📚 Vertebrates

Books with vertebrates on their catalogue record, first published between 1768 and 2009, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject vertebrates in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,203 works the catalogue holds under that subject. 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
	A manual of the vertebrate animals of the northern United States	David Starr Jordan	1876	19
	Text-book of the embryology of man and mammals	Oscar Hertwig	1892	18
	The life of vertebrates	John Zachery Young	1950	18
	Comparative anatomy of the vertebrates	George C. Kent	1954	16
	The vertebrate body	Alfred Sherwood Romer	1949	15
	Vertebrate life	F. Harvey Pough	1989	15
	Dinosaurs	David E. Fastovsky	2009	14
	British Zoology.	Thomas Pennant	1768	13
	Vertebrate zoology	De Beer, Gavin Sir	1928	11
	A laboratory manual of vertebrate embryology	Roberts Rugh	1944	11
	Comparative vertebrate anatomy	Kenneth V. Kardong	1997	11
	The winners in life's race	Arabella B. Buckley	1863	9
	Man and the vertebrates	Alfred Sherwood Romer	1933	9
	Analysis of vertebrate structure	Milton Hildebrand	1974	9
	A manual of the anatomy of vertebrated animals	Thomas Henry Huxley	1800	8
	Studies on the structure and development of vertebrates	Edwin S. Goodrich	1930	8
	Sur la piste des bêtes ignorées	Bernard Heuvelmans	1955	8
	The vertebrate skeleton	Reynolds, Sidney Hugh	1897	7
	Introduction to vertebrate embryology	Waldo Shumway	1935	7
	Vertebrates	Kenneth V. Kardong	1995	7
	Comparative vertebrate neuroanatomy	Ann B. Butler	1996	7
	Biology of the vertebrates	Herbert Eugene Walter	1928	6
	Seven men at daybreak	Alan Burgess	1960	6
	Vertebrate biology	Robert Thomas Orr	1961	6
	Vertebrate Endocrinology	David O. Norris	1996	6
	The vertebrates of Seychelles	Justin Gerlach	2006	6
	Introduction and succession of vertebrate life in America	Othniel Charles Marsh	1877	5
	Fundamentals of comparative embryology of the vertebrates	Alfred Francis Huettner	1941	5
	Comparative vertebrate anatomy	Hyman, Libbie Henrietta	1942	5
	Evolution of the vertebrates	Edwin H. Colbert	1955	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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