Library Collection
The Center’s research library acquires rare books for our Renaissance of the Earth project. Our library includes English agricultural manuals and works in the natural sciences with an eye toward practical engagements with the earth. This focus encourages students and scholars to ask: What models for sustainable practice does the past offer to our present moment of ecological crisis?
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John Worlidge, Vinetum Brittanicum, or, A treatise of cider, 1638
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Thomas Gage, Nouvelle relation, contenant les voyages de Thomas Gage dans la Nouvelle Espagne, 1699
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Thomas Burnet, The theory of the Earth, 1684
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Georg Andreas Aricola, The experimental husbandman and gardener, 1726
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William Lawson, A new orchard and garden, 1648
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Richard Verstegan, A restitution of decayed intelligence, 1634
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Adam Lonicer, Kreuterbuch, 1564
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John Gerard, The herball, or, Generall historie of plantes, 1633
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Hand-colored map of Egypt, published by Celarius, 1690
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Richard Verstegan, A restitution of decayed intelligence, 1634
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John Worlidge, Systema agriculturae, 1681
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Walter Blith, The English improver improved, 1653
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John Evelyn, Sylva, or, A discourse of forest-trees and the propagation of timber, 1679
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Dictionarium rusticum, urbanicum & botanicum, 1717
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Castle and gardens in Heidelberg, Germany, copperplate engraving, 16th century