Extinct animals
Here are entered works on species or groups of animals that no longer exist anywhere or that have become extinct in a particular area, but not throughout their entire range.
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Broader term:Related term:Narrower terms:- Extinct animals -- Juvenile literature
- Extinct animals -- Miscellanea
- Extinct animals -- Pennsylvania
- Extinct vertebrates
- Extirpated animals
- Extirpated species
- Locally extinct animals
- Locally extinct species
- Lists of extinct species
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Giants of Land, Sea and Air, Past and Present (with descriptions of other books; c1986), by David Peters (PDF files with commentary at davidpetersstudio.com)
- Extinct Pennsylvania Animals (2 volumes; Altoona, PA: Altoona Tribune Pub. Co., 1917-1919), by Henry W. Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
- Extinct Birds: An Attempt To Unite in One Volume a Short Account of Those Birds Which Have Become Extinct In Historical Times, That is, Within the Last Six or Seven Hundred Years; To Which are Added a Few Which Still Exist, But Are on the Verge of Extinction (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1907), by Lionel Walter Rothschild (page images at Wisconsin)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Extinction (Biology)- Death of the PostHuman ("Essays on Extinction v1"; Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), by Claire Colebrook (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
- Papers Presented to New Developments Regarding the KT Event and Other Catastrophes in Earth History: February 9-12, 1994, Houston, Texas (Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1994) (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)
- Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere (Washington: Joseph Henry Press, c2006), by Peter D. Ward (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)
- Calamity Theory: Three Critiques of Existential Risk (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2021), by Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods
- Among the Forest People (New York: E. P. Dutton, c1898), by Clara Dillingham Pierson, illust. by F. C. Gordon
- Among the Meadow People (New York: E. P. Dutton, c1901), by Clara Dillingham Pierson, illust. by F. C. Gordon
- Among the Pond People (New York: E. P. Dutton, c1901), by Clara Dillingham Pierson, illust. by F. C. Gordon
- Barks and Purrs, by Colette, trans. by Maire Monica Kelly (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Beasts of the Field, by William J. Long (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- Chapters on Animals (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1874), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton, illust. by Jules Jacques Veyrassat and Karl Bodmer
- Live Toys: or, Anecdotes of Our Four-Legged and Other Pets (London: Griffith and Farran, 1862), by Emma Davenport, illust. by Harrison Weir
- Lobo, Rag, and Vixen, by Ernest Thompson Seton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Queer Little Folks (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1897), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Wild Animals I Have Known, by Ernest Thompson Seton (Gutenberg text)
- Wild Animals I Have Known, and 200 Drawings (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1898), by Ernest Thompson Seton (HTML at LOC)
- Wild Animals I Have Known, and 200 Drawings (Toronto: G.N. Morang, 1899), by Ernest Thompson Seton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- My Animal Babies (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1945), by Belle J. Benchley (page images at HathiTrust)
- School of the Woods: Some Life Studies of Animal Instincts and Animal Training (Boston: Ginn and Company, c1902), by William J. Long, illust. by Charles Copeland (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- The Soul of a Cat, And Other Stories (London: W. Heinemann, 1901), by Margaret Benson, illust. by Henriette Ronner
- Wood Folk at School (Boston et al: Ginn and Co., c1903), by William J. Long (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- In an Elephant Corral, and Other Tales of West African Experiences (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1912), by Robert Hamill Nassau
- Wild Animals at Home (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), by Ernest Thompson Seton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- Synopsis of the Classification of the Animal Kingdom (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882), by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On the Systematic Position of the Brachiopoda (Boston: Press of A. A. Kingman, 1873), by Edward Sylvester Morse (page images at HathiTrust)
- Friends and Helpers (1899), ed. by Sarah J. Eddy (Gutenberg text)
- The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1907), by Charles G. D. Roberts, illust. by Charles Livingston Bull (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The House in the Water: A Book of Animal Stories (Boston: The Page Co., c1908), by Charles G. D. Roberts, illust. by Charles Livingston Bull and Frank Vining Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Katooticut (New York: R. H. Russell, 1899), by Charles Frederick Carter, illust. by J. M. Condé (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kings in Exile (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by Charles G. D. Roberts (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Rebelllion of the Beasts: or, The Ass is Dead! Long Live the Ass!!! (attributed to Hunt, dedication signed by "John Pimplico"; London: J. and L. Hunt, 1825), contrib. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1906), by Henry Wallace Phillips, contrib. by Eugene Manlove Rhodes, illust. by A. B. Frost, Martin Justice, Adrien Claude Mattefert, and Will Crawford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation ("Booklovers edition"; New York: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, ca. 1922), by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by Oliver Herford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Watchers of the Trails: A Book of Animal Life (New York: A. Wessels Co., 1904), by Charles G. D. Roberts, illust. by Charles Livingston Bull
- Wild Animals at Home (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), by Ernest Thompson Seton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Wild Heart (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1922), by Emma-Lindsay Squier, contrib. by Gene Stratton-Porter, illust. by Paul Bransom
- Earth's Enigmas: A Volume of Stories (Boston and New York: Lamson, Wolffe, 1896), by Charles G. D. Roberts
- Public and Private Life of Animals: Adapted From the French of Balzac, Droz, Jules Janin, E. Lemoine, A. de Musset, Georges Sand, &c. (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1877), ed. by J. Thomson, contrib. by P.-J. Stahl, illust. by J. J. Grandville (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit (New York: F. A. Stokes, c1907), by Joel Chandler Harris (multiple formats at Google)
- Uncle Remus and His Friends: Old Plantation Stories, Songs, and Ballads, With Sketches of Negro Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., c1892), by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
- Uncle Remus and His Friends: Old Plantation Stories, Songs, and Ballads, With Sketches of Negro Character ("Booklovers edition"; New York: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, ca. 1922), by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
- Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings, by Joel Chandler Harris (Gutenberg text)
- Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings ("Booklovers edition"; New York: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, ca. 1922), by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
- Winnie-the-Pooh (219th printing; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1961), by A. A. Milne, illust. by Ernest H. Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Winnie-the-Pooh (5th printing; Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1931), by A. A. Milne, illust. by Ernest H. Shepard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Winnie-the-Pooh (large paper limited signed edition; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1926), by A. A. Milne, illust. by Ernest H. Shepard (page images at Princeton)
- Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation ("Booklovers edition"; New York: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, ca. 1922), by Joel Chandler Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
- Among the Night People (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, c1902), by Clara Dillingham Pierson, illust. by F. C. Gordon
- Curious Creatures in Zoology (London: John C. Nimmo, 1890), by John Ashton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ein Märchen von der Thiersprache, Quelle und Verbreitung (extract from "Orient und Occident", in German; 1864), by Theodor Benfey (page images at HathiTrust)
- Un-Natural History, or Myths of Ancient Science (based on the 1886 edition), ed. by Edmund Goldsmid (PDF at Wayback Machine)
- Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales (Boston: R. G. Badger, c1912), by Robert Hamill Nassau
- The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1900), by Abbie Farwell Brown, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory
- Chapters on Animals (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1874), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton, illust. by Jules Jacques Veyrassat and Karl Bodmer
- South American Jungle Tales (New York: Duffield and Co., 1922), by Horacio Quiroga, trans. by Arthur Livingston, illust. by Aiden Lassell Ripley
- Beast and Man in India: A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in Their Relations With the People (second edition; London and New York: Macmillan, 1904), by John Lockwood Kipling
- The Book of Nature Myths (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1902), by Florence Holbrook
- Dragons and Dragon Lore, by Ernest Ingersoll (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Morall Philosophie of Doni, Drawne Out of the Auncient Writers (aka the Fables of Bidpai, based on the Panchatantra; London: H. Denham, ca. 1570), ed. by Anton Francesco Doni, trans. by Thomas North (HML at EEBO TCP)
- Sea Monsters Unmasked (London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1883), by Henry Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
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