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NATURAL HISTORY

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1741 CEEl Orinoco ilustrado y defendido. Historia natural, civil y geográfica de este gran río y de sus caudalosas vertientes, govierno, usos, y costumbres de los indios sus habitadores, con nuevas, y utiles noticias de animales, arboles, frutos, aceytes, resinas, yervas, y raices medicinales ...
GUMILLA, Joseph (1688 – 1750)
GUMILLA, Joseph (1688 – 1750)
1842 CE​–1894 CE[New York Natural History and Geological Survey.] Natural history of New York. 30 vols.
HALL, James Jr. (1811 – 1898)
HALL, James Jr. (1811 – 1898)
DE KAY, James Ellsworth (1792 – 1851)
DE KAY, James Ellsworth (1792 – 1851)
1784 CE​–1812 CE[Vols I and II:] Figures of non-descript shells collected in the different voyages to the South Seas since the year 1764 ... [Vols III and IV:] The universal conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known shell, accurately drawn and painted after nature: With a new systematic arrangement by the author.... 4 vols.
MARTYN, Thomas (1760 – 1816)
1924 CE​–1929 CEA bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.
MEISEL, Max
1960 CEA bibliography of Dr. Robert Hooke by Geoffrey Keynes, Kt.
HOOKE, Robert (1635 – 1703)
HOOKE, Robert (1635 – 1703)
KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
1771 CEA catalogue of the animals of North America: Containing, an enumeration of the known quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceous and testaceous animals ... to which are added short directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting, all kinds of natural history curiosities.
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798)
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798)
1933 CEA catalogue of the works of Linnaeus (and publications more immediately relating thereto) perserved in the libraries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) and the British Museum (Natural History) (South Kennsington). Second edition
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778) SOULSBY, Basil H. (1864 – 1933)
1790 CEA companion to the museum, (Late Sir Ashton Lever's) removed to Albion Street, the Surry end of Black Friar's Bridge.
LEVER, Sir Ashton (1729 – 1788)
LEVER, Sir Ashton (1729 – 1788)
1821 CEA journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, during the year 1819. With occasional observations on the manners of the aborigines. Illustrated by a map and other engravings.
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)
1698 CEA journey to Paris in the year 1698.
LISTER, Martin (1639 – 1712)
LISTER, Martin (1639 – 1712)
1832 CE​–1834 CEA manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada. Vol. 1: The land birds. Vol. 2: The water birds.
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)
1886 CEA nomenclature of colors for naturalists, and compendium of useful knowledge for ornithologists.
RIDGWAY, Robert (1850 – 1929)
RIDGWAY, Robert (1850 – 1929)
1735 CEA voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies; in His Majesty's ships, the Swallow and Weymouth: Describing the several islands and Settlements, viz, Madeira, the Canaries, Cape de Verd, Sierraleon, Sesthos, Cape Apollonia, Cabo Corso, and others on the Guinea coast; Barbadoes, Jamaica, &c. in the West-Indies; the colour, diet, languages, habits, manners, customs, and religions of the respective natives, and inhabitants. With remarks on the gold, ivory, and slave-trade; and on the winds, tides and currents of the several coasts.
ATKINS, John (1685 – 1757)
ATKINS, John (1685 – 1757)
1707 CE​–1725 CEA voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica: With the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd, an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved. In large copper-plates as big as the life. 2 vols.
SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
1832 CEAeliani de natura animalium libri septemdecim. Verba ad fidem librorum manuscriptorum constituit et annotationibus illustravit Fridericus Jacobs.
AELIANUS, Claudius [Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός] (175 – 235)
AELIANUS, Claudius [Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός] (175 – 235)
JACOBS, Friedrich (1764 – 1847)
JACOBS, Friedrich (1764 – 1847)
1867 CEAlberti Magni ex ordine praedicatorum de vegetabilibus libri VII: Historiae naturalis pars XVIII. Editionem criticam ab Ernesto Meyero coeptam: Absolvit Carolus Jessen.
ALBERTUS MAGNUS, [Albert von Bollstädt] (1195 – 1280) MEYER, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich (1791 – 1858)
JESSEN, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (1821 – 1889)
JESSEN, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (1821 – 1889)
1771 CEAldrovandus Lotharingiae, ou catalogue des animaux, quardupedes, reptiles, oseaux, poissons, insectes, vermisseaux et coquillages qui habitent la Lorraine et les Trois-Évechés.
BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph (1731 – 1807)
2006 CEAll creatures: Naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950.
KOHLER, Robert E. (1937 – )
1830 CE​–1836 CEAmerican conchology, or descriptions of the shells of North America illustrated from coloured figures from original drawings executed from nature. 7 parts. Parts 1–6: New Harmony, 1830–1834; Part 7: Philadelphia, 1836.
SAY, Thomas (1787 – 1834)
SAY, Thomas (1787 – 1834)
1824 CE​–1828 CEAmerican entomology, or descriptions of the insects of North America. Illustrated by coloured figures from original drawings executed from nature. 3 vols.
SAY, Thomas (1787 – 1834)
SAY, Thomas (1787 – 1834)
1808 CE​–1814 CEAmerican ornithology; or, the natural history of the birds of the United States: Illustrated with plates engraved and colored from original drawings taken from nature. 9 vols.
WILSON, Alexander (1766 – 1813)
WILSON, Alexander (1766 – 1813)
ORD, George
ORD, George
1674 CEAn account of two voyages to New-England. Wherein you have the setting out of a ship, with the charges; The prices of all necessaries for furnishing a planter and his family at his first coming: a description of the countrey [sic], natives, and creatures; with their merchantil [sic] and physical use; the government of the countrey as it is now possessed by the English, &c. A large chronological table of the most remarkable passages, from the first discovering of the continent of America, to the year 1673.
JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)
1798 CEAn epitome of the natural history of the insects of China: Comprising figures and descriptions of upwards of one hundred new, singular, and beautiful species: together with some that are of importance in medicine, domestic economy, &c. The figures are accurately, drawn, engraved, and coloured, from speciemsn of the insects; the descriptions are arranged accordig to the system of Linnaeus, with references to the writings of Fabricius, and other systematic authors.
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
1800 CEAn epitome of the natural history of the insects of India, and the islands in the Indian seas: Comprising upwards of two hundred and fifty figures and descriptions of the most singular and beautiful species, selected chiefly from those recently discovered, and which have not appeared in the works of any preceding author. The figures are accurately drawn, engraved, and coloured, from specimens of the insects; the descriptions are arranged according to the system of Linnaeus; with references to the writings of Fabricius, and other systematic authors.
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
1994 CEAncient natural history: Histories of nature.
FRENCH, Roger Kenneth (1938 – 2002)
2004 CEAnimals & authors in the eighteenth-century Americas: A hemispheric look at the writing of natural history. By Anita Cavagnaro Been with cataloguing records for selected titles prepared by Burton Van Name Edwards.
BEEN, Anita Cavagnaro
1554 CEAquatilium animalium historiae. Liber primus cum eorumdem formis aere excusis.
SALVIANI, Hippolito (1514 – 1572)
SALVIANI, Hippolito (1514 – 1572)
2010 CEArab painting: Text and image in illustrated Arabic manuscripts. Edited by Anna Contadini.
CONTADINI, Anna
1790 CE​–1811 CEBeyträge zur Naturgeschichte. 2 pts.
BLUMENBACH, Johann Friedrich (1752 – 1840)
BLUMENBACH, Johann Friedrich (1752 – 1840)
1940 CE​–1993 CEBibliography of fossil vertebrates: The indexed published literature of vertebrate paleontology, 1509-1993.
SOCIETY OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
2016 CEBibliography of natural history travel narratives.
TROELSTRA, Anne Sjerp (1939 – )
TROELSTRA, Anne Sjerp (1939 – )
2010 CEBiblioteca digitale di testi latin tardoantichi.
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2005 CEBiodiversity Heritage Library
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1938 CEBird books and bird art: An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology, based principally on the collection of books containing plates with figures of birds and their eggs now in the University Library at Copenhagen and including a catalogue of these works.
ANKER, Jean (1892 – 1957)
1983 CE​–1991 CEBrasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH. 2 vols. in 3.
KOPPEL, Suzanne LÖSCHNER, Renate KIRCHSTEIN-GAMBER, Birgit
1980 CEBritish natural history books, 1495-1900: A handlist.
FREEMAN, Richard Broke (1915 – 1986)
1475 CEBuch der Natur.
MEGENBERG, Konrad von (1309 – 1374)
1719 CECaput Bonae Spei hodiernum, das ist: vollständige Beschreibung des africanischen Vorgebürges der Guten Hofnung. Worinnen in dreyen Theilen abgehandelt wird, wie es heut zu Tage, nach seiner Situation und Eigenschaft aussiehet; ingleichen was ein Natgur-Forscher in den dreyen Reichen der Natur....
KOLBE, Peter (Kolb) (1675 – 1726)
KOLBE, Peter (Kolb) (1675 – 1726)
1808 CECatalogue of the principal objects of curiosity [in the collection of Edward Donovan] contained in the London Museum and Institute of Natural History, Catherine Street, Strand, now open to the inspection of the public.
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
1796 CE​–1800 CECatalogus bibliothecae historico-naturalis Josephi Banks, auctore Jona Dryander. 5 vols.
BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)
BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)
DRYANDER, Jonas Carlsson (1748 – 1810)
DRYANDER, Jonas Carlsson (1748 – 1810)
1696 CECatalogus plantarum quae in insula Jamaica: Sponte proveniunt, vel vulgò coluntur cum earundem synonymis & locis natalibus, adjectis aliis quibusdam quae in insulis Maderae, Barbados, Nieves, & Sancti Christophori nascuntur, seu Prodromi historiae naturalis Jamaicae pars prima.
SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
1893 CECentenaire de la fondation de Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 10 juin 1793 - 10 juin 1893. Volume commemoratif publiée par les professeurs du muséum.
MUSÉUM D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE
1556 CEClaudii Aeliani... opera, quae extant omnia: Graece Latineque e regione, uti versa hac pagina commemorantur... Conradi Gesneri.
GESNER, Conrad [Konrad Gessner] (1516 – 1565)
AELIANUS, Claudius [Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός] (175 – 235)
AELIANUS, Claudius [Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός] (175 – 235)
1975 CEConrad Gessner: A bio-bibliogaphy
GESNER, Conrad [Konrad Gessner] (1516 – 1565) WELLISCH, Hans Hanan (1920 – 2004)
1977 CEConrad Gessner's "Historia animalium": An inventory of Renaissance zoology.
GESNER, Conrad [Konrad Gessner] (1516 – 1565) GMELIG-NIJBOER, Caroline Aleid (1946 – )
1622 CEContinuatio rariorum et aspectu dignorum varii generis quae collegit et suis impensis aeri ad vivum indici curavit atque evulgavit....
BESLER, Basilius (1561 – 1629)
BESLER, Basilius (1561 – 1629)
1857 CE​–1877 CEContributions to the natural history of the United States. 5 vols.
AGASSIZ, Louis Jean Rodolphe (1807 – 1873)
AGASSIZ, Louis Jean Rodolphe (1807 – 1873)
AGASSIZ, Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe (1835 – 1910)
AGASSIZ, Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe (1835 – 1910)
1943 CECorrespondence inédite entre Réaumur et Abraham Trembley, comprenant 113 lettres, recueillies et annotées par Maurice Trembley. Introduction par Emile Guyenot.
RÉAUMUR, René Antoine Ferchault de (1683 – 1757)
TREMBLEY, Abraham (1710 – 1784)
TREMBLEY, Abraham (1710 – 1784) GUYÉNOT, Émile (1885 – 1964)
2012 CE​–2018 CECuvier’s History of the natural sciences Vol. 1: Twenty-four lessons from antiquity to the renaissance, translated from the French by A. J. Simpson. Vol. 2: Nineteen lessons from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, translated from the French by B. D. Marx. Vol. 3: Twenty lessons from the first half of the eighteenth century. Edited and annotated by T. W. Pletsch.
CUVIER, Jean Léopold Chrétien Frédéric "Georges" (1769 – 1832) PLETSCH, Theodore Wells III (1945 – )
1726 CEDanubius pannonico-mysicus, observationibus geographicis, astronomicis, hydrographicis, historicis, physicis perlustratus et in sex tomos digestus. 6 vols.
MARSILI, Luigi Ferdinando [MARSIGLI] (1658 – 1730)