1672 JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)
New-Englands rarities discovered: In birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. Together with the physical and chyrurgical remedies wherewith the natives constantly use to cure their distempers, wounds, and sores; also A perfect description of an Indian squa, in all her bravery, with a poem not improperly conferr'd upon her; lastly, a chronological table of the most remarkable passage in that country amongst the English.
Josselyn's books give some of the earliest and most complete information on New England flora and fauna in colonial times, and his outlook was later praised by Henry Thoreau, among others. Digital facsimile from Biodi…
GMN 13878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16168
1676 PATIN, Charles (1633 – 1693)
Relations historiques et curieuses de voyages, en Allemagne, Angleterre, Hollande, Boheme, Suisse, &c.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated into English as Travels thro' Germany, Bohemia, Swisserland, Holland, and other parts of Europe : describing the most considerable citys and the pal…
GMN 13870 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16160
1699 BERNIER, François (1620 – 1688)
Voyages de François Bernier ... contenant la description des états du grand mogol. Où il est traité des richesses, des forces, de la justice, & des causes principales de la decadence des etats de l'Asie, & de plusieurs évenemens considerables. Et où l'on voit comment l'or & l'argent, après avoir circulé dans le monde, passent dans l'Hindoustan, d'où ils ne reviennent plus.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13876 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16166
1714 –1725 FEUILLÉE, Louis (1660 – 1732)
Journal des observations physiques, mathematiques et botaniques, faites par l'ordre du roi sur les côtes orientales de l'Amerique meridionale, & dans les Indes occidentales, depuis l'année 1707, jusques en 1712. 3 vols.
Includes in vols. 2 and 3: Histoire des plantes medecinales qui sont le plus en usage aux royaumes de l'Amerique meridionale, du Perou & du Chily, : composée sur les lieux par ordre du Roy, dans les années 1709. 1710.…
GMN 13449 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15722
1719 KOLBE, Peter (Kolb) (1675 – 1726)
Caput Bonae Spei hodiernum, das ist: vollständige Beschreibung des africanischen Vorgebürges der Guten Hofnung. Worinnen in dreyen Theilen abgehandelt wird, wie es heut zu Tage, nach seiner Situation und Eigenschaft aussiehet; ingleichen was ein Natgur-Forscher in den dreyen Reichen der Natur....
Includes the first study of the natural history of the Cape region of South Africa. Translated into English by "Mr. Medley" as The present state of the Cape of Good-Hope. 2 vols., London, 1738-31. Digital facsimile of…
GMN 13538 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15815
1757 ADANSON, Michel (1727 – 1806)
Histoire naturelle du Sénégal. Coquillages. Avec la relation abrégée d'un voyage fait en ce pays, pendant les années 1749, 50, 51, 52 & 53.
Adanson's voyage and explorations in Senegal, including the Island of Goree and the River Senegal. The second part is a general survey of the living mollusks he found in Senegal. His classification of mollusks was ori…
GMN 11525 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13724
1758 LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778); LÖFLING, Pehr (1729 – 1756)
Petri Loefling... Iter Hispanicum, eller Resa til spanska länderna uti Europa och America förrättad infrän år 1751 til år, 1756, med Beskrifningar och ron öfver de märkvärdigaste växyer, utgifven efter dess frånfälle af Carl Linnaeus.
Edited by Carl Linnaeus after the early death of Pehr Löfling, who Linnaeus considered his most gifted disciple. This is the account of Löfling's mostly botanically oriented researches through Spain, Portugal, and nor…
GMN 13545 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15822
1777 LIND, James (1716 – 1794); BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820); SOLANDER, Daniel Carlsson (1733 – 1782); TROIL, Uno von (1746 – 1803); BERGMAN, Torbern Olaf (1735 – 1784)
Bref rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII.
Von Troil’s compilation is the only contemporary printed book steming from Sir Joseph Banks’s pioneering scientfic expedition to Iceland, Banks's first and only expedition as indisputable leader. Having recently retur…
GMN 13764 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16049
1783 IVES, Edward ( – 1786)
A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the Admiral and the Nabob Serajah Dowlah. Interspersed with some interesting passages relating to the manners, customs, &c. of several nations in Indostan. Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, a description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India, with their real, or supposed, medicinal virtues. Also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulf of Persia. Illustrated with a chart, maps, and other copper-plates.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 13867 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16157
1789 PATTERSON, William (1755 – 1810)
A narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria. In the years one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, eight, and nine.
Trained in horticulture at Syon House, London, Paterson was sent in 1777 to the Cape of Good Hope to collect plants for the estate of the Countess of Strathmore, undertaking four journeys into the South African interi…
GMN 13763 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16048
1793 SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
A sketch of a tour on the Continent, in the years 1786 and 1787. 3 vols.
Includes an index to the natural history aspects that Smith recorded. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12950 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15197
1793 DALZEL, Archibald (Dalziel) (1740 – 1811)
The history of Dahomy, an inland kingdom of Africa; compiled from authentic memoirs; with an introduction and notes.
Dalzel studied medicine at Edinburgh, and served in the Royal Navy as a surgeon during the Seven Years’ War (1756–63). Discharged in 1763, he accepted a position as a surgeon in the Company of Merchants Trading to Afr…
GMN 13041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15291
1793 MOORE, John (1729 – 1802)
A journal during a residence in France, from the beginning of August, to the middle of December, 1792. To which is added, an account of the most remarkable events that happened at Paris from that time to the death of the late king of France.
GMN 13872 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16162
1811 HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (1785 – 1865)
Journal of a tour in Iceland in the summer of 1809.
"In 1809 he went to Iceland to make a botanical survey for [Sir Joseph] Banks; his collections were lost in a fire at sea on the way home but with the aid of Banks’s notes from his own journey there in 1772 Hooker was…
GMN 13762 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16047
1821 TULLY, James D.
The history of plague, as it has lately appeared in the islands of Malta, Gozo, Corfu, Cephalonia, &c. detailing specific contagion of that disease, with particulars of the means adeopted for its eradication.
Concerns the Maltese plague,. 1813-1814. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12757 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15003
1822 O'MEARA, Barry Edward (1786 – 1836)
Memoirs of the military and political life of Napoleon Bonaparte, from his origin, to his death on the rock of St. Helena. Comprising a just outline of his splendid and unexampled military career, from his first entering the regiment La Fere as lieutenant, to its tremendous termination at the battle of Waterloo; a detailed view of his extraordinary return to France from Elba, and the events of his ensuing reign of 100 days. Embracing also an authentic narrative of the conduct of Napoleon during his voyage to St. Helena, and while in exile, and of the events attending his confinement, sickness, and death, with numerous private documents, now first published in this country, and collected chiefly from the writings of Dr. B.E. O'Meara, Surgeon to Napoleon at St. Helena.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13873 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16163
1824 WALLACE, James
A voyage to India: Containing reflections on a voyage to Madras and Bengal, in 1821, in the ship Lonach; instructions for the preservation of health in Indian climates; and hints to surgeons and owners of private trading-ships.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13875 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16165
1840 WILDE, Sir William Robert Wills (1815 – 1876)
Narrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe, and along the shores of the Mediterranean, including a visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus, and Greece. With observations on the present state and prospects of Egypt and Palestine, and on the climate, natural history, antiquities, etc. of the countries visited. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13871 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16161
1841 GREY, Sir George (1812 – 1898)
Journals of two expeditions of discovery in North-West and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39...describing many new discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical conditions of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. 2 vols.
"In 1837, at the age of 25, Grey led an ill-prepared expedition that explored North-West Australia. British settlers in Australia at the time knew little of the region and only one member of Grey's party had been ther…
GMN 13014 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15264
1936 MOYNIHAN, Berkeley George Andrew (1865 – 1936)
Truants: The story of some who deserted medicine yet triumphed.
Discusses the careers of physicians who turned their attention to other pursuits, including Rabelais, Smollett, Doyle, Mitchell, and other writers as well as Livingstone and other explorers, etc.
GMN 8726 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10904
1942 HASKELL, Daniel Carl (1883 – 1968)
The United States Exploring Expedition and its publications, 1844–1874: A bibliography
Reprinted with additions and corrections from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of February 1940 and January, July and October 1941.
GMN 9824 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12012
1956 MCKELVEY, Susan Delano (1883 – 1964)
Botanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi West 1790-1850.
Reprinted with a new introduction and bibliographical supplement by Stephen Dow Beckham, Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1991.
GMN 7238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9407
1965 HUARD, Pierre Alphonse (1901 – 1983); WONG, Ming (1926 – 1989)
Bio-bibliographie de quelques médecins naturalistes voyageurs de la marine au début du XIXe siècle. Colloque International sur L'Histoire de la Biologie Marine. Les grandes expéditions scientifiques et la création des laboratoires maritimes. 2-6 septembre 1963. Supplément no. 19 à "Vie et Milieu", pp. 163-223.
GMN 9598 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11785
1966 GOETZMANN, William H. (1930 – 2010)
Exploration and empire: The explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West.
GMN 9827 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12015
1972 LINKLATER, Eric (1899 – 1974)
The voyage of the Challenger.
GMN 9628 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11815
1975 GERBI, Antonello (1904 – 1976)
La natura delle Indie Nove: Da Christoforo Colombo a Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo.
Translated into English by Jeremy Moyle as Nature in the new world: From Christopher Columbus to Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. Primarily a detailed analysis of the work…
GMN 9961 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12150
1979 CHUINARD, Eldon G. (1904 – 1993)
Only one man died. The medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Appendix 1 contains a listing of the many medical books in the library of Thomas Jefferson.
GMN 7190 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9357
1983 BROSSE, Jacques (1922 – 2008)
Les tours du monde des explorateurs. Les grands voyages maritimes, 1764-1843.
Translated into English by Stanley Hochman as Great voyages of discovery: Circumnavigators and scientists, 1764-1843. (New York: Facts on File, 1983).
GMN 7563 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9735
1984 SPILLANE, John David (1909 – 1985)
Medical travelers: Narratives from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
Anthology of selections from the writings of some of the more famous English physician travellers.
GMN 7189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9356
1985 VIOLA, Herman J.; MARGOLIS, Carolyn
Magnificent voyagers: The U. S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Edited by Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis.
GMN 9854 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12042
1990 SMITH, Anthony (1926 – 2014)
Explorers of the Amazon.
The author was a noted explorer.
GMN 9234 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11416
1992 FOGG, Gordon Elliott (1919 – 2005)
A history of Antarctic science.
GMN 7372 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9544
1996 RABY, Peter
Bright paradise: Victorian scientific travellers.
GMN 7458 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9630
1997 DEACON, Margaret Elsa
Scientists and the sea 1650-1900. A study of marine science.
GMN 7370 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9542
1999 CARTER, Edward C. II (1928 – 2002)
Surveying the record: North American scientific exploration to 1930, edited by Edward C. Carter II.
GMN 7371 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9543
1999 RICE, Tony
Voyages of discovery: Three centuries of natural history exploration.
Spectacular color images including many of original paintings and manuscripts.
GMN 7562 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9734
1999 LIEBOWITZ, Daniel (1921 – 2014); KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
The physician and the slave trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions, and the crusade against slavery in East Africa.
GMN 8694 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10871
2004 SCHIEBINGER, Londa (1952 – )
Plants and empire: Colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic world.
GMN 9861 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12049
2007 –2010 LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778); HANSEN, Lars
The Linnaeus Apostles. Global science & adventure. 8 vols. in 11. General editor: Lars Hansen.
Vol. 1: Introduction Vol. 2: Europe, Arctic & Asia. Anton Rolandsson Martin, Johan Peter Falck Vol. 3: Europe, North & South America. Pehr Kalm, Pehr Löfling, Daniel Rolander Vol. 4: Europe, Middle East, North East & …
GMN 13034 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15284
2009 MCCALMAN, Iain Duncan (1947 – )
Darwin's armada: Four voyages and the battle for the theory of evolution.
Discusses the voyages by Darwin, Huxley, Hooker and Wallace that informed their key Victorian works on the theory of evolution.
GMN 10098 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12287
2011 KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922); HAZELL, Alastair
The last slave market: Dr. John Kirk and the struggle to end the East African slave trade.
GMN 12421 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14651
2013 WILLIAMS, Glyndwr
Naturalists at sea: Scientific travelers from Dampier to Darwin.
GMN 7192 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9359
2013 MADRIÑÁN RESTROPO, Santiago; JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph von (1727 – 1817)
Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin's American plants: Botanical expedition to the Caribbean (1754-1759) and the publication of the Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia.
GMN 8286 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10462
2014 MÜNZER, Hieronymus (1437 – 1508)
Doctor Hieronymus Münzer's itinerary (1494 and 1495) and the discovery of Guinea. Edited and translated by James Firth.
GMN 13887 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16177
2016 TROELSTRA, Anne Sjerp (1939 – )
Bibliography of natural history travel narratives.
The author is a professor of mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. Besides treatment of earlier literature, this bibliography includes many lesser known 20th century works.
GMN 7964 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10140
2019 FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798); MARISS, Anne
Johann Reinhold Forster and the making of natural history on Cook's Second Voyage, 1772–1775
GMN 11528 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13727
