In a corpus consisting of 84 primatological texts, all the paratexts as well as narrative positions were collected and quantified. This data collection consists of a bibliography in two formats (.odt and UTF-8 encoded.csv), the raw data in two formats (.xls and UTF-8 encoded.csv), a file containing quantified data used for clustering (UTF-8 encoded.csv), code used in R for an exploratory analysis, and two sample dendrograms showing the results of the clustering. The results of the analysis were published in: Fabienne Kilchör, Jörg Lehmann, Katja Liebal und Oliver Lubrich, Diesseits von Eden. Paratexte und Bilder in der Primatographie, in: Scientia Poetica Vol.22(1), 2018, S. 151–179. https://doi.org/10.1515/scipo-2018-006