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Pictorial Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A like-new, bright, clean, tight copy. "The authors use photographs, original drawings, maps, charts, diagrams, and historical and contemporary narratives to answer all our questions, from the most basic to the most sophisticated, about the lives and characteristics of dinosaurs; to provide a complete picture of the most important skeletons exhibited in the Halls of Dinosaurs; and to assess the genealogical relationships among these animals, and between them and later species." PROLIFICALLY ILLUSTRATED in black & white and full color photography (many full page) with accompanying descriptive captions. "In words and pictures, the history of each fossil's discovery, excavation, acquisition by the Museum, and reconstruction is woven together with the story of paleontology: the unraveling, over the past 150 years, of the evolutionary record, mostly by the intrepid paleontologists who scoured remote lands in search of evidence, in historic expedtions all over the world sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History." 248 pages. NOTE: Due to the large size and heavy weight of the book significant additional shipping cost will be requested/required for OUT-OF-U.S. shipment in accordance with country of destination. GP3.