Catalogues

OUR 33 BOOK CATALOGUES (on www.booksatpbfa.com)

Please note that in searching our database on the PBFA website, any one item may appear in more than one category. e.g. Geology and Rare and Fine. i.e. If you search on Geology you will also find geological items that are Rare and Fine and vice versa. Other keywords may also be used. e.g. Ammonites to refine a Molluscan search. Visitors are always welcome by appointment to see our extensive stocks of which only a part has been catalogued yet. New items are added most weeks.  Currently over four thousand items of our stock are on the PBFA site given above.

1.    AMPHIBIA:    Mainly fossil with some modern.
2.    ARCHAEOLOGY:    Including Prehistory and fossil Hominoids.
3.    ARTHROPODS:    Mainly fossil with some modern, esp. Trilobites & Crustacea. e.g. ex-H. Whittington & W.D.I. Rolfe.
4.    BGS:    British and Irish Geological Surveys. Mainly Memoirs, but excluding Water Supply.
5.    BIOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHY:    Mainly Scientific.
6.    BIOLOGY:    Palaeo- and modern including Biological Oceanography, Microbiology and Cellular Biology.
7.    BIRDS:       Fossil and modern.
8.    BOTANY:    Fossil & modern including Spores, Pollen, Micropalaeobotany, Fungi and Algae.
9.    BRACHIOPODS:    Fossil & modern. Mainly ex-libraries of D. Ager, M. Arber, S. McKerrow & Sir Alwyn Williams F.R.S.
10.    DARWIN/HUXLEY:    Items by and about Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley and their descendants.. 
11.    DINOSAURS:     For related Archosaurs e.g. Crocodilians, please see Reptiles.
12.    FISH:    Fossil and modern. e.g. ex-libraries of Alwyne Wheeler and Keith Thompson.
13.    FOSSILS:    Mainly General Palaeontology, Palaeoecology, Ichnology, Taphonomy, Techniques, etc.
14.    GENERAL:   All other subjects e.g. Art, History, Juvenile, Literature, Reference, Topography, Travel, etc.
15.    GEOHAZARDS:     Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Landslides, Tsumani, Seismology, etc
16.    GEOLOGY:    Includes Earth Sciences and Geography. Excludes Geohazards and History of Geology. q.v.
17.    HISTORY OF GEOLOGY:    Includes Philosophy of Geology & Earth Sciences, for personalities please see Biography.
18.    JOURNALS:    Journals, periodicals, serials, mainly in the Natural Sciences especially Geology.
19.    MAMMALS:    Mainly fossil with some modern. Includes Primates, but excludes Hominoids.
20.    MAPS:    Geological.
21.    MEDICINE:    Including History of Medicine, Anatomy and Pharmacy.
22.    MICROPALAEONTOLOGY:    Mainly fossil Zoology, e.g. Ostracods with some modern Microzoology, e.g. Foraminifera.
23.    MINERALOGY:     Including Crystallography and Gemology.
24.    MOLLUSCS:    Mainly fossil with some modern. e.g. Ammonites, Belemnites, Bivalves, Gastropods.
25.    NATURAL HISTORY:    Mainly modern.
26.    PALAEONTOLOGY:     Mainly invertebrate groups not covered elsewhere. e.g. Graptolites, Echinoderms, Cnidaria, etc.
27.    RARE AND FINE:    Covers most categories, but not Journals or Offprints. Items are mainly pre-1850 or priced at over £100.
28.    REPRINTS (100K in stock):    = Offprints / Separates and small original publications. Mainly on Geology / Earth Sciences, Science.
29.    REPTILES:    Mainly fossil with some modern, excluding Dinosaurs but including other Archosaurs.
30.    SCIENCE:   Including History and Philosophy of Science, Mathematics and Technology.
31.    WATER SUPPLY:    Including Hydrology, Rainfall, Aquifers, Wells and Boreholes.
32.    ZOOLOGY:    Including Classification, Evolution, Systematics, Taxonomy and Extinction.
33.    HANCOCK:    Items from the library of the late Professor Jake Hancock - mainly on the Cretaceous.