History 100.308
Nature and Empire:  Representations of the Natural World in the British Atlantic (1500-1800)

Spring 2005

This guide lists reference tools and primary source collections that will be of use to students in History 100.308.  

Additional research guides of interest to this class:

Primary Sources 

History 

Selected Primary Sources 
This list is intended to be suggestive, rather than exhaustive.  It should set you thinking rather than limit your creativity in any way. -- Kate Murphy

Sources by Specific Authors
To find additional works by these authors or to find works by others authors, please begin with an author search in the JHU Libraries Catalog. 

Ballad, Martha. Diary. (1785-1812)
Digitized at www.dohistory.org

John Bartram.  Catalogue of Seeds for Sale by John Bartram in Philadelphia. 
Digitized in Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800).

---.  The Correspondence of John Bartram, 1734-1777.  
MSEL STACKS QK31 .B3 A4 1992

John and William Bartram.  Botanical and Zoological Drawings, 1756-1788.
EISENHOWER STACKS Q 11 .A61 v.74

William Bartram.  Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogules, or Creek confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws: containing an account of the soil and natural productions of those regions; together with observations on the manners of the Indians ... (First published in 1791.)
SearchJHU Libraries Catalog for available print editions.
Digitized in Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
Full-text in Early Encounters in North America.

Beverley, Robert.  The History and Present State of Virginia. (1705).
Search JHU Libraries Catalog for available print editions.
Full-text in Early Encounters in North America.

Browne, Patrick.  The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica.  (1756).
GEORGE PEABODY LIBRARY RARE BOOKS 972.92 B883 Quarto (Non-circulating)
Digitized in Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

Byrd, William.  Another Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1739-1741. Ed. by Maude H. Woodfin. Trans. by Marion Tinling. (1942).
Search JHU Libraries Catalog for available print editions. Search William Byrd as an author to find this and other diaries.

----------- “Letters of William Byrd II and Sir Hans Sloane Relative to Plants and Minerals of Virginia.” William and Mary Quarterly. 2d ser., vol. 1, no. 3 (Jul. 1921), 186-200.
Article available in JSTOR.

Catesby, Mark.  Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. (1754).
1771 edition at the Garrett Library; Facsimile of watercolors available in MSEL Special Collections.
Digitized in Eighteenth Century Collections Online. (1771 ed.)
Full-text in Early Encounters in North America. 

Clark, Samuel. “A True and Faithful Account of the Chiefest Plantations of the English in America” (1670).
Print edition available at the Garrett Library.
Digitized in Early English Books Online.
Full-text in Early Encounters in North America.

Collinson, Peter.  Forget not Mee and My Garden: Selected Letters, 1725-1768, of Peter Collinson, F.R.S. (2002). 
MSEL RESERVES Q11.P612 v.241 QUARTO

Edwards, George.  A natural history of uncommon birds and of some other rare and undescribed animals, quadrupedes, reptiles, fishes, insects, &c. exhibited in two hundred and ten copper-plates. (1751).
George Peabody Library Rare Books.  590 E26 Quarto (Non-circulating)

Hughes, Griffith.  The Natural History of Barbados.  (1750).
EISENHOWER SPECIAL COLLECTIONS QH41 .H8 1750 FOLIO
Digital Edition in Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

Jefferson, Thomas.  Notes on the State of Virginia. (1782)
GARRETT LIBRARY F 230 .J44 1782 (Non-circ.)
Search JHU Libraries Catalog for additional copies.
Digital Edition in Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800). 

Kalm Pehr.  Travels into North America. (1770)
Digitized in Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
See also :   Benson, Adolph B., ed., The America of 1750:  Peter Kalm's travels in North America.  (Based on the English version from 1770.) GEORGE PEABODY LIBRARY 917 K14a (Non-circulating)

Long, Edward.  History of Jamaica.  (1774)
GEORGE PEABODY LIBRARY RARE BOOKS 972.92 L848 QUARTO (Non-circ.) (1774 ed.)
Search JHU Libraries Catalog for additional copies.
Digitized in Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

Petty, William.  The Political Anatomy of Ireland. (1691)
EISENHOWER HUTZLER COLLECTION DA 940 .P4 1691
Search JHU Libraries Catalog for additional copies. 
Digitized in Early English Books Online.

Rouelle, John.  A Complete Treatise on the Mineral Waters of Virginia. (1792)
Digitized in Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800).

Swem, E. G., ed., “Brothers of the Spade; Correspondence of Peter Collinson, of London, and of John Custis, of Williamsburg, Virginia, 1734-1746,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 58 (1948), 17-190.
EISENHOWER STACKS E 172 .A55

Online Collections

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries from 1500-1900  (All US JHU)
Early encounters in North America peoples, cultures, and the environment.  (All US JHU)
Early English Books Online  (All US JHU)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online  (All US JHU)
JSTOR  (All US JHU)
Incudes:  Royal Society of London.  Philosophical Transactions. (1683-1800+)
Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800)  (All US JHU)
North American Women's Letters and Diaries  (All US JHU)
Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800  (All US JHU)

Selected Reference Sources

Encyclopedias and Biographical Compilations

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography  (All US JHU)

Ray, Desmond.  Dictionary of British and Irish Botantists and Horticulturists.  Rev. ed.  London:  Natural History Museum, 1994.
George Peabody Library 581 .092241 D465 1994 Quarto (Non-circulating)

Indexes to Articles in Historical Publications

America: History and Life (old version)  (All US JHU)

Historical Abstracts (old version)  (All JHU (incl. International))

Royal Historical Society Bibliography  (Any location)

Catalogs

JHU Libraries Catalog

WorldCat  (All JHU (incl. International))