1782 COBRES, Joseph Paul Edler von (1745 – 1823)
Deliciae Cobresianae. J. P. Cobres Büchersammlung zur Naturgeschichte. 2 vols.
Privately printed catalogue of Cobres’ natural history library, comprising descriptions, with collations and notes, of about 2500 books on botany, zoology, geology, etc. The catalogue is divided into subject sections …
GMN 11095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13291
1840 WÜSTENFELD, Heinrich Ferdinand (1808 – 1899)
Geschichte der arabischen Aerzte und Naturforscher.
This has traditionally been considered the first major history of Arab medicine. It was written mostly in the form of a chronological series of bio-bibliographies, and should also be considered a pioneering bibliograp…
GMN 6502 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8045
1854 GRATACAP, Paul-Antoine (CAP) (1788 – 1877)
Le Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Histoire de la fondation et les développements successifs de l'établissement; Biographie des hommes célèbres qui y ont contribué par leur enseignement ou par leurs découvertes, histoire des recherches, des voyages, des applications utiles auxquels le muséum a donné lieu, pour les arts, le commerce et l'agriculture; description des galeries, du jardin, des serres et de la ménagerie.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 13337 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15605
1885 WATKINS, Morgan George (1835 – 1911)
Gleanings from the natural history of the ancients.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12122 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14331
1893 MUSÉUM D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE
Centenaire de la fondation de Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 10 juin 1793 - 10 juin 1893. Volume commemoratif publiée par les professeurs du muséum.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9540 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11726
1901 GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, Étienne (1772 – 1844); HAMY, Ernest Théodore Jules (1842 – 1908)
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Lettres écrites d'Égypte à Cuvier, Jussieu, Lacépède, Monge, Desgenettes, Redouté le Jeune, Norry, etc., aux professeurs du muséum et à sa famille. Receuillies et publiées avec un préface et des notes par le Dr. E.-T. Hamy.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 12210 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14420
1904 –1912 SHARPE, Richard Bowdler (1847 – 1909); GÜNTHER, Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf) (1830 – 1914); THOMAS, Oldfield (1858 – 1929); LYDEKKER, Richard (1849 – 1915); BOULENGER, George Albert (1858 – 1937); POCOCKE, Reginald Innes (1863 – 1947); SMITH, Edgar Albert (1847 – 1916); KIRKPATRICK, Randolph (1863 – 1950)
The history of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. 3 vols. [Edited by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther.]
(Now the Natural History Museum, London). Vol. 1: Libraries; The Department of Botany; The Department of Geology; The Department of Minerals. Vol. 2.: Separate historical accounts of the several collections included i…
GMN 9318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11500
1933 LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778); SOULSBY, Basil H. (1864 – 1933)
A catalogue of the works of Linnaeus (and publications more immediately relating thereto) perserved in the libraries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) and the British Museum (Natural History) (South Kennsington). Second edition
Includes a vast number of works theses and orations, of works edited by or supervised by Linnaeus or written with his cooperation. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 11233 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13430
1938 ANKER, Jean (1892 – 1957)
Bird books and bird art: An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology, based principally on the collection of books containing plates with figures of birds and their eggs now in the University Library at Copenhagen and including a catalogue of these works.
This bibliography is distinctive for its very detailed annotations.
GMN 11771 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13972
1943 RÉAUMUR, René Antoine Ferchault de (1683 – 1757); TREMBLEY, Abraham (1710 – 1784); GUYÉNOT, Émile (1885 – 1964)
Correspondence inédite entre Réaumur et Abraham Trembley, comprenant 113 lettres, recueillies et annotées par Maurice Trembley. Introduction par Emile Guyenot.
GMN 12123 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14332
1947 RAVEN, Charles Earle (1885 – 1964)
English naturalists from Neckham to Ray.
GMN 356.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/294
1960 HOOKE, Robert (1635 – 1703); KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
A bibliography of Dr. Robert Hooke by Geoffrey Keynes, Kt.
GMN 11202 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13399
1972 ULLMANN, Manfred (1931 – )
Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam.(Handbuch der Orientalistik, 1. Abteilung, Ergänzungsband VI, 2).
Concerns zoology, botany, mineralogy, alchemy, astrology, magic, agriculture, the largest section being devoted to alchemy.
GMN 12526 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14761
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
1975 GESNER, Conrad [Konrad Gessner] (1516 – 1565); WELLISCH, Hans Hanan (1920 – 2004)
Conrad Gessner: A bio-bibliogaphy
GMN 11216 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13413
1976 ALLEN, David Elliston (1932 – )
The naturalist in Britain: A social history.
GMN 8055 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10231
1976 KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982); RAY, John (1628 – 1705)
John Ray, 1627-1705: A bibliography, 1660-1970: A descriptive bibliography of the works of John Ray ... with introductions, annotations, various indexes, and a supplement of new entries, additions and corrections by the author, Sir Geoffrey Keynes.
This is the "best" edition. The original edition issued in London by Faber & Faber in 1951 was a far superior example of book production, printed on thick greenish paper.
GMN 11205 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13402
1976 CHALMERS-HUNT, J. M.
Natural history auctions 1700-1972. A register of sales in the British Isles compiled by J. M. Chalmers-Hunt. With articles by S. Peter Dance, Peter G. Embrey, W. D. Ian Rolfe, Clive Simson, William T. Stern, J. M. Chalmers-Hunt, Alwyne Wheeler.
Entomological sales by J.M. Chalmers-Hunt. Zoological Sales other than those of birds Insects and shells by Alwyne Wheeler Botanical Sales by William T. Stern Ornithology and Oology by Clive Simson Fossil Sales by W. …
GMN 13107 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15360
1977 GESNER, Conrad [Konrad Gessner] (1516 – 1565); GMELIG-NIJBOER, Caroline Aleid (1946 – )
Conrad Gessner's "Historia animalium": An inventory of Renaissance zoology.
GMN 9739 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11926
1980 FREEMAN, Richard Broke (1915 – 1986)
British natural history books, 1495-1900: A handlist.
A partially annotated listing of all principal natural history books published in the UK from 1495 to 1900.
GMN 11209 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13406
1982 RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840); FITZPATRICK, T. J.; BOEWE, Charles Ernest (1924 – 2016)
Fitzpatrick's Rafinesque: A sketch of his life with bibliography [of his writings]. Revised and enlarged by Charles Boewe.
See also Boewe's The life of C.S. Rafinesque a man of uncommon zeal. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2011.
GMN 11217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13414
1982 FARBER, Paul Lawrence (1944 – )
The emergence of ornithology as a scientific discipline.
GMN 11769 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13970
1983 –1991 KOPPEL, Suzanne; LÖSCHNER, Renate; KIRCHSTEIN-GAMBER, Birgit
Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH. 2 vols. in 3.
"Vol. I, edited by Susanne Koppel, describes 684 works dating from the discovery of Brazil to the nineteenth century, on history, politics, literature, ethnology, geography, climate, botany, zoology and medicine. The …
GMN 8945 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11124
1986 SMIT, Pieter (1925 – ); ENGEL, Hendrik
Hendrik Engel's alphabetical list of Dutch zoological cabinets and menageries . Second, enlarged edition prepared by Pieter Smith with the assistance of A. P. M. Sanders and J. P. F. van der Veer.
Digital facsimile from dwc.knaw.nl at this link. Originally published in Bijdragen tot de dierkunde, v. 27, 1939.
GMN 12999 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15248
1987 WATERSTON, Charles Dewar (1927 – ); STACE, Helen E.; PETTIT, Charles William A. (1937 – )
Natural science collections in Scotland: Botany, geology, zoology.
GMN 10897 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13093
1987 RÉAUMUR, René Antoine Ferchault de (1683 – 1757); TREMBLEY, Abraham (1710 – 1784); BONNET, Charles (1720 – 1793); DAWSON, Virginia Parker (1943 – )
Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur
GMN 12124 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14333
1990 LEFANU, William Richard (1904 – 1995); GREW, Nehemiah (1641 – 1712)
Nehemiah Grew: A study and bibliography of his writings
GMN 11232 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13429
1994 FRENCH, Roger Kenneth (1938 – 2002)
Ancient natural history: Histories of nature.
GMN 9608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11795
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 SANDERS, Albert E.; ANDERSON, William D. Jr.
Natural history investigations in South Carolina from colonial times to the present.
GMN 10338 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12530
2000 STEPHENS, Lester D. (1933 – )
Science, race, and religion in the American South. John Bachman and the Charleston circle of naturalists, 1815-1895.
GMN 10339 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12531
2000 SALMON, Michael A.; MARREN, Peter; HARLEY, Basil H. (1931 – 2017)
The Aurelian legacy: British butterflies and their collectors. By Michael A. Salmon with additional material by Peter Marren and Basil Harley.
GMN 10670 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12863
2000 ARMSTRONG, Patrick H.
The English parson-naturalist: A companionship between science and religion.
GMN 13017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15267
2002 FREEDBERG, David
The eye of the lynx. Galileo, his friends, and the beginnings of modern natural history.
GMN 10938 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13134
2002 BARTRAM, William (1739 – 1823); SANDERS, Brad
Guide to William Bartram's travels: Following the trail of America's first great naturalist.
GMN 13447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15719
2004 JAUSSAUD, Philippe; BRYGOO, Édouard-Raoul (1920 – 2016)
Du Jardin au Muséum en 516 biographies.
"Founded in 1635, the Royal Garden of Medicinal Plants became the National Museum of Natural History during the French Revolution, with magisterial chairs which were suppressed in 1985. During this 350-year period mor…
GMN 12463 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14696
2006 OGILVIE, Brian W.
The science of describing: Natural history in Renaissance Europe.
GMN 8493 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10670
2006 KOHLER, Robert E. (1937 – )
All creatures: Naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950.
GMN 10366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12558
2007 ENENKEL, Karl A. E. (1959 – ); SMITH, Paul J.
Early modern zoology: The construction of animals in science, literature and the visual arts. Edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith.
GMN 11500 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13699
2010 SPARY, Emma C.
Utopia's garden: French natural history from Old Regime to revolution.
GMN 8039 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10215
2010 JORINK, Eric
Reading the book of nature in the Dutch golden age, 1575-1715.
A revised and translated version of Het Boeck der natuere. nederlandse geleerden en de wonderen van Gods schepping, 1575-1716, Leiden: Brill, 2006.
GMN 13000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15249
2011 KAEPPLER, Adrienne Lois (1935 – )
Holophusicon: The Leverian Museum, an eighteenth-century English institution of science, curiosity and art.
A history of the Leverian Museum with discussion of other contemporary institutions. Includes an inventory tracing the current location of thousands of items from the Leverian Museum since its dispersal. Many illustra…
GMN 7681 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9853
2011 MEYERS, Amy R. W.
Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.
Large format, finely produced with excellent color plates.
GMN 7805 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9977
2012 –2018 CUVIER, Jean Léopold Chrétien Frédéric "Georges" (1769 – 1832); PLETSCH, Theodore Wells III (1945 – )
Cuvier’s History of the natural sciences Vol. 1: Twenty-four lessons from antiquity to the renaissance, translated from the French by A. J. Simpson. Vol. 2: Nineteen lessons from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, translated from the French by B. D. Marx. Vol. 3: Twenty lessons from the first half of the eighteenth century. Edited and annotated by T. W. Pletsch.
Annotated English editions and translation of Cuvier's 5 volume Histoire des sciences naturelles, depuis leur origine jusqu’a nos jours, originally published in French from 1841 to 1845.
GMN 12465 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14698
2014 ASÚA, Miguel de
Science in the vanished arcadia: Knowledge of nature in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Rio de La Plata.
An overview of Jesuit scientific production in Paraguay during the 17th and 18th centuries, including natural history, medicine, cartography, astronomy, and practical science.
GMN 7936 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10110
2014 ENENKEL, Karl A. E. (1959 – ); SMITH, Paul J.
Zoology in early modern culture: Intersections of science, theology, philology, and political and religious education. Edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith.
GMN 11501 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13700
2015 DEROLEZ, Albert (1934 – )
The making and meaning of the Liber Floridus: A study of the original manuscript, Ghent, University Library, MS 92.
"The Liber Floridus (1121), composed, written and illustrated by Canon Lambert of Saint-Omer, is the earliest illustrated encyclopedic compilation of the Latin West. Its autograph (Ghent, University Library, MS 92), a…
GMN 9716 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11903
2015 GUERINI, Anita (1953 – )
The courtiers' anatomists: Animals and humans in Louis XIV's Paris.
GMN 10620 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12813
2015 LISTER, Martin (1639 – 1712); ROOS, Anna Marie
The correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712). Volume one: 1662-1677. Edited and translated by Anna Marie Roos.
GMN 12980 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15228
2017 DAVIDSON, Kathleen
Photography, natural history and the nineteenth-century museum: Exchanging views of empire.
GMN 10730 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12924
