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Brotherton Collection19
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Herbert Read Collection3
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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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natural history70
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indians of south america3

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Amazon River Valley3
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Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)1

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Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte De (1707-1788)23
Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie23
Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie (1716-1799)23
Gueneau De Montbeillard, Philibert23
Gueneau De Montbeillard, Philibert (1720-1785)23
Lacepede, Bernard Germaine Etienne De La Ville Sur Illon23
Lacepede, Bernard Germaine Etienne De La Ville Sur Illon Comte De (1756-1825)23
Turner, William Barwell (1845-1917)6
Leeuwenhoek, Antony Van (1632-1723)5
Bates, Henry Walter (1825-1892)4

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The natural history of Selborne

White, Gilbert (1720-1793); Oldham, Claire; Fisher, James (1912-1970)

1947

Contents: Letters to Thomas Pennant. -- Letters to Daines Barrington. -- Poems. -- Appendix. -- Notes. -- Index and glossary.

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James Dalton, correspondence

Dalton, James

c.1795-1824

Comprises 35 letters from James Dalton to James Sowerby, the naturalist; also, letters from W. Brunton, John Larcom, Peter Murray, and Robert Teesdale to Sowerby, and one letter from J. Wood to Dr Smi...

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Nueva teoría cósmica y su aplicación a las ciencias naturales : Mecanica celeste, cosmologia, fisica y quimica

Ruiz, Mariano N

1925

Author's note enclosed in the style of a letter on loose, folded leaf.

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Antonii a Leeuwenhoek... Arcana naturae detecta

Leeuwenhoek, Antony van (1632-1723)

1722

Title vignette; added engr. half title.

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Notes on algal memoirs by various authors, including some illustrations, compiled by William Barwell Turner

Turner, William Barwell (1845-1917)

c.1888

A letter from Mr Greenhow to Mr Turner, dated Nov. 29 [1905] is inserted at the end in a pocket

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Antonii a Leeuwenhoek Continuatio arcanorum naturae detectorum

Leeuwenhoek, Antony van (1632-1723)

1722

Title vignette.

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Idle days in Patagonia

Hudson, W H (1841-1922)

1923

Originally published in 1893 by Chapman & Hall.

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