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History of Natural History

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YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
1782Deliciae Cobresianae. J. P. Cobres Büchersammlung zur Naturgeschichte. 2 vols.
1840Geschichte der arabischen Aerzte und Naturforscher.
1854Le Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Histoire de la fondation et les développements successifs de l'établissement; Biographie des hommes célèbres qui y ont contribué par leur enseignement ou par leurs découvertes, histoire des recherches, des voyages, des applications utiles auxquels le muséum a donné lieu, pour les arts, le commerce et l'agriculture; description des galeries, du jardin, des serres et de la ménagerie.
1885Gleanings from the natural history of the ancients.
1893Centenaire de la fondation de Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 10 juin 1793 - 10 juin 1893. Volume commemoratif publiée par les professeurs du muséum.
1901Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Lettres écrites d'Égypte à Cuvier, Jussieu, Lacépède, Monge, Desgenettes, Redouté le Jeune, Norry, etc., aux professeurs du muséum et à sa famille. Receuillies et publiées avec un préface et des notes par le Dr. E.-T. Hamy.
1904​–1912The history of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. 3 vols. [Edited by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther.]
1933A 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
1938Bird 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.
1943Correspondence inédite entre Réaumur et Abraham Trembley, comprenant 113 lettres, recueillies et annotées par Maurice Trembley. Introduction par Emile Guyenot.
1947English naturalists from Neckham to Ray.
1960A bibliography of Dr. Robert Hooke by Geoffrey Keynes, Kt.
1972Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam.(Handbuch der Orientalistik, 1. Abteilung, Ergänzungsband VI, 2).
1975La natura delle Indie Nove: Da Christoforo Colombo a Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo.
1975Conrad Gessner: A bio-bibliogaphy
1976The naturalist in Britain: A social history.
1976John Ray, 1627-1705: A bibliography, 1660-1970: A descriptive bibliography of the works of John Ray ... with introductions, annotations, various indexes, and a supplement of new entries, additions and corrections by the author, Sir Geoffrey Keynes.
1976Natural history auctions 1700-1972. A register of sales in the British Isles compiled by J. M. Chalmers-Hunt. With articles by S. Peter Dance, Peter G. Embrey, W. D. Ian Rolfe, Clive Simson, William T. Stern, J. M. Chalmers-Hunt, Alwyne Wheeler.
1977Conrad Gessner's "Historia animalium": An inventory of Renaissance zoology.
1980British natural history books, 1495-1900: A handlist.
1982Fitzpatrick's Rafinesque: A sketch of his life with bibliography [of his writings]. Revised and enlarged by Charles Boewe.
1982The emergence of ornithology as a scientific discipline.
1983​–1991Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH. 2 vols. in 3.
1986Hendrik Engel's alphabetical list of Dutch zoological cabinets and menageries . Second, enlarged edition prepared by Pieter Smith with the assistance of A. P. M. Sanders and J. P. F. van der Veer.
1987Natural science collections in Scotland: Botany, geology, zoology.
1987Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur
1990Nehemiah Grew: A study and bibliography of his writings
1994Ancient natural history: Histories of nature.
1999Voyages of discovery: Three centuries of natural history exploration.
1999Natural history investigations in South Carolina from colonial times to the present.
2000Science, race, and religion in the American South. John Bachman and the Charleston circle of naturalists, 1815-1895.
2000The Aurelian legacy: British butterflies and their collectors. By Michael A. Salmon with additional material by Peter Marren and Basil Harley.
2000The English parson-naturalist: A companionship between science and religion.
2002The eye of the lynx. Galileo, his friends, and the beginnings of modern natural history.
2002Guide to William Bartram's travels: Following the trail of America's first great naturalist.
2004Du Jardin au Muséum en 516 biographies.
2006The science of describing: Natural history in Renaissance Europe.
2006All creatures: Naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950.
2007Early modern zoology: The construction of animals in science, literature and the visual arts. Edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith.
2010Utopia's garden: French natural history from Old Regime to revolution.
2010Reading the book of nature in the Dutch golden age, 1575-1715.
2011Holophusicon: The Leverian Museum, an eighteenth-century English institution of science, curiosity and art.
2011Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.
2012​–2018Cuvier’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.
2014Science in the vanished arcadia: Knowledge of nature in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Rio de La Plata.
2014Zoology in early modern culture: Intersections of science, theology, philology, and political and religious education. Edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith.
2015The making and meaning of the Liber Floridus: A study of the original manuscript, Ghent, University Library, MS 92.
2015The courtiers' anatomists: Animals and humans in Louis XIV's Paris.
2015The correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712). Volume one: 1662-1677. Edited and translated by Anna Marie Roos.
2017Photography, natural history and the nineteenth-century museum: Exchanging views of empire.