Nature/Gardening/Animals

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

Robert Armitage Sterndale

Robert Armitage Sterndale’s Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon positions itself as a…

The Beauties of Nature, and the Wonders of the World We Live In

Sir John Lubbock

The useful trees of northern Nigeria

Hugh Vandervaes Lely

The work is a practical guide to the trees of northern Nigeria’s savannah forests, compiled by Hugh…

Voices for the Speechless Selections for Schools and Private Reading

The volume is a medley of sermons, poems, and moral essays that rally the reader to consider the suffering of…

The Honey-Bee: Its Natural History, Physiology and Management

Edward Bevan

The Honey‑Bee is a nineteenth‑century treatise that blends natural history, physiology and practical…

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1

John Wilson

The work is a collection of essays by John Wilson, originally printed in Blackwood’s Magazine and later…

Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew

John Ruskin

The work is a nineteenth‑century botanical essay by John Ruskin that begins with a personal recollection of…

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

Jean-Henri Fabre

The work is a natural‑history essay by the celebrated French entomologist Jean‑Henri Fabre, compiled from a…

Eccentricities of the Animal Creation.

John Timbs

North American Recent Soft-Shelled Turtles (Family Trionychidae)

Robert G. Webb

Robert G. Webb’s North American Recent Soft‑Shelled Turtles is a scholarly monograph that blends field…

The Garden, You, and I

Mabel Osgood Wright

The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations

William T. Hornaday

The work is a nonfiction collection of personal observations on the intelligence and behavior of wild…

The Book of Herbs

Rosalind Northcote

The Book of Herbs is a nineteenth‑century compendium that treats the plant world as a living encyclopedia of…

Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation

William Watson

The book is a practical horticultural guide that opens with a straightforward statement of purpose: to supply…

The Mountains of California

John Muir

The work is a sweeping natural‑history travelogue that surveys California’s great mountain systems.

Social Life in the Insect World

Jean-Henri Fabre

The Sea and Its Living Wonders A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep and of the Progress of Martime Discovery from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

G. Hartwig

The Sea and Its Living Wonders is a sweeping survey of oceanic science and history, organized into three…

The Complete Angler 1653

Izaak Walton

The work is a seventeenth‑century treatise on fishing, first issued in 1653 by Richard Marriott in St…

The book of antelopes, vol. 1 (of 4)

Sclater, Philip Lutley; Thomas, Oldfield

The work is a scholarly zoological treatise on antelopes, compiled by Philip Lutley Sclater and Oldfield…

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers

John Burroughs

John Burrough, the celebrated naturalist and essayist of the late‑nineteenth century, offers a modest…

The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants.

Louis Figuier

The Ocean World is a nineteenth‑century natural history survey that sets out to describe the sea and its…

Field Book of Western Wild Flowers

Armstrong, Margaret; Thornber, J. J.

This modest volume sets out to catalogue the common wildflowers that thrive west of the Rocky Mountains,…

Conservation of marine birds of northern North America: papers from the international symposium held at the Seattle Hyatt House

The volume is a collection of papers presented at the 1977 international symposium on the conservation of…

The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada

George Henry Tilton

The Fern Lover’s Companion is a practical field handbook for identifying the ferns that populate the…