Darwinism Illustrated: wood-engravings explanatory of the theory of evolution, selected and drawn under the direction of Prof. George J. Romanes. Chicago: Open Court, 1892.
AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY
Biology and Evolution.
☛A page of Cryptozoology deals with the biology of the unicorn and similarly doubtful beasts.
☛This category overlaps with Paleontology.
De animalibus insectis libri septem, cum singulorum iconibus ad viuum expressis. Autore Ulysse Aldrovando. Bonon. apud Ioan Bapt. Bellagambam, 1602. Includes some very good engravings of bugs.
Caroli Clusii Atrebatis, Aulae Caesarae quondam Familiaris, Exoticorum libri decem: quibus animalium, plantarum, aromatum, aliorum que peregrinorum fructuum historiae describuntur: Iitem Petri Bellonii observatione, eodem Carolo Clusio interprete. Series totius operis post praefationem indicabitur. Ex Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1605. —Numerous very accurate engravings seem to have been made from actual specimens of the animals and plants depicted.
The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes. Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in theircreation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day. By Edward Topsell. London, Printed by William Iaggard, 1607. —“Largely a translation of book 1 of Gesner’s Historia animalium, with additions by Topsell,” quoth the librarian. Numerous cuts, and includes some mythological beasts such as the unicorn, which of course exists because it is mentioned by David.
Diversæ insectarum volatilium icones ad vivum accuratißimè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem D. I. Hoefnagel. Typisque mandatæ a Nicolao Ioannis Vißcher. [Amsterdam:] Anno 1630. —Beautiful engravings of hundreds of different insects and arachnids, scanned at high resolution from a well-preserved copy.
Johannis Sperlingi Witteb. quondam phys. P. P. celeberrimi, Zoologia physica posth. brevi & perspicuo ordine, ab ipso, cùm in vivis esset, autore adornata… Accessit in fine, disputationum zoolog. hexas, De Basilisco, Unicornu, Phoenice, Behemoth & Leviathan, Dracone ac Araneâ, M. Georgi Casp. Kirchmaieri, Franci, Facult. Philof. Witteb. Adjuncti. Lipsiae: Impensis Haeredum Joh. Bergeri, Lityeria Baueruanis, 1661.
The History of Brutes; or, a Description of Living Creatures. By Wolfgangus Franzius, D. D. And now rendered into English, by N.W. London: Francis Haley, 1670.
Darwinism Illustrated: wood-engravings explanatory of the theory of evolution, selected and drawn under the direction of Prof. George J. Romanes. Chicago: Open Court, 1892.