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Exhibiting 52 entries found in the GMN corpus.

YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
1847 CEA description of the characters and habits of troglodytes gorilla, a new species of orang from the Gaboon River, by Thomas S. Savage; Osteology of the same by Jeffries Wyman.
1843 CE​–1856 CEA history of British birds. 3 vols. plus 2 Supplements. (5 vols.)
1864 CE​–1865 CEA history of the fishes of the British Islands. 4 vols.
1873 CEA monograph of the Paradiseidae or birds of paradise.
1731 CE​–1738 CEA natural history of birds. Illustrated with two hundred and five copper plates, curiously engraven from the life. Published by the author Eleazar Albin, and carefully colour'd by his daughter and self, from the originals, drawn from the live birds. 3 vols.
2011 CEA world of beasts: A thirteenth-century illustrated Arabic book on animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Hayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' Tradition.
1860 CEActinologia Britannica. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals. With coloured figures of the species and principal varieties.
1720 CEAmphitheatrum zootomicum.
1796 CEAn account of Indian serpents collected on the coast of Coromandel: containing descriptions and drawings of each species, together with experiments and remarks on their several poisons.
1805 CEAn epitome of the natural history of the insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite, and other islands in the Indian, Southern, and Pacific oceans: Including the figures and descriptions of one hundred and fifty-three species of the more splendid, beautiful, and interesting insects, hitherto discovered in those countries, and which for the most part have not appeared in the works of any preceding author. The figures are correctly delineated from specimens of the insects; and with the descriptions are arranged according to the Linnæan system, with reference to the writings of Fabricius and other entomologists.
1475 CEBuch der Natur.
1737 CE​–1738 CEBybel der Natuure door Jan Swammerdam, Amsteldammer...Biblia naturae; sive historia insectorum, in classes certas redacta, nec non exemplis, et anatomico variorum animalculorum examine, aeneisque tabulis illustrata. Insertis numerosis rariorum naturae observationibus. Omnia lingua Batava, auctori vernacula, conscripta. Accedit praefatio, in qu vitam auctoris descripsit Hermannus Boerhaave... Latinam versionem adscriptsit Hieronimus David Gaubius. 2 vols.
1553 CEDe aquatilibus, libri duo cum [epsilon] [iota] conibus ad viuam ipsorum effigiem, quoad eius fieri potuit, expressis.
1686 CEDe historia piscium libri quatuor.
1787 CEDescripcion de diferentes piezas de historia natural las mas del ramo maritimo.
1669 CEDissertatio epistolica de bombyce.
1675 CEEphemeri Vita. Of afbeeldingh van 's menschen leven, Vertoont in de Wonderbaarlijcke en nooyt gehoorde Historie van het vliegent ende een-dagh-levent Haft of Oever-aas. Een dierken, ten aansien van sijn naam, over al in Neerlandt bekent.
1484 CEHerbarius latinus.
1824 CE​–1842 CEHistoire naturelle des mammifères. 4 vols.
1749 CE​–1789 CEHistoire naturelle générale et particulière…. 44 vols., plus atlas.
1551 CE​–1587 CEHistoria animalium. 5 vols.
1648 CEHistoria naturalis Brasiliae.
1491 CEHortus sanitatis.
1856 CEIllustrations of the birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain descriptions and figures of North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American ornithology. 1853 to 1855.
1634 CEInsectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum: Olim ab Edoardo Wottono, Conrado Gesnero, Thomaque Pennio inchoatum: Tandem Tho. Movfeti Londinâtis operâ sumptibusque maximis concinnatum, auctum, perfectum: Et ad vivum expressis iconibus suprà quingentis illustratum.
1899 CE​–1904 CEKunstformern der Natur.
1551 CEL'histoire naturelle des estranges poissons marins, avec la vraie peincture & description du daulphin, & de plusieurs autres de son espece.
1554 CE​–1555 CELibri de piscibus marinis, in quibus verae piscium effigies expressae sunt. (Universae aquatilium pars altera.) 2 vols.
1734 CE​–1765 CELocupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio et iconibus artificiosissmis expressio per universam physices historiam. 4 vols.
1865 CEMemoir on the Gorilla (Troglodytes Gorilla, Savage).
1832 CEMemoir on the pearly nautilus (Nautilus pompilius, Linn.).
1744 CEMémoires, pour servir à l’histoire d’un genre de polypes d’eau douce, à bras en forme de cornes.
1662 CE​–1669 CEMetamorphosis naturalis, ofte historische beschryvinghe.... 3 vols.
1782 CENatuurkundige verhandelingen van Petrus Camper over den orang outang; en eenige andere aap-soorten. Over den rhinoceros met den dubbelen horen; en over het rendier.
1836 CE​–1840 CENorth American herpetology; or, a description of the reptiles inhabiting the United States. 4 vols.
1599 CE​–1667 CEOpera omnia. 13 vols.
1699 CEOrang-outang, sive homo sylvestris: Or, the anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man.
1676 CEOrnithologiae, libri tres....Totum opus recognovit, digessit, supplevit, Joannis Raius.
1683 CEThe anatomy of an horse.
1766 CEThe anatomy of the horse.
1766 CEThe Aurelian or natural history of English insects; namely, moths and butterflies.
1827 CE​–1838 CEThe birds of America. From original drawings by John James Audubon. 4 vols.
2015 CEThe butterflies of North America: Titian Peale's lost manuscript. Foreward by Ellen V. Futter. Preface and scientific captions by David A. Grimaldi. Introduction by Kenneth Haltman.
1802 CE​–1808 CEThe natural history of British fishes, including scientific and general descriptions of the most interesting species, and an extensive selection of accurately finished coloured plates. Taken entirely from original drawings, purposely made from the specimens in a recent state, and for the most part whilst living. 5 vols.
1800 CE​–1804 CEThe natural history of British shells, including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discovered in Great Britain, systematically arranged in the Linnean manner, with scientific and general observations on each. 5 vols.
1731 CE​–1747 CEThe natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands: Containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants: Particularly, 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 on agriculture, grain, pulse, roots &c. To the whole is prefixed a new and complete map of the countries treated of. 2 vols.
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.
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.
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.
1872 CEThe thanatophidia of India. Being a Description of the venomous snakes of the Indian Peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on life and a series of experiments