Prehistoric large hardcover rare books: Prehistoric Animals and Prehistoric Man by Josef Augusta.

Prehistoric large hardcover rare books from the early 1960s, Prehistoric Animals and Prehistoric Man, by Josef Augusta. Beige cloth/linen covers with no dust jackets. Size:  40 cm x 30 cm x 10 cm weight: 3 Kg

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Prehistoric Animals Dr. Joseph Augusta

Illustrations by Zdenek Burian.

60 colour and 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. There is no dust cover.

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Prehistoric Man written by Josef Augusta (1960)

Illustrations by Zdenek Burian.

This rare book features a 45-page history by Prof. Augusta, accompanied by 52 full-page color plates from paintings by Zdenek Burian, with each plate having a facing page of explanatory text. Covering the various stages in the development of early man, from Java Man to the late paleolithic period - man as hunter, gatherer, artist, burial customs, tool user, magic and religious rites, etc. The hunting pictures are particularly good. There is no dust cover.

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Man in Africa magazine by Roy W. Terry.

Published by The Institute for the Study of Man in Africa, Johannesburg 1963. An extremely rare brochure with the Foreword written by Phillip Tobias from the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School May 1963

Included for free with two main hardcover books.