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• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: The American Nations: or, Outlines of Their General History, Ancient and Modern (2 volumes; Philadelphia: C. S. Rafinesque, 1836)
  • first volume (Generalities and Annals): multiple formats at Google
  • second volume (Origin and Researches): multiple formats at Google
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Ichthyologia Ohiensis, or, Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the River Ohio and its Tributary Streams; Preceded by a Physical Description of the Ohio and its Branches (Lexington, KY: Printed for the author by W. G. Hunt, 1820) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840, contrib.: Quatre Lettres sur le Mexique: Exposition Absolue du Système Hiéroglyphique Mexicain; La Fin de Pȧge de Pierre; Époque Glaciaire Temporaire; Commencement De Pȧge de Bronze; Origines de la Civilisation Et des Religions de L'antiquité; (Collection de Documents Dans les Langues Indigenes v4, in French, with an English appendix by Rafinesque on the Lenape; Paris: F. Brachet; Mexico: Juan Buxo y Cia., 1868), by abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840, ed.: Western Minerva, or, American Annals of Knowledge and Literature (only issue of an planned magazine, 1820) (1949 reprint: page images at HathiTrust)

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• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Alsographia Americana. ([s.n.], 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: American manual of the grape vines and the art of making wine: including an account of 62 species of vines, with nearly 300 varieties. Ann account of the principal wines, American and foreign. Properties and uses of wines and grapes. Cultivation of vines in America; and the art to make good wines. With 8 figures. (Printed for the author., 1830) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: The American nations ; or, Outlines of their general history, ancient and modern, including the whole history of the earth and mankind in the western hemisphere, the philosophy of American history, the annals, traditions, civilization, languages, &c., of all the American nations, tribes, empires, and states (C. S. Rafinesque, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: The American nations; or, Outlines of their general history, ancient and modern: including the whole history of the earth and mankind in the western hemisphere ... (C.S. Rafinesque, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: The American Nations, Vol. I.: Or, Outlines of a National History of the Ancient and Modern Nations of North and South America (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Ancient history, or, Annals of Kentucky : with a survey of the ancient monuments of North America, and a tabular view of the principal languages and primitive nations of the whole earth (Printed for the author, 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: The ancient monuments of North and South America. (Printed for the author, 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: The Ancient Monuments of North and South America, 2nd ed. (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Annals of nature; or, Annual synopsis of new genera and species of animals, plants, &c. discovered in North America. (Iowa City, Iowa, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Atl. j. ([s.n.], 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Atlantic journal, and friend of knowledge. (Arnold Arboretum, 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Atlantic journal, and friend of knowledge; a cyclopedic journal and review of universal science and knowledge: historical, natural, and medical arts and sciences nos. 1-4 (Arnold Arboretum, 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Atlantic journal, and friend of knowledge in eight numbers : containing about 160 original articles and tracts on natural and historical sciences, the description of about 150 new plants, and 100 new animals or fossils ; many vocabularies of languages, historical and geological facts, &c. &c. &c. ([s.n.], 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Autikon botanikon : Icones plantarum select. nov. vel rariorum, plerumque americana, interdum african. europ. asiat. oceanic &c. centur, xxv.--Botanical illustrations by select specimens or self-figures in 25 centuries of 2500 plants, trees, shrubs, vines, lilies, grasses, ferns &c., chiefly new or rare, doubtful or interesting, from North America and some other regions; with accounts of the undescribed, notes, synonyms, regions, localities &c.; in 5 parts of 5 centuries each of text with 25 volumes folio of self-figures (Philadelphia, 1815) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Autikon botanikon : or botanical illustrations of 2500. New, rare or beautiful Trees, Shrubs, Plants, Vines, Lilies, Grasses, Ferns... (Philadelphia, 1815) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Autikon botanikon; or, Botanical illustrations of 2500 new, rare or beautiful trees, shrubs, plants, vines, lilies, grasses, ferns &c, of all regions, but chiefly North America, with descriptions &c and 2500 self figures or specimens. (The Arnold Arboretum, in the 1970s) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: The complete writings of Constantine Smaltz Rafinesque, on recent & fossil conchology. (Bailliere brothers; [etc., etc.], 1864), also by George Washington Tryon and W. G. Binney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Flora telluriana. ([Printed for the author by H. Probasco], 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Genius and spirit of the Hebrew Bible : including the Biblic philosophy of celestial wisdom, religion and theology, astronomy and realization, ontology and mythology, chronometry and mathematics. Being the first series of Biblic truths, ascertained and explained by the true restored names and words in English letters of the religious and philosophical conceptions of the Obri or Hebrew language relating thereto, that are found in the MKRE or Hebrew Scriptures, with their meaning and derivations. (Printed for the Eleutherium of Knowledge, 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Herbarium Rafinesquianum. Herbals, or Botanical collections of C. S. Rafinesque. (Philadelphia, 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Ichthyologia ohiensis (The Burrows brothers co., 1899), also by Richard Ellsworth Call (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Ichthyologia ohiensis; or, Natural history of the fishes inhabiting the river Ohio and its tributary streams (The Burrows brothers co., 1899), also by Richard Ellsworth Call (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: The Lenâpé and their legends (AMS Press, 1969), also by Daniel Garrison Brinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840, contrib.: The Lenâpé and Their Legends: With the complete text and symbols of the Walam olum, a new translation, and an inquiry into its authenticity, by Daniel G. Brinton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Manual of the medical botany of the United States / by Rafinesque, A.M. ([S.l.] ;, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America (Atkinson & Alexander, 1828) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: A monograph of the fluviatile bivalve shells of the river Ohio (J. Dobson, 1832), also by Charles A. Poulson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Monographie des coquilles bivalves et fluviatiles de la rivière Ohio (Imp. de Weissenbrugh père, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: The natural family of Carexides. ([n.p., 1914) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Neogenyton, or Indication of sixty-six new genera of plants of North America. ([Lexington! Ky.], 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Neogenyton, or, Indication of sixty-six new genera of plants of North America. (University Press, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: NEOGENYTON, OR, INDICATION OF SIXTY-SIX NEW GENERA OF PLANTS OF NORTH AMERICA (NOTRE DAME, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: New flora and botany of North America, or A supplemental flora, additional to all the botanical works on North America and the United States. Containing 1000 new or revised species. I Lexicon and monographs. II Neophyton &c. III New sylva &c. IV Neobotanon &c--with introductions, sketches, notes, indexes, &c. ... ([Printed for the author and publisher], 1836) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: New flora and botany of North America, or a supplemental flora, additional to all the botanical works on North America and the United States. Containing 1000 new or revised species. ([Printed for the author and publisher], 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: New flora of North America (Photolithographed by Murray Print. Co., for the Arnold Arboretum, 1946) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: New flora of North America (Photolithographed by Murray Printing Co., for the Arnold Arboretum, 1946) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Pamphlets. ([Philadelphia, etc., 1815) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: The pleasures and duties of wealth. (Printed for the Eleutherium of knowledge, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de C. S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 1800 et 1814; ou, Choix raisonné des ses principales découvertes en zoologie et en botanique, pour servir d'introduction à ses ouvrages futurs ... (P. Smith, 1948) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de m.r C. S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 1800 et 1814 ou Choix raisonné de ses principales découvertes en zoologie et en botanique (Royale typographie militaire, aux dépens de l'auteur, 1814) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de Mr. C.S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 1800 et 1814 ou Choix raisonné de ses principales découvertes en zoologie et en botanique, pour servir d'introduction à ses ouvrages futurs ... (Murray Printing Co., 1948) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Quatre lettres sur le Mexique : exposition absolue du système hiéroglyphique mexicain : la fin de l'âge de pierre, époque glaciaire temporaire, commencement de l'âge de bronze, origines de la civilisation et des religions de l'antiquité : d'apres̀ le Teo-Amoxtli et autres documents mexicains, etc. (Maisonneuve et cie ;, 1868), also by abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Quatre lettres sur le Mexique, exposition absolue du système hiéroglyphique mexicain. La fin de l'âge de pierre. Époque glaciaire temporaire. Commencement de l'âge de bronze. Origines de la civilisation et des religions de l'antiquité; d'apres̀ le Teo-Amoxtli et autres documents mexicains, etc. (Paris, Maisonneuve [etc., etc.], 1868), also by abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Scadiography, or 100 genera of ombelliferous plants, etc. ([n.p., 1914) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Sylva telluriana. Mantis synopt. New genera and species of trees and shrubs of North America, and other regions of the earth, omitted or mistaken by the botanical authors and compilers, or not properly classified, now reduced by their natural affinities to the proper natural orders and tribes. (Printed for the author and publisher, 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Sylva telluriana. Mantis. synopt. New genera and species of trees and shrubs of North America, and other regions of the earth, omitted or mistaken by the botanical authors and compilers, or not properly classified, now reduced by their natural affinities to the proper natural orders and tribes. (Arnold Arboretum, 1943) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Thoughts on atmospheric dust. (New York, 1819) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: The universe and the stars, being an original theory on the visible creation, founded on the laws of nature (Printed for C. Wetherill, 1837), also by Thomas Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Walam olum (D.G. Brinton, 1885), also by Daniel G. Brinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Western minerva ([Thomas Smith], 1820) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: Western Minerva (P. Smith, 1949), also by Elmer D. Merrill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840: The world, or, Instability. A poem. In twenty parts, with notes and illustrations. (J. Dobson :, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)

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