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An historical account of coffee. With an engraving, and botanical description of the tree. To which are added sundry papers relative to its culture and use, as an article of diet and commerce ...
Author · 1774
An essay towards a natural history of the corallines, and other marine productions of the like kind, commonly found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland
Author · 1755
Herrn Johann Ellis, Mitgliedes der Königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu London, Versuch einer Natur-Geschichte der Corall-Arten und anderer dergleichen Mer-Cörper, welche gemeiniglich an den Küsten von Gross-Britannien und Irrland gefunden werden : nebst der Beschreibung eines grossen Büschel-Polypen, welcher in dem Eis- Mere gefangen worden
Author · 1767
Directions for bringing over seeds and plants, from the East Indies and other distant countries, in a state of vegetation: together with a catalogue of such foreign plants as are worthy of being encouraged in our American colonies, for the purposes of medicine, agriculture, and commerce. To which is added, the figure and botanical description of a new sensitive plant, called Dionoea muscipula: or, Venus's fly-trap
Author · 1770
A description of the mangostan and the bread-fruit ... the first, esteemed one of the most delicious, the other, the most useful of all the fruits of the East Indies : To which are added, directions to voyagers, for bringing over these and other vegetable productions, which would be extremely beneficial to the inhabitants of our West India Islands
Author · 1775
The natural history of many curious and uncommon zoophytes, collected from the various parts of the globe by the late John Ellis/ systematically arranged and described by the late Daniel Solander
Author · 1786
Essai sur l'histoire naturelle des corallines, et d'autres productions marines de même genre, qu'on trouve communement sur les côtes de la Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande; auquel on a joint une description d'un grande polype de mer, pris auprès du Pole Arctique, par des Pêcheurs de Baleine, pendant l'été de 1753 ... traduit de l'anglois
Author · 1756
