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To do
[edit]- Grotius, Hugo (1613) - Ordinum Hollandiae ac Westfrisiae pietas (en: The Piety of the States of Holland and Westfriesland) - upgrade the references section; make a translation to nl-wiki
- Smith, Adam (1776) - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - check the fr-wiki
- Ricardo, David (1817) - On_the_Principles_of_Political_Economy_and_Taxation - expand!
Wikipedia articles on old books about expeditions and about non-European countries
[edit]Africa
[edit]- Description_de_l'Égypte (1809 - 1829).
Japan
[edit]- Fauna_Japonica (1833 - 1850).
Australia / Pacific
[edit]- Flinders, Matthews (1814) - A_Voyage_to_Terra_Australis
- Moore, George Fletcher (1842) - A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia
- Stokes, John Lort (1846) - Discoveries in Australia
- Malinowski, Bronislaw (1922) - Argonauts_of_the_Western_Pacific : An account of native enterprise and adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea.
- id. (1929) - The_Sexual_Life_of_Savages_in_North-Western_Melanesia
- id. (1935) - Coral Gardens and Their Magic
- Banks'_Florilegium
- Flora Australiensis
- John_Cotton's_Birds_of_the_Port_Phillip_District_of_New_South_Wales_1843-1849 (1974)
- and more at Category:Books_about_Australian_natural_history
North America
[edit]
Antartica
[edit]- Cherry-Garrard, Apsley (1922) - The Worst Journey in the World. About the 1910-1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott.
stubs
[edit]- Narrative_of_the_Expedition_of_an_American_Squadron_to_the_China_Seas_and_Japan
- A_Short_Account_of_the_Destruction_of_the_Indies (1552); also in Wikisource
Australia / Pacific
[edit]- Journals_of_Expeditions_of_Discovery_into_Central_Australia
- Mead, Margaret (1930) - Growing_Up_In_New_Guinea
- The_Pioneers_of_Martins_Bay
- Endlicher, Stephan - Enumeratio_plantarum_quas_in_Novae_Hollandiae_ora_austro-occidentali_ad_fluvium_Cygnorum_et_in_sinu_Regis_Georgii_collegit_Carolus_Liber_Baro_de_Hügel (1837)
- Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae (1858 - 1882)