A List of Books on Extinct Animals & Cryptozoology

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Extinct Birds

by Rothschild, W.

Cat No. : 47267, Published : 1907, Illustrations : 45 chromolithographic plates, 4 uncoloured plates

Hardback £6,500.00

An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those Birds which have become extinct in historical time - that is, within the last six or seven hundred years. To which are added a few which (more)

The Great Auk, or Garefowl (Alca impennis, LINN.); its History, Archaeology, and Remains

by Grieve, Symington

Cat No. : 48599, Published : 1885, Illustrations : b/w frontis, 2 col + 2 b/w plates, folding col map, text figs

Hardback £350.00

First edition. Includes a 58-page Appendix Recapitulation of the Various Investigations Concerning the Distribution of he Garefowl by J. Steenstrup. The folding colour map shows the supposed (more)

The Dodo and Kindred Birds or The Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands

by Hachisuka, Masauji

Cat No. : 48598, Published : 1953, Illustrations : 22 plates (11 colour), text drawings

Hardback £950.00

First edition. Edition limited to 485 copies (this copy un-numbered). This important work deals with the lost birds of the Mascarenes, three small volcanic island - Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Réunion (more)

The Dodo and the Solitaire: A Natural History

by Parish, J.C.

Cat No. : 47146, Published : 2013, Illustrations : 20 col + 200 b/w illus

Hardback £45.00

The most comprehensive book to date about these two famously extinct birds. It contains all the known contemporary accounts and illustrations of the dodo and solitaire, covering their history after (more)

Extinct Birds

by Fuller, E.

Cat No. : 36271, Published : 1987, Illustrations : 59 col plates, b/w illus

Hardback £17.50

An absorbing study of the world's recently extinct bird species. Nearly all species illustrated with colour plates from archival sources, including the work of Audubon, Keulemans and Lear. (more)

Extinct Birds

by Hume, J. P.; Walters, M.

Cat No. : 47122, Published : 2012, Illustrations : text illus

Hardback £38.00

'…an epic roll call of the species we have lost...' (Ceri Levy) (more)

The Passenger Pigeon

by Mershon, W.B.

Cat No. : 48585, Published : 1907, Illustrations : col frontis, 2 col + 6 b/w plates

Hardback £175.00

First edition. A fascinating book on the extinct passenger pigeon. Consists of a number of articles and reminiscences on the passenger pigeon by various authors, such as John James Audubon, James (more)

The Great Auk

by Fuller, E.

Cat No. : 46352, Published : 1999, Illustrations : 200+ col illus, b/w illus

Hardback £45.00

Perhaps the most curious of all vanished birds, the Great Auk commands an enormous following among naturalists and its strange and mysterious story is told in the pages of this book. Not reliably (more)

Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World

by Greenway, J.C.

Cat No. : 47493, Published : 1958, Illustrations : col frontis, 86 text figs

Paperback £30.00

First edition. Illustrated by D.M. Reid-Henry. Special Publication No. 13. (more)

Extinct and Vanishing Mammals of the Old World

by Harper, F.

Cat No. : 47259, Published : 1945, Illustrations : frontis, 67 text illus

Hardback £45.00

Special Publication No. 12. Illustrations by E.L. Poole. (more)

Description of a Portion of Mandible and Teeth of a large extinct Kangaroo (Palorchestes crassus, Ow.) from ancient fluviatile Drift, Queensland

by Owen, Richard

Cat No. : 41038, Published : 1880, Illustrations : 1 engraved plate

Paperback £30.00

Transactions of the Zoological Society, London, 11(1): 7-10. Plate by Joseph Smit. (more)

On Dinornis (Part XXIII): containing a Description of the Skeleton of Dinornis parvus, Owen [with] On Dinornis [and] (Part XXIV): containing a description of the Head and Feet, with their dried Integuments, of an individual of the species Dinornis didinus

by Owen, Richard

Cat No. : 41031, Published : 1883, Illustrations : 11 lithographic plates

Paperback £295.00

Trans. Zool. Soc. London, Vol. XI: 233-261. The first paper describes an extinct bird genus known as the lesser moa, little bush moa, or bush moa. It stood more than 1.3 metres tall and.inhabited (more)

Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes: ou l'on rétablit les caractères de plusieurs espèces d'animaux que les révolutions du globe paroissent avoir détruites. Tome I-IV

by Cuvier, Georges

Cat No. : 37982, Published : 1812, Illustrations : 157 engraved plates (some folding), including a large folding hand-coloured map

Hardback £2,400.00

Scarce first edition of a work which laid the foundation of vertebrate paleontology (Horblit, One Hundred Books, 20b). The separately paginated memoirs, many of which first appeared in 'Ann. Mus. (more)

An Introduction to the Study of Mammals Living and Extinct

by Flower, W.H.; Lydekker, R.

Cat No. : 36078, Published : 1891, Illustrations : title vignette, 357 text engravings

Hardback £120.00

First edition. (more)

In Search of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

by Jackson, J.A.

Cat No. : 47279, Published : 2004, Illustrations : 10 col photos

Hardback £15.00

A complete natural history of one of the most exciting and rare (perhaps extinct) birds in the world, and a fascinating personal quest by the world's leading expert on the species. Jackson provides (more)

On the Extinct Land‐Tortoises of Mauritius and Rodriguez

by Haddon, A.C.

Cat No. : 40977, Published : 1881, Illustrations : 1 lithographic plate

Paperback £25.00

From the Trans. Linn. Soc., 2nd Ser. - Zoology, 2(2): 155-163. (more)

Facing Extinction: The World's Rarest Birds and the Race to Save Them

by Donald, P.F.; Collar, N.J.; Marsden, S. J.; Pain, D. J.

Cat No. : 47202, Published : 2010, Illustrations : col photos, text illus

Hardback £35.00

Almost two hundred species of birds have become extinct in the past 400 years, and a similar number today are in imminent danger of following them. The world's conservationists are leading the fight (more)

Going, Going, Gone: 100 Animals and Plants on the Verge of Extinction

by Baillie, J. (Foreword by)

Cat No. : 48601, Published : 2013, Illustrations : col photos

Hardback £18.00

Among the threatened animals and plants include: African Penguin, Bottlenose Dolphin, Common Crane, Eurasian Curlew, Florida Panther, Irish Hare, Pygmy Rwandan Waterlily, Spectacled Bear, and (more)

British Animals Extinct within Historic Times: with some account of British Wild White Cattle

by Harting, J.E.

Cat No. : 48623, Published : 1972, Illustrations : 36 text illus

Hardback £15.00

Facsimile edition (originally published 1880). Woodcuts by J. Wolf; C. Whymper and R.W. Sherwin. Chapters on the bear, beaver, reindeer, wild boar, wolf, as well as a section on wild white cattle. (more)

Extinct Monsters: A popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life

by Hutchinson, H.N.

Cat No. : 47581, Published : 1892, Illustrations : 24 b/w plates, 38 text figs

Hardback £195.00

First edition. With illustrations by J. Smit and others of dinosaurs and other extinct animals. Influential illustrations which formed the basis of many later representations of dinosaurs.

Nissen (more)

On the Track of Unknown Animals

by Heuvelmans, B.

Cat No. : 47212, Published : 1958, Illustrations : 30 plates b/w photos, 120 text drawings, 7 maps

Hardback £65.00

First English edition, translated form French by Richard Garnett. With an introduction by Gerald Durrell. With 120 drawings by Monique Watteau. This book is credited with introducing the term (more)

Sea Enchantress: The Tale of the Mermaid and her Kin

by Benwell, G.; Waugh, A.

Cat No. : 47211, Published : 1961, Illustrations : b/w illus

Hardback £95.00

First edition. Scarce. In this fascinating book the authors have collected an great amount of mermaid lore, from all ages, from all around the world. A detailed examination of the history, myths and (more)

The Loch Ness Monster and Others

by Gould, R.T.

Cat No. : 48201, Published : 1934, Illustrations : frontis, 7 b/w plates, 46 figs, maps to endpapers

Hardback £150.00

First edition. The first serious attempt to investigate and assemble information about the Loch Ness monster. (more)

De Unicornu Observationes Novae. Secunda editione Auctiores & emendatiores edita a Filio Casparo Bartholino [with] De Ovariis mulierum et Generationis Historia Epistola Anatomica

by Bartholin, Thomas; Bartholin, Caspar

Cat No. : 38151, Published : 1678

Hardback £1,850.00

Both works second editions. Text Latin.

'De Unicornu..' by Thomas Bartholin, second edition, revised and corrected by Caspar Bartholin. (First edition was published in Padua, 1645). A treatise on (more)

The Lungfish, the Dodo, & the Unicorn: An Excursion into Romantic Zoology

by Ley, W.

Cat No. : 48600, Published : 1948, Illustrations : text illus

Hardback £25.00

New edition, completely revised and considerably enlarged. (more)

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The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

by Barnett, R.

Cat No. : 38542, Published : 2019, Illustrations : 8-page colour section

Hardback £16.99

Britain was a very different place 15,000 years ago – home to lions, lynx, bears, wolves, bison and many more megafauna. But as its climate changed and human populations expanded, most of early (more)

Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record

by Fuller, E.

Cat No. : 46987, Published : 2021, Illustrations : b/w + col photos

Paperback £15.00 £20.00 (Save £5.00)

A photograph of an animal long-gone evokes a feeling of loss more than a painting ever can. Often tinted sepia or black-and-white, these images were mainly taken in zoos or wildlife parks, and in a (more)

Aurochs and Auks: Essays on life, loss and renewal

by Burnside, J.

Cat No. : 45699, Published : 2021, Illustrations : b/w illus

Hardback £14.00

Aurochs and Auks is a deeply moving and intelligent meditation on the natural processes of death and extinction, renewal and continuity. Prompted by his own near-death in a time of pandemic, John (more)

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