This is an introduction to the panorama of life on Earth, from its earliest beginnings more than 3000 million years ago to the arrival of Homo sapiens and the introduction of settled farming, 5000 years ago. The text is accompanied by a sequence of over 160 specially commissioned illustrations, showing the conditions on Earth in its early days and ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: P. Hamlyn
Date Published: 1960
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. 47 p. 60 plates (part col. ) 35 cm. "Revised edition. "--Dust jacket. Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
Edition: Presumed First Edition
Binding: Hard Back/Hardcover
Publisher: Artia Prag
Date Published: 1956
Description: Book Very Good ++ No Dustjacket. IN GERMAN. 14" Tall By 10 1/4" Wide. Not paginated. GERMAN TEXT. Excellent colour & monochrome plates. Very clean beige binding, dark brown titles to spine. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Spring Books
Description: Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. 4to-over 9ľ"-12" tall. ex-lib w/usual markings and pocket, 2 plates are torn about 3" o/w just the normal amount of wear to this book. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hamlyn
Date Published: 1963
Description: English edition. Hardback. Folio. 14" x 10". Very good / No dust jacket. Unpaginated with numerous delightful illustrations in colour & black/white by Zdenek Burian. Translated by Margaret Schierl. Cords loosening. Oatmeal cloth covers with decoration on the front, title on spine. "In winter of 1901 a Russian expedition after a long & arduous journey, succeeded in recovering the almost intact body of a mammoth, frozen in ice for thousands of years in Siberia. " read more
Description: No date. Spring. Hard Cover. Book-VG. DJ-VG, edgewear & chips. 14x10. 60 colour & b/w plates. A remarkable collection of plates accompany this account of the lives of prehistoric animals, bringing them and their world vividly to life and describing the long story of how life developed from its earliest forms. read more
Description: Reader copy. Lizenzausgabe, 48 Seiten Text, danach Bildteil mit 60 Bildtafeln und ergaenzenden Texten, Grossformat, Hardcover, Ganzleinen, abgegriffen, verschmutzt, gebraeunt, fleckig, Kanten und Ecken stark bestossen, sehr locker in Bindung, schiefgelesen, Seiten gebraeunt, fleckig, teilweise verknittert, maessiger Zustand. read more
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Life Through the Ages: A Commemorative Edition
by
Charles Robert Knight, Stephen Jay Gould (Foreword by), Philip J Currie (Introduction by)
