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Title Author Soulsby Publisher Year
A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals, systematically divided into their several classes, orders, genera, species, and varieties, with their habitations, manners, economy, structure and peculiarities. / by Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c., together with various modern arrangements and corrections, derived from the Transactions of the Linnean and other Societies, as well as from the classical works of Shaw, Thornton, Abbot, Donovan, Sowerby, Latham, Dillwyn, Lewin, Martyn, Andrews, Lambert, &c., &c. With a life of Linné, appropriate copper-plates, and a dictionary explanatory of the terms which occur in the several departments of natural history, by William Turton Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778 138 Printed for Lackington, Allen & Co. 1806 Digital version available
A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals, systematically divided into their several classes, orders, genera, species and varieties, with their habitations, manners, economy, structure and peculiarities / translated from Gmelin's last edition of the celebrated Systema naturæ, by Sir Charles Linné ; amended and enlarged by the mprovements and discoveries of later naturalists and societies ... by William Turton. Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778 137 Printed for Lackington, Allen & Co. 1802-1806 Digital version available
The elements of conchology : or natural history of shells : according to the Linnean system. With observations on modern arrangements, illustrated with nine coloured engravings / by Thomas Brown. Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862. 1236a Printed for Lackington, Allen, & Co. ... Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ... John Murray ... Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and John Cumming ... Dublin. 1816 Digital version available
A copy of a letter from John Ellis, Esq; F.R.S. to Dr. Linnæus, F.R.S. &c. with the figure and characters of that elegant American Evergreentree, called by the Gardiners the Loblolly-Bay, taken from blossoms blown near London, and shewing that it is not an Hibiscus, as Mr. Miller calls it; nor an Hypericum, as Dr. Linnæus supposes it; but an intire [sic] new genus, to which Mr. Ellis gives the name of Gordonia. Ellis, John, 1710-1776. 656a Printed for Lockyer Davis 1771 Digital version available
A selection of the correspondence of Linnaeus, and other naturalists, from the original manuscripts. / by Sir James Edward Smith ... Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828. 2471 Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1821 Digital version available
An epitome of the second edition of Hortus Kewensis for the use of practical gardeners to which is added, a selection of suculent vegetables and fruits cultivated in the Royal Gardens at Kew. Aiton, William Townsend, 1766-1849. 802h Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1814 Digital version available
[Charles Linnaeus, afterwards von Linné] / [by Sir James Edward Smith, FRS] Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828. 2649 Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ; 1812 Digital version available
[Linnaea, in Botany, so called in honour of the great Swedish naturalist (see Linnaeus [by Sir James E. Smith]), appears by the journal of his Tour to Lapland to have been chosen by himself to commemorate his own name, when he gathered it at Lyksele, May 29, 1732.] Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828. 286a Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ; 1812 Digital version available
Thirty-eight plates [by F.P. Nodder] with explanations, intended to illustrate Linnæus's System of Vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany [by J.J. Rousseau] / [compiled by] T. Martyn Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825. 595 Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; J. Cuthell; J. Mawman; Lackington and Co.; J. Black and Son; and J. Booth 1817 Digital version available
A Sketch of a Tour on the Continent Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828. 3880 Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; and J. White 1807 Digital version available
Practical botany : an improved arrangement of the generic characters of British plants; with a familiar introduction to the Linnean system / by William Johns. Johns, William, 1771-1845. 830b Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green 1826 Digital version available
An encyclopaedia of plants : comprising the description, specific character, culture, history, application in the arts, and every other desirable particular respecting all the plants indigenous, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain : combining all the advantages of a Linnean and Jussieiean species plantarum, an historia plantarum, a grammar of botany, and a dictionary of botany and vegetable culture ; The whole in English; with the synonymes of the commoner plants in the different european and other languages; the scientific names accentuated, their entymologies explained; the classes, orders, and botanical terms illustrated by engravings; and with figures of nearly ten thousand species, exemplifying several individuals belonging to every genus included in the work / Edited by J.C. Loudon Loudon, J. C. 1783-1843. Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778 837a Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green 1829 Digital version available
Some remarks on natural history, as a means of education / by J. E. B. B., J. E. 2677 Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green 1828 Digital version available
The sleep of plants, and cause of motion in the Sensitive Plant, explained ... in a letter to Linnæus / by J. Hill Hill, John, 1716-1775. 437b Printed for R. Baldwin 1762 Digital version available
The Sleep of Plants, and cause of motion in the Sensitive Plant, explain'd ... in a letter to C. Linnæus, Professor of Botany at Upsal. Hill, John, 1716-1775. 437a Printed for R. Baldwin 1757 Digital version available
The Sleep of Plants, and cause of motion in the Sensitive Plant, explain'd ... in a letter to C. Linnæus, Professor of Botany at Upsal. Hill, John, 1716-1775. 1870 Printed for R. Baldwin 1757 Digital version available
Hortus Anglicus : or the modern English garden: containing a familiar description of all the plants which are cultivated in ... Great Britain .... / By the author of The British Botanist [Stephen Clarke]. Clarke, Stephen. 823a Printed for R. C. & J. Rivington 1822 Digital version available
Gulielmi Hudsoni ... Flora Anglica; exhibens plantas per Regnum Britanniæ sponte crescentes distributas secundum systema sexuale: cum differentiis specierum, synonymis auctorum, nominibus incolarum, solo locorum, tempore florendi, officinalibus pharmacopæorum Hudson, William, 1730?-1793. 643d Printed for R. Faulder; Wm. Otridge and Son; R. Lea; E. Jeffery; Ogilvie and Son; J. Cuthell; Lackington, Allen, and Co.; Vernor and Hood; J. Walker; and J. Nunn 1798 Digital version available
An illustration of the sexual system of Linnaeus / John Miller. Miller, John, 1715-ca. 1790. 670 Printed for Robert Faulder 1794 Digital version available
An introduction to botany : containing an explanation of the theory of that science; extracted from the works of Dr. Linnæus: with twelve copper-plates, two explanatory tables, an appendix and glossary / by James Lee. Lee, James, 1715-1795. 458 Printed for S. Crowder, C. Dilly, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, R. Baldwin, S. Hayes, F. and C. Rivington, B. and J. White, Ogilvie and Speare, and Verner and Hood 1794 Digital version available