FLO4570181: Yellow paving branch, with fruits (chestnuts) and flowers Yellow flowers, leaves, fruit, chestnut of the Large buckeye tree, Pavia lutea. Handcolored stipple engraving from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa, engraved on copper by Gabriel, from Francois Andre Michaux's “” North American Sylva,”” Philadelphia, 1857. English botanist Michaux (1770-1855) explored America and Canada in 1785 cataloging its native trees. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4571147: Andre de Foix, Lord of Esparros, Viscount of Villemur, Lesparre, French soldier 1490-1547. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard after a portrait in Roger de Gaignieres' portfolios from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historique de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852., Massard, Leopold (1812-1889) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4571231: King Henry II of France. Illustration drawn and lithographed by Leopold Massard from a portrait in Roger de Gaignieres' gallery (portfolio VIII 91). Handcoloured lithograph from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historique de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852., Massard, Leopold (1812-1889) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4571514: Young lady of quality at a masked ball, Demoiselle de qualité, France, 1586. She holds a mask in her right hand and a cantenance (muff) in her left. A mirror and fan hang from her belt. Handcoloured lithograph after a portrait in Roger de Gaignieres' gallery portfolio IX 120 from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historique de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574440: Ancient ships: Phoenician merchant ship 1, ancient warship 2, and the floating castle of King Hiero of Syracuse, Sicily, designed by Archimedes 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. 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
FLO4568033: Brunelle commune. Coloured copper engraving from a drawing by C. Mathews from William Baxter's book “English Botanical Phenomenes””, 1834. William Baxter (1788-1871) was the curator of the Oxford Botanical Garden from 1813 to 1854. Self heal, Prunella vulgaris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a drawing by C. Mathews from William Baxter's “” British Phaenogamous Botany”” 1834. Scotsman William Baxter (1788-1871) was the curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden from 1813 to 1854. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4562700: Jacques Nicolas Tiercelin (1764-1837) as Bonneau in Les Auvergnats by Marc-Antoine Desaugiers and Gentil de Chavagnac at the Theatre des Varietes, Paris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Charles Malo's Almanach des Spectacles by K. Y. Z, Chez Louis Janet, Paris, 1819. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4565902: A gentleman, vetu in the fashion of the English Regence (1811-1820), sits in front of his writings to write a poem in the pen (Bath, England) - Eau forte by Francis Eginton (1737-1805), extracted from Le nouveau guide de Bath or Memoires de la famille Blunderhead, published in 1807 - (Regency gentleman seated at an ecritoire with a feather pen writing a poem - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francis Eginton from Christopher Anstein's “” The New Bath Guide,””” John Browne, 1807) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576197: Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg (Cathedrale Notre Dame de Strasbourg). Built by architect Erwin von Steinbach in the 13th century and completed 160 years later. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. 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
FLO4576379: the Tree has bread with its fruits - Breadfruit, Artocarpus altilis, with ripe fruit and sections. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576423: Breeds of horses, 18th century. Turkish breed descended from Arab, Persian and Tartar blood 1, and Russian 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
FLO4576550: Mount Teide, volcano on Tenerife, Canary Islands, with the town of Santa Cruz and ships in the foreground, circa 1800. Engraved by C. Ermer. 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
FLO4581586: Twig of a male plant and sections of the male and female flowers of a nutmeg. Illustration by Wiliam Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), British botanist and writer, professor at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) and editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine from 1827 to 1865. Grave by Swan, strong water published in William Curtis's The Botanical Magazine, 1827. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4581608: Variety of orchid gongora with large yellow flower. Illustration by Wiliam Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), British botanist and writer, professor at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) and editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine from 1827 to 1865. Grave by Swan, Strong Water published in William Curtis's The Botanical Magazine, 1827. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4581774: Sainfoin des Alpes - Alpine sainfoin, Hedysarum hedysaroides (Creeping rooted hedysarum obscurum) - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, London, 1794, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images