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(London: Trustees of the South African Museum and the Geological Commission of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, 1904). 255 x 170 mm; original card wrappers; pp. 201 - 220; plates XXIV-XXVIII. Wrappers fragmented and detached. Fair condition. Contains: The Trilobites of the Bokkeveld Beds by Philip Lake. .

(1932). Includes Alex du Toit, 'Some fossil plants from the Karroo system of South Africa;' Alex du Toit, 'Some fossil plants from the Gondwana beds of Uganda;' 'The fossil equidae of South Africa;' etc. Wraps detached and fragmented. .

(London: Trustees of the South African Museum and the Geological Commission of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, 1908). 255 x 170 mm; original card wrappers; pp. 351 - 409 + (8). Wrappers fragmented and detached, lower panel missing. Fair condition. Contains the following by Robert Broom: Contributions to South African Paleontology:- On the Pareiasaurian genus Propappus; On some new Therocephalian Reptiles; On the interrelationships of the known Therocephalian genera; On a new Labyrinthodont from the Permian Beds of South Africa; Note on the Species of Mesosaurus. Also: New Fossils from the Bokkeveld Beds by F.R.C. Reed. .

(London: Trustees of the South African Museum, 1917). 255 x 170 mm; original thin card wrappers; pp. 119-174; figures, three black-and-white plates. Wrappers a bit worn and sunned; light foxing to edges. Good condition. Contains the following scientific papers: Some New Species of Anomodontia (Reptilia); Investigations in South African Fossil Reptiles and Amphibians. .

(London: Trustees of the South African Museum, 1913). 255 x 165 mm; original thin card wrappers; pp. 46; figures, seven black-and-white plates. Wrappers a bit worn and sunned; scattered light foxing. Good condition. Contains the following scientific papers: On some Fishes from the Lower and Middle Karoo Beds; On a New South African Stegocephalian; On a Nearly Perfect Skull of a New Species of the Gorgonopsia; Man contemporaneous with Extinct Animals in South Africa; On the Skeleton of a New Pareiasaurian; On a New Species of Scymnognathus; On Two New Species of Dicynodon; On a Skull of Tapinocephalus atherstoni, Owen; On a New Species of Propappus. .

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976). 240 x 170 mm; pictorial wraps; pp. xxi + (i) + 615; maps; tables; line drawings; plates. Fair condition; cover rather rubbed, sunned and soiled; page corners a little curled and edges spotted; occasional pencilled annotation; previous owner's name signed on half-title. "The East Rudolf and Omo regions of Kenya are two of the most important areas for studying the earliest stages of man's physical and cultural evolution. This volume brings together the work of an international group of some fifty scientists who have been engaged in research in the basin." .

(Johannesburg: Picador Africa/Wits University Press, 2005) 1770100156. 234 x 152 mm; pp. xv + (i) + 277, incl. index; photographic plates. Some foxing to edges; spine a bit cocked. Good condition. "[Into the Past] lucidly and inspiringly … not only records Phillip Tobias's personal journey in life, science and education, but also the passage of our country, South Africa … " - Sydney Brenner, Nobel Laureate .

(Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, 1973). 295 x 210mm; original card wraps; pp. xi + 86; black-and-white plates, maps, figures and tables, including folding. Errata slip inserted loose. Small handstamp of previous owner on upper wrap and title page. Very good condition. Articles in this volume: A New Triassic Vertebrate Fauna from South West Africa (A.W. Keyser), Brief Synthesis of Present Information on the Geographical and Stratigraphical Distribution of Fossil Fish within the Stormberg Series, South Africa (R.A. Jubb), A Re-evaluation of the Genus Tropidostoma Seeley (A.W. Keyser), Paleoxylologie du Gondwana African: Etude et Affinites due Genre Australoxylon (Janine Marguerier), The Biostratigraphy of the Permian and Triassic (J.M. Anderson). .

(Windhoek: Committee of the S.W.A. Scientific Society, 1970). Scientific Research in South West Africa 9th Series (Windhoek: Committee of the S.W.A. Scientific Society, 1970) 230 x 175mm; original grey card wraps; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 48; 14 figures, 7 photographs, 1 map. Dustwrapper a little rubbed; occasional fox spot. Very good condition overall. .

(London: Longmans, 1924). Signed "With the author's compliments" to upper cover. Offprint from the 'Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society' (vol. lxxx, pt. 1, pp. 1-11 & pls. i-ii.). 218 x 141 mm; printed pink stitched wrappers; pp. 11 + (i); plates. Slight damp-stain to fore-edge of plates; a little spotting. Very good condition. "The fossil remains described and discussed in this paper were taken from about the middle of the Karroo Beds near Tanga, on the coast of the Tanganyika Territory, by Mr. F. P. Mennell, F.G.S., who was good enough to forward the specimens to me for examination. ... It is not necessary to dwell on the importance of Mr. Mennell's discovery. From extra-South African areas very few of its animals have been found within the boundaries of Gondwanaland; that some of them were spread outside its confines is well-known; but hitherto there has been a big geographical gap between the South African localities yielding Gondwana fauna and… Read More