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Subject Matter Featured in this Work (General/Partial Only, Please See Full Contents in Main Description Below): Living World J.W. Buel Illustrated Pictorial Natural History Wild Animals Wildlife Descriptions Stories Anecdotes Encounters Legends Superstitions Adventure Antique Engravings Color Plates Victorian Science Religion Creation Creationism Evolution Scripture Zoology Biology Geology Fortean Cryptid Cryptozoology Menagerie Mammals Birds Reptiles Freshwater Saltwater Fish Insects Bugs Prehistoric Creatures Dinosaurs Tigers Lions Man-Eating Man-eaters Animal Attacks Africa Ocean Sea Atlantic Pacific Arctic Polar Tropical Squid Octopus Kraken Sea Monster Trilobite Great White Shark Hammerhead Whales Orca Grampus Whaling Whale Hunting Fishery Narwhal Walrus Manatee Seals Crabs Swordfish Porpoise Dolphin Amphibians Bullfrog Frogs Toads Gecko Chameleon Lizards Monitor Gila Monster Crocodiles Alligators Snakes Poisonous Venomous Adders Boas Sea Snakes Cobra Python Rattlesnake Viper Turtles Snapping Turtle Spiders Scorpions Ants Beetles Butterflies Moths Avian Birds Nests Parrot Cockatoo Dove Swallows Pigeons Finch Partridge Quail Grouse Puffin Curlew Penguins Auk Sea Gulls Bald Eagle Vultures Birds of Prey Ostrich Bats Vampire Wombat Kangaroo Wolf Armadillo Porcupine Mice Rodents Hedgehog African Asiatic Elephant Mammoth Rhinoceros Wild Horse Zebra Boar Hippopotamus Camel Moose Deer Reindeer Hunters Hunting Big Game Otter Wolverine Antelope Bears Grizzly Brown Bear Polar Bear Wild Cats Lemur Monkeys Chimpanzee Orangutan Monkeys Baboons Gorilla Apes

THE LIVING WORLD: A Complete Natural History of the World’s Creatures. Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, Birds and Mammals. Founded Upon The Theory Of The Progression Of Species, And In Accordance With Genetic Revelation, Scriptural Truths, And The Harmony Of Nature. With Introduction Describing the Geological Ages, Changes in the Earths Crusts, Fossil Remains of Extinct Animals, and Monsters of the Ancient Seas. Replete With Anecdote, Incident And Adventure, Illustrative Of The Habits Of The Animals Described. Abounding with Thrilling Experiences, Wonderful Discovery, Exciting Episodes and Descriptions of the Marvellous Curiositiesof Nature in all parts of the Globe. By J.W. Buel. Published in 1889 by the National Library Association. 11” x 8” pictorial cloth hardcover decorated with gilt. “Embellished with Over 1200 Elegant Engravings Illustrating the Animals of the Earth in Their Natural Condition and Eight Magnificent Colored Plates.” 722 pages.

Condition: PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED - COLOR PLATES - GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Colorful and dramatic exterior as shown in photo. Rubbing/bumping at corners and spine ends, some rubbing of gilt, spine a bit darker than boards. Inner hinges cracked but holding okay. Text block secure. Pages are clean and complete, some small chips/edge tears here and there. Six color plates present; frontis and one other lacking. Beautiful book, highly collectible.

Description:

THE LIVING WORLD is a grand, marvelously-illustrated volume devoted to the animal kingdom – mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, insects and more. One of several lavishly illustrated works by 19th-century popular author J.W. Buel, THE LIVING WORLD features a magnificent pictorial binding, eight stunning full-page color plates, and more than 1200 “elegant engravings” to accompany the text.

In the pages of this literary menagerie, you’ll find descriptions of HUNDREDS of wild animals from across the globe – lions, tigers, elephants, rhinoceroses, monkeys, apes, giraffes, bears, wolves, hawks, songbirds, whales, dolphins, the fish of ocean and stream, snakes, frogs, insects and more. It is a complete Victorian natural history, written and illustrated with the best available scientific information of the day.

This hard-to-find book also contains many amazing anecdotes of these animals and their curious habits and lifestyles, along with thrilling (and occasionally spurious) accounts of perilous encounters between man and beast in the wild. The author J.W. Buel had a great love of the sensational. He wrote books about Jesse James, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, African explorer Henry Morton Stanley and other exciting subjects. He knew how to excite people, how to pique the public’s imagination. You can see that quality in all of his books, including THE LIVING WORLD. In these pages you’ll find pictures and stories of man-eating wild animals, killer crabs, hunters attacked by their wild prey, impossibly huge fish and birds, cavemen attacking dinosaurs … even an eagle from the Alps that reportedly swooped down and flew off with a young French girl in the 19th century.

Not to be missed, this scarce and beautiful copy of THE LIVING WORLD will delight the eye and inflame the imagination of whomever is lucky enough to own it.

To give you a better idea of what you’ll find in THE LIVING WORLD, I have furnished some helpful details below, starting with a thorough summary of the Contents. Further down the page, you can see many of the gorgeous illustrations from the book.

I hope you’ll take a moment to have a look.

Contents Are:

Introduction

PART I – INVERTEBRATES:

The Birth of Species
Fossils of Extinct Animals
How New Forms Came into Existence
MOLLUSKS: Teredo * Lithophytes * Corals * Argonauta * Nautilus * Cephalopods * Cuttle Fish * Giant Octopus * Decapoda * Stories about the Octopus * Squids * Snails * Mussels * Starfish * Urchins * Jellyfish

Crustacea: Barnacles * Sand Fleas * Shrimps * Fish Lice * Prawns * Crawfish * Lobsters * Crabs

PART II - FISHES:

Wonders of Creation
Organism of the Fish

NEST-BUILDING FISHES: Sticklebacks * Toad Fish * Frog Fish * Rock Fish * Sun Fish * White Fish * Piraya * Lampreys * Apodes – Eels * Mud-whipper * Flying Fish * Flying Gunards * Lancet Fish * Slime Fish * Northern Sea Cat * Angler or Frog Fish

SHARKS: Stories About Sharks * Great Pilgrim Shark * Nurse Shark * Mackerel Shark * Basking Shark * Thresher Shark * Sea-bound Shark * Blue Shark * Swell Shark * Cat Shark * Tiger Shark * Monk Fish * Adventures with Sharks * Cow Shark * Eel Shark * Spiny Shark * Sleeper Shark * Remora * Dog Fish

THE RAYS: Bordered Ray * Thornback Ray * Clear-nosed Ray * Electric Ray * Stingray * Whip Ray * Balloon Fish * Swell Fish * Saw Fish * Adventures with Saw fish * Skates * Globe Fish * Sturgeon * Sterlet * Pikes * Gars * Pelican Fish * Catfishes * Eel Pout * Sheat Fish * Cup-bearers * Gymnarchus * Carp * Gudgeon * Sea Barbel * Suckers * Swordfish * Sailor Sword Fish * Stories about Swordfish * Herring * Sprat * Smelt * Grayling * White Fish * Trout * Salmon * Pickerel * Muscalogue * Saw Perch * Sea Devil * Blue Fish * Pompano * Moon Fish * Mackerel * Bonito * Dolphin * Thread Fish * King Herring * Fly-shooter * Porgy * Coral Fish * Surgeon Fish * Eagle Fish * Weak Fish * Red Fish * Sheepshead * Drum Fish * Red Snapper * Bass * Ocean Sun Fish * Perch * Parrot Fishes * Lump Fish * Lump Sucker * Climbing Perch * Fighting Fish * Mullet * Sculpin * Sea Raven * Growling Cock * Swallow Fish * Great Weaver * Ocean Butterfly * Oar Fish * Codfish * Haddock * Pollock * Whiting * Hake * Halibut * Turbot * Plaice * Trunk Fish * Flounder * Tobacco Pipe * Snipe Fish * Sea Horse * Globe Fish * Scaly Salamander * Eyed Pteraclis

MAMMALIA OF THE SEA: Cetacea * Sea Unicorn * Stories of the Narwhal * Porpoises * Dolphins * Stories about Dolphins * Sperm Whales * Pursuit of Sperm Whale * Rorqual * Stories about Whales * Whalebone * Various Species of Whales * How Whale is Hunted * The Whale Fishery * Adventures with Whales * The Serenia * Manatees * Dugong * Walrus * Stories about the Walrus * The Seal * Various Species of Seal

PART III - REPTILES:

Characteristics of Reptiles

FROGS: Metamorphosis of Frogs * Bellow of the Frog * How Frogs Kill Fishes * A Singular Story * Bull Frog * Tree Frog * Pond Frog * Flying Frog * Nurse Frog * Solitary Frog

TOADS: Banded Toad * Surinam Toad * Garden Toad * Horned Toad

LIZARDS: Peculiarities of Lizards * Flying Gecko * Flying Dragon * The Chameleon * Iguana * Hunting the Iguana * Various Species * Monitors * Hedge Lizards * Metallic Lizard * Pale Snake Lizard * Amphisboena * Seps Chalcidica * Wallowing Worm * Blind or Slow Worm * Grotto Proteus * Curiosities of the Proteus * The Basilisk * Stories of the Basilisk * Frilled Lizard * Water Dog * Capturing the Creature * Green Lizard * Spotted Lizard * Waran Lizard * Debb Lizard * The Axolotl * Mud Eel * Giant Salamander * Gila Monster * Experiments with Gila Monsters

CROCODILES: Saurians of the Ancient World * The Ichthyosauri * The Plesiosaurus * The Megalosaurus * The Pterodactyl * The Teleosaurus * The Dicynodon * The Belodon * The Crocodile * Its Former Sacredness * Double-crested Crocodile * Its Former Sacredness * Double Crested Crocodile * Marsh Crocodile * Margined Crocodile * Gavial * Alligator * Sacrifices to the Gavial * Adventures with Crocodiles * Battle with Crocodiles * Tiger and Crocodile * Hunting the Crocodile * How Crocodiles Breed

OPHIDIA – SNAKES: The Snake Families * Organism of the Snake * Monster Serpents of the Ancient World * Process of Swallowing * How Snakes Protect their Young * Snake Swallowing a Fish * Moccasins * Water Moccasin * Black Moccasin * Swamp Moccasin * Chittal Sea Snake * Yellow Sea Snake * Eyed Sea Snake * Coral Snake * Wart Snake * Anaconda * Stories about Anacondas * Boa Constrictor * African Rock Snake * Carpet Snake * Ringed Boa * Dog Headed Boa * Boigacu * How the Boa kills its prey * Exciting Stories of the Boa * Poisonous Reptiles * Cobra de Capello * A Strange Superstition * Effects of Music On Snakes * The Hamadryas * African Spitting Snake * Rattlesnakes * Diamond Rattlesnakes * Banded Rattlesnakes * Horned Rattlesnakes * Prairie Rattlesnakes * Massassauga Rattlesnakes * Ground Rattlesnakes * Fer De Lance * The Copperhead * Vipers or Adders * Common Viper * India Viper * African Puff Adder * Killing an Adder * River Jack * Horned Viper * The Asp * Harmless Snakes * Spreading Adder * Glass Snake * Bull Snake * Blacksnake * King Snake * King Snake * Chicken Snake * Corn Snake * House Snake * Ground Snake

TORTOISES: Organism of Tortoises * Pre-Adamite Turtles * Characteristics of Tortoises * Lettered Tortoise * Chicken Tortoise * Salt Water Tortoise * Box Tortoise * Anecdotes of Tortoises * Wood Tortoise * Elegant Tortoise * Speckled Tortoise * Painted Tortoise * Salt Marsh Tortoise * Yellow Bellied Tortoise * Alligator Tortoise * Snake Tortoise * Soft Shell Tortoise * Matamata * Hawk’s-bill Turtle * Tortoise Shell of Commerce * Green Turtle * How the Green Turtle is Captured * Greek Turtle

PART IV – INSECT LIFE:

Creatures of Flowers and the Forests * Peculiarities of Insects * Adaptability to Conditions * Myriapoda * Pamopida * Centipedes * Earwigs * Singular Flies * Scorpion

SPIDERS: Mason Spider * Crooked Legged Spider * Water Spider * Bird Spider * Marginated Spider * Crab Spider * Wall Spider * Ribbon-linked Spider * Tarantula * Skin Spider * Black Spider * Harlequin Spider * Beetle Spider * Stone-dwelling Spider

OTHER INSECTS: Tongue Worm * Dragonfly * Little Devils of Geoffroy * Ant Lion * Orthoptera * Mantidae * May Flies * Locustidae * Walking Sticks * Grasshopper * Migrating Locusts * Crickets * Candle Fly * Coleoptera * Potato Bug * Beetles * Corn Weevil * May-bug * Diptera * Mosquito * House fly * Sheep-tick * Tsetse Fly * Flea * Butterflies * Moths * Silk-worm * Twelve-feathered Moth * Hop Spinner Moth * Oak Leaf Moth

ANTS AND BEES: Singular Habits of Ants * Anecdotes of Ants * Termite Ants * Bees * Sstories of the Honey Bee * Wasps

PART V – BIRDS:

Connection between Birds and Reptiles * Evolution of one from another * Connecting Link * How Birds Sail in the Air * Structure of the Bird

HUMMINGBIRDS: Ruby Throat Hummingbird * Anecdotes of Hummingbirds * Sword-bill Hummingbird * Flag-tailed Sylph * Crimson Topaz Hummingbird * Topaz Hummingbird * Trailing Sylph * Brilliant Elf Hummingbird * Spangled Coquette * Horned Hummer * Sparkling Tail * Conver’s Thorntail Hummingbird * Flame-bearer Hummingbird * Black Warrior Hummingbird * Avocet Hummingbird * Sickle Bill Hummingbird * Puff-leg Hummingbird * Racket-tail Hummingbird * Star Throat Hummingbird * White Cap Hummingbird * Sun Angel Hummingbird

BIRDS OF PARADISE: Bold Honey-sucker * Widdah Bird * Paradise Widow * Lyre Bird * Bird of the Gods * Superb Bird * Red Bird of Paradise * Spotted Bower Bird * King Bird of Paradise * Radiant Crown * Bright Wing * Schlegel’s Bird

PARROTS: Parakeets * Warbling Parakeet * Blue banded Parakeet * Sealy Breasted Parakeet * Ground Parakeet * Ringed Parakeet * Yellow-bellied Parakeet * Rose Hill Parakeet * Grey Parrot * Amusing Stories of Parrots * Hyacinth Parrot * Rose Parrot * Amazon Green Parrot * Pigmy Parrot * Carolina Parrot * Ring Parrot * Blue-crowned Parrot * Owl Parrot * The Loris * Purple Capped Lory * The Macaws * Blue and Yellow Macaw * Great Green Macaw * Scarlet Macaw * Cockatoos * Ruffle Necked Cockatoo * Pink Cockatoo * Kea Cockatoo * Banksian Cockatoo * Sulphur-crested Cockatoo * Great White Cockatoo * Great Black Cockatoo * Toucans * Hornbills * Cuckoos * Stories of Cuckoos * Giant Cuckoo * Ant-eating Cuckoo * Chaparal Cock * The Hoopoe * Goat-suckers * Stories about Goat-suckers * Swallows * Esculent Swallow * How Nests are Gathered * Swifts

DOVES: Bronze-wing Dove * Turtledove * Crested Dove * The Dodo * Wonga * Maned Dove * Crowned Dove * Rock Dove * Ringed Dove * Parrot Dove

PIGEONS: Top Knot Pigeon * Toothed Pigeon * Passenger Pigeon * Stories about Carrier Pigeons

BURROWING BIRDS: Kingfisher * Laughing Jackass * Ternate Kingfisher * Belted Kingfisher * Anecdotes of Kingfishers * Jacamars * Bee Eaters * Puffin * Stories of the Puffin * Jackdaw * Stormy Petrel * Nesting habits of the Petrel * Woodpeckers * Blue Bird * Bell Bird * Rollers * Singular notes of Bell Bird

SINGING BIRDS: The Starling * Crossbill * Bullfinch * Grosbeak * Chaffinch * Goldfinch * Girlitz * Magpie * Blackbird * Red shouldered Bird * Cowbird * Catbird * Nightingale * Brown Thrush * Mockingbird * Baltimore Oriole * Stories about the Oriole * Wall-creeper * Nutcracker * Blue Jay * Finches * Titmice * House Wren * Shrikes * Butcher Bird * Indigo Blue Bird * Cedar Bird * Dotted Flysnapper * Robin Redbreast * Garden Red-tail * Ground Robin * Ortolan * Wagtails * Larks * Stories about Larks * Pipits * Sparrows * English Sparrow * Snow Bird * Song Warblers * Hedge Accenter * Rice Bird or Bob-o-link

STRANGE NEST-BUILDING BIRDS: Parti colored Wren * Australian Jungle Fowl * Its wonderful nest * Brush Turkey * The Oven Bird * Pied Grallina * Black-Headed Synalaxis * Weaver Birds * Australian Trappe * Singular Weaver Birds * Tailor Bird * Singular Birds’ Nests * Satin Bower Bird

GALLINACEOUS BIRDS: Hokko Hen * Pheasants * Argus Pheasants * Shining Pheasants * American Pheasants * English Partridge * Quails * Grouse * Great Bustard * Little Bustard * Wild Turkey

WADING BIRDS: Flamingo * Cranes * Herons * Sun Bittern * Jacana * Horned Screamer * Storks * Stories about Storks * Whale-headed Storks * Boat-bill Storks * Spoonbill * Adjutant * Marvelous Voracity * Jabira * Ibises * Curlew * Godwit * Jacksnipe * Woodcock * Ruff * Spoon-bill Snipe * Golden Plover * Kildeer Plover * Oyster Catcher * Pebble Turner * Irish Sanderling * Marsh Swallow * Scabbard Bill * Seriema * Sultan Hen * Shade Bird * The Rail

SWIMMING BIRDS: Geese * Swans * Laws relating to Swans * Cormorant * How used for fishing * Water Hen * Ducks * Grebes * Crested Gorfou * Arctic Parrot * Great Auk * Razor Bill * Little Auk * Penguins * Pelicans * Stories of the Pelican * Tropic bird * Booby * Darter * Sea Swallow * Scissors-bill Gull * Gulls or Terns * Wandering Albatross * Stormy Petrels

BIRDS OF PREY: Owls * Secretary Bird * Hawks * Falconry and Falcons * Kites * Buzzards * Eagles * Stories of Eagles * Vultures and Condors * Stories of the Condor * Turkey Buzzard

OSTRICH FAMILY: Connection between Birds and Mammals * The Extinct Dinornis * Wingless Birds * Wonders of the Ostrich * Stories about the Ostrich * The Emu * How the Emu is Hunted * Rhea * Hunting the Rhea * The Cassowary * The Mooruk

BATS: Metamorphosis of Birds to Mammals * Bats in Superstition * Singular Habits of Bats * Species of Bats * Fruit Eaters * Horseshoe Bat * Lyre Bat * Red Bat * Long-eared Bat * Long-winged Bat * Collar Bat * Hare Bat * Rose-leafed Bat * Vampire Bat * Kalong Bat * Egyptian Bat * Tongue-using Bat * Wart-lipped Bat * Tailless Vampire * Pouched Bat * Hammer-head Bat * Armor-bearing Bat * Mexican Bat * Nyctiname * Colugo Bat

PART VI – MAMMALS:

A Review of the Theory of Development
The Marvellous Adaptation of Species

MONOTREMES: Duck-billed Platypus * Porcupine Ant-eater * Peculiarities of Ant-eaters * Eccentricities of Nature * Egg-laying Mammals

MARSUPIALS: Extinct species of Pouched Animals * Opossums * Wombats * Phalangers * Australian Bear * Spotted Cuscus * Flying Mammals * Bandicoots * Kangaroos * Wallabee * Anteaters * Tasmanian Devil * Zebra Wolf * Edentates * Armadillos * Sloths * The wonderful Ai * Stories about Sloths * The Great Ant-eater * Singular Aardvark * The Armored Manis

RODENTS: Observations about Rodents * Hares * Conies and Rabbits * Pikas * Squirrels * Facts about Squirrels * Flying Squirrels * Wood-chucks * Prairie Dogs * Beavers * Facts about Beavers * Porcupines and Rodents * Capybara and Cavies * Guinea Pig * Paca and Agoutis * Porcupines * How Porcupines fight * Bisacha * Chinchillas * Gopher * Jerboas and Dormouse * Stories of Dormouse * Rats * Lemmings * Mice and Voles * Musk Rat * Hamsters * Dwellings of Hamsters * Jerbillies * Rats’ Curious Habits * Tuko and Jumping Hare

INSECTIVORA: Wonders of Mole Life * Agoutis and Shrews * Hedgehogs * Gymnura and Colungo

CETACEANS: Whales * Grampuses * Dolphins * Porpoises * Coryphenes

ELEPHANTS AND MAMMOTHS: Alaskan Mammoth * Siberian Mammoth * Asiatic Mastodon * Indian Elephant * Ceylon Elephant * Sumatran Elephant * Siamese Elephant * Sacred White Elephant * Capturing Elephants * Elephants of History * The African Elephant * Motherly Affection of the Elephant * Thrilling Adventures * Stories of the Elephant * Elephants at Labor * Conies * Damans * Toxodons * The Tapir

RHINOCEROSES: White Rhinoceros * Keitloa Rhinoceros * Bornean Rhino * Indian Rhino * Javan Rhino * Rhinaster * Singular provisions * Trapping Rhinoceros * Exciting adventures * A Rhinoceros Ride * A furious spectacle * Savage Battles * Ferocity of Rhinoceros * Hippopotamus * Adventures with Hippopotamus

EQUINES: Tarpan or Wild Horse * Surprising Adaptation * The Wild Horse * The Wild Ass * The Quagga * The Daw and Zebra

WILD SWINE: Wild Swine * An Ancient Boar Hunt * African Bush Hog * How Bush-hog is Hunted * The Babyrousa * The Vlacke Vark * The Peccary

UNGULATES: Camels * Wonderful Adaptation * Bactrian Camel * Dromedary * Stories about Camels * Guanaco and Llama * Vicuna and Alpaca * The Deer Family * The Giraffe * Auroch * Buffalo * Indian Zebu * Yak and Saiga * Adventures with the Buffalo * Musk Ox * Elands * Antelopes * Gazelle * Saiga * Bok * Gnu * Adventures with Gnus * Sheep * Sheep and Goats * Ibex * Coons * Coati and Potto * Panda * Bears * Hibernating Bears * Anecdotes of Bears * Adventures with Bears * Sea Otter * Weasel * Badger * Polecat and Mink * Wolverine * Glutton * Ferret and Weasel * Ermine and Skunk * Marten and Sable * Foxes * Jackals * Wolves * Stories about Wolves * Wild Dogs * Adventures with Wild Dogs * Dingo * Indian Dhole * Hyenas * Stories about Hyenas * Civets and Weasels * Mongoose and Ichneumon * Lions * Stories about Lions * Thrilling Adventures * Tigers * Hunting Tigers * Man-eating Tiger * Leopard * The Ingwe * Adventures with Ingwe * Cheetah * Jaguar * Adventures with Jaguar * How Jaguar Hunts * The Puma * Stories about Puma * Serval or Tiger Cat * Ocelot * Tortoise Shell Tiger * Wild Cat * Lynx

PRIMATES: Difference between Man and Monkey * Anthropoids * Lemur * Loris * Galagos * Tarsir * Aye-Aye * Marmoset * Lion Monkey * Night Monkey * Sakis * Death’s Head Monkey * Bearded Cuxio * Paronacus * Howling Monkeys * Spider Monkey * Charnek * Mandrill * Drill and Gelada * Baboon * Macaque * Stories about Bunder Monkeys * Proboscis Monkey * Stories of the Hoonuman * Gibbon * Apes * Orangutan * Adventures with Orangutans * Hunting the Orangutan * Chimpanzees * Stories of the Chimpanzee * The Gorilla * Stories about Gorillas * Adventures with the Gorilla * Cunning of Monkeys * The Story of Man

Remember folks, this is an 1889 original. This book is 136 years old.

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