Jasper Burns

Selected Publications by Jasper Burns
As Author and Illustrator


IRISH HAMMERED PENNIES OF EDWARD IV AND RICHARD III Pietas Publications, 2009 A new reference to the medieval (15th Century) coinage of Ireland - with photos of most types and many new varieties.	FOSSIL COLLECTING IN THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991 An illustrated guide to fossils and fossil collecting with localities - mostly in Virginia and West Virginia.	GREAT WOMEN OF IMPERIAL ROME Routledge, 2006 Illustrated biographies of 11 empresses from the golden age of the Roman Empire, plus a summary of the later empresses.

VIPSANIA: A ROMAN ODYSSEY Pietas Publications, 2006 A novel based on the lives of Tiberius, the 2nd Roman emperor, and his first wife Vipsania	FOSSIL DREAMS Pietas Publications, Spring 2007 An illustrated collection of poems and pictures about fossils and fossil collecting.	SELECTED LIVES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SOUL Pietas Publications, 2006 The illustrated story of the animal and human lives and spiritual journey of an individual soul.

TRILOBITES: COMMON TRILOBITES OF NORTH AMERICA NatureGuide Books, 1999 An introduction to trilobites and how they lived, with illustrated descriptions of 41 common species.	VISIT TO RED EFT'S MOUNTAIN Pietas Publications, 2011 eBook A box turtle and his animal friends visit a very wise red eft and learn about coping with environmental change. A children's book.	BULLA FELIX: THE ROMAN ROBIN HOOD Pietas Publications, 2011 eBook The story of the Roman outlaw, who stole from the rich and gave to the poor a thousand years before his English counterpart.

As Illustrator

THE MINTS BOOK: AN INQUIRY FIELD GUIDE
by Frank Taylor, Alan Raflo, and Llyn Sharp, Virginia Tech Museum of Natural History, 1997

An illustrated guide to the plants and animals that can be found in the schoolyards of southwestern Virginia. (Cover by another artist.)

DISCOVERING FOSSILS
by Frank A. Garcia and Donald S. Miller, Stackpole Books, 1998

A splendidly written introduction to fossils and fossil collecting with pen and ink drawings of numerous specimens.

FROMMER'S GUIDE TO YELLOWSTONE AND GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARKS
Macmillan Travel, 1998

The first of many Frommer's guides to the national parks of the U.S. with illustrations of plants and animals by Jasper Burns.

Out of Print


Exploring Virginia's Endangered Species( OP)	Angling Alpine (OP)	PB's Quick Index to Bird Nesting (OP)	Guide to Used Book Dealers (OP)	Exploring Fossils (OP)	Fun With Mammals (OP)