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    The contents of the books are as follows. Book 1: table of contents of the others and of authorities; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: geography and ethnography of the known world; 7: anthropology and the physiology of man; 8-11: zoology; 12-19: botany, agriculture, and horticulture; 20-27: plant products as used in medicine; 28-32: medical zoology; 33-37: minerals (and medicine), the fine arts, and gemstones.The Loeb Classical Library edition of Natural History is in ten volumes.

    Two spinster sisters, dominant 'Miss Agnes' and compliant 'Miss Ellen' are left ‘The Cedars’ without means by their father a retired army colonel. In this cold and inhospitable house, the sisters need to live frugally. By fortune, an uncle leaves them an Italian villa, ‘Castello Inglese’, with a comfortable living in a sunnier scene, where Agnes and Ellen take up residence and suppressed emotions blossom into passion. But how is the “man about the house” involved and what other dark secrets are lurking at the “Castello Inglese”? Francis Brett Young qualified as a doctor and medical matters often feature in his novels – nor are they missing from this story. The book is compelling reading with unexpected revelations.