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NATURAL HISTORY

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1890 CEReisebilder aus Liberia: Resultate geographischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und ethnographischer untersuchungen während der jahre 1879-1882 und 1886-1887. 2 vols.
BÜTTIKOFER, Johann (1850 – 1928)
1857 CE​–1859 CEReport on the United States and Mexican boundary survey: Made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior
TORREY, John (1796 – 1873)
TORREY, John (1796 – 1873)
EMORY, William Hemsley (1811 – 1887)
EMORY, William Hemsley (1811 – 1887)
BAIRD, Spencer Fullerton (1823 – 1887)
BAIRD, Spencer Fullerton (1823 – 1887)
CONRAD, Timothy Abbott (1803 – 1877)
CONRAD, Timothy Abbott (1803 – 1877)
ENGELMANN, George (1809 – 1884)
ENGELMANN, George (1809 – 1884)
GIRARD, Charles Frédéric (1822 – 1895)
GIRARD, Charles Frédéric (1822 – 1895)
PARRY, Charles Christopher (1823 – 1890)
PARRY, Charles Christopher (1823 – 1890)
SCHOTT, Arthur Carl Victor (1814 – 1875)
SCHOTT, Arthur Carl Victor (1814 – 1875)
HALL, James Jr. (1811 – 1898)
HALL, James Jr. (1811 – 1898)
1628 CERerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus, seu, Plantarum animalium mineralium Mexicanorum historia.
HERNÁNDEZ DE TOLEDO, Francisco (1517 – 1587) RECCHI, Nardo Antonio de ( – 1595)
1998 CESarah Stone: Natural curiosities from the new worlds
STONE, Sarah (1760 – 1844) JACKSON, Christine Elisabeth (1936 – )
2014 CEScience in the vanished arcadia: Knowledge of nature in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Rio de La Plata.
ASÚA, Miguel de
2000 CEScience, race, and religion in the American South. John Bachman and the Charleston circle of naturalists, 1815-1895.
STEPHENS, Lester D. (1933 – )
c. 2000 CESmithsonian Libraries: Digital Library: Natural and physical sciences.
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
1847 CE​–1847 CESouthern ichthyology; or a description of the fishes inhabiting the waters of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Pt. 2, 1847, Pt. 3, 1848.
HOLBROOK, John Edwards (1794 – 1871)
HOLBROOK, John Edwards (1794 – 1871)
1525 CESumario de la natural historia de las Indias.
OVIEDO Y VALDÉS, Gonzalo Fernández de (1478 – 1557)
1519 CESumma de Geografia que trata de todas las partidas e provincias del mundo en especial de las indias e trata largamente del arte del marcar...
FERNÁNDEZ DE ENCISO, Martín (1470 – 1528)
1632 CEThaumatographia naturalis, in decem classes distincta, in quibus admiranda 1 Coeli. 2 Elementorum. 3 Meteororum. 4 Fossilium. 5 Plantarum. 6 Avium. 7 Quadrupedum. 8 Exanguium. 9 Piscium. 10 Hominis.
JONSTON, John [Jan] (1603 – 1675)
2000 CEThe Aurelian legacy: British butterflies and their collectors. By Michael A. Salmon with additional material by Peter Marren and Basil Harley.
SALMON, Michael A. MARREN, Peter HARLEY, Basil H. (1931 – 2017)
1766 CEThe Aurelian or natural history of English insects; namely, moths and butterflies.
HARRIS, Moses (1730 – 1788)
HARRIS, Moses (1730 – 1788)
1958 CEThe Banks letters: A calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum, the British Museum (Natural History) and other collections in Great Britain.
DAWSON, Warren Royal (1888 – 1968)
BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)
BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)
1756 CEThe civil and natural history of Jamaica. In three parts, containing 1. An accurate description of that Island, its situation and soil; with a brief account of its former and present state, government, revenues, produce, and trade. II. A history of the natural productions, including the various sorts of native fossils, perfect and imperfect vegetables, quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; with their properties and uses in mechanics, diet, and physic. III. An account of the nature of climate in general, and their different effects upon the human body; with a detail of the diseases arising from this source, particularly within the tropics....illustrated with fifty copper-plates...in natural size....
BROWNE, Patrick (1720 – 1790)
2015 CEThe correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712). Volume one: 1662-1677. Edited and translated by Anna Marie Roos.
LISTER, Martin (1639 – 1712)
LISTER, Martin (1639 – 1712)
ROOS, Anna Marie
ROOS, Anna Marie
2015 CEThe courtiers' anatomists: Animals and humans in Louis XIV's Paris.
GUERINI, Anita (1953 – )
1982 CEThe emergence of ornithology as a scientific discipline.
FARBER, Paul Lawrence (1944 – )
2000 CEThe English parson-naturalist: A companionship between science and religion.
ARMSTRONG, Patrick H.
2002 CEThe eye of the lynx. Galileo, his friends, and the beginnings of modern natural history.
FREEDBERG, David
1904 CE​–1912 CEThe history of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. 3 vols. [Edited by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther.]
SHARPE, Richard Bowdler (1847 – 1909)
SHARPE, Richard Bowdler (1847 – 1909) GÜNTHER, Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf) (1830 – 1914)
THOMAS, Oldfield (1858 – 1929)
THOMAS, Oldfield (1858 – 1929) LYDEKKER, Richard (1849 – 1915)
BOULENGER, George Albert (1858 – 1937)
BOULENGER, George Albert (1858 – 1937) POCOCKE, Reginald Innes (1863 – 1947)
SMITH, Edgar Albert (1847 – 1916)
SMITH, Edgar Albert (1847 – 1916) KIRKPATRICK, Randolph (1863 – 1950)
1998 CEThe Huxley File. Created by Charles Blinderman and David Joyce.
HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825 – 1895)
HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825 – 1895) BLINDERMAN, Charles S. (1931 – 2002) JOYCE, David E.
2007 CE​–2010 CEThe Linnaeus Apostles. Global science & adventure. 8 vols. in 11. General editor: Lars Hansen.
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
HANSEN, Lars
HANSEN, Lars
2015 CEThe making and meaning of the Liber Floridus: A study of the original manuscript, Ghent, University Library, MS 92.
DEROLEZ, Albert (1934 – )
1880 CEThe natural & moral history of Indies, by Father Joseph de Acosta. Reprinted from the English translated edition of Edward Grimston, 1604. And edited, with notes and an introduction by Clements R. Markham. Vol. 1: The natural history. Vol. 2: The moral history. 2 vols.
ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600)
ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600) MARKHAM, Sir Robert Clements (1830 – 1916)
1794 CE​–1819 CEThe natural history of British birds; or, a selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country: The descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus; with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists; and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens. 10 vols.
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
1792 CE​–1813 CEThe natural history of British insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. Together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope. The whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. 16 vols.
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
1754 CEThe natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants, particulary the forest trees, shrubs, and other plants, not hitherto described, or very incorrectly figured by authors. Together with their descriptions in English and French. To which are added, observations on the air, soil, and waters with remarks upon agriculture, grain, pulse, roots, &c. To the whole is prefixed a new and correct map of the countries treated of / by the late Mark Catesby; revised by Mr. [George] Edwards. 2 vols.
CATESBY, Mark (1683 – 1749)
CATESBY, Mark (1683 – 1749)
EDWARDS, George (1693 – 1773)
EDWARDS, George (1693 – 1773)
1737 CEThe natural history of North Carolina. With an account of the trade, manners and customs of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon are curiously engraved the map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants, &c.
BRICKELL, John (1710 – 1745)
1859 CEThe natural history of the European seas. Edited and continued by Robert Godwin-Austen.
FORBES, Edward (1815 – 1854)
FORBES, Edward (1815 – 1854)
GODWIN-AUSTEN, Robert Alfred Gloyn (1808 – 1884)
GODWIN-AUSTEN, Robert Alfred Gloyn (1808 – 1884)
1797 CEThe natural history of the rarer lepidopterous insects of Georgia. Including their systematic characters, the particulars of their several metamorphoses, and the plants on which they feed. Collected from the observations of Mr. John Abbot, many years resident in that country, by James Edward Smith.
ABBOT, John (1751 – 1840)
ABBOT, John (1751 – 1840)
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
1976 CEThe naturalist in Britain: A social history.
ALLEN, David Elliston (1932 – )
1772 CEThe naturalist's and traveller's companion. Containing instructions for discovering and preserving objects of natural history....
LETTSOM, John Coakley (1744 – 1815)
LETTSOM, John Coakley (1744 – 1815)
1833 CE​–1866 CEThe naturalist's library. Edited by Sir William Jardine. 40 vols.
JARDINE, Sir William (1800 – 1874)
JARDINE, Sir William (1800 – 1874)
1966 CEThe original water-color paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America. Reproduced in color from the collection at The New York Historical Society. Introduction by Marshall B. Davidson. 2 vols.
AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851)
AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851)
2006 CEThe science of describing: Natural history in Renaissance Europe.
OGILVIE, Brian W.
2010 CEThe Sloane Letters Project.
SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
1934 CEThe Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith
DAWSON, Warren Royal (1888 – 1968)
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
1845 CE​–1854 CEThe viviparous quadrupeds of North America. 2 vols. of plates in folio; 3 vols. 8vo text.
AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851)
AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851)
BACHMAN, John (1790 – 1874)
BACHMAN, John (1790 – 1874)
1840 CE​–1843 CEThe zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R. N., during the years 1832 to 1836. Edited by Charles Darwin. 5 pts in 3 vols.
OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
GOULD, John (1804 – 1881)
GOULD, John (1804 – 1881)
BELL, Thomas (1792 – 1880)
BELL, Thomas (1792 – 1880)
WATERHOUSE, George Robert (1810 – 1888)
WATERHOUSE, George Robert (1810 – 1888) JENYNS, Leonard (1800 – 1893)
1872 CETortoises, terrapins, and turtles drawn from life
GRAY, John Edward (1800 – 1875)
GRAY, John Edward (1800 – 1875)
SOWERBY, James De Carle (1787 – 1871)
SOWERBY, James De Carle (1787 – 1871)
BELL, Thomas (1792 – 1880)
BELL, Thomas (1792 – 1880)
LEAR, Edward (1812 – 1888)
LEAR, Edward (1812 – 1888)
1533 CETou sophōtatou Philē, Stichoi iambikoi peri zōōn idiotētos.
PHILES, Manuel (1275 – 1345)
1791 CETravels through North & South Carolina, George, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws [sic]...
BARTRAM, William (1739 – 1823)
BARTRAM, William (1739 – 1823)
2010 CEUtopia's garden: French natural history from Old Regime to revolution.
SPARY, Emma C.
1790 CEViaggio negli Stati Uniti dell' America settentrionale fatto negli anni 1785, 1786, e 1787. 2 vols.
CASTIGLIONI, Luigi (1757 – 1832)
c. 512 CEVienna Dioscorides. Codex Vindobonensis Med. Gr. 1.
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90) NICANDER OF COLOPHON (ΝΊΚΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΚΟΛΟΦΏΝΙΟΣ; NIKANDER) (-125 – ) KRATEUAS, [Kratevas, Crateuas, Cratevas; Κρατεύας ὁ Ῥιζότομος] ( – 95)
1826 CE​–1838 CEVoyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. 6 vols. plus 4 atlases.
DUPERREY, Louis Isidore (1786 – 1865)
DUPERREY, Louis Isidore (1786 – 1865)
LESSON, René Primevère (1794 – 1849)
LESSON, René Primevère (1794 – 1849)
DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César (1790 – 1842)
DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César (1790 – 1842) GARNOT, Prosper (1794 – 1838)
1807 CE​–1834 CEVoyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent, fait en 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. 34 vols.
HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769 – 1859)
BONPLAND, Aimé Jacques Alexandre (1773 – 1858)
BONPLAND, Aimé Jacques Alexandre (1773 – 1858)
1807 CE​–1817 CEVoyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté, l'Empereur et Roi, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la goëllette le Casuarina pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804 ...rédigé par Péron et continue par M. L. de Freycinet. (Atlas par MM. Lesueur et Petit.) Historique. 3 vols & Atlas, containing 38 plates, 15 maps.
FREYCINET, Louis Claude de Caulces de (1779 – 1841)
FREYCINET, Louis Claude de Caulces de (1779 – 1841) PÉRON, François (1775 – 1810)
LESUEUR, Charles Alexandre (1778 – 1846)
LESUEUR, Charles Alexandre (1778 – 1846) PETIT, Nicolas-Martin (1777 – 1804)
BAUDIN, Nicolas Thomas (1754 – 1803)
BAUDIN, Nicolas Thomas (1754 – 1803)
1809 CEVoyages d'un Naturaliste, et ses observations. Faites sur les trois règnes de la Nature, dans plusieurs ports de mer français, en Espagne, au continent de l'Amerique septentrionale, à Saint-Yago de Cuba, et à St.-Domingue, où l'Auteur devenu le prisonnier de 40,000 Noirs révoltés, et par suite mis en liberté par une colonne de l'armée française, donne des détails circonstanciés sur l'expédition du général Leclerc. Dédiés à ... le Comte de Lacépède. 3 vols.
DESCOURTILZ, Michel Étienne (1777 – 1835)
DESCOURTILZ, Michel Étienne (1777 – 1835)