Gallery of extinct species

The ZSL Library contains an extensive collection of literature concerning animals and their conservation. Many of these publications contain amazing illustrations, this is just a very small selection of images of extinct species from some of the printed books and art works in ZSL Library. The dodo image is depicted in an oil painting displayed in the ZSL Library.

All pre-1860 books are listed in the Library online catalogue . Our art works are in the process of being catalogued with funding from the Michael Marks Trust whilst as bequest is funding the cataloguing of other books in the Library.

1950 Bolivia-Peru border. Histoire naturelle des poissons, par le baron Cuvier. Paris : Levrault, Volume 18, 18351876 Falkland Islands. Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes: a monograph of the Canidae, by St. George Mivart; with woodcuts, and 45 coloured plates drawn from nature by J.G. Keulemans and hand-coloured. London : Porter, 1890.1933 Tasmania. The mammals of Australia, by John Gould. London : published by the author, Volume 1, [1845-]63.'Hippotrigis Quacha' extinct Quagga, Equus quagga by Charles Hamilton Smith (1776-1859), from the Coulton portfilio: drawings of vertebrate animals for the collection of Charles Hamilton Smith.Taken from ' The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects and plants... together with their descriptions in English and French' by Mark Catesby. The species itself is now extinct.North America.The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects and plants... together with their descriptions in English and French... by Mark Catesby. London : printed at the expense of the author, 1731-43A dodo and a Guinea Pig, from A natural history of uncommon birds, and of some other rare and undescribed animals Vol.2, by George Edwards, 1743-76.A pair of Pink-headed ducks in Henry Jones Watercolours, Anatidae Vol.1. circa 1920.Pink headed ducks became extinct circa 1942