Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming

The geography and geology of south-eastern Egypt

John Ball

John Ball’s work is a thorough scientific survey of Egypt’s far‑eastern desert, combining geography, geology…

The peaches of New York

U. P. Hedrick

The work is a scholarly horticultural treatise that opens with a straightforward statement of purpose: to…

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon

Robert Hooke

Robert Hooke’s Micrographia is a pioneering scientific treatise that records the first systematic…

Horse-hoeing husbandry: or, an essay on the principles of vegetation and tillage. Designed to introduce a new method of culture; whereby the produce of land will be increased, and the usual expence lessened. Together with accurate descriptions and cuts of the instruments employed in it.

Jethro Tull

The work is a practical agricultural treatise by Jethro Tull, first issued in the eighteenth century and…

Hints to Travellers, Scientific and General, Vol. 2 Tenth edition, revised and corrected

Royal Geographical Society

The volume is a comprehensive handbook for explorers, produced by the Royal Geographical Society in its…

Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro

Cato, Marcus Porcius; Varro, Marcus Terentius

The volume brings together the agricultural treatises of two Roman statesmen, Cato the Elder’s De re rustica…

One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe

William Carpenter

The work is a polemical pamphlet that assembles a hundred arguments intended to refute the accepted notion of…

Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland

G. F. Browne

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that records the author’s explorations of natural ice‑caves in…

Tobacco Leaves: Being a Book of Facts for Smokers

William Augustine Brennan

This work presents itself as a concise reference for the everyday smoker, gathering together factual material…

The book of cheese

Thom, Charles; Fisk, W. W.

The book of Cheese is a comprehensive technical guide that opens with a sweeping overview of how cheese has…

Principles and practice of agricultural analysis. Volume 2 (of 3), Fertilizers

Harvey Washington Wiley

Harvey W. Wiley’s Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis, Volume II, is a technical manual devoted…

Canyons of the Colorado

John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell’s Canyons of the Colorado is a first‑hand scientific report of the 1869‑1872 surveys of…

The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 1

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton’s “The Land of Midian (Revisited)” is a scholarly travelogue that builds on his…

The wonders of the world: A Complete Museum, Descriptive and Pictorial, of the Wonderful Phenomena and Results of Nature, Science and Art

John Loraine Abbott

The work is a nineteenth‑century compendium that sets out to catalogue the myriad “wonders” of nature,…

A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility

Negretti, Enrico Angelo Lodovico; Zambra, Joseph

This work is a comprehensive technical handbook on the instruments used in 19th‑century meteorology.

Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 1 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy

Edward Luther Stevenson

Edward Luther Stevenson’s Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, Volume I is a scholarly survey of the development…

How to Use the Popular Science Library; History of Science; General Index

Serviss, Garrett Putman; Selwyn-Brown, Arthur

The work is the concluding volume of the Popular Science Library, a sixteen‑part series that gathers the most…

The Elements of Geology

William Harmon Norton

The Elements of Geology is a concise textbook written by William H.

The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing

Samuel J. Record

Samuel J. Record’s The Mechanical Properties of Wood is a concise technical manual aimed at forestry students…

Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1

Alexander von Humboldt

Cosmos is Alexander von Humboldt’s ambitious attempt to unite the scattered branches of natural science into…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Joints" to "Justinian I." Volume 15, Slice 5

Various

Encyclopaedia Britannica’s 11th Edition presents a scholarly survey of anatomy, beginning its “Joints” entry…

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World

Various

The first volume of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1666) is a collective report of…

Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Pathfinder of the Seas

Charles Lee Lewis

The work is a scholarly biography of Matthew Fontaine Maury, the 19th‑century U.S.

The Arctic World: Its plants, animals, and natural phenomena. With a historical sketch of Arctic discovery, down to the British polar expedition: 1875-76.

Anonymous

The work presents a sweeping survey of the Arctic’s natural wonders and the history of its exploration,…