHING THE GENUS NESODON.‎

‎Description of some Species of the extinct Genus Nesodon, with remarks on the primary Group (Toxodontia) of Hoofed Quadrupeds, to which that Genus is referable.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1853) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143 - Part I. Pp. 291-310 and 4 lithographed plates. A dampstain to lower right corners of plates.‎

‎First appearance of this importent paper, in which Owen established a new genus, Nesodons on the basis of the fossils found by B.J. Sulivan in the Tertiary beds of Patagonia in 1845.‎

Bookseller reference : 48812

‎"OWEN, RICHARD. - THE EXTINCT WOMBAT.‎

‎On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. - Part VI. Genus Phascolomys, Geoffr. Recieved September 14,- Read December 7, 1871.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1873). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1872. Vol. 162. Pp. 173-196, textillustr. a. 7 lithographed plates.‎

‎First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the finds of the remains of an extinct womabat comparing them with living species.‎

Bookseller reference : 42697

‎"OWEN, RICHARD. - EXTINCT SALTATORY KANGAROOS.‎

‎On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. - Part VIII. Family Macropodidae: Genera Macropus, Osphranter, Phascolagus, Sthenurus and Protemnoden. Received November 11, 1872, - Read January 23, 1873.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1874). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1874. Vol. 164. Pp. 245-287 a. 8 lithographed plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the finds of the remains of the extinct Kangaroos. ""The present communication gives part of the researches into the forms of those saltatory herbivorous Marsupials which have passed away, or, at least, are known to naturalists only by their fossil remains.""(Owen).‎

Bookseller reference : 42699

‎"OWEN, RICHARD. - THE EXTINCT HORNED TURTLE.‎

‎On Parts of the Skeleton of Meiolania platyceps (Ow.). Received March 29, - Read April 21, 1887.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1889). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1888, Vol. 179 - Series B. Pp. 181-191 a. 7 lithographed plates.‎

‎First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes a series of remains, in better condition, than the bones from Lord Howe's Island, which Owen described in 1886 and named Meiolania platyceps. The remains belongs to Horned Turtles, and not to a giant lizard, Meiolania (""Small roamer"") is an extinct genus of cryptodire turtle from the Oligocene to Holocene, with the last relic populations at New Caledonia which survived until 2,000 years ago.The animal was rather large, measuring 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) in length, making it the second-largest known nonmarine turtle or tortoise, surpassed only by Colossochelys atlas from Asia, which lived in the Pleistocene. It lived in Australia and New Caledonia. Remains have also been found on the island of Efate in Vanuatu, associated with settlements from the Lapita culture.‎

Bookseller reference : 42702

‎"OWEN, RICHARD.‎

‎On the vertebral Characters of the Order Pterosauria, as exemplified in the Genera Pterodactylus (Cuvier) and Dimorphodon (Owen). Received February 23, - Read March 24, 1859.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1859). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1859 - Vol. 149 - Part I. Pp. 161-169 a. 1 lithographed plate.‎

‎First printing. Owen gives a more detailled description of Dimorphodon which he named in the same year as the offered paper. Dimorphodon was a genus of medium-sized pterosaur from the early Jurassic Period. It was named by Owen in 1859 (in a paper preceeding the offered paper).‎

Bookseller reference : 42995

‎"OWEN, RICHARD.‎

‎Description of the Cavern of Bruniquel, and its Organic remains. Part I-II. (I. Human Remains. Read June 9, 1864. - II. Equine Remains. Read January 7, 1869). 2 Papers.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Sons, 1870). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1869, Vol. 159 - Part II. Pp. 517-533 a. pp. 535-557 and 4 lithographed plates (3 double- page and folding), textillustr.‎

‎"OWEN, RICHARD.‎

‎On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. - Part IV. Dentition and Mandible of Thylacoleo carnifex, with remarks on the arguments for its Herbovority. Received eptember 27,- ead November 17, 1870.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1872). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1871. Vol. 161- Part II. Pp. 213-266, textillustr. a. 4 lithographed plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎"OWEN, RICHARD. - COINING THE NAME ""MEGALANIA PRISCA"" - THE GIANT EXTINCT GOANNA.‎

‎Description of some Remains of a Gigantic Land-Lizard (Megalania prisca, Owen). Received May 13, - Read June 17, 1858.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1859). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1859 - Vol. 149 - Part I. Pp. 43-48 a. 2 lithographed plates.‎

‎"OWEN, RICHARD. - ESTABLISHING THE GENUS NESODON.‎

‎Description of some Species of the extinct Genus Nesodon, with remarks on the primary Group (Toxodontia) of Hoofed Quadrupeds, to which that Genus is referable.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1853) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143 - Part I. Pp. 291-310 and 4 lithographed plates. A dampstain to lower right corners of plates.‎

‎"OWEN, RICHARD. - EXTINCT SALTATORY KANGAROOS.‎

‎On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. - Part VIII. Family Macropodidae: Genera Macropus, Osphranter, Phascolagus, Sthenurus and Protemnoden. Received November 11, 1872, - Read January 23, 1873.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1874). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1874. Vol. 164. Pp. 245-287 a. 8 lithographed plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎"OWEN, RICHARD. - MAGALANIAN REPTILES‎

‎Description of Fossil Remains of Thwo Species of a Megalanian Genus (Meiolania) from ""Lord Howe's Island,"" received March 15, - Read April 1, 1886.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1888). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1886 - Vol. 177 - Part II. Pp. 471-480 a. 4 lithographed plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎"OWEN, RICHARD. - THE EXTINCT WOMBAT.‎

‎On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. - Part VI. Genus Phascolomys, Geoffr. Recieved September 14,- Read December 7, 1871.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1873). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1872. Vol. 162. Pp. 173-196, textillustr. a. 7 lithographed plates.‎

‎"PABST, WILHELM.‎

‎Die Tierfährten in dem Rotliegenden ""Deutschlands"".‎

‎Halle, E. Karras, 1908. Large 4to. (168) pp. 35 plates and 36 textillustrations.‎

‎"REINHARDT, J.‎

‎Beskrivelse af Hovedskallen af et Kæmpedovendyr, Grypotherium darwinii, fra La Plata-Landenes plejstocene Dannelser. Med to Tavler.‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1879. 4to. Uden omslag som udkommet "" Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter."" Titelblad + pp. 353-381 samt 2 store udfoldelige litograferede plancher.‎

‎"SEELEY, H.G. - TAXONOMY OF DINOSAURS.‎

‎Researches on the Structure, Organization, and Classification of the Fossil Reptilia. - I. On Protorosaurus Speneri (von Meyer). Received and Read, february 3, 1887.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1888). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1887 - Vol. 178 - Series B., Pp. 187-213 a. 3 fine lithographed plates, one folding. Rextillustr. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of an importent work in the taxonomy of dinosaurs and extinct reptilia. Harry Govier Seeley was a British paleontologist who determined that dinosaurs fell into two great groups, the Saurischians and the Ornithischians, based on the nature of their pelvic bones and joints. He published his results from 1888 and onwards.‎

Bookseller reference : 42923

‎"SEELEY, H.G. - TAXONOMY OF REPTILIA.‎

‎Researches on the Structure, Organization, and Classification of the Fossil Reptilia.- V. On Associated Bones of a Small Anomodont reptile, Keirognathus cordylus (Seeley), showing the relative Dimensions of the Anterior Parts of the Skeleton, and Stru...‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1889). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1888 - Vol. 179- Series B., Pp. 487-501 a. 2 lithographed plates.‎

‎First printing of an importent work in the taxonomy of dinosaurs and extinct reptilia. Harry Govier Seeley was a British paleontologist who determined that dinosaurs fell into two great groups, the Saurischians and the Ornithischians, based on the nature of their pelvic bones and joints. He published his results from 1888 and onwards.‎

Bookseller reference : 42926

‎"SEELEY, H.G. - TAXONOMY OF REPTILIA.‎

‎Researches on the Structure, Organization, and Classification of the Fossil Reptilia. - VII. Further Observations on Pareiasaurus. Received and ead, May 14, 1891.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1893). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1892 - Vol. 183 - Series B., Pp. 311-370 a. 7 fine lithographed plates. textillustr.‎

‎First printing of an importent work in the taxonomy of dinosaurs and extinct reptilia. Harry Govier Seeley was a British paleontologist who determined that dinosaurs fell into two great groups, the Saurischians and the Ornithischians, based on the nature of their pelvic bones and joints. He published his results from 1888 and onwards.‎

Bookseller reference : 42928

‎"SEELEY, H.G. - TAXONOMY OF DINOSAURS.‎

‎Croonian Lecture.- Researches on the Structure, Organization, and Classification of the Fossil Reptilia. - II. On Pareiasaurus bombidens (Owen), and the Significance of its Affinities to Amphibians, Reptiles, and Mammals. Received April 21, - Read May...‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1889). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1888 - Vol. 179- Series B., Pp. 59-109 a. 10 fine lithographed plates. Textillustr.‎