FLO4702952: A carousel parade among teams of knights representing the four elements fire, wind, earth and water. Part of the celebration of the birth of Freiderich, Duke of Wurttemberg, 1616. Taken from Delineation und Abbildung aller furstlichen Anzug und Ritterspielen by Esaias von Hulsen, 1617. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4696607: Scottish lovage, Scottish unicorice-root, Ligustium scotium. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a drawing by James Sowerby for Smith's “” English Botany”” (1803). Sowerby was a tireless illustrator of natural history books and illustrated books on botany, mycology, conchology and geology. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4712493: Amaryllis Cybister - Hippeastrum cybister (Short-flowered tumbler sprekelia, Sprekelia cybister var. brevis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after Miss Sarah Drake from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4712684: Crocus variets - Crocuses, Croci. Crocus pulchellus, C. odorus, C. longiflorus, C. odorus v. melilensis, C. thomasianus, C. pallasianus, C. carlwrightianus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after W. Herbert from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4703552: Woman loading wheat, melons and vegetables onto a Roman two-wheeled farm cart Plaustrum drawn by oxen. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's “” Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages”” (1798). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4693775: Diluvian human skeleton, known as Homo diluvii testicle (today identifies as a giante salamander, Andrias scheuchzeri), and a human skeleton of Guadeloupe. Lithographie in Petrefactenbuch (Book of Petrification) by Dr. F.A.Schmidt, published in Stuttgart (Germany) in 1855 by Verlag von Krais and Hoffmann. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4694032: Geological sections of the Harz Mountains, Thuringia Forest, Metalliferes Mountains and Riesenge Mountains (Germany) - Chromolithography of Geology and Paleontology by Friedrich Rolle (1827-1887), extract from Natural History by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert (1780-1860), 1886 - Geological cross-sections of the Harz Mountains, Thuringian Forest, Ore Mountains and Riesenge Mountains - Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolle's “” Geology and Paleontology”” section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's “” Naturgeschichte,””” Schreiber, Munich, 1886 / Bridgeman Images