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the garden, the marsh, the small hours of birds.

A Manual of Philippine Birds

Richard C. McGregor

Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters

Charles Darwin

Darwin

Gamaliel Bradford

Flora of the Sudan

A. F. Broun, R. E. Massey

Heads and tales

Anonymous

Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.

Charles Darwin

On Growth and Form

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

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On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Charles Darwin

On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, / with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions

Samuel Felton

Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

Alphonse de Candolle

Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation

William T. Hornaday

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

Pharmacographia / A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India

Friedrich A. Flückiger, Daniel Hanbury

Physico-theology

W. Derham

Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics / Embracing the Myths, Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-Lore of the Plant Kingdom

Richard Folkard

Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon

Sir James Emerson Tennent

The Book of Herbs

Rosalind Northcote

The Complete Herbal / To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic.

Nicholas Culpeper

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. II (1st Edition)

Charles Darwin

The History of the European Fauna

R. F. Scharff

The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6)

the Elder Pliny

The Old English Herbals

Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

The Sea and Its Living Wonders / A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep and of the Progress of Martime Discovery from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

G. Hartwig

The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication

Charles Darwin

The field and garden vegetables of America

Fearing Burr

The natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent

Alexander Russell

Wild Spain (España agreste) / Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration

Abel Chapman, Walter John Buck

Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2)

Angelo De Gubernatis