RARE MARINE MAMMAL BOOKS AVAILABLE
¡VIVAVaquita! (a non-profit organization) has hundreds of marine mammal books,
reprints, monographs, and journals that are available for a donation to the
organiation. All funds raised will be
actively used for research and conservation work on the vaquita (Phocoena sinus), the world’s most
endangered marine mammal species. The global
population of this species now numbers less than 22 individuals and is nearing
extinction. Visit our website at www.vivavaquita.org for more details.
Below is a
sample of some of the rarer items we have price listed is suggested donation),
but there are many, many more and suggested donation amounts range from US$1-150. For a a list of additional books available
(and photos), check this link: http://www.vivavaquita.org/assets/vv-bookstore2.pdf. For more info, or to request books, please
contact Tom Jefferson at sclymene@aol.com.
Beddard, F. E. 1900. A Book of Whales. G. P. Putnam's Sons. HC.
$20.
Flower, W. H. 1866. Recent Memoirs on the Cetacea by
Professors Eschricht, Reinhardt and Lilljeborg. 312 pp. + plates. Ray Society,
London. HC later bound in buckram. $100.
Goode, G. B. 1884, 1887. The Fisheries and Fishery Industries
of the United States (section on marine mammals and fisheries). Government
Printing Office. HC. $85.
Hawley, F. 1958. Whales and Whaling in Japan (separate of
whaling section). Kyoto. HC. $65.
Kleinenberg, S. E., A. V. Yablokov, B. M. Belkovich and M.
N. Tarasevich. 1964. Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas): Investigation of the
Species. Israel Program for Scientific Translations. HC.
$20.
Lamont, J. 1861. Seasons with the Sea-Horses; or, Sporting
Adventures in the Northern Seas. Harper and Brothers. HC.
$10.
Mchedlidze, G. A. 1986. General Features of the
Paleobiological Evolution of Cetacea. A.A. Balkema. HC.
$18.
Mitchell, E. D. 1975. Porpoise, dolphin and small whale
fisheries of the world. IUCN Monograph 3:129 pp. PB.
$6.
Mitchell, E. 1975. Review of biology and fisheries for
smaller cetaceans. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 365 pp. (Special
issue on small cetaceans). PB. $10.
Norris, K. S. 1966. Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises. 789 pp.
University of California Press, Berkeley.
HC. First edition ($40), reprint
edition ($30).
Ridgway, S. H. 1972. Mammals of the Sea: Biology and
Medicine. 812 pp. Charles C. Thomas.
HC. $110.
Ridgway, S. H. and R. Harrison. 1994. Handbook of Marine
Mammals, Vol. 5: The First Book of Dolphins. 416 pp. Academic Press. HC.
$100.
Scammon, C. M. 1874 (1969). The Marine Mammals of the
Northwestern Coast of North America Together with an Account of the American
Whale-Fishery. Manessier Publishing Co. (reprint edition). HC. $95.
Scheffer, V. B. and J. W. Slipp. 1948. The whales and
dolphins of Washington State, with a key to the cetaceans of the west coast of
North America. American Midland Naturalist 39:257-337. PB. $10.
Schevill, W. E. 1974. The Whale Problem: A Status Report.
Pages 419 pp. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. HC. $18.
Tomilin, A. G. 1967
(1957). Mammals of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries, Vol. IX:
Cetacea. Nauk USSR (translated from Russian to English by Israel Program for
Scientific Translations). HC. $18.
Townsend, C. H. 1935. The distribution of certain whales as
shown by logbook records of American whaleships. Zoologica 19:3-50 (with 4 fold
out maps). PB. $10.
True, F. W. 1904. Whalebone Whales of the Western North
Atlantic Compared with Those Occurring in European Waters with Some
Observations on the Species of the North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to
Knowledge. 332 pp. + plates. HC. First edition ($95); reprint edition ($45).
True, F. W. 1910. An account of the beaked whales of the
family Ziphiidae in the collection of the United States National Museum, with
remarks on some species in other American museums. Bulletin of the United
States National Museum 73:42 pp. + plates.
HC. $42.
Winge, H. 1921
(1918). A review of the interrelationships of the Cetacea. Smithsonian
Miscellaneous Collections 72:97 pp. HC
($16); PB ($10).