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FLO4674573: Southern maidenhair fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo (Commentary on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides), Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice, 1568., Liberale, Giorgio (1527-1579) (after) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674650: Spring crocus, Crocus vernus (Croco fiorito). Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo (Commentary on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides), Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice, 1568., Liberale, Giorgio (1527-1579) (after) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674874: A variete of oxypetalum (Tweedia coerulea), a shrub with persistent foliage, up to 2 metres tall, producing delicate blue, star-shaped flowers. This ornamental plant was discovered in South America, it is likely that indigo is produced from this plant. Its seeds were sent in 1835 to Dublin (Ireland). Illustration by Sara Maund, in The Botanist, series by Benjamin Maund in five volumes, published between 1836 and 1842. This work is renowned for its finely detailed engravings. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674879: Variete of Epicris (E. Nivalis), persistent shrub with small white flowers. Illustration by Augusta Innes Withers (1793-1877), in The Botanist, series by Benjamin Maund in five volumes, published between 1836 and 1842. This work is renowned for its finely detailed engravings. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674948: Mimosas caterpillar (Acacia longifolia), shrub with persistent foliage, up to 3 to 6 metres high, with inflorescence in long, lemon-yellow epis, very fragrance. Plant native to New Holland (Australia), introduced to Great Britain in 1792. Illustration by R. Mills (active 1836-1842), in The Botanist, series by Benjamin Maund in five volumes, published between 1836 and 1842. This work is renowned for its finely detailed engravings. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4652030: Le crossarch mango (mangouste) et l'ailure, petit panda ou panda eclatant - Eau forte by Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845), engraved by Carnonkel, for the dictionary of natural sciences: mammals by Frederic Cuvier, edited by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), published by F.G.Levrault, in Paris, 1816 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4652073: Cheiroptere (chiroptere): noctilion beak of hare unicolor and Phyllostome vampire - Eau forte by Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845), engraved by Carnonkel, for the dictionary of natural sciences: mammals by Frederic Cuvier, edited by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), published by F.G.Levy Aault, a Paris, 1816 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4652167: Indian Lori, Psittacus coccineus. Probably the endangered species of red and blue loris (eos histrio) but the illustration has only been partially coloured. Lithograph of Joseph Kidd, based on a drawing by John Audubon, in Miscellany of Natural History: Parrots, Sir Thomas DiK Lauder and Captain Thomas Brown, published in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1833. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4652410: Sea urchins and their spines. Slate pencil urchin, Heterocentrotus mamillatus, Echinus mammillaris 8, long-spined urchin, Diadema setosum, Echinus setosa 10, cake urchins, Clypeaster species 12-17. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities of Johann Ambrosius Beurer. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4629288: Goodyera biflora orchid or beni shusuran (Goodyera macrantha foliis luteo-marginatis), and Goodyera velutina orchid, shusuran. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1867-1868. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4629634: Interior of Nathaniel Ward's fern greenhouse, Clapham, London, 1851. Inventor of the Wardian Case. Woodblock engraving from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1851. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4652012: Cheiroptere (chiroptere): nyctinome of Egypt or nycteris (nyctere) and stenoderm roux - Eau forte by Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845), engraved by Carnonkel, for the dictionary of natural sciences: mammiferes by Frederic Cuvier, edited by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), published by F.G.Levrault, a Paris, 1816 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4652261: Portrait of John James Audubon (1785-1851), Franco-American ornithological artist. Lithograph of Charles Wands, based on painting by John Syme, in Miscellany of Natural History: Parrots, by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder and Captain Thomas Brown, published in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1833. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4652505: Cross-section through chambered nautilus shell, Nautilus pompilius (Nautilus crassus) 1, small nautilus, Nautilus pompilius suluensis 2, greater argonaut with narrow keel, Argonauta argo (Nautilus papyraceus) 3, and greater argonaut with broad keel 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4652740: Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, with hood. White-breasted falcon, Falco nisus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jakob-Andreas Eisemann after an illustration from nature by Barbara Regina Dietzsch from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4652838: Gemsbok or gemsbuck, Oryx gazella (Chamois d'Afrique). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jakob-Andreas Eisemann from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg. / Bridgeman Images