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OU Libraries’ History of Science digital collection began with several hundred 15th- through 18th-century rare books, maps, and other items digitized for the 2015-2016 Galileo’s World exhibition. They range from art, music, astronomy, and meteorology through natural history, the human body, microscopy, physics, and engineering, and on to religion and travels to China and the Americas. All images in the digital collection have been released to the public domain. When using images from this collection, please include the following attribution statement: Image(s) courtesy History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.

De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes, maximis impensis et vigiliis elaborati, adiectis earvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus, nunquam antea ad naturae imitationem artificiosius effictis & expressis
Leonharto Fvchsio ... autore ... Accessit ... ijs succincta admodum uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio. Vna cum quadruplici indice, quorum primus quidem stirpium nomenclaturas graecas, alter latinas, tertius officinis seplasiariorum & herbarijs usitatas, quartus germanicas continebit., Col. title vignette.
Phytobasanos : sive, Plantarum aliquot historia in qua describuntur diversi generis plantæ veriores, ac magis facie, viribúsque respondentes antiquorum Theophrasti, Dioscoridis, Plinij, Galeni, aliorúmque delineationibus, ab alijs hucusque non animaduersæ
Fabio Columna auctore ; accessit etiam Piscium aliquot, Plantarúmque nouarum historia eodem auctore ..., Title transliterated., The illustrations are full-page etchings by the author, each within type ornament border., Signatures: [paragraph symbol]-[double paragraph symbol]⁴ A-I⁴ K-P⁴ a-d⁴, a⁴., Tail-pieces., Includes errata., Includes bibliographical references and index.
Phytographia curiosa
collegit & adjecit Franciscus Kiggelaer., Each part has added engraved t.p., Pt. 1: [32], 24 p., 119 leaves of plates; pt. 2: [25]-47 p., 120-245 leaves of plates., Signatures: pi⁴ *-6*² A-M² chi1., Title vignettes; initials; head- and tail-pieces., Title page printed in red and black., Engraved frontispiece and head-piece on A1 signed by I. Goeree and I Baptist., Engraved dedication with coat of arms signed: P. Vander Aa, et F. Halma., Includes index.
The history of four-footed beasts and serpents...
Collected out of the writings of Conradus Gesner and other authors, by Edward Topsel. Whereunto is now added, The theater of insects... by T. Muffet., Paged continuously., Vol 1 is largely a translation of books 1 and 5 of Gesner's Historia animalium, with additions by Topsell. The second part has title: The history of serpents. Or, The second book of living creatures... By Edward Topsell. London, Printed by E. Cotes, 1658., Vols. 2, a translation of Moffett's Insectorum... theatrum, has title: The theatre of insects: or, Lesser living creatures... By Tho. Mouffet... London, Printed by E. C., 1658.
De animalibus.
"Interprete Theodore Gaze.", Hain. Repertorium 1699; Pellechet. Cat. gen. des incunables 1206; Stillwell. Incunabula in American libraries A870., Initails and paragraph marks supplied in red and blue, hand colored. Rubricated in red. Numerous old marginal ms. notes., Bound by Riviere in calf, wooden boards; clasps.
Dell' historia naturale : Libri XXVIII : nella quale ordinatamente si tratta della diuersa condition di miniere, e pietre : con alcune historie di piante, & animali, sin'hora non date in luce
di Ferrante Imperato ..., Pagination errors: 229-234 omitted in numbering; 241-244 repeated after 248, followed by 251-254; numbering then resumes at 249.
Mundus subterraneus : in XII libros digestus ; qvo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum naturae in eo distibutio, verbo Pantamorphon Protei regnum, universae denique naturae majestas & divitiae summa rerum varietate exponuntur ; abdit
Added t.p., engraved: Athanasii Kircheri Mundus subterraneus., "Libros digestus quibus mundi subterranei fructus exponuntur, et quidquid tandem rarum, insolitum, et portentosum in foecundo naturae utero continetur, ante oculos ponitur curiosi lectoris.", "Catalogus librorum, a p. Athanasio Kirchero hactenus editorum": v. 1, p. 346., Includes indexes.
Dell' historia naturale : Libri XXVIII : nella quale ordinatamente si tratta della diuersa condition di miniere, e pietre : con alcune historie di piante, & animali, sin'hora non date in luce
di Ferrante Imperato ..., Pagination errors: 229-234 omitted in numbering; 241-244 repeated after 248, followed by 251-254; numbering then resumes at 249.
Mundus subterraneus : in XII libros digestus ; qvo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum naturae in eo distibutio, verbo Pantamorphon Protei regnum, universae denique naturae majestas & divitiae summa rerum varietate exponuntur ; abdit
Added t.p., engraved: Athanasii Kircheri Mundus subterraneus., "Libros digestus quibus mundi subterranei fructus exponuntur, et quidquid tandem rarum, insolitum, et portentosum in foecundo naturae utero continetur, ante oculos ponitur curiosi lectoris.", "Catalogus librorum, a p. Athanasio Kirchero hactenus editorum": v. 1, p. 346., Includes indexes.
Observationes circa viventia, qvæ in rebvs non viventibvs reperivntvr. Cvm Micrographia cvriosa siue Rerum minutissimarum obseruationibus, quæ ope microscopij recognitæ ad viuum exprimuntur : His accesserunt aliquot animalium testaceorum icones non antea
Frontispiece, dated 1692., Tail pieces; initials; side notes., Errata: p. [1] (5th group)., "Pars secunda; seu, supplementum recreationis mentis et oculi in observatione testaceorum quorum aliqua exprimuntur non antea in lucem edita": p. [308]-335 has engraved half-title page; "Micrographia curiosa ...": p. 1-103 at end., The Micrographia curiosa was later published separately: Romae : Typis Antonii de Rubeis, MDCCIII. [1703], Includes indexes., Backer. Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, v. 2, col. 377-378., Nissen. Zoologische Buchillustration, 752., Pritzel, no. 1374 (Micrographia curiosa only)., Copy [1]: DeGolyer Collection book plate; wanting frontispiece (torn out)., Copy 2: Pages xv-xvj bound in before pages xiij-xiv; p. 35 misnumbered 53 (first group); wanting [4] p. (5th group); illegible bookstamps on t.p.