Nisarga Vidnyan Sanstha: Library Collection

About NVS Library
Our library is specially intended for Conservation of Natural Heritage
We covers full spectrum of information on Natural history,Herpetology,Ornithology, wildlife, Ecology,Zoology, Botany & Environment Conservation and other Nature related books.
We have a collection of historic books and very rare Lithographs of 19th & 20th Century which is priceless.

Library Rare Book Collections

Illustrations of the Family of the Psittacidae, or Parrots Published by Lear, Edward London, 1832

(Facsimile-Reprint in Germany

Sharpe's Birds of Paradise

The 19th century saw a rapid evolution in the publication of natural history books. Magnificent large-scale tomes, sumptuously bound and illustrated with hand-coloured plates, celebrated all the latest discoveries of exotic birds and animals around the world. Richard Bowdler Sharpe was Assistant Keeper of the British Museum’s Zoology Department, and had collaborated with John Gould on The Birds of New Guinea. Following Gould’s death in 1881, Sharpe set out to create an entirely new work dedicated entirely to birds of paradise and to bower-birds, then thought to be related to birds of paradise. .