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Journeys over Land and Sea | Journeys of the Mind | Journeys of the Imagination |
Journeys Over Land and Sea: Botany and ZoologyDirect observation of specimens brought to Europe from foreign lands replaced earlier depictions of the natural world with more accurate, less fanciful descriptions. Explorers in the Americas contributed new data about those continents. |
[Gart der Gesundheit] (The garden of health) Ulm?: Konrad Dinckmut?, 1487?. Gift of E.R. Squibb & Sons and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
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Thirty Plates Illustrative of Natural Phenomena, etc. London: The Society for Promoting Christian Knoledge, 1846. Gift of the Burndy Library
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Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) The Naturalist on the River Amazons [sic.] London: John Murray, 1863. 2 vols.. Gift of the Burndy Library
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Mark Catesby (1682-1749) The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands London: for the author, 1731-43 [1729-48]. 2 vols.. Gift of Marcia Brady Tucker
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Theobaldus Episcopus Phisiologus . . . de naturis duodecim animalium (On the nature of animals) [Cologne]: Henricus Quentell, [1494]. Gift of the Burndy Library
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John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815) The Naturalist's and Traveller's Companion, containing Instructions for Collecting & Preserving Objects of Natural History. 2nd ed London: E. & C. Dilly, 1774. Charles W. Richmond Collection
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Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885) Mammalia and Ornithology Philadelphia: printed by C. Sherman, 1848.
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Pliny the Elder (about A.D. 23-79) Naturalis historia (Natural history) Frankfurt: Martin Lechler, 1582. Gift of the Burndy Library
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Levin Vincent (1658-1727) Elenchus tabularum . . . , in gazophylacio Levini Vincent (A series of illustrations . . . of Levin Vincent’s collection of the marvels of nature) Haarlem: Sumptibus Auctoris, 1719.
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Charles Wilkes (1798-1877) Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition . . . Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845. 5 vols. and atlas.
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