New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1994. Softcover. This guide provides information about each of the 230 specimens on display in the halls of the Lila Acheson Wallace wing at the American Museum of Natural History. More
London: Thames & Hudson, 1958. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Cloth. 310 illustrations in photogravure, 16 plates in full colour Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. More
London: Quality Paperbacks Direct (QPD), 1994. Second Edition. Softcover. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1985. Third Revised Edition. Hardcover. This edition is published in conjunction with the exhibition Maya: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization organized by the Albuquerque Museum. More
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980. J.C. Rose (illustrations). Reprint. Paperback. More
New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1986. Vernon Miller (photographs). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. From Publisher's Weekly: In a sequel to The Shroud of Turin, Wilson delivers a balanced account of results from tests by STURP (Shroud of Turin Research Project, in Italy) in 1978. He details findings that..... More
London: Thames & Hudson / The British Museum, 2019. Second Printing. Hardcover. This illustrated introduction to the history of China offers a fresh understanding of China’s progress from the Neolithic age to the present. Told in six chapters arranged chronologically, through art, artefacts, people and places, and richly illustrated with..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. Reprint. Paperback. From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana's drifted diamonds and gold In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the three others―a biography; a set piece..... More
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1962. Revised Edition. Paperback. A Pelican Original. #A259. More
New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. George Giusti (cover design), R. Paul Larkin (illustrations). First Edition (stated). Paperback. Part of the Science Study Series, book no. S5. More
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1974. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover (Outsized). Corn is among the most familiar of grains; it is also one of the most mysterious. In this handsomely illustrated new book, Paul Mangelsdorf, perhaps the world's foremost expert on the corn plant, summarizes the..... More
London: Picador, 2019. Reprint. Paperback. The Times Science Book of the Year A Sunday Times Bestseller 'Thrilling . . . the best book on the subject written for the general reader since the 1980s.' The Sunday Times 66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face..... More
London: Thames & Hudson, 1997. New Edition. Reprint. Softcover. With a preface to the new edition by Stuart Piggott. Who were the Celts? To what extent have they influenced the composition of the modern nations of Western Europe, and of Britain and Ireland in particluar? In his search for..... More
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972. Paperback. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Early Chinese Civilizations Series. Translated by K.C. Chang. a series of nine lectures on Han Dynasty archeology. More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1994. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. A symposium of essays presented in honor of T. T. Ch'en and F. W. Mote on the occasion of their retirement from the East Asian Studies Department of Princeton University. The participants and contributors are all renowned scholars in..... More
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