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New World plants, New World drugs / Mark Blumenthal.
Blumenthal, Mark.Date: 1995- Books
Plantæ Favershamienses. A catalogue of the more perfect plants growing spontaneously about Faversham, in the county of Kent / With an appendix, exhibiting a short view of the fossil bodies of the adjacent Island of Shepey. By Edward Jacob.
Jacob, Edward, 1709 or 1710-1788.Date: 1777- Books
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Plant? Favershamienses. A catalogue of the more perfect plants growing spontaneously about Faversham, in the county of Kent. With an appendix exhibiting a short view of the fossil bodies of the adjacent Island of Shepey. By Edward Jacob, Esq; F.S.A.
Jacob, Edward, 1709 or 1710-1788.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]- Books
Unnatural selection : how we are changing life, gene by gene / Emily Monosson.
Monosson, EmilyDate: [2015]- Books
Biodiversity and human health / edited by Francesca Grifo and Joshua Rosenthal ; foreword by Thomas E. Lovejoy.
Date: [1997], ©1997- Books
Human health and forests : a global overview of issues, practice, and policy / edited by Carol J. Pierce Colfer.
Date: 2008- Books
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Enumeration of all the plants known from China proper, Formosa, Hainan, the Corea, the Luchu archipelago, and the island of Hongkong : together with their distribution and synonymy / [Francis Blackwell Forbes and William Botting Hemsley].
Forbes, Francis Blackwell, 1839-1908.Date: 1886-1905- Books
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Flora Barbadensis: a catalogue of plants, indigenous, naturalized, and cultivated, in Barbados. To which is prefixed, a geological description of the island / By James Dottin Maycock.
Maycock, James Dottin.Date: 1830- Books
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Primitiae florae sarnicae, or, an outline of the flora of the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Serk. Containing a catalogue of the plants indigenous to the islands: with occasional observations upon their distinctive characters, affinities, and nomenclature / By Charles C. Babington.
Babington, Charles C. (Charles Cardale), 1808-1895.Date: 1839- Books
Plant resources of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands / J.C. Dagar & N.T. Singh.
Dagar, J. C.Date: 1999- Books
A true and exact history of the island of Barbados. Illustrated with a mapp of the island, as also the principall trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawne out by their severall and respective scales. Together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the severall houses, roomes, and other places, that are used in the whole processes of sugar-making / By Richard Ligon.
Ligon, Richard.Date: 1657- Books
A true and exact history of the island of Barbados. Illustrated with a mapp of the island, as also the principall trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawne out by their severall and respective scales. Together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the severall houses, roomes, and other places, that are used in the whole processes of sugar-making / By Richard Ligon.
Ligon, Richard.Date: 1657- Books
Kava kava (piper methysticum) : famous drug plant of the South Sea Islands / by E. F. Steinmetz.
Steinmetz, E. F.Date: 1960- Books
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On Saturday the 9th of May, was published, price sixpence. No. I. Of Walker's geography and gazetteer. Elements of geography, and of natural and civil history; being principally the substance of a course of lectures. Containing, I. The order of the spheres. II. The economy of the sublunary works of creation, inanimate and living. III. Picturesque and general sketches of the different parts of the Earth; and the varied appearances and manners of its inhabitants, both man and brute. IV. The rise, revolution, and fall of the principal empires of the world. V. Changes through different ages in the manners of mankind. VI. VII. VIII. IX. Description of the different quarters of the world, Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Their divisions into countries, provinces, &c. Their climates, soils, animals, plants, minerals, mountains, rivers, lakes, canals, commerce, manufacturers, curiosities, schools, learning, literati, religious professions, language, government, history, &c. The Universal gazetteer; being a concise description alphabetically arranged, of the nations, kingdoms, states, towns, empires, provinces, cities, oceans, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, canals, mountains and capes, in the known world; the government, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; with the extent, boundaries and natural productions, manufactures, and curiosities of the different countries. Illustrated with maps, and and other plates; one of which, an historical chart, coloured, represents in a chronological series, the rise, revolution and fall of the principal empires of the world; the ancient ones of A[ff]yria, Babylon, Persia, Macedonia, and Rome, as well as those of later times. By John Walker, teacher of the classics and mathematics, Usher's Island, Dublin.
Symonds, H. D. (Henry Delahoy).Date: [1795]- Books
A dictionary of the plant names of the Philippine Islands / by Elmer D. Merrill.
Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956.Date: 1903- Books
A true & exact history of the island of Barbadoes : illustrated with a map of the island, as also the principal trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawn out by their several and respective scales ; together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the several houses, rooms, and other places, that are used in the whole process of sugar-making; viz. the Grinding-room, the Boyling-room, the Filling-room, the Curing-house, Still house, and Furnaces / by Richard Ligon.
Ligon, Richard.Date: 1970- Books
Tracts relative to the island of St. Helena; written during a residence of five years / By Major-General Alexander Beatson. Illus. with views, engraved by Mr. William Daniell, from the drawings of Samuel Davis, esq.
Beatson, Alexander, 1759-1833.Date: 1816- Pictures
The map of an island in the form of a fool's head; representing the Dutch financial crisis of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 814545iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Books
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Hall's new Margate and Ramsgate guide: containing a description of the libraries, theatre, assemblies, new buildings, accommodations, mode of bathing; lists of the coaches, diligences, hoys, &c. With the time of their going out and coming in. Also a general account fo the Isle of Thanet, and a catalogue of plants growing wild there, systematically arranged. To which is prefixed a map of the island, taken from an actual survey.
Hall, Joseph, active 1766-1799.Date: 1792- Pictures
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Jak tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus) with fruit in the Society Islands. Pen drawing.
Reference: 22094i- Books
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The atheist converted: or, the unbeliever's eyes open'd. Being a full and true account of one Mr. Wright, a gentleman living in the island of Guernsey, who was a profest atheist, and would not suffer his Children to go to Church. How he was converted by his little daughter of Ten-Years of Age. The following is the text of his funeral sermon preach'd by the Rev. Dr. Jones, From plants the 50th. Verse the xiv.
Date: [1775?]- Books
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Viro honoratissimo ac doctrina utilissima, sublimique virtute insignissimo Stephano Hopkins ... Collegii nostri, Providentiæ, in Republica Ins. Rhod. et Prov. Plant. Nov Anglorum ... Habita in solennibus academicis commitiis Providenciæ ... pridie non. Septembris, A.D. M,DCC,LXXVI.
Rhode Island College (1764-1804)Date: 1776]- Pictures
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A plant (Saraca declinata Miq.) related to the asoka tree: flowering and fruiting shoot with separate numbered flowers, seeds and germinating seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
Hoola, Berthe van Nooten.Date: [1885]Reference: 16399i- Pictures
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Workers harvesting sago in a tropical wooded glade with a bilimbi tree, a sago palm, a durian tree and a pepper plant. Engraving, c. 1777.
Date: [1777-78]Reference: 26351i- Books
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On the cascarilla plants of the West India and Bahama islands / by W.F. Daniell.
Daniell, William Freeman, 1818-1865.Date: [1863]