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North America

Northern subcontinent of America

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Images referencing North America

22 images from works
  • North and Central America and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans: map. Engraving, ca. 1777.
  • An English woman lost in the American jungle is captured by a native American with a tomahawk. Engraving by C. Warren, 1797, after J. Burney.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • A missionary preaching to native Americans. Engraving by T.C Clark after Monroe.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • North and Central America: map. Coloured engraving, 1862.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
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Works from the collections

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    Second bibliography and catalogue of fossil Vertebrata of North America / [O.P. Hay].

    Oliver Perry Hay | Date: 1929-1930
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    History of the Society of Jesus in North America, colonial and federal / by Thomas Hughes.

    Hughes, Thomas S. | Date: 1907
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    Regulations to govern prospecting for and mining of metalliferous minerals on unallotted lands of Indian reservations.

    United States Department of the Interior | Date: [1924]
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    The viviparous quadrupeds of North America / By John Audubon ... and ... the Rev. John Bachman ... [Text].

    John James Audubon | Date: 1846-1854
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    Drugs and medicines of North America : a publication devoted to the historical and scientific discussion of botany, pharmacy, chemistry and therapeutics of the medical plants of North America, their constituents, products and sophistications ... v. 1-2; [Apr. 1884-June 1887].

    | Date: 1884-1887. [Cincinnati, Lloyd Library, 1930-31]
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Related topics

Indians, North American
South America
Europe
Medicine, Traditional
Indians, South American
Religion
United States
Central America
Plants, Medicinal

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