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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)

 


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Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140
Telephone: (515) 294-6672
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