Nature/Gardening/Animals

The Tale of Rusty Wren

Arthur Scott Bailey

The Tale of Rusty Wren is a juvenile story that centers on the everyday adventures of a busy little wren and…

Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

McIlvaine, Charles; Macadam, Robert K.

The work is a comprehensive reference on North American fungi, cataloguing roughly one thousand species of…

The book of the cat

Frances Simpson

Frances Simpson’s The Book of the Cat is a comprehensive guide for anyone who loves felines, written from the…

A naturalist in Madagascar A record of observation, experiences, and impressions made during a period of over fifty years' intimate association with the natives and study of the animal & vegetable life of the island

James Sibree

James Sibree’s work is a sprawling natural‑history memoir that blends personal observation with the…

The Desert World

Arthur Mangin

Arthur Mangin’s The Desert World is a sweeping natural‑history survey that treats deserts not merely as…

My First Summer in the Sierra

John Muir

John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra is a natural‑history memoir that begins with a series of vivid…

Beast and Man in India A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in their Relations with the People

John Lockwood Kipling

The Ornithology of Shakespeare Critically examined, explained and illustrated

James Edmund Harting

The work is a scholarly survey that treats Shakespeare’s references to birds as a distinct field of…

The Life of the Grasshopper

Jean-Henri Fabre

The work is a scholarly essay on insects, assembled from previously published chapters that appeared in…

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1

Sir James Emerson Tennent

Sir James Emerson Tennent’s first volume is a sweeping natural‑history and cultural survey of Ceylon,…

Travels into North America, Volume 3 (of 3)

Pehr Kalm

This third volume of Pehr Kalm’s Travels into North America continues the Swedish naturalist’s detailed…

Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916

This volume is a comprehensive record of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society’s forty‑ninth annual…

The illustrated horse doctor: Being an Accurate and Detailed Account of the Various Diseases to Which the Equine Race Are Subjected

Edward Mayhew

The Illustrated Horse Doctor, by Edward Mayhew, is a practical veterinary handbook that sets out to catalogue…

Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History, with a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree, and a Map and Illustrations

John H. Dixon

John H. Dixon’s “Gairloch in North‑West Ross‑Shire” is a comprehensive local history that blends records,…

The Story-book of Science

Jean-Henri Fabre

The Story‑book of Science is a juvenile‑oriented natural‑history work by the French naturalist Jean‑Henri…

Unexplored Spain

Chapman, Abel; Buck, Walter John

Unexplored Spain is a richly illustrated natural‑history and travel work that blends description, hunting…

Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China

Andrews, Roy Chapman; Andrews, Yvette Borup

Camps and Trails in China is a detailed account of the 1916‑1917 Asiatic Zoological Expedition, undertaken by…

The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. III. (Complete), 1891

Various

The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. III (1891) is a comprehensive record of the Society’s third year of…

Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth

Alice Morse Earle

The romance of natural history, second series

Philip Henry Gosse

The work is a Victorian‑era natural‑history compendium that reads like a series of essays rather than a…

The Insect World Being a Popular Account of the Orders of Insects; Together with a Description of the Habits and Economy of Some of the Most Interesting Species

Louis Figuier

The work is a nineteenth‑century popular science treatise that aims to introduce the orders of insects and to…

In the Andamans and Nicobars: The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin"

C. Boden Kloss

The work is a detailed scientific travelogue that records a 1900‑1902 cruise aboard the schooner Terrapin to…

The romance of insect life: Interesting descriptions of the strange and curious in the insect world

Edmund Selous

Edmund Selous’s The Romance of Insect Life offers a leisurely tour through the myriad habits of insects,…

The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State

Henry A. Gleason

The work is a practical field guide that teaches the reader to identify every native seed plant of Michigan…