Nature/Gardening/Animals

Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914

Francis Hopkinson Smith

The work is a series of four lectures delivered in 1914 before the Art Institute of Chicago, in which Francis…

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924

The volume is a formal record of the Northern Nut Growers Association’s fifteenth annual meeting, held…

The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America

James Orton

The work is a nineteenth‑century scientific travelogue that records a Smithsonian‑sponsored expedition across…

The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 05 (of 10)

Sedgwick, Adam; Sharp, David; Sinclair, F. G.

Love's Meinie: Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds

John Ruskin

The work is a series of three lectures in which John Ruskin, the famed Victorian critic, turns his attention…

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951

The volume is the official record of the Northern Nut Growers Association’s forty‑second annual meeting, held…

The Naturalist on the River Amazons

Henry Walter Bates

The work is a nineteenth‑century natural history travelogue by Henry Walter Bates, a veteran of an 1848–1859…

Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation

William T. Hornaday

The book is a forceful appeal for wildlife conservation written in 1912 by the noted zoologist William T.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911

This volume is a verbatim record of the Northern Nut Growers Association’s second annual meeting, held in…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" Volume 13, Slice 7

Various

Encyclopaedia Britannica’s 11th Edition presents a scholarly entry on horticulture that reads like a compact…

The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 08 (of 10)

Hans Gadow

The Cambridge Natural History, Volume 8, is a scholarly survey of amphibians and reptiles written at the turn…

The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1

L. H. Bailey

The work is a natural‑history essay that begins with a vivid travel scene in a tropical jungle, where the…

Travels in the East Indian archipelago

Albert S. Bickmore

Albert S. Bickmore’s Travels in the East Indian Archipelago is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that blends…

Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together With Observations on the Manners of the Indians.

William Bartram

William Bartram’s work is a sprawling travelogue that records his journeys through the southern colonies of…

The language of flowers: The floral offering ; A Token of Affection and Esteem ; Comprising the Language and Poetry of Flowers

Henrietta Dumont

Henrietta Dumont’s The Language of Flowers offers a systematic guide to the symbolic meanings that various…

Birds in the Calendar

Frederick G. Aflalo

The work is a scholarly survey of British game birds, opening with an extended essay on the pheasant that…

London parks and gardens

Mrs. Evelyn Cecil

This work is a comprehensive survey of London’s parks and gardens as they existed within the County of London…

Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) 2nd ed.

Charles Sprague Sargent

The Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) is a scholarly reference work compiled by…

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) A Practical Guide to the Making of Home Grounds and the Growing of Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables for Home Use

L. H. Bailey

Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial

Various

The Old English Herbals

Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

The Old English Herbals is a scholarly survey of Britain’s botanical literature, tracing the development of…

A Hausa botanical vocabulary

J. M. Dalziel

A Hausa botanical vocabulary is a specialist reference work compiled by the botanist J. M.

The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 09 (of 10)

A. H. Evans

The ninth volume of the Cambridge Natural History, authored by A. H.

Bird Houses Boys Can Build

Albert Frederick Siepert

Albert Frederick Siepert’s Bird Houses Boys Can Build is a practical handbook that opens with a nostalgic…