FLO4576661: Ice mountains built near St. Petersburg for carnival, circa 1800, with people enjoying ice slides and hot drinks made of sugar or honey and pepper by Ferris, near the Bolchoi Theatre), with swings and tents for drinking vodka) 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576698: Piece of elephant tusk found 5-feet underground in Europe, 18th century Believed to be from now extinct species of elephant or mammoth. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576798: Cyclopean masonry in Morea (Peloponnese), ancient Greece (The Cyclopean ruins of the Peloponnese, testify to maconery in ancient Greece). Debris of an ancient fortress near Epidauris-Limera, showing walls built from huge stones without cement or mortar. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576883: Giant's Causeway, Ulster, Ireland, circa 1800 (La Chaussee des giants, Ireland, circa 1800). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578936: Oxalis (small sorrel) has white streaked flowers and candy pink, native to Africa. Striped flowered wood sorrel with pink candy striped white flowers. A native of Africa. Oxalis versicolor. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine”” 1790-1800., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4579009: Azalee with bare flowers (Rhododendron periclymenoides) - Lithography by Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), plate from the Botanical Magazine by William Curtis (1746-1799), 1791 (England) - Scarlet azalea, Rhododendron calendir laceum (Azalea nudiflora var. coccinea) - Handcolored copperplate) and engraved by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine,” St. George's Crescent, London, 1791, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images