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FLO4730306: Castor - Castor oil plant, Ricinus communis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's “” Medical Botany,”” John Bohn, London, 1832, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4730328: Cascarille officinale or soft or faux quinquina wood - Cascarilla, Croton (Clutia) eluteria. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's “” Medical Botany,”” John Bohn, London, 1832, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
GIA4730333: Dining and cooking scene among the Florida Indians. 17th century engraving., Unknown Artist, (17th century) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4721437: Description of the red vine (Bryonia dioica) with its red berries / Bridgeman Images
FLO4721503: Composition of white Christmas rose, tin laurel with white flowers, green hellebore flower and yellow winter aconite flower. Chromolithographie in “” Recueil d'images instructives ou lecons du monde vegetal””, by Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901), published in Edinburgh (Scotland) in 1858. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4721528: Description of fruits: blue plum (quetsche) and peach / Bridgeman Images
FLO4721557: Description of fruits: quince and pear. Chromolithographie in “” Recueil d'images instructives ou lecons du monde vegetal””, by Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901), published in Edinburgh (Scotland) in 1858. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4721637: Costume of a Paulista, woman of St. Paul's (Sao Paulo) in long wool coat edged with velvet and gold lace. Copied from John Mawe's (1764-1829) Travels in the Interior of Brazil, 1812. Copperplate engraving by Dall'Acqua handcoloured by Laxaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno's Raccolta de Viaggi Piu Interessanti, Milan, 1815-1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4721766: Pompey's Pillar 1, and the obelisk of Cleopatra 2. Illustration by Ali Bey el Abbassi from his Travels in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria and Turkey, London 1816. Ccopperplate engraving by dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno's Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccolta de Viaggi Piu Interessanti), Milan, 1815-1817 / Bridgeman Images
GIA4725616: The telegraph of Claude Chappe (1763-1805), French engineer - Engraving of the 19th century, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4725626: Zingel - Red crown (or merou crown, big mouth, old red) - bass raye (or American) - Zingel, Zingel zingel 37, red hind, Epinephelus guttatus 38 and Striped bass, Morone saxatilis Perca saxatilis 39. Handcolored copperplate engraving after Jacob Nilson from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804. Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergy and naturalist known as the German Buffon. / Bridgeman Images
GIA4725723: Peace of Tolentino between Napoleon I and Pope Pius VI, February 18, 1797 - The Tolentino Treaty or Tolentino Peace is a peace treaty signed on February 19, 1797 in Tolentino, Italy, between France and the Pontifical States. (Between General Bonaparte and Pope Pius (Pio or Pius) VI (1717-1799) - The Pope renounces his right to Avignon and Comtat Venaissin., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
FLO4725764: French angel fish - French angelfish, Pomacanthus paru 14, Emperor angelfish, Pomacanthus imperator 15, batfish, Platax orbicularis 16, and longfin baitfish, Platax teira 17. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804. Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergy and naturalist known as the German Buffon. / Bridgeman Images
GIA4725811: Portrait of Robert Dudley (1532-1588) Earl of Leicester, favorite of Elizabeth I (Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English political and military) - engraving, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4725822: Atlantic Salmon (female) - Fishing technique with nets and grilles, stretdus a travaers la rivière, just after spawning - Female Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, and fishing methods using nets and grills across a river during spawning season. Handcolored copperplate engraving after Jacob Nilson from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804. Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergy and naturalist known as the German Buffon. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4725964: Common (or monstrous) chimere or sea rat - Ratfish or rabbitfish, Chimaera monstrosa. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804. Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergy and naturalist known as the German Buffon. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4726007: European Sturgeon - Sea sturgeon, Acipenser sturio 27, and underside 28. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804. Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergy and naturalist known as the German Buffon. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4726014: Description of the lemon, showing the fruit, leaves and flowers. Citrus showing fruit, leaves and flowers.Citrus medica.Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's “” Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte”” (Encyclopedia of Natural History) 1813. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4726060: Variety of grapes: white and black. / Bridgeman Images
GIA4729559: After the Battle of Hohenfriedberg, 1745 - War of Succession of Austria (17409-1748): after the Battle of Hohenfriedberg (or Hohenfriedeberg), in 1745, the triumph of Frederic II of Prussia, known as the Great (1712-1786) - Colour engraving, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4729585: Comfrey - Comfrey, Symphytum officinale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's “” Medical Botany,”” John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew over 2, 500 plants for Smith's mammoth “” English Botany”” (1790-1814) and 440 mushrooms for “” Coloured Figures of English Fungi “” (1797) among many other works., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4729635: Germandree marum or germandree of cats - Cat thyme, Teucrium marum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's “” Medical Botany,”” John Bohn, London, 1832, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4729679: White or common marrube - White horehound, Marubium vulgare. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's “” Medical Botany,”” John Bohn, London, 1832, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4729691: Melisse officinale or melisse lemongrass - Common balm, Melissa officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's “” Medical Botany,”” John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew over 2, 500 plants for Smith's mammoth “” English Botany”” (1790-1814) and 440 mushrooms for “” Coloured Figures of English Fungi “” (1797) among many other works., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4729725: Gratiole officinale - Hedge-hyssop, Gratiola officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's “” Medical Botany,”” John Bohn, London, 1832, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4729901: Acacia a cachou or cachoutier - Catechu, Acacia catechu. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's “” Medical Botany,”” John Bohn, London, 1832, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4718890: African buffalo or Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer (Bos cafer). Naked South African men with spears, shields, blankets and buffalo on a trek. Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig-1842. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4718947: Zebu or humped cattle, Bos primigenius indicus (Indian buffalo, Bos indicus). Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig-1842. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4718978: Domestic cat, Felis catus. Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig-1842. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4719035: Ash-coloured harrier, Circus cineraceus. Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4719055: Masked water tyrant, Fluvicola nengeta. Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842. / Bridgeman Images
GIA4719229: Richard Bentley (1662-1742), English theologian, classical scholar and critic, (1834), Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
FLO4719304: Black-backed puffback, Dryoscopus cubla (Lanius cubla). Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842. / Bridgeman Images
GIA4750133: Deportation of the Jesuites on 21/07/1773: Expulsion of Jesuites from the states of the King of Spain, Naples and the Duchy of Parma, their Orders banned in France and Portugal. Engraving from the beginning of the 19th century, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
GIA4750174: Sardine fishing in Brittany in 1903 illustration by Achille Beltrame, Beltrame, Achille (1871-1945) / Bridgeman Images
GIA4750192: President of the French Republic Félix Faure in 1899 Illustration by Achille Beltrame, Beltrame, Achille (1871-1945) / Bridgeman Images