📚 Herpetology

Reptiles and amphibians as a science: their physiology, their dwindling, and the field guides in between.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject herpetology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Erpétologie générale, ou, Histoire naturelle complète des reptiles	Auguste Henri André Duméril	1854	8
	Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, des reptiles et des poissons	Jean Jacques Bourassé	1841	4
	Introduction to herpetology	Coleman Jett Goin	1962	4
	Introduction to herpetology	Coleman Jett Goin	1962	4
	Herpetology	F. Harvey Pough	1999	4
	Herpetology	F. Harvey Pough	2000	4
	On the Batrachia and Reptilia of Costa Rica	Edward Drinker Cope	1875	3
	Reptiles and amphibians	Thomas Barbour	1923	3
	Mean and Lowly Things	Kate Jackson	2008	3
	New Zealand Lizards	David G. Chapple	2016	3
	Historiae amphibiorum naturalis et literariae [fasciculi]	Johann Gottlob Schneider	1799	2
	On the natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, and reptiles	William Swainson	1838	2
	Amphibia and reptiles	Hans Friedrich Gadow	1901	2
	Amphibia and reptiles	Hans Friedrich Gadow	1901	2
	Amphibians and reptiles of Yemen	Karl Patterson Schmidt	1953	2
	Reptiles and amphibians. [Prepared with the cooperation of the National Audubon Society]	Charles E. Mohr	1958	2
	Herpetology of Mexico	Hobart Muir Smith	1966	2
	Gerpetologicheskiĭ sbornik	N. B. Ananʹeva	1977	2
	A brief history of herpetology in North America before 1900	Kraig Adler	1979	2
	New Zealand herpetology	Donald G. Newman	1982	2
	Advances in Herpetology and Evolutionary Biology	Anders G. J. Rhodin	1983	2
	Contributions to the history of herpetology	Kraig Adler	1989	2
	Herpetofauna mexicana	Oscar Flores-Villela	1993	2
	Herpetofauna Workers' Manual	Tony Gent	1998	2
	Remarks on some reptilia described by Richard Harlan ...	Thomas Say	1827	1
	Erpétologie générale	C. Duméril	1834	1
	Traité élémentaire d'erpétologie, ou, D'histoire naturelle des reptiles ...	Bory de Saint-Vincent M.	1842	1
	Herpetology	Charles Fredric Girard	1858	1
	Beobachtungen an reptilien und amphibien in der gefangenschaft	Friedrich K. Knauer	1875	1
	Amphibia and reptiles	Hans Gadow	1909	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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