Paleontology from Bee Creek Books

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. "Paleontology meets pop culture in a talented young author's journey into the lives of dinosaurs." 243 pp. with notes and acknowledgements. Light wear to cover edges, corners rubbed and slightly bent, smudges on back cover. Spine ends bumped and rubbed. Interior pages clean, tight. Book in VG/VG- condition.. Uncorrected Proof. Soft Cover. Very… Read more about this item

London: Southwood, Smith and Co. London County Council, Issue 7, No. 1008. "Historical records, whether on paper, papyrus, stone, or clay, carry us back a few thousand years at most into the past history of a small number of the races of by-gone days, and our knowledge of man's mode of life in the long periods of prehistoric time is… Read more about this item

La Jolla, California: Copley Books, 1976. Commissioned by Helen K. Copley. Edited by Richard F. Pourade. Special Edition from December 1976, Number 381 and signed in ink by Minshall, Copley and Pourade on half title page. Related ephemera included is laid-in holiday card from Helen Copley. 166 pp. Yellow cloth hard cover with gilt title on spine. Yellow cloth slipcase… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company, 1919. Volume 5, July 1919, Number 7. Pages 225-320. Brown paper covers with contents listed on back cover. Cover corners and edges are chipped and creased, light soiling to cover faces, spine ends are torn, spine is creased. Very light browning to interior page edges, otherwise pages are clean with no marks. Document in VG-… Read more about this item

Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 1885. "The oldest fish-remains already known from this continent are those of the Corniferous Limestone of Ohio and of the Lower Devonian, near the mouth of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in Canada." Pages 48-64. Eight figures. Brown paper wraps with string-tie has author's signature written in pencil on front cover.… Read more about this item

Madison, Wis.: David Atwood, State Printer, 1880. No.15. Includes Catalogue A and B with List of the Names and Specimen-Numbers of Fossils Distributed during the year and List of localities and formations. Article: Descriptions of New Species of Fossils from the Paleozoic Formations of Wisconsin, by R. P. Whitfield. 72 pp. Grey covers are mildly soiled. Front cover's left corner… Read more about this item

1915. Reprinted from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. LIV, No. 218, August, 1915. " Stratigraphers do not agree as to the conditions under which the black bituminous shales so often met with in American Paleozoic marine deposits were laid down. Among the more striking of such formations may be mentioned the Quebec, Martinsburg, Collingwood, Utica, Maquoketa, Genesee-Portage, Ohio,… Read more about this item

1890. SIGNED on front cover: "To Mrs. Carvill Lewis with T. Rupt. Jones's Kind Regards In Friendly Memory of Her Estimable Husband Oct. 23/90". Extracted from the Geological Magazine, September, 1890. One plate of Fossil Estheriae with 13 illustrations. pp. 385-390. Exterior is Very Good.Slight soiling-very minor. Interior is clean, tight, and Very Good+.. Signed by Author. Wraps. Very… Read more about this item

Washington: Judd & Detweiler, 1878. Read before the National Academy, April 18, 1878. pp. 77-126. The opening paragraph reads " In reviewing the life and works of Jeffries Wyman, we shall consider his contributions to comparative anatomy and physiology, and to palaeontology, as well as to ethnology and archaelogy. " Jeffries Wyman (1814-1874) was a Professor of American Archaeology and… Read more about this item

Kansas City, Kansas: R.B. Trouslot & Co., 1890. Articles: THOSE ELEPHANT PIPES AGAIN by Warren Watson; THE RESURRECTION FERN, by "Arkansaw Hoosier"; PALAEONTOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN AND NEAR KANSAS CITY, MO., by David H. Todd; THE ANTERIOR ARTS, by "Ictinus"; and THE PRE-HISTORIC MEN WITH LIEUTENANT FREDERICK SCHWATKA. Last 2 pages with "inducements to new subscribers with etchings of free "specimens"… Read more about this item

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911. United States Geological Survey. Bulletin 439. "The section of Mississippian rocks in northern Arkansas includes a bed of black shale which is of considerable interest, both for the fauna it contains and the vicissitudes of nomenclature it has undergone..." 148 pp. 15 plates each with numerous "figures" or drawings of specimens plus descriptions on opposite… Read more about this item

Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, 1953. Canada. Department of Resources and Development.. National Parks Branch . Special contribution No. 53-1. 15 pp. Author was Geological Survey of Canada, Honorary Curator of Minerealogy, National Museum of Canada. Soiling to covers, otherwise exterior Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG+.. Paper Cover. Very Good-. Illus. by Tables. Size: Approx. 6… Read more about this item

London: Hardwicke & Bogue, 1878. 13 issues. January1878 plus complete year for 1879: Jan.-Dec. A Monthly Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature. Each issue with many illustrations. Subject areas: Natural History, Biology, Botany, Entomology, Zoology, Geology, Microscopy. Many scientific ads with some full pages on microscopes. Some string-tied "announcements" tipped in including one edition… Read more about this item