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Selected Bibliography of Fine Bird Books
The following is a selected bibliography of fine bird books held by the Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.
Adams, Henry Gardiner, The Smaller British Birds, London : G. Bell and Sons, 1874. (QL690 Ad17s) |
| Alferaki, Sergiei Nickolaevich, The Geese of Europe and Asia, London : R. Ward Ltd., 1905. (QL696 A5 AL2g) |
| Audubon, John James, The Birds of America, New York : J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier, 1840-44. (QL674 A9 1840) |
| Baird, Spencer Fullerton, Birds of North America, Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1860-70. (QL681 B164b) |
| Baird, Spencer Fullerton, A History of North American Birds, Boston : Little, Brown, 1875. (QL681 B164h) |
| Baird, Spencer Fullerton, Reports of Explorations and Surveys Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, Washington : 1859. (F593 Un35r Vol. 10) |
| Bartlett, Edward, A Monograph of the Weaver-Birds and the Arboreal and Terrestrial Finches, Maidstone : The author, 1888-89. (QL696 P2 B28m) |
| Beebe, Charles William, A Monograph of the Pheasants, London : Witherby and Co., 1918-22. (QL696 G2 B391m) |
| Bonaparte, Charles Lucian Jules Laurent, American Ornithology, Philadelphia “ Carey, Lee and Carey, 1825-33. (QL681 W691abo) |
| Borrer, William, The Birds of Sussex, London : R.H. Porter, 1891. (QL690 B646b) |
| Brabourne, Wyndham Wentworth Kratchul-Hugessen, The Birds of South America, London : R.H. Porter, 1912-17. (QL689 A1 B8) |
| Bree, Charles Robert, A History of the Birds of Europe, not Observed in the British Isles, London : Groombridge and Sons, 1866-67. (QL690 B74h) |
Broinowski, Gracius, The Birds of Australia, Melbourne : C. Stuart and Co., 1890-91. (QL674 B787b) |
| Buffon, George Louis LeClerc, The Natural History of Birds, London : A. Strahan, 1792. (QL673 B864hE) |
| Buller, Walter Lawry, A History of the Birds of New Zealand, London : The author, 1888. (QL693 B873h2) |
| Cassin, John, Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1856. (QL681 C273i) |
| Catesby, Mark, The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, London : B. White, 1771. (QH47 C283n3) |
| Cory, Charles B., The Birds of Haiti and San Domingo, Boston : Estes and Lauriat, 1885. (QL688 C81bh) |
| Cotton, John, edited by Robert Tyas, Beautiful Birds Described, London : Houlston and Wright, 1868. (QL673 C829b) |
| Cuvier, Georges, The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity With its Organization, London : G.B. Whittaker, 1827-34. (QL45 C98a) |
| Cuvier, Georges, Le Regne Animal Distribue D’Apres son Organisation, Paris : Fortin, Masson et cie, 1836-49. (QL45 C98r) |
| Darwin, Charles, Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1839-43. (QL5 D25z) |
| Diggles, Silvester, Companion to Gould’s Handbook, or, Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, Brisbane : Thorne and Greenwell, 1877. (QL693 D56c) |
| Dresser, Henry Eeles, Eggs of the Birds of Europe, London : The author, 1905-1910. (QL675 D817e) |
| Dresser, Henry Eeles, History of the Birds of Europe, London : The author, 1871-96. (QL690 D817h) |
| Dresser, Henry Eeles, A Monograph of the Coraciidae or Family of the Rollers, Farnborough : The author, 1893. (QL696 C7 D81m) |
| Dresser, Henry Eeles, A Monograph of the Meropidae or Family of the Bee-Eaters, London : The author, 1884-86. (QL696 M5 D817m) |
| Dumont d’Urville, Jules Sebastian Cesar, Voyage de Decouvertes de l’Astrolabe, Paris : J. Tastu, 1832-34. (Q115 D89vo) |
| Elliot, Daniel Giraud, Monograph of the Bucerotidae or Family of the Hornbills, London : The author, 1882. (QL96 B9 EL5m) |
| Elliot, Daniel Giraud, Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, New York : The author, 1872. (QL696 G2 EL5m) |
| Elliot, Daniel Giraud, Monograph of the Pittidae, or Family of Ant Thrushes, New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1863. (QL696 P52 EL5m) |
| Elliot, Daniel Giraud, Monograph of the Tetraoninae: or, Family of the Grouse, New York : The author, 1865. (QL674 EL58m) |
| Elliot, Daniel Giraud, The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America, New York : The author, 1869. (QL681 EL57n) |
| Gentry, Thomas G., Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States, Philadelphia : J.A. Wagenseller, 1882. (QL674 G289n) |
| Godman, Frederick Du Cane, A Monograph of the Petrels (Order of Tubinares), London : Witherby and Co., 1907-10. (QL696 P6 G54m) |
| Goldsmith, Oliver, A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Glasgow : A. Fullerton, 1835. (QL50 G62 1835) |
| Gosse, Philip Henry, The Birds of Jamaica, London : J. Van Voorst, 1847. (QL688 G69b) |
| Gould, John, A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America, London : The author, 1850. (QL696 G2 G73m) |
| Gould, John, A Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of the Trogans. London : The author, 1835-38. (QL696 T7 G7m) |
| Horsfield, Thomas, Zoological Researchers in Java, and the Neighboring Islands, London : Kingsbury, Parbuny and Allen, 1824. (QL321 H787z) |
| Hume, Allan Octavian, The Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon, Calcutta : A.O. Hume and Marshall, 1879-81. (QL696 G2 H88g) |
| Irby, Leonard Howard Lloyd, The Ornithology of the Straits of Gibralter, London : R.H. Porter, 1895. (QL690 S6 I7x) |
| Lanier, Sidney, Bob: the Story of Our Mockingbird, New York : Scribner, 1899. (QL676 L36x 1899) |
| Latham, John, A General Synopsis of Birds, London : B.White, 1781-85. (QL674 L347g) |
| Latham, John, Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds, London : Leigh and Sotheby, 1787-1801. (QL674 L347g, Suppl.) |
| Leach, William Elford, The Zoological Miscellany, London : E. Nodder and Son, 1814-17. (QL46 L47z) |
| Legge, William Vincent, A History of the Birds of Ceylon, London : The author, 1878-80. (QL691 C4 L52h) |
| Lewin, William, The Birds of Great Britain, With Their Eggs, Accurately Figured, London : Leigh and Sotheby, 1789-94. (QL674 L584b) |
| Lloyd, Llewelyn, The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway, London : Day and Son, 1867. (SK315 L77g) |
| Malherbe, Alfred, Monographie des Picidees, Metz : J. Verronnais, 1861-63. (QL696 P5 M29m) |
| Martin, William Charles Linnaeus, A General History of Hummingbirds, or the Trochilidae, London : H.G. Bohn, 1852. (QL696 T6 M36g) |
| Martyn, William Frederic, A New Dictionary of Natural History, London : Harrison and Co., 1785. (QL47 M367n) |
| Maynard, Charles Johnson, Eggs of North American Birds, Boston : DeWolfe, Fiske and Co., 1890. (QL675 M454e) |
| Meyer, Henry Leonard, Coloured Illustrations of British Birds and Their Eggs, London : G.W. Nickisson, 1842-50. (QL674 M575c) |
| Millais, John Guille, Game Birds and Shooting Sketches, London: H. Sotheran and Co., 1892. (SK311 M61g) |
| Morris, Francis Orpen, A History of British Birds, London : Groombridge and Sons, 1868. (QL690 M83h) |
| Morris, Francis Orpen, A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, London : Groombridge and Sons, 1867. (QL675 M832n) |
| Muller, Otto Frederik, Zoologia Danica, Copenhagen : 1878-1906. (QL287 M915z) |
Naturalist’s Library, Edinburgh : W.H. Lizars, 1833-64. (QH45 N219) |
| Nelson, Edward William, Report upon Natural History Collections Made in Alaska Between the Years 1877 and 1881, Washington : Government Printing Office, 1887. (QL161 N332r) |
| Ogilvie-Grant, William Robert, A Handbook to the Game-Birds, London : W.H. Allen and Co., 1895-97. (QL696 G2 Og4h) |
| D’Orbigny, Alcide Dussulines, Voyages dans L’Amerique Meridionale, Paris : Pitois-Levrault et cie; Strasbourg : V.E. Leverault, 1835-47. (Q115 Or1v) |
| Pennant, Thomas, British Zoology, London : Wilkie and Robinson, 1812. (QL255 P381b) |
Poynting, Frank, Eggs of British Birds, With an Account of Their Breeding-Habits, London : R.H. Porter, 1895-96. (QL696 L7 P87e) |
Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg : E.K. Meyers, State Printer,1890. (QL684 P4 P3r2) |
Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Washington : C. Wendell, 1857-59. (QH104 Un3r) |
| Richardson, John, Fauna Boreali-Americana or the Zoology of the Northern Part of British America, London : J. Murray, 1829-37. (QL219 R394f) |
| Sagra, Ramon de la, Historia Fisica Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba, Paris : A. Bertrand, 1839-61. (QH109 C9 Sa1h) |
| Samuels, Edward Augustus, Ornithology and Oology of New England, Boston : Nichols and Noyes, 1867. (QL683 Sa49o) |
| Schlegel, Herman, De Vogels van Nederlandsch Indie, Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1863-66. (QL691 D9 Sch3v) |
| Sclater, Philip Lutley, Argentine Ornithology, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of the Argentine Republic, London : R.H. Porter, 1888-89. (QH689 A6 S32x) |
| Seebohm, Henry, The Geographical Distribution of the Family of Charadriidae or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and Their Allies, London : H. Sotheran and Co., 1888. (QL696 L7 Se3g) |
| Seebohm, Henry, Monograph of the Turdidae or Family of Thrushes, London : H. Sotheran and Co., 1902. (QL 696 P2 Se3m) |
| Selby, Prideaux John, Natural History of Parrots, Edinburgh : W.H. Lizars, 1836. (QH45 N219 Vol. 6) |
| Selby, Prideaux John, Natural History of Pigeons, Edinburgh : W.H. Lizars, 1835 (QH45 N219 Vol. 5) |
| Sharpe, Richard Bowdler, Monograph of the Alcedinidae: or, Family of Kingfishers, London “ The author, 1868-71. (QL674 Sh24m) |
| Sharpe, Richard Bowdler, Monograph of the Hirundinidae or Family of Swallows, London : Taylor and Francis, 1885-94. (QL696 P2 Sh2m) |
| Shelley, George Ernest, A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt, London : J. Van Voorst, 1872. (QL692 E3 Sh4h) |
| Smith, Francis, The Canary: Its Varieties, Management and Breeding With Portraits of the Author’s Own Birds, London : Groombridge and Sons, 1872. (SF463 Sm56c3) |
| Studer, Jacob Henry, The Birds of North America, New York : National Science Association of America, 1888. (QL681 St94b) |
| Tegetmeier, William Bernhard, Pigeons: Their Structure, Varieties, Habits and Management, London and New York : G. Routledge and Sons, 1868. (SF465 T231p) |
| Thayer, Gerald Handerson, Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom, New York : The MacMillan Co., 1909. (QL767 T336c) |
| Whitehead, John, Exploration of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo, London : Gurney and Jackson, 1893. (QL319 W587e) |
| Willughby, Francis, Ornithologiae Libri Tres, Londoni : Impresnis Ioannis Martyn, Regiae Societatis, Typographi ad insigne Campanae in Caemeterio D. Pauli, 1676. (QL673 W55x 1676) |
| Wilson, Alexander, American Ornithology, London : Chatto and Windus, 1876. (QL681 W691a) |
| Wingfield, William, The Poultry Book, London : W.S. Orr and Co., 1853. (SF488 G7 W727p) |
| Wolley, John, Ootheca Wolleyana: An Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of Birds Eggs, London : R.H. Porter, 1864-1907. (QL675 W835o) |
For further information on the these collections or to discuss the possibility of donating a collection, contact:
Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140
Telephone: (515) 294-6672
Fax: (515) 294-3186
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