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• Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, or, An Herball of Large Extent (London: Printed by T. Cotes, 1640), by John Parkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voynich manuscript
  • page images at Yale
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Vertuose Boke of Distyllacyon of the Waters of All Maner of Herbes (London: L. Andrewe, ca. 1530), by Hieronymus Brunschwig, trans. by Laurence Andrew (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials: Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences (2003), by National Research Council Board on Life Sciences (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)

• How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine (electronic edition, with commentary), by Trisha Greenhalgh (HTML at bmj.com)

• Digital Preservation and Permanent Access to Scientific Information: The State of the Practice (2004), by Gail M. Hodge and Evelyn Frangakis (PDF at dtic.mil)
• The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (2005), by John Willinsky (PDF at MIT Press)

• A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 (London: UCL Press, c2022), by Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougall-Waters, and Camilla Mørk Røstvik (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Temple of Flora: or Garden of the Botanist, Poet, Painter and Philosopher (London: Robert Thornton, 1812), by Robert John Thornton (page images at Wisconsin)

• The Beauties of Flora, With Botanic and Poetic Illustrations: Being a Selection of Flowers Drawn From Nature Arranged Emblematically, With Directions for Colouring Them (1834), by Eliza Eve Gleadall (page images at Wisconsin)

• The Florist: Containing Sixty Plates of the Most Beautiful Flowers Regularly Dispos'd in Their Succession of Blowing, To Which is Added an Accurate Description of Their Colours, with Instructions for Drawing and Painting Them According to Nature, Being a New Work Intended for the Use and Amusement of Gentlemen and Ladies Delighting in That Art (London: Printed for R. Sayer et al., ca. 1770), by Carington Bowles
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Curtis's Botanical Magazine (partial serial archives)
• The Monthly Flora (full serial archives)

• Groups of Flowers: Drawn and Accurately Coloured After Nature, With Full Directions for the Young Artist (1817), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)
• A New Treatise on Flower Painting, Or Every Lady Her Own Drawing Master (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, J. Booth, J, 1818), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)

• Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1990), by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (1964-2017) (full serial archives)

• Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (1964-2017) (full serial archives)

• The Boston Elbow (1984), by Sandra J. Tenenbaum (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Boston Elbow (1984), by Sandra J. Tenenbaum (PDF files at Princeton)

• Description of an Artificial Hand (also includes his "Practical Remarks on Aerial Navigation" and "Essay on the Means of Promoting Safety in Railway Carriages"; London: Tyler and Reed, 1845), by George Cayley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hearing Impairment and Elderly People (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Dental Laboratory Technology (Washington: Department of the Air Force, 1982), by L. J. Mazulewicz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mucostatics: A Principle, Not a "Technique" (c1946), by Harry L. Page, contrib. by William R. Dykins (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (London: C. March, 1754), by Mark Catesby
  • volume I: page images at Wisconsin
  • volume II: page images at Wisconsin

• The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (London: C. March, 1754), by Mark Catesby
  • volume I: page images at Wisconsin
  • volume II: page images at Wisconsin

• The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (London: C. March, 1754), by Mark Catesby
  • volume I: page images at Wisconsin
  • volume II: page images at Wisconsin

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• Index of Technical Reprints: Reprints of Technical Papers by Engineers and Scientists of the Bell Telephone System, 1919-1930, by Bell Telephone Laboratories (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Citation Process: The Role and Significance of Citations in Scientific Communication (1984), by Blaise Cronin (PDF here at Penn)

• Bibliographia Scientiae Naturalis Helvetica (full serial archives)
• Technical Book Review Index (Special Libraries Association, 1935-1988) (partial serial archives)

• Isis (partial serial archives)

• Bibliography of Translations from Russian Scientific and Technical Literature (full serial archives)

• Whole Earth Ecolog: The Best of Environmental Tools and Ideas (c1990), ed. by J. Baldwin, contrib. by Stewart Brand (page images at wholeearth.info)

• Medical Behavioral Science: A Selected Bibliography of Cultural Anthropology, Social Psychology, and Sociology in Medicine (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1963), by Marion Pearsall (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Annotated Bibliography of Field Studies Conducted on the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: 1940-1996, by Russell James Hall (PDF at USGS)

• An Annotated Bibliography of Field Studies Conducted on the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: 1940-1996, by Russell James Hall (PDF at USGS)

• Bibliography of Agriculture (partial serial archives)

• A History of Gardening in England (third edition; London: J. Murray, 1910), by Mrs. Evelyn Cecil (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of Gardening in England (third edition; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1910), by Mrs. Evelyn Cecil
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Polynesian Botanical Bibliography, 1773-1935 (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #144; Honolulu: The Museum, 1937), by Elmer D. Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliography of Polynesian Botany (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #13; Honolulu: The Museum, 1924), by Elmer D. Merrill (PDF at bishopmeseum.org)

• Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall; With Notices of Their Botanical Contemporaries (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1849), by William Darlington, contrib. by Peter Collinson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Bibliography of Theoretical Population Genetics (electronic edition, ca. 1981), by Joseph Felsenstein (text with commentary at Washington)

• Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology (full serial archives)

• Women in Science: A Selection of 16 Significant Contributors (San Diego: San Diego Supercomputer Center, 1997) (illustrated HTML and PDF at sdsc.edu)

• Catalogue of Scientific Serials of All Countries, Including the Transactions of Learned Societies in the Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, 1633-1876 (Cambridge, MA: Library of Harvard University, 1879), by Samuel Hubbard Scudder (page images at Cornell)
• A Catalogue of the Periodical Publications in the Library of the School of Mines, Columbia College (New York: J. W. Amerman, printer, 1875), by Columbia College School of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue of Scientific Serials of All Countries, Including the Transactions of Learned Societies in the Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, 1633-1876 (Cambridge, MA: Library of Harvard University, 1879), by Samuel Hubbard Scudder (page images at Cornell)

• Resources for Teaching Elementary School Science (1996), by National Science Resources Center (page images with commentary at NAP)

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