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    Catalogue of North American birds : chiefly in the museum of the Smithsonian institution /
    Subjects: “...Birds North America....”
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    The American mock bird : containing a new collection of the most favourite songs now in vogue.
    Published 1760
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    The Black-bird : Being a collection of favourite Scots, English, and Irish songs. With a variety of toasts and sentiments. To which is added, the adventure of John Gilpin, from London to Edmonton: shewing how he went farther than he intended, and came home safe at last.
    Published 1790
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    Encyclopedia of American Indian history /
    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “... Indian Youth Council -- National Museum of the American Indian -- Native American Church of North America...”
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    A catalogue of the animals of North America : containing an enumeration of the known quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceous and testaceous animals, many of which are new, and never described before : to which are added short directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting all kinds of natural history curiosities /
    Subjects: “...Zoology North America Early works to 1800....”
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    Living curiosities, to be seen in the Great-Room, over Exeter-Change, the finest assemblage in this kingdom. Consisting of two collections, one of capital and uncommon beasts, the other of curious and rare birds; selected from Asia. Africa and America.
    Published 1790
    Subjects: “...Birds Great Britain Early works to 1800....”
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    America, being the latest and most accurate description of the Nevv VVorld : containing the original of the inhabitants and the remarkable voyages thither, the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains and rivers, their habits, customs, manners and religions, their plants, beasts, birds and serpents : with an appendix, containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the Arctick region /
    Table of Contents: “...bk. 1. An accurate description of America -- Bk. 2. A description of Northern America -- Bk. 3. A...”
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    Report of the Commissioners on Fisheries of the state of New Hampshire.
    Subjects: “...Game and game-birds New Hampshire Periodicals....”
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    Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777 : elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. By Captn. J. G. Stedman. illustrated with 80 elegant engravings designed from nature drawingsby the author.
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    Catalogue of one hundred and seventeen Indian portraits, representing eighteen different tribes : accompanied by a few brief remarks on the character &c. of most of them /
    Subjects: “...Indians of North America Biography....”
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    [Economic tracts /
    by Baird, Henry Carey, 1825-1912
    Published 1860
    Table of Contents: “...Protection of home labor and home productions necessary to the prosperity of the American farmer...”
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    Instructions to young sportsmen, in all that relates to guns and shooting /
    by Hawker, Peter, 1786-1853
    Published 1846
    Subjects: “...Hunting North America....”
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    The sportsman's companion or An essay on shooting : illustriously shewing in what manner to fire at birds of game, in various directions and situations.--And, directions to gentlemen for the treatment and breaking their own pointers and spaniels, and the necessary precautions, to guard against many accidents that attend this pleasant diversion: with several useful and interesting particulars relative thereto. By a gentleman, who has made shooting his favorite amusement upwards of twenty-six years, in Great-Britain, Ireland, and North-America.
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    A view of the relative situation of Great Britain and the United States of North America : By a Merchant.
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    Memoirs of Charles Dennis Rusoe D'Eres, a native of Canada : who was with the Scanyawtauragahrooote Indians eleven years, with a particular account of his sufferings, &c. during his tarry with them, and his safe return to his family connections in Canada; to which is added an appendix, containing a brief account of their persons, dress, manners, reckoning time, mode of government, &c. Feasts, dances, hunting, weapons of war, &c. Making peace, diversions, courtship, marriage, religious tenets, mode of worship, diseases, method of cure, burying their dead, character o the Scanyawtauragahrooote Indians, particular description of the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects, which are to be met with on and in the vicinity of Scanyawtauragahrooote Island. Copy right secured.
    Subjects: “...Indians of North America Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065384...”
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    The beauties of the creation : or A new moral system of natural history; displayed in the most singular, curious, and beautiful quadrupeds, birds, insects, trees, and flowers: designed to inspire youth with humanity towards the brute creation, and bring them early acquainted with the wonderful works of the Divine Creator.
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    Beauties of the creation : or A new moral system of natural history; displayed in the most singular, curious, and beautiful quadrupeds, birds, insects, trees, shrubs & flowers. Designed to inspire youth with humanity towards the brute creation, and bring them early acquainted with the wonderful works of the Divine Creator. By George Riley. [Three lines of verse from Blackmore].
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    A new system of geography: or, A general description of the world : Containing a particular and circumstantial account of all the countries, kingdoms, and states of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Their situation, climate, mountains, seas, rivers, lakes, &c. The religion, manners, customs, manufactures, trade, and buildings of the inhabitants. With the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects, the various vegetables, and minerals, found in different regions. Embellished with a new and accurate set of maps, by the best geographers; and great variety of copper-plates, containing perspective views of the principal cities, structures, ruins, &c. By D. Fenning, (Author of the Royal English dictionary, the use of the globes, the young algebraist's companion, &c.) J. Collier, (Author of the Letters from Pelicia to Charlotte; and translator of the Messiah, from the German of Mr. Klopstock.) and others.
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    The Importance of Jamaica to Great-Britain, consider'd : With some account of that island, from its discovery in 1492 to this time: and a list of the governors and presidents, with an account of their towns, harbours, bays, buildings, inhabitants, whites and negroes, &c. The country and people cleared from misrepresentations; the misbehaviour of Spanish governors by entertaining pirates, and plundering the inhabitants and merchants of Jamaica, and the rise of the pirates among them. An account of their fruits, drugs, timber and dying-woods, and of the uses they are apply'd to there: with a description of exotick plants, preserved in the gardens of the curious in England; and of the kitchen and flower-gardens in the West-Indies. Also of their beasts, birds, fishes, and insects; with their eatables and potables, distempers and remedies. With an account of their trade and produce; with the advantages they are of to Great-Britain, Ireland, and the colonies in North-America, and the commodities they take in return from them, with the danger they are in from the French at Hispaniola, and their other islands and settlements on the continent, by the encouragements they have over the British planters. With instances of insults they have given His Majesty's subjects in the West-Indies and on the main. With the representation of His Late Majesty when elector of Hanover, and of the House of Lords, against a peace, which could not be safe or honourable if Spain or the West-Indies were allotted to any branch of the House of Bourbon. In a letter to a gentleman. In which is added, a postscript, of the benefits which may arise by keeping of Carthagena, to Great-Britain and our American colonies; with an account of what goods are used in the Spanish trade, and hints of settling it after the French method (by sending of women there) and of the trade and method of living of the Spaniards; and English South-Sea Company's factors there.
    The Importance of Jamaica to Great-Britain, consider'd : With some account of that island, from its discovery in 1492 to this time: and a list of the governors and presidents, with an account of their towns, harbours, bays, buildings, inhabitants, whites and negroes, &c. The country and people cleared from misrepresentations; the misbehaviour of Spanish governors by entertaining pirates, and plundering the inhabitants and merchants of Jamaica, and the rise of the pirates among them. An account of their fruits, drugs, timber and dying-woods, and of the uses they are apply'd to there: with a description of exotick plants, preserved in the gardens of the curious in England; and of the kitchen and flower-gardens in the West-Indies. Also of their beasts, birds, fishes, and insects; with their eatables and potables, distempers and remedies...
    Published 1740
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    A new, royal, authentic, complete, and universal system of geography; or, A modern history and description of the whole world : Containing new, full, accurate, authentic, and interesting accounts and descriptions of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, as consisting of continents, islands, oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, promontories, capes, bays, peninsulas, isthmusses, gulphs, &c. And as divided into empires, kingdoms, states, and republics. Together with a description of their limits, boundaries, climate, soil, natural and artificial curiosities and productions, religions, laws, government, revenues, forces, antiquities, &c. Also the provinces, cities, towns, villages, forts, castles, harbours, sea-ports, aqueducts, mountains, mines, minerals, fossils, roads, public and private edifices, universities, &c. contained in each: and all that is interesting relative to the customs, manners, genius, tempers, habits, amusements, ceremonies, comemrce, arts, sciences, manufactures, and language of the inhabitants. Together with an accurate and lively description of all the various kinds of birds, beasts, reptiles, fishes, amphibious creatures, insects, &c. Including the substance and essence of the most remarkable voyages and travels, which have been performed by the navigators and travellers of different countries, particularly the late discoveries in the south seas, and towards the North pole; with every curiosity that has hitherto appeared respecting the different parts of the universe. Comprising every interesting discovery and circumstances in the narratives of Captain Cook's voyages round the world. Together with all the recent discoveries made in the Pelew Islands, New Holland, New South Wales, Botany Bay, Port Jackson, Norfolk Island, north and west coasts of America, the interior parts of America, Africa, China, Caffraria, India East and West, Arabia, Madagascar, Russia, &c. &c. Carefully written and compiled from the late journals of the voyages and travels of Captains Phillips, King, Ball, Hunter, White, Dixon, Portlock, Mears, Patterson, Bruce, Anbury, Rochon, Morse, Blyth, Ross, Imlay, Keate, Brissot, Hodges, &c. &c. Also compendious histories of every empire, kingdom, state, &c. with their various revolutions. To which will be added a new, complete, and easy guide to geogrphy, astronomy, the use of the globes, &c. With an account of the rise and progress of navigation, its improvements and utility to mankind. The whole embellished and and enriched with upwards of an hundred most elegant and superb copper-plates, engraved in such a manner as to do infinite honour to the respective artists by whom they are executed. These embellishments consist of views, maps, land and water perspectives; birds, beasts, fishes, &c. as also the various dresses of the inhabitants of different countries, with their strange ceremonies, customs, amusements, &c. &c. By George Augustus Baldwyn, Esq. Assisted by many gentlemen eminent for their knowledge in the science of geography; particularly by Charles Andrew Robertson, Esq.-Clement Walley Oulion, Esq.-and Henry Hogg, M.A. author of the New universal letter writer, and teacher of geography, astronomy, navigation, &c.
    by Baldwyn, George Augustus
    Published 1794
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