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RESEARCH GUIDES

STEM in Rare Books

A guide to works on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics in Rare Books.

17th Century

Micrographia: or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
Call Number: QH271.H79
Publication Date: 1665
London, Printed by J. Martyn and J. Allestry, 1665.

18th Century

Descriptiones Quorumdam Capensium Insectorum by Xaver Wulfen
Call Number: QL482.A1W84 1786
Publication Date: 1786
Erlangae: Sumtu Wolfgangi Waltheri, 1786.
Notice des Insectes de la France, Réputés Venimeux, Tirée des Ecrits des Naturalistes, des Médecins, & de l’Observation... by Pierre Joseph Amoreux
Call Number: QL482.F7A5
Publication Date: 1789
Paris, Hôtel Serpente, 1789.
Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des Trois Règnes de la Nature, Dix-Huitième Partie: Insectes by Abbé Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre
Call Number: QL466.B66
Publication Date: 1797
Paris: H. Agasse, 1797.

19th Century

New Observations on the Natural History of Bees by Francis Huber
Call Number: QL568.A6 H8
Publication Date: 1821
Edinburgh, Printed for W. & C. Tait, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1821.
Histoire Naturelle des Lépidoptères ou Papillons de France; Décrits par M. Godart by Jean Baptiste Godart
Call Number: QL555.F8G6
Publication Date: 1821-38
Paris, Crevot, 1821-38.
Memorie Sulla Storia e Notomia Degli Animali Senza Vertebre del Regno di Napoli by S. Delle Chiaie
Call Number: QL362.C43
Publication Date: 1822-1831
Napoli: Dalla stamperia della Sociéta tipografica, 1822-1831.
American Entomology, or, Descriptions of the Insects of North America: Illustrated by Coloured Figures from Original Drawings Executed From Nature by Thomas Say
Call Number: QL466.S27
Publication Date: 1824-1828
[Philadelphia]: Philadelphia Museum ; Published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell; for sale by Anthony Finley, 1824-1828.
Die Forst-Insecten Oder Abbildung und Beschreibung der in den Wäldern Preussens und der Nachbarstaaten als Schädlich Oder Nützlich Bekannt Gewordenen Insecten by Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg
Call Number: SB874.P7R3
Publication Date: 1837-44
Berlin, Nicolais̓che buchhandlung, 1837-44.
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes by Jean Guillaume Audinet Serville
Call Number: QL506.A94
Publication Date: 1839
Paris: Librairie encylopédique de Roret, 1839.
Naturgeschichte der Europäischen Schmetterlinge: Schwärmer und Spinner
Call Number: QL555.A1N38 1841
Publication Date: 1841
Pesth: Verlag von C.A. Hartleben, 1841.
Kidder’s Guide to Apiarian Science, Being a Practical Treatise, in Every Department of Bee Culture and Bee Management. Embracing the Natural History of the Bee... The Anatomy and Physiology of the Different Species that Constitute a Colony, & C by K. P. Kidder
Call Number: SF523.K46
Publication Date: 1858
Burlington, Vt., S. B. Nicholas; Chicago, R. Blanchard, 1858.
De Metamorphosi Eleutheratorum Observationes by J.C. Schiødte
Call Number: QL494.5.S316
Publication Date: 1861-1883
[Kjøbenhavn: Naturhistorik tidsskrift?, 1861-1883]
The Practical Entomologist: A Monthly Bulletin
Call Number: QL461.P8
Publication Date: 1865-67
Philadelphia: Entomological Society of Philadelphia, [1865-67]
The Entomologist’s Annual For...
Call Number: QL461.E93
London: John Van Voorst, -1874.
Bees & Bee-Keeping; Scientific and Practical. A Complete Treatise on the Anatomy, Physiology, Floral Relations, and Profitable Management of the Hive Bee by Frank R. Cheshire
Call Number: SF525.C52
Publication Date: 1886-88
London, L. U. Gill [1886]-88.