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Gardens
 
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Animals & Insects
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Priscilla Wakefield, 1751-1832. An introduction to the Natural History and Classification of Insects, in a Series of Familiar Letters. With Illustrated Engravings. London: Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1816.
Title page from Wakefield book Plate I. from Wakefield book Text to Plate I. from Wakefield Book
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Amanda Bartlett Harris, 1824-1917. How We Went Birds'-Nesting: Field, Wood and Meadow Rambles. Illustrations by G. F. Barnes. Boston: D. Lothrop & Company, 1880.
Frontispiece from Harris book Title page from Harris book
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Lucy Ellen Guernsey, 1826-1899. Jenny and the Birds. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1860.
Title page of Guernsey's book
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Miss S. Waring. The Minstrelsy of the Woods; or, Sketches and Songs Connected with the Natural History of Some of the Most Interesting British and Foreign Birds. London: Harvey and Darton, 1832.
Title page from Waring book Plate facing page 156 - Waring's book
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Mrs. A. M. Diaz and Norman A. Calkins. Prang's Natural History Series for Children. [vol. 1: Birds of Prey; vol. 2: Wading Birds; vol. 3: Scratching Birds; vol. 4: Swimming Birds] Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1878.
Cover of Prang's Natural History, Vol. 1 Illustrated plate of Mallard Duck, Prang's Natural History, Vol. 1 Cover of Prang's Natural History, Vol. 2 Illustrated plate of Great Blue Heron, Prang's Natural History, Vol. 2
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Olive Thorne [Harriet Miller], 1831-1918. Little Folks in Feathers and Furs, and Others in Neither. Hartford, Conn.: Dustin, Gilman & Co., 1875.
Cover of Thorne's book Page 25 of Thorne's book Page 26 of Thorne's book
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A Lady. A visit to Nahant, Being a Sequel to the Wonders of the Deep. New York: Lewis Colby, & Co., 1847.
Title page of A Lady book Plate facing page 28 from A Lady book
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Astronomy
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Catharine Sedgwick, 1789-1867. Arcturus; or, The Bright Star in Bootes. An Easy Guide to Science. Second edition. London: William Macintosh, 1867.
Frontispiece of Sedgwick book Title page of Sedgwick book
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Lizzie W. Champney, 1850-1922. In the Sky Garden. Illustrated by J. Wells Champney. Boston: Lockwood, Brooks, and Company, 1877.
Cover from Champney book Page 86 from Champney book Page 105 from Champney book Page 208 from Champney book
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Mrs. Mary Somerville, 1780-1872. A Preliminary Dissertation on the Mechanism of the Heavens. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832.
Title page to Somerville book
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The Ladies Diary: or, the Woman's Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord, 1723. Containing Many Delightful and Entertaining Particulars Peculiarly Adapted for the Use and Diversion of the Fair-Sex. London: Company of Stationers, 1723.
Title page of The Ladies Diary
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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Elizabeth Blackwell, 1700?-1758. Herbarium Blackwellianum Emendatum et Actum. Nuremberg: J.J. Fleischmann and C. de Launoy, 1750-73.
Title Page of Blackwell book - Vol. 1 Plate 4 of Blackwell book - Vol. 1 Plate 40 of Blackwell book - Vol. 1 Plate 77 of Blackwell book - Vol. 1
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Education
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Jane H. Marcet, 1769-1858. Conversations on Chemistry. In Which the Elements of That Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806.
Title page from Marcet book Plate 8 from Marcet book Plate 9 from Marcet book
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Arabella B. Buckley, 1840-1929. The Fairy-Land of Science. London: Edward Stanford, 1890. Illustrated by Mr. J. Cooper.
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Arabella B. Buckley, 1840-1929. Life and Her Children: Glimpses of Animal Life from the Amoeba to the Insects. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893. Illustrations by Dr. Wild and Mr. Edwin Wilson.
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Elizabeth Fitton. Conversations on Botany. 5th edition. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825.
Pages 58 and 59 of Fitton book
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Mrs. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, 1793-1884. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical Elementary and Physiological; with an Appendix, Containing Descriptions of the Plants of the United States and Exotics, &c. for the Use of Seminarys and Private Students. 5th edition, revised and enlarged. Hartford: F. J. Huntington, 1836.
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Floral Sentiment
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Elizabeth Washington Wirt, 1784-1857. Flora's Dictionary. Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr., 1829.
Page 118 of Wirt book Plate facing page 118 of Wirt book
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Sarah Josepha Hale, 1788-1879. Flora's Interpreter, and Fortuna Flora. Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey and Company, 1850.
Cover from Hale book Title page from Hale book
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Sarah Josepha Hale, 1788-1879. Flora's Interpreter: or, the American Book of Flowers and Sentiments. Boston: Marsh, Capen and Lyon, 1832.
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Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1802-1887. The Garland of Flora. Boston: S. G. Goodrich and Co. and Carter and Hendee, 1829.
Preface of Dix book Page 43 of Dix book
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Frances S. Osgood, 1811-1850. The Poetry of Flowers and Flowers of Poetry to Which Are Added, a Simple Treatise on Botany, with Familiar Examples, and a Copious Floral Dictionary. New York: J. C. Riker, 1844.
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Frances S. Osgood, 1811-1850. The Poetry of Flowers and Flowers of Poetry to Which Are Added, a Simple Treatise on Botany, with Familiar Examples, and a Copious Floral Dictionary. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1858.
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Eliza Eve Gleadall. The Beauties of Flora with Botanic and Poetic Illustrations: Being a Selection of Flowers Drawn from Nature Arranged Emblematically with Directions for Colouring Them. Published by Eliza Eve Gleadall at Heath Hall near Wakefield, 1834.
Title page of Gleadall book Plate 11 of Gleadall book Page 21 of Gleadall book
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Anna Peyre Dinnies, 1805-1886. The Floral Year, Embellished with Bouquets of Flowers, Drawn and Colored from Nature. Each Flower Illustrated with a Poem. Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1847.
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Gardens
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Celia Thaxter, 1835-1894. An Island Garden. Pictures and illustrations by Childe Hassam. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894.
Cover from Thaxter book Title page from Thaxter book
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