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Natural History

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Books that study organisms, including animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms, in their natural environments. They encompass a broad range of topics, including taxonomy, ecology, evolution, behavior, and conservation. Historically, natural history was a discipline that combined elements of biology, geology, and astronomy, often involving field observations, collections, and the documentation of species and their habitats.

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Zoology

Geology

Botany

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Aëdologia of Verhandeling van den nachtegaal
Alexikepvs sev avxiliaris et medicvs hortvs rerevm variarvm et secretorum remediorum accessione locupletatus
Aloidarium, sive Aloës mucronato folio Americanæ majoris, aliarumque ejusdem speciei historia

With 8 engraved plates
Contributor: Hieronymus
Artificiosa methodvs comparandorvm hortensivm frvctvvm olervm radicvm vvarvm vinorvm carnivm et iusculorum quæ corpus clementer purgent & varijs morbis absque vlla noxa & nausea blandè succurrant
Beschouwingen van het dierenrijk, voor jonge lieden

I. Over de zoogdieren. II. Over de vogelen en amphibiën. III. Over de visschen, insekten en wormen
Beytraege zur Naturgeschichte

With beautiful colored engravings
Birds of the British Isles
Caroli Linnæi ... Philosophia botanica
Caroli a Linné ... Systema vegetabilium secundum classes ordines genera species cum characteribus et differentiis. Editio decima quinta quae ipsa est recognitionis a b. Io. Andrea Murray institutae tertia procurata a C.H. Persoon

Contributor: Johann Andreas Murray C. H. Persoon
Caspari Bauhini viri clariss

Printer's mark with motto: Per angusta ad augusta. Initials: JOSK. Title in black and red
Contributor: Johann
Caspari Bavhini viri clariss. Prodromos theatri botanici

First edition: Frankfurt 1620
Conr. Gesneri Tigurini medicinae medicinae et philosoph professoris in schola Tigurina historiae animalium liber IV qui est de piscium & aquatilium animantium natura

Final words on title page in Greek lettering
Conradi Gesneri Tigurini medicinae et philosophiae professoris in Schola Tigurina, Historiae animalium Lib. V

Title vignette initials
De diergaarde te Parijs

Contributor: Jules Janin
De hoenderhof
De vera antiquorum herba Britannica, ejusdemque efficacia contra stomacaccen, seu scelotyrben, Frisiis & Batavis de scheurbuyck

With engraved title, engraved portrait of Hendrik Casimir van Nassau on v° printed title, and 24 engraved plates
Contributor: Hieronymus
De vlinders van Java
Genera et index methodicus Europæorum Lepidopterorum
Hand- en standaardboek voor den hoenderliefhebber bevattende het verzorgen, verplegen en kweeken der hoenders alsmede korte beschrijving van alle bekende hoenderrassen
Hebt de vogels lief

Contributor: A. F. Pieck International Council for Bird Preservation
Histoire générale des plantes contenant XVIII livres egalement departis en devx tomes

With an engraved printer's device on the title pages and 2,752 woodcuts. The woodcuts, generally reduced to a height of approximately 12 cm, are partly derived from previously published works and partly executed after plants supplied to the author, among others, by Lobelius.
Contributor: Jean Des Moulins Philippe Borde Laurent Arnaud Claude Rigaud
Histoire naturelle de la montagne de Saint-Pierre de Maestricht
Historia hortensivm qvatvor opvscvlis methodicis contexta

Pages 193-208 missing
Kanari-uitspanningen of nieuwe verhandeling van de kanari-teelt, den oorsprong, de voortteeling, aenkweking, onderscheiden aert, ziektens en gebreken ...