You can go online today and find a copy of A.C. Oudemans’ The Great Sea-Serpent for $3705 US. The book is very rare, having been published first in 1892, by E. J. Brill in Leiden and by Luzac & Co. in London.

Soon, a much more reasonably-priced edition will be available.

The reprinting of the classic cryptozoological text, The Great Sea Serpent by Antoon C. Oudemans, has been in the works for months, with a new introduction by Loren Coleman. It will be published late in February, with an official publication date of March 1, 2007. This book is being produced as a high-quality paperbound volume by Cosimo Classics as part of the “Loren Coleman presents” series. The ISBN is 1602060126.

The book is the first of several classic books on cryptozoology, which will be forthcoming for 2007 and 2008. The initial book in the “Loren Coleman presents” series was Mark A. Hall’s Thunderbirds: America’s Living Legends of Giant Birds (2004).

After several years of obtaining original antique books and working on the classic reprints, Cosimo will realize the appearance of several volumes being published periodically during the next few months. Natural history buffs, students of cryptozoology and science historians, as well as librarians, are bound to be happy to have these unique hard-to-find volumes back in print.