FLO4653960: Soba or buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum. (buckwheat) Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653997: Toukibi or corn, Zea mays. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4654253: Ominaeshi or yellow patrinia, Patrinia scabiosifolia (Caprifoliacee). Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4654299: Haku-unpoku or obajisha, Styrax obassia, native to Hokkaido. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653827: Himejon or annual fleabane, Erigeron annuus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653859: Oniyuri or tiger lily, Lilium lancifolium. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4654460: Tochiba ninjin or Japanese ginseng, Panax japonicus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4654988: Aesculapian snake, Zamenis longissimus 1, grass snake, Natrix natrix 2, and South American pond snake, Pseudoryx plicatilis 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Pee Jr. after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard Germain de Lacepede's Natural History of Oviparous Quadrupeds, Snakes, Fish and Cetaceans, Eymery, Paris, 1825. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650680: Banded palm civet cat, Hemigalus derbyanus (Hemigalea zebra). Threatened. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh, 1843. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650778: Rufus-crowned tody-flycatcher, Poecilotriccus ruficeps (Rufus crowned tody, Conopophaga ruficeps). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Flycatchers, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1836. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650785: White-throated spadebill, Platyrinchus mystaceus (Yellow-crested flat-bill, Platyrinchus cancromus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Flycatchers, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1836. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650805: Tawny-crowned pygmy tyrant, Euscarthmus meloryphus (Rufus-crowned tody, Lepturus ruficeps). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Flycatchers, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1836. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650923: Javan white eye, Zosterops flavus (Yellow white eye, Zosterops flava). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651014: Greater crested tern, Thalasseus bergii (Crested tern, Sterna cristata). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651115: Red-eyed dove, Streptopelia semitorquata (Red-eyed pigeon, Turtur erythrophrys). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650890: Title page with vignette of two rose-ringed parakeet, Psittacula krameri, in a jungle setting. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651039: Black crake, Zapornia flavirostra (Yellow-billed waterhen, Gallinula flavirostra). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650733: Crested black tyrant, Knipolegus lophotes (Crested-black water-cat, Blechropus cristatus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Flycatchers, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1836. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650926: Pennant-winged nightjar, Macrodipteryx vexillarius (Macrodipteryx africanus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650933: Mosque swallow, Cecropis senegalensis (Great Senegal swallow, Hirundo senegalensis). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650954: Swallow-tailed bee-eater, Merops hirundineus (Fork-tailed, blue-vented bee-eater, Merops hirundinaceus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651041: Grey-headed gull (African), Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus poiocephalus (Grey cap'd gull, Larus poiocephalus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651100: Yellowbill (Senegal), Ceuthmochares aereus flavirostris (Yellow-billed coucal, Zanclostomus flavirostris). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651113: Western purple-backed sunbird, Anthreptes longuemarei (White-bodied sunbird, Anthreptes leucosoma). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651307: Rodents, squirrels: tamia and guerlindet or toupe - 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, a Paris, 1816 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651383: Baboon et macaque - 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, a Paris, 1816 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651636: Mangabey crown or cercocebe a necklace and douc - Lithography, illustration by Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1885) edited by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), extracted from the “Dictionary of Natural Sciences” by Frederic Cuvier, Paris, France, 1816 - Collared mangabey, Cercocebus torquatus (vulnerable), and female red-shanked douc monkey, Pygathrix nemaeus (endangered) -Handcoloured copperplate engraving, illustration by J. G. Pretre (1780-1845), directed by P. J.F. Turpin, from Frederic Cuvier's “” Dictionary of Natural Science,”” Paris, France, 1816 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651699: Dugong et delphinorhynque - 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, a Paris, 1816 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651875: The right whale and the whale whale or whale, baleen whale - 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

FLO4651936: La mangouste et le suricate - 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, a Paris, 1816 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652045: Cheiroptere (chiroptere): Thaphien of Egypt and vespertilion serotine - 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

FLO4652210: Parakeet Port Lincoln, Barnadius zonarius. Psittacus zonarius. 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

FLO4652282: Muller's parakeet, Tanygnathus sumatranus. Psittacus cyanopygius (female). 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

FLO4652355: Varieties of butterflies including a swallowtail. 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. / Bridgeman Images

JSN4653272: The stained glass windows by Fernand Leger (1881-1955) and the tapestry by Jean Lurcat (1892-1966), in the church of Saint Germain d'Auxerre in Courfaivre in Switzerland. Photography 2000., Leger, Fernand (1881-1955) / Bridgeman Images

JSN4653335: The church of Notre Dame de Tout Grace at the Plateau d'Assy in Passy (Haute Savoie). Architect Maurice Novarina (1907-2002), 1946. Decor Fernand Leger (1881-1955). The village, located at 1200 meters above sea level, was the village of sanatoriums. In 1935, Canon Devemy, Chaplain of the Sanatarium of Sancellemoz, had the idea of building the church of the sick on the Plateau d'Assy. The entrance facade recalls the famous and robust Savoyard chalets of the Vallee d'Abondance built with the stone of the country. Photography 1989., Leger, Fernand (1881-1955) / Bridgeman Images