Nature/Gardening/Animals

Bird Stories

Edith M. Patch

Bird Stories is a whimsical anthology of juvenile tales that blend natural observation with gentle moral…

Delineations of the Ox Tribe: The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos.

George Vasey

George Vasey’s Delineations of the Ox Tribe is a nineteenth‑century natural history monograph that sets out…

The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 06 (of 10)

David Sharp

The sixth volume of David Sharp’s Cambridge Natural History series is a scholarly treatise on insects,…

The Foot-path Way

Bradford Torrey

The work is a natural‑history memoir that opens with a vivid tableau of a mixed party of scholars, an…

The life of Jean Henri Fabre, the entomologist, 1823-1910

Augustin Fabre

The book is a biographical tribute to the celebrated French entomologist Jean‑Henri Fabre, assembled from…

Followers of the Trail

Zoe Meyer

Followers of the Trail is a juvenile nature narrative that places its young reader amid an untamed forest…

Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm

Albert Bigelow Paine

The novel opens with a wandering family’s first glimpse of a long‑neglected New England farm, described in…

Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 4 April, 1897

Various

The volume is a 1897 illustrated periodical devoted to ornithology, presenting a mixture of scientific…

The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two

Sarath Kumar Ghosh

The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two is a zoological treatise aimed at younger readers, using the daily life…

An Elementary Study of Insects

Leonard Haseman

Leonard Haseman’s An Elementary Study of Insects is a practical textbook aimed at grade‑school pupils,…

Himalayan Journals — Complete Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc.

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker’s Himalayan Journals is a sprawling travelogue that doubles as a meticulous…

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934

The volume is a formal record of the Northern Nut Growers Association’s twenty‑fifth annual meeting, held in…

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, November, 1878

Various

This volume of Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science presents a series of essays that treat…

The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 6 (of 6)

the Elder Pliny

Cattle and Cattle-breeders

William McCombie

The work is a first‑person account that blends personal memoir with a practical treatise on cattle breeding…

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare

Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

The book is a scholarly reference that catalogues every plant, flower and garden element that appears in…

Peeps At Many Lands: Australia

Frank Fox

Frank Fox’s “Peeps At Many Lands: Australia” is a sweeping survey of the continent’s geological birth, its…

Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues

John Parkinson

John Parkinson’s work is a comprehensive early‑modern manual that sets out, in three parts, a “garden of all…

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922

Flora of the Sudan

Broun, A. F. (Alfred Forbes); Massey, R. E.

The work is a botanical catalogue of Sudan’s flowering plants, compiled by A. F.

From North Pole to Equator: Studies of Wild Life and Scenes in Many Lands

Alfred Edmund Brehm

The work is a posthumous collection of Alfred Edmund Brehm’s public lectures, assembled by his son Horst…

The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth

Miron Elisha Hard

The work is a practical guide to the mushrooms that grow in the fields, forests and glens of the American…

The flowering plants of Africa An analytical key to the genera of African phanerograms

Franz Thonner

The work is a scholarly botanical reference that presents an analytical key to the genera of African…

Cassell's Natural History, Vol. 3 (of 6)

Cassell’s Natural History, Volume III is a Victorian‑era encyclopaedia of zoology, arranged by taxonomic…