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Amœnitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasiculi v : quibus continentur variæ relationes / observationes & descriptiones rerum persicarum et ulterioris Asiæ multâ attentione, in peregrinationibus per universum Orientem, collectæ ab auctore Engelberto Kæmpfero, D.

Engelbert Kaempfer

...Engelbert Kaempfer (16 September 1651 – 2 November 1716) was a German naturalist and physician and is best known for his tour of Russia, Persia, India, South-East Asia, and Japan between 1683 and 1693. Amoenitatum Exoticarum is important...

Aromatvm, et simplicivm aliqvot medicamentorvm apvd indos nascentivm historia : primùm quiedem lusitancea lingua per dialogs consecrpta, à D. Garçia ab horto, proregis indiæ medio; deinde latione sermone in epitomen contracta, & iconibus adviuum experbis, locupletioribusg annotatiunculus illustrata à carolo clvsio atrebate.

Garcia de Orta

...Garcia de Orta (1501? – 1568) was a Portuguese Jewish physician, herbalist and naturalist. De Orta practised and taught medicine in Portugal, before sailing to India in 1534 as a physician with the Portuguese navy and settling in Goa. He...

Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Dr. Trinkler'schen Zentralasien Expedition/ Dr. Emil Trinkler [band 1] ; Dr. Hellmut de Terra [band 2].

Emil Trinkler

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Helmut De Terra

...Geographical findings of an expedition in 1927–8 in central Asia. Volume 1, by Emil Trinkler, describes the research in western Central Asia and the Karakoram and Himalayas; Trinkler died in April 1931, the year before the book...

A survey of the fauna of Iraq: mammals, birds, reptiles, etc. made by members of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force D 1915-1919.

...First and only edition of a collection of papers on Iraqi zoology by members of the British Expeditionary Forces in Mesopotamia and Persia, based on specimens collected during the First World War and first published in the Journal...

Reliqva librorvm Friderici II. Imperatoris, De arte venandi cum auibus, cvm Manfredi regis additionibus. Ex membranis vetustis nunc primùm edita. Albertvs Magnvs De Falconibus, Asturibus, & Accipitribus.

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

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Albertus, Magnus, Saint,

...The first edition of this work on falconry and ornithology. Long recognized as “the first zoological treatise written in the critical spirit of modern science” (Shearer, 1935), De Arte Venandi cum Avibus (lit. “The art of hunting...

On the geobotanical structure of Iran

Michael Zohary

...Paper by Michael Zohary on the vegetal landscape and plant distribution of Iran, based partly on the author's field research. Supplement to Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel, Section D. Botany, Volume 11D, March 1963, author...

Mission scientifique au Caucase études archéologiques & historiques/ par J. de Morgan.

Morgan, J. de (Jacques)

...Publication based on the findings of the author's journey to the Caucasus undertaken under the auspices of the "Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux arts" of France with the purpose of archaeological exploration. Comprises 2...

Relation du voyage fait en Egypte, par le sieur Granger, En l’année 1730. Où l’on voit ce qu’il y a de plus remarquable, particulièrement sur l’Historie naturelle.

Granger, sieur

...Granger was a doctor from Dijon who had changed his name from Tourtechot and who travelled in Egypt and Syria in the 1730s. He was a friend of Pignon, French consul in Cairo and his major interest was in natural history. He died in 1734...

The camel: its anatomy, proportions, and paces by Elijah Walton

Elijah Walton

...Although he is now known above all for his depictions of Alpine scenery, Elijah Walton, who studied art in Birmingham and London, went to the Levant when he was in his late twenties and remained for almost two years in Egypt, Syria...