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Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works, 1550-1900

Illustrated books from the 16th century to the early 20th depicting the fish, birds, and animals of the world. Based on the scholarly bibliography by Miriam Gross that appeared in Biblion: The Bulletin of The New York Public Library in 1994; her introductory text has been adapted for this presentation.

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Abbildungen der jagtbaren Thiere mit derselben angefuegten Faehrten und Spuhren, Wandel, Gaenge, Abspruenge, Wendungen, Widergaengen, Flucht, und anderer Zeichen mehr mit vielem Fleiss, Zeit und Muehe.... (1740)
Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische. French = Ichtylogie, ou Histoire naturelle : generale et particuliere des poissons / par Marc Elieser Bloch. (1785-97)
American entomology : or description of the insects of North America, illustrated by coloured figures from original drawings executed from nature / by Thomas Say. (1824, 1825, 1828)
American natural history. Part 1.--Mastology. (1826-28)
Animate creation : popular edition of our living world, a natural history ([1898])
The birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their territories. By John James Audubon (1840-44)
The birds of eastern North America; with original descriptions of all the species which occur east of the Mississippi River, between the Arctic circle and the Gulf of Mexico, with full notes upon thei.... (1881)
The birds of Europe. (1837)
The birds of Great Britain. (1862-1873)
Die Blumenpolypen der süssen Wasser, beschrieben und mit den Blumenpolypen der salzigen Wasser verglichen von Jacob Christian Schäffer. Nebst drey kupfertafeln mit figuren in farben. (1755)
La botanique mise à la porteé de tout le monde; ou, Collection des plantes d'usage dans la médecine, dans les alimens et dans les arts. (1774)
The British miscellany : or coloured figures of new rare, or little known animal subjects ; many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles ; and chiefly in the possession of the au.... (MDCCCIV-VI [1804-06])
Butterflies of North America. (1888-1897)
The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada, with special reference to New England. By Samuel Hubbard Scudder. (1889)
Cabinet du petit naturaliste, par Mad. D*** ... (1812)
Catalogue of the chiroptera. By G.E. Dobson. (1878)
Characteristic sketches of animals, principally from the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park (1832)
The common objects of the sea shore : including hints for an aquarium. (1866)
The common objects of the sea shore : including hints for an aquarium (1857)
The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidae living and extinct, by R. Lydekker. (1898)
Engravings of lions, tigers, panthers, leopards, dogs, &c., chiefly after the designs of Sir Edwin Landseer, by his brother, Thomas Landseer. Printed from the original plates, pub. between 1823 and 18.... (1853)
Exotic moths. By James Duncan... [Series : The naturalist's library. vol. XXXVII. Entomology. [v. VII] ; Naturalist's library. v. 37. Entomology ; 7.] (1843)
Fauna boreali-americana, or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America : containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions, under com.... (1829-1837)
The fishes of New-York, described and arranged / by Samuel L. Mitchill. [Literary and Philosophical Society of New York. Transactions ; v. l, no. 5] (1815)
The fishes of North America that are captured on hook and line. With eighty colored plates made from oil portraits of living fishes before their color tints had faded. By William C. Harris ... Volume .... (1898)
Friends worth knowing; glimpses of American natural history. (1880)
Groups of cattle, drawn from nature, by T.S. Cooper. 1839. ([1839])
Die grunen armpolypen : die geschwanzten und ungeschwanzten zackigen wasserflohe, und eine besondere art kleiner wasseraale / beschrieben von Jacob Christian Schaffer. = [Abhandlungen von insecten ; v.... (1755)
Histoire naturelle des mammiferes, avec des figures originales, coloriees, dessinees d'apres des animaux vivans; publie sous l'autorite de l'administration du Museum d'histoire naturelle, par M. Geoff.... (1824)
Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus, par Francois Levaillant.... (1806)
Histoire naturelle des poissons. (1828)
Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere des crustaces et des insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite aux oeuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du cours complet d'histoire naturelle redige par C.S. Sonn....
Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'ile de Cuba / par M. Ramon de la Sagra.
Historiae naturalis de quadrupetibus libri. ([1655])
Humble creatures; part I. The earthworm, and the common housefly. In eight letters. By James Samuelson, assisted by J. Braxton Hicks. ... With microscopic illustrations by the authors [2nd ed.] (1860)
Ichthyology of South Carolina. Vol. I. (1860)
Illuminerade figurer till Skandinaviens fauna. (1832-1840)
Illustrations of exotic entomology, containing upwards of six hundred and fifty figures and descriptions of foreign insects, interspersed with remarks and reflections on their nature and properties. B.... (1837)
Illustrations of Indian zoology; chiefly ... from the collection of Major-General Hardwicke ... (1830-34)
Illustrations of the birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain descriptions and figures of all North American birds not given by former American authors, and.... (1862 [c1855])
Interesting Selections from Animated Nature. (1807-09)
Livre de divers animaux pour dessus de portes par les meilleurs maitres. ([ca. 1769])
A monograph of the Phasianidae, or, Family of the pheasants. [By D. J. Elliot] (1872)
A monograph of the pheasants. (1918-22)
Moths and butterflies of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; with over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life, by Sherman F. Denton (1900)
The natural history of British fishes : including scientific and general descriptions of the most interesting species, and an extensive selection of accurately finished coloured plates. (1802-1808)
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands...2nd ed. (1754)
The natural history of fishes of the perch family. Illustrated by thirty-six plates coloured; with memoir and portrait of Sir Joseph Banks, bart. [Series : The naturalist's library. Ichthyology. vol. .... (1835)
The natural history of the amphibious carnivora, including the walrus and seals, also of the herbivorous cetacea, &c. Illustrated by thirty-three plates, with memoir and portrait of Peron. [The natura.... (1839)
The natural history of Washington territory and Oregon, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah, and California ... being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern.... (1860)
The new and heretofore unfigured species of birds of North America. (1869)
The new natural history, by Richard Lydekker ... ([189-?])
North American herpetology; or, A description of the reptiles inhabiting the United States. (1842)
Novveaux povrtraitz et figvres de termes pour vser en l'architecture: composez et enrichiz de diuersité d'animaulx, representez au vray selon l'antipathie et contrarieté naturelle du chacun d'iceulx. ([1592])
Oeuvres complètes de Buffon, augmentées par M. F. Cuvier ... de deux volumes supplementaires offrant la description des mammifères et des oiseaux les plus remarquables découverts jusqu'a ce jour (1829-1832)
Les pigeons, par Madame Knip, nee Pauline de Courcelles paintre d'histoire naturelle ... Le texte par ... Themminck. (1811)
Recueil de differentes études d'animaux, gravées d'après les desseins des plus habilles maîtres par Duncker, et terminé[e]s au burin par Huquier. ([ca. 1769])
[Reproductions d'après différents maîtres.] ([1856-ca. 1861])
Thesaurus imaginum piscium testaceorum; quales sunt cancri, echini, echinometra, stellae marinae, &c. ut et cochlearum ... quibus accedunt conchylia, ut nautilus, cornu Ammonis, & conchae univalviae .... (1711)
The viviparous quadrupeds of North America. (1845-1848)
Voyage autour du monde sur la fregate la Venus, pendant les annees 1836-1839 : publie par ordre du roi, sous les auspices du ministre de la marine / par Abel du Petit-Thouars. (1840-1864)
Wild animals and birds: their haunts and habits (1882)
Zoography; or, The beauties of nature displayed. In select descriptions from the animal, and vegetable, with additions from the mineral kingdom. Systematical arranged. By W. Wood ... Ill. with plates,.... (1807)
Zoological lectures delivered at the Royal institution in the years 1806 and 1807, by George Shaw. (1809)
Zoological researches in Java, and the neighbouring islands. (1824)
The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage...to the Pacific and Behring's Straits performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey by J. Richardson ... N. A. Vigors ....... (1839)
Zoology of New York; or, The New York fauna [Series: Natural history of New York] (1842-44)
The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher ... during the years 1843-46. By John Edward Gray ... Sir John Richardson ... Arthur Adams ... Published u.... (1850)
Études d'animaux ([c1911])
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