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• The Out-Door World: or, Young Collector's Handbook (London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893), by William S. Furneaux
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Florida

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• Schedae ad Herbarium Florae Rossicae (in Latin and Russian; volumes 4-8 (1908-1922) online for US access only) (partial serial archives)

• Beasts and Men, Being Carl Hagenbeck's Experiences for Half a Century Among Wild Animals: An Abridged Translation (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1912), by Carl Hagenbeck, trans. by Hugh Elliot and Arthur Gordon Thacker, contrib. by P. Chalmers Mitchell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Methods Employed at the Naples Zoological Station for the Preservation of Marine Animals (Bulletin of the United States National Museum #39, part M: Washington: GPO, 1899), by Salvatore Lo Bianco, trans. by Edmund Otis Hovey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting: A Complete Handbook for the Amateur Taxidermist, Collector, Osteologist, Museum-Builder, Sportsman, and Traveller (fourth edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by William T. Hornaday, contrib. by W. J. Holland, illust. by Charles B. Hudson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Die Dampfhochseefischerei in Geestemünde (in German; Geestemünde: J. H. Henke, 1898), ed. by F. Duge, illust. by H. Giebel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting: A Complete Handbook for the Amateur Taxidermist, Collector, Osteologist, Museum-Builder, Sportsman, and Traveller (fourth edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by William T. Hornaday, contrib. by W. J. Holland, illust. by Charles B. Hudson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Catalogue of Glass Models of Invertebrate Animals, H. A. Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Rochester, N.Y. (Rochester, NY: E.R. Andrews, 1888), by Henry A. Ward (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kearton's Nature Pictures: Beautifully Reproduced in Photogravure, Colour, and Black and White from Photographs by Richard and Cherry Keaton (2 volumes; London: Waverley Book Co., ca. 1910), by Richard Kearton, illust. by Richard Kearton and Cherry Kearton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Intimate Landscapes: Photographs by Eliot Porter (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979), by Eliot Porter, contrib. by Weston J. Naef (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Wild Life at Home: How to Study and Photograph It (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1898), by Richard Kearton, illust. by Cherry Kearton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Distance Sampling: Estimating Abundance of Biological Populations (c1993), by S. T. Buckland, David R. Anderson, Kenneth P. Burnham, and J. L. Laake (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)

• General Zoological Microtechniques (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1960), by Frances M. Weesner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Woodland Tales (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), by Ernest Thompson Seton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Dame Nature and Her Three Daughters (La Mère Gigogne et Ses Trois Filles): A Grandpapa's Talks and Stories About Natural History, and Things of Daily Use (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1869), by X.-B. Saintine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facts From the World of Nature, Animate and Inanimate (London: Grant and Griffith, 1848), by Mrs. Loudon (page images at Google)
• Fairy Roads to Science-Town (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1919), by Mrs. A. S. Hardy, illust. by Helen M. Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fairyland Around Us (Los Angeles: The author, 1918), by Opal Stanley Whiteley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Gift for a Little Child (Concord, NH: R. Merrill, 1843) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mental Improvement: or, The Beauties and Wonders of Nature and Art, in A series of Instructive Conversations (New Bedford, MA: Printed by Abraham Shearman, Jun., for C. Greene and Son, 1799), by Priscilla Wakefield (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Morning Face (Garden City, NY: Doubleday Pub. Co., 1916), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Natural History: or, Uncle Philip's Conversations With the Children About Tools and Trades Among Inferior Animals (New York: Harper and Bros., 1835), by Francis L. Hawks (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Out-Door World: or, Young Collector's Handbook (London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893), by William S. Furneaux
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Florida
• Quiet Hours With Nature (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1904), by Mrs. Brightwen, illust. by Theobald Carreras
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Rambles with Nature Students (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1899), by Mrs. Brightwen, illust. by Theobald Carreras (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Rollo's Experiments (Boston: Weeks, Jordan, and Co., c1839), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Rollo's Museum (Boston: Weeks, Jordan, and Co., 1839), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Round-About Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy (new edition; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910), by Frank R. Stockton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Science Enfantine: La Nature et Ses Trois Règnes; Causeries et Contes d'un Bon Papa sur l'Histoire Naturelle et sur les Objets les Plus Usuels (second edition of La Mère Gigogne et Ses Trois Filles, in French; Paris: L. Hachette et cie., 1868), by X.-B. Saintine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1898), by Jane Andrews (HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children, by Jane Andrews (Gutenberg text)
• The World at Home: or, Pictures and Scenes From Far-Off Lands (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1869), by Mary Kirby and Elizabeth Kirby (multiple formats at Google)
• The Year-Book of Natural History, for Young Persons (London: John Murray, 1842), by Mrs. Loudon (page images at Google)
• Young Folks' Nature Field Book (Boston, D. Estes and Co., c1906), by J. Alden Loring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Madam How and Lady Why: or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)
• Madam How and Lady Why: or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children (New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891), by Charles Kingsley (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• A Natural History of British Birds (based on Buffon's Natural History; Alnwick: W. Davison, ca. 1820), contrib. by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, illust. by Thomas Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Natural History of British Quadrupeds (based on Buffon's Natural History; Alnwick: W. Davison, ca. 1820), contrib. by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, illust. by Thomas Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Natural History of Fishes (based on Buffon's Natural History; Alnwick: W. Davison, ca. 1820), contrib. by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, illust. by Thomas Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Natural History of Foreign Birds (based on Buffon's Natural History; Alnwick: W. Davison, ca. 1820), contrib. by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, illust. by Thomas Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Natural History of Foreign Quadrupeds (based on Buffon's Natural History; Alnwick: W. Davison, ca. 1820), contrib. by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, illust. by Thomas Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Natural History of Water Birds (based on Buffon's Natural History; Alnwick: W. Davison, ca. 1820), contrib. by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, illust. by Thomas Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Outdoor Secrets (Chicago and New York: A. Flanagan, c1903), by Margaret P. Boyle, illust. by Augusta T. Tappan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of David Livingstone, by Vautier Golding (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• A Natural History of Reptiles, Serpents, and Insects (based on Buffon's Natural History; Alnwick: W. Davison, ca. 1820), contrib. by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, illust. by Thomas Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Traveller: or, A Description of Various Wonders in Nature and Art (London: Religious Tract Society, 1839) (page images at Google)

• Alphabet of Botany, for the Use of Beginners (revised and corrected for American schools; New York: P. Hill, 1833), by James Rennie, ed. by Arabella Clark
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Conversations on Botany (ninth edition; London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1840), by Elizabeth Fitton and Sarah Mary Fitton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The First Book of Botany: Being a Plain and Brief Introduction to That Science, for Schools and Young Persons (London: G. Bell; Edinburgh: A. Macredie, 1841), by Mrs. Loudon (page images at Google)
• First Studies of Plant Life (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1901), by George Francis Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Instructive Picture Book: or, Lessons From the Vegetable World (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1858), by Charlotte M. Yonge (page images at Florida; some pages out of order)
• An Introduction to Botany, in a Series of Familiar Letters, With Illustrative Engravings (5th edition; London: Darton and Harvey, 1807), by Priscilla Wakefield (page images at Google)
• An Introduction to Botany, in a Series of Familiar Letters, With Illustrative Engravings (9th edition, with an added poem; London: Harvey and Darton et al., 1823), by Priscilla Wakefield, contrib. by Sarah Hoare (page images at Google)
• Little Plant People at Home, and What They Are Doing There (or LPP Part II; Dansville, NY: F. A. Owen Publishing Company, c1905), by Annie Chase (PDF at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Little Plant People of the Waterways (Dansville, NY: F. A. Owen Publishing Company, c1912), by Annie Chase (PDF at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Little Plant People, Part I (Dansville, NY: F. A. Owen Publishing Company, c1903), by Annie Chase
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  • PDF at Celebration of Women Writers
• Outlines of Lessons in Botany, for the Use of Teachers, or Mothers Studying With Their Children (2 parts; 1888-1892), by Jane H. Newell, illust. by H. P. Symmes
  • Part I (From seed to leaf): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Part II (Flower and fruit): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Plant Baby and its Friends: A Nature Reader for Primary Grades (New York et al.: Silver, Burdett and co., c1897), by Kate Louise Brown, illust. by Constance van Diest Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories From Lands of Sunshine (New York et al.: University Pub. Co., c1904), by Eleanor Riggs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
• The Study of Plant Life (second edition; London: Blackie and Son, 1910), by Marie Carmichael Stopes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• About Plants, With Many Engravings (Worcester, MA: J. Grout, Jr., ca. 1840) (multiple formats at archive.org)

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