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A voyage to New Holland, &c. in the year 1699 : wherein are described, the Canary-Islands, the Isles of Mayo and St. Jago, the Bay of All Saints, with the forts and town of Bahia in Brasil, Cape Salvadore, the winds on the Brasilian coast, Abrohlo-Shoals, a table of all the variations observ'd in this voyage, occurrences near the Cape of Good Hope, the course to New Holland. Shark's Bay, the isles and coast, &c. of New Holland : their inhabitants, manners, customs, trade, &c., their harbours, soil, beasts, birds, fish, &c. trees, plants, fruits, &c. : illustrated with several maps and draughts, also divers birds, fishes, and plants, not found in this part of the world, curiously ingraven on copper-plates : vol. III
Dampier, William 1651-1715Date: 1703
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Vivarium naturae, or, The naturalist's miscellany
Shaw, George 1751-1813Date: 1790
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Philosophical letters between the late learned Mr. Ray and several of his ingenious correspondents, natives and foreigners : to which are added those of Francis Willughby Esq. : the whole consisting of many curious discoveries and improvements in the history of quadrupeds, birds, fishes, insects, plants, fossiles, fountains, &c
Ray, John 1627-1705.Date: 1718
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A philosophical account of the works of nature : endeavouring to set forth the several gradations remarkable in the mineral, vegetable, and animal parts of the creation, tending to the composition of a scale of life : to which is added, an account of the state of gardening, as it is now in Great Britain, and other parts of Europe : together with several new experiments relating to the improvement of barren ground, and the propagating of timber-trees, fruit-trees, &c. : with many curious cutts
Bradley, Richard 1688-1732.Date: 1721