The above images come from very real books in our Archives and Rare Books Collection on B1 of the library. These are also the books that are being featured with the specimens at the VMNH as part of the From Curiosity to Codex display.
- The animal kingdom, arranged according to its organization, serving as a foundation for the natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy.Publication Date: 1834-37Specifically, this one is Volume 2 Reptiles. Fishes Plates
There are a total of four volumes in this series (v. 1. Mammalia. Birds.--v. 2 Reptiles. Fishes.--v. 3 Mollusca. Annelidea. Crustaces. Arachnides and Insecta.--v. 4. Insecta. Zoophytes.) With the accompanying plate books. - Brehm's illustriertes Thierleben fur Volk und Schule byPublication Date: 1873This is another multi-volume work and is in German.
- Animate creation; popular edition of "Our living world" a natural history, by J. G. Wood. Revised and adapted to American zoology byPublication Date: c1885While the online catalog only mentions volumes one and two, we do however have all three volumes of this title.
- Popular Zoology byPublication Date: c1887
- The Riverside natural history byPublication Date: c1888Illustrated by more than twenty-two hundred woodcuts in the text, one hundred and sixty-eight full-page engravings, and twelve plates in color.
- Animal Puppetry byPublication Date: 1948This book while not featured in the physical display, does have images included in the gallery above. While not a natural history book, it does offer a unique perspective on how animals are viewed and displayed in other art forms.