Natural History Archives - The Queen's Reading Room

Natural History

A celebration of the natural world and the extraordinary nature books that have been produced over the centuries through the Natural History treasures held at Windsor Castle Library.

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Aristotle, De Animalibus

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Lycosthenes, Prodigiorum ac Ostentorum Chronicon

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Carolus Clusius, Rariorum Plantarum Historia

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John Gerard, The Herball

Elizabeth Clark Ashby, Curator of Books and Manuscripts

Robert Hooke, Micrographia

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John Evelyn, Sylva

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Maria Sybilla Merian, Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium

Emma Stuart, Senior Curator of Books and Manuscripts

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Basilius Besler, Hortus Eystettensis

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Louis Renard, Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes … que l’on trouve autour des Isles Moluques, et sur les côtes des Terres Australes

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John Stuart, Botanical Tables: containing the different families of British plants

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Museum Britannicum

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Thomas Bewick, A History of British Birds

Andrew Brown, Assistant Curator of Books and Manuscripts

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Robert Thornton, Temple of Flora

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John James Audubon, The Birds of America

Andrew Brown, Assistant Curator of Books and Manuscripts

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John James Audubon, The Birds of America

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Sarah Bowdich, The Fresh-Water Fishes of Great Britain

Andrew Brown, Assistant Curator of Books and Manuscripts

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Joseph Dalton Hooker, The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of HM Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years

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Thomas Moore & John Lindley, The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland

Andrew Brown, Assistant Curator of Books and Manuscripts

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John Gould, A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds

Andrew Brown, Assistant Curator of Books and Manuscripts

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