Century old wildlife art by the preeminent artists of their day make
excellent gifts, become family heirlooms and increase in value overtime. You may agree
that birds and other wildlife
depicted in their natural habitats, engaged in each particular species'
common activities, meticulously illustrated by artist-naturalists are best
for identification and for just plain enjoyment.
Antiquarian Natural History Books are abundant and still widely
available at reasonable prices.
Web
Resources
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research CenterDistribution Maps: Sauer, J. R.,
J. E. Hines, I. Thomas, J. Fallon, and G. Gough. 1999. The North American Breeding Bird
Survey Results and Analysis 1966 - 1998. Version 98.1
, Laurel, MD
Eskimo Curlew, A Vanishing Species
by J.B. Gollop,
T.W. Barry, and E.H. Iversen, 1986 published by Nature Saskatchewan Saskatchewan
Natural History Society
Room 206, 1860 Lorne St.
Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 2L7
File names 50birds art
include initials of artists and authors matched with books listed below.
Illustration file names can be viewed by right clicking graphics and
selecting "save picture as" or "save image as". The
file name of the
graphic will appear with an abbreviation corresponding to an author,
illustrator, photographer, or book. Press "CTL-F" when viewing
this page and enter the abbreviation to find the author or artist of the
work.
"The Book of Birds", by Gilbert
Grosvenor, 1932, contains 950 natural and lifelike color portraits of all major North
American bird species by Allan Brooks, a preeminent zoological illustrator of his time
(Illustrations from "The Book of Birds" are protected by copyright and are not
displayed).
Others are Louis Agassiz Fuertes, R. Bruce Horsfall, Rex Brasher,
Chester A. Reed, Earnest Seton-Thompson, John L. Ridgeway, Edmund J. Sawyer and Frank C.
Hennessey. They, other illustrators and photographers are listed below along with
the books and authors they are associated with.
Books, Authors,
Illustrators, Photographers
Hnh Handy
Natural History
Ep Ernest
Protheroe, Religious Tract Society, 1909
Ap Animals of
the Past, Frederic A. Lucas, American Museum of Natural History, 1922
Crk Charles R.
Knight
Jmg J. M.
Gleeson
Ebs Miss E. B.
Seeley
Ea Extinct
Animals,
Erl E. Ray
Lankester, Henry Holt and Co., 1905
Em Extinct
Monsters, H.N. Hutchinson, 1917
Wpp W. P. Pycraft
Jg J. Green
Js Joseph Smit
Wrpp Water
Reptiles of the Past and Present,
Sww Samuel Wendell
Williston
Ovwl Our Vanishing
Wildlife, William T. Hornaday, Clark & Fritts, 1913
Wuy The
Wilderness of the Upper Yukon,
Charles Sheldon, 1919
Nnh The New
Natural History,J. Arthur Thomson, 1926
Mosa Men of the
Old Stone Age, Henry Fairfield Osborne,1916
Crk Charles R.
Knight
Esc Erwin S.
Christman
Dota Dragons of
the Air, H. G. Seeley, 1901
Ebs Miss E. B.
Seeley
Aotwyp
Animals of the World for Young People,
Crk Charles R.
Knight, 1908
Wal The World of
Animal Life, Fred Smith, Barse & Hopkins, ?
Lfm Louis
Fairfax Muckley
Hnh Handy
Natural History, Ernest Protheroe, Religious Tract Society, 1909
Lbb Rare,
Vanishing and Lost British Birds
Hg Henrick
Gronvold
Laow Living
Animals of the World
oa Ottomar
Anschutz
Anh The American
Natural History, William T. Hornaday, 1904
S Sanborn
Wls WL Steward
Cr Carl
Rungius
Pnhs Popular
Natural History, Henry Scherren,1907
Hs Henry
Scherren, Cassell and Co., 1907
Apnh Animals, A
Popular Natural History, Wallace Rice, Herbert S. Stone Co., 1901
Awm A. W. Mumford
eah Ellen A.
Holmes
fmw Frank M
Woodruff
cpnh Cassells
Popular Natural History,Cassell, Petter, Galpin, La Belle Sauvage Yard,
Ludgate Hill, Londong & NY
pnh Popular
Natural History, J.G. Wood, 1885, Illustrated by Wolf, Zwecker, Weir,
Coleman
sooc The Story of
Our Continent
nss N.S. Shaler,
Ginn & Co. 1899
csw Catalogue of
Seals and Whales in the British Museum
jeg John Edward
Gray, 1866
nab North
American Birds, Baird, Brewer, Ridgway
els Edwin L.
Sheppard
tblm Two Bird
Lovers in Mexico
cwb c. William
Beebe
bbb The British
Bird Book
elt E. L.
Turner
eaw E. A. Wallis
rbl R. B. Lodge
rf Riley
Fortune
nnl The New
Nature Library,
v8 American.
Food and Game Fishes, David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann, 1902,
Doubleday, Page, Co. 1916
cbh C. B. Hudson,
ahb A.H. Baldwin
usnm Bulletin 47
U.S. National Museum text drawings
fnma Fishes of
North and
Middle America
Evermann, Barton Warren, 1887-1901. An extensive amount of correspondence
concerns Evermann's monograph, "Fishes of North and Middle America,"
co-authored with David Starr Jordan. (U. S. N. M. Bulletin #47, 4 vols.,
1896-1900).
Aa American
Animals, Witmer Stone & William Everett Cram, 1916, Doubleday, Page &
Company
Ard A. Radclyffe
Dugmore
Nll Nature
Lovers Library
Mol Mammals of
Other Lands, 1917, Hoolock Gibbon hylobates hoolock, Netting Hill
ljw
Laurence J. Webster, Bird Friends, Gilbert H. Trafton, 1916,
Houghton Mifflin Co., cr 1916
ceh C E
Hamilton, Bird Friends, Gilbert H. Trafton, 1916, Houghton Mifflin
Co., cr 1916
jrs J R
Snow, Bird Friends, Gilbert H. Trafton, 1916, Houghton Mifflin
Co., cr 1916
aaa
Albert H. Pratt, Bird Friends, Gilbert H. Trafton, 1916, Houghton
Mifflin Co., cr 1916
nb Bird
Neighbors, Neltje Blanchan, 1904, Photographers: John Boyd, A.W.
Anthony
nb2 Bird
Neighbors, Neltje Blanchan, 1904, Photographers: John Boyd, A.W.
Anthony
nb3 Game
Birds, Birds that Hunt and are Hunted, Neltje Blanchan, 1905
tlh
Thos. L. Hankinson, Michigan Bird Life, Walter Bradford Barrows,
S. B., Michigan Ag College, 1912
thj Dr.
Thomas H. Jackson, Michigan Bird Life, Walter Bradford Barrows, S.
B., Michigan Ag College, 1912
ehb Wild
Bird Guests, Ernest Harold Baynes, 1915, E.P. Dutton & Company
ers
Elwin R. Sanborn, reprinted in The Importance of Bird Life
courtesy NY Zoological Society, G. Inness Hartley, 1922, The
Century Co
ovwl "Our
Vanishing Wild Life", reprinted in The Importance of Bird Life, G.
Inness Hartley, 1922, The Century Co
rm Enno
Meyer "Our Vanishing Wild Life", William T. Hornaday, Scribner's,
1913
bh
Bruce Horsfall, Birds of California, Irene Grosvenor Wheelock, A.C.
McClurg & Co., 1903
fc2 Bird
Studies with a Camera, Frank M. Chapman, 1900 D. Appleton & Co.
owtb Out
With The Birds, Hamilton M. Lang, 1913, Outing Publishing Co.
botr
Birds of the Rockies,
Leander s. Keyser, 1902, A.C. McClurg & Co.
car
Camera Studies of Wild Birds in their Homes, Chester A. Reed,
1911, Doubleday, Page & Co
hwm
Western Birds, Harriet Williams Myers, The Macmillan Co., 1922
hsp
Helen S. Pratt, Western Birds, Harriet Williams Myers, 1922
hsb The
Human Side of Birds, Royal Dixon, cr 1917, Frederick A. Stokes Co.
Illustrators
Ch F.C.
Hennessey, Birds of Eastern
Canada,
P. A. Taverner, 1922
Fsm Field
Book of Wild Birds and their Music, F. Schuyler Mathews, 1921
ab wdw
Allan Brooks, The Birds of Washington, William Leon Dawson,
Occidental Publishing, cr 1909
abbwc
Allan Brooks, Birds of Western Canada, P.A. Taverner, Canada
Department of Mines, 1926
abbc
Allan Brooks, Birds of Canada, P.A. Taverner, Canada Department of
Mines, 1934
fc95
Frank M. Chapman, Birds of Eastern North America, 1895, D Appleton
& Co
fc
Frank M. Chapman, Bird Life, D. Appleton & Company, 1920, cr 1897,
99, 1901 Drawings by Earnest Seton-Thompson
ca3
Chester A. Reed, Illustrator, Color Key to North American Birds,
Frank M. Chapman, D. Appleton & Co., 1912
carbb
Chester A. Reed, The Bird Book, 1914
jlr
John L. Ridgeway, Hawks and Owls of the United States, 1893
laf
Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Bird Friends, Gilbert H. Trafton, 1916,
Houghton Mifflin Co., cr 1916
laf ffb
Louis Agassiz Fuertes Birds of Field Forest and Park, Albert Field
Gilmore, 1919, The Page Co.
LAF
Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Key to North American Birds, Elliott Coues,
5th Edition, The Page Co. Publishers, 1872, 74,82,84, cr
82,84,87,03
Lafw Louis
Agassiz Fuertes, Handbook of Birds of the Western U.S. Florence
Merriam Bailey, 1902
laf50 50
Common Birds of Farm and Orchard, Louis Agassiz Fuertes
(illustrator), USDA Bulletin, Gov. Printing Office
rbh R.
Bruce Horsfall, Bird Friends, Gilbert H. Trafton, 1916, Houghton
Mifflin Co., cr 1916
rbh ywb
R. Bruce Horsfall, A Year with the Birds, Alice E. Ball, Gibbs &
Van Vleck, 1916
rbh bnc
Robert Bruce Horsfal, Birds of North Carolina, 1919, T. Gilbert
Pearson, C.S.Brimley & H.H.Brimley
bg
Robert Bruce Horsfall, Bird Gossip, Harriette Wilbur, 1920, George
W. Jacobs & Company
naas
National Association of Audubon Societies, republished in Birds
Worth Knowing, Neltje Blanchan, 1917, Published by Doubleday,
Doran for Nelson Doubleday
ne
Nests and Eggs of North American Birds, Oliver Davie, London
Press, 1898
nb4
Birds Worth Knowing, Neltje Blanchan, 1917
bhbc Bruce
Horsfall, Birds of California, Irene Grosvenor Wheelock, AC
McClurg & Co, 1903
hwm
Western Birds, Harriet Williams Myers, The Macmillan Co., 1922
hwb
Handbook of Western Birds, Florence Merriam Bailey, cr1902, Boston
& NY, 1914
tn
Birds of the United
States
and Canada, Thomas Nuttall, 1903
ejs
Edmund J. Sawyer, illustrator, What Bird is That?, Frank M.
Chapman, D. Appleton & Co
ec Key
to North American Birds, Elliott Coues, 5th Edition, The Page Co.
Publishers, 1872, 74,82,84, cr 82,84,87,03
Photographers
wr
Walter Raine, Nests & Eggs of North American Birds, Oliver Davie,
London Press, 1898
rd2 Wild
Life and the Camera, A. Radclyffe Dugmore, J.B. Lippincott Co.
1912
hgs
Birds of the Water, Wood & Waste (New Zealand), H. Guthrie-Smith,
Whitcome & Tombs, 1910
mcw Bird
Legend and Life, Margaret Coulson Walker, The Baker &Taylor Co.,
1908
hkj The
Sport of Bird Study, Herbert K. Job, A.L.Burt Co., 1908
WTH The
American Natural History, William T. Hornaday, Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1904
fek FE
Kelsey, Western Birds, Harriet Williams Myers, 1922
