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5,123 science & nature

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A Discourse on the Plague
Richard Mead · science
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A discourse on the theory of gunnery
John Sir Pringle · science
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A Discourse Presented to the Most Serene Don Cosimo II., Great Duke of Tuscany, Concerning the Natation of Bodies Vpon, and Submersion In, the Water.
Galileo Galilei · science
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A Dissertation on Horses
William Osmer · science
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A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, México
William Edward Duellman · science
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A Fantasy of Far Japan; Or, Summer Dream Dialogues
Kencho Suematsu · science
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A few secrets of the metallurgist simply told
Gerald Watson Hinkley · science
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A Field Book of the Stars
William Tyler Olcott · manual
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A Field Study of the Kansas Ant-Eating Frog, Gastrophryne olivacea
Henry S. Fitch · science
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A first book in organic evolution
D. Kerfoot Shute · science
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A Florida Sketch-Book
Bradford Torrey · travel
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A Full Description of the Great Tornado in Chester County, Pa.
Richard Darlington · science
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A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
H. C. Yarrow · science
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A Further Investigation of the Symmetrical Chloride of Paranitroorthosulphobenzoic Acid
William Edwards Henderson · science
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A Gamekeeper's Note-book
Owen Jones · science
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A Garden Diary, September 1899—September 1900
Emily Lawless · biography
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A Garden with House Attached
Sarah Warner Brooks · novel
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
Robert Kerr · travel
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16
Robert Kerr · travel
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A Glimpse at Guatemala
Anne Cary -1926 Maudslay · travel
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A Guide for the Dissection of the Dogfish (Squalus Acanthias)
Lawrence Edmonds Griffin · manual
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A Guide for the Study of Animals
Worrallo Whitney · science
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A Guide to Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah
travel
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A guide to the Egyptian collections in the British Museum
British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities · reference
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A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life
British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities · science
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A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End
John Ayrton Paris · travel
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A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer · science
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A guide to the shell and starfish galleries
British Museum . Department of Zoology · science
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A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2)
David Starr Jordan · reference
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A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 2 (of 2)
David Starr Jordan · reference
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A Hand-book of Precious Stones
Meyer D. Rothschild · science
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A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 1 (of 2)
Henry O. Forbes · science
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A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 2 (of 2)
Henry O. Forbes · reference
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A handbook of laboratory glass-blowing
Bernard D. Bolas · manual
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A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
K. Rangachari · science
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A handbook of systematic botany
Eugenius Warming · science
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A Hausa botanical vocabulary
J. M. Dalziel · reference
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A Hermit's Wild Friends; or, Eighteen Years in the Woods
Mason Augustus Walton · biography
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A Historical Account of Useful Inventions and Scientific Discoveries
George Grant · science
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A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Georges Perrot · science
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A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Georges Perrot · science
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A History of Epidemic Pestilences
Edward Bascome · science
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A history of evolution
Carroll Lane Fenton · science
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A history of land mammals in the western hemisphere
William Berryman Scott · science
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A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 1 of 3
Spencer Fullerton Baird · science
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A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3
Spencer Fullerton Baird · science
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A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3
Spencer Fullerton Baird · science
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A History of Science — Volume 1
Henry Smith Williams · science