Pre-Linnean works

97 books

La Poetica

Aristotle

1801 ★ 3.7

De rerum natura

Titus Lucretius Carus

1695 ★ 3.8

The Travels of Marco Polo

Marco Polo

1844 ★ 3.7

Naturalis historia

Pliny the Elder

1783 ★ 3.8

Histoire naturelle

Georges Louis Leclerc De Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon

1749

Nova Atlantis

Francis Bacon

1660 ★ 3.7

The complete herbal; to which is now added upwards of one hundredadditional herbs

Nicholas Culpeper, Steven Foster

1814

Herball

John Gerard

1597

Selections

Aristotle

1902

History of Animals

Aristotle

1860

The natural history of Selborne

Gilbert White

1813

The old English herbals

Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

1922

Physico-theology

William Derham

1720

Leaves from Gerard's Herball

John Gerard

1931

Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, east & west Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws

William Bartram

1792

Astro-theology

William Derham

1715

On man in the universe

Aristotle

1943

Handbook of plant and floral ornament

Richard G. Hatton

1960

Sylva sylvarum

Francis Bacon

1648

A New Voyage Round the World

Nicholas Thomas, William Dampier

1697

Description de l'Egypte

Gilles Néret, Napoléon Bonaparte

1994

De causis plantarum

Theophrastus

1976

De re metallica

Georg Agricola, Herbert Clark Hoover

1950

Pliny

Pliny the Elder

1978

Parts of animals

Aristotle

1868

Handbook of Plant and Floral Ornament

R. G. Hatton

1909

Pliny's Natural history. In thirty-seven books

Pliny the Elder

1847

The anatomy of plants

Nehemiah Grew

1682

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin

Turner, William

1551

Botanologia, the English herbal, or, History of plants

Salmon, William

1710