FLO4609881: Hymnopterous insects (Encyclotus vitis, Encyclotus swederi) and brown or triangle strain (Cyperus fuscus). Lithograph by John Curtis (1791-1862) published in “British Entomology”, a collection of 770 illustrations and descriptions of British insects, London, England, 1824 to 1839. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4610099: Insect: a variety of lepidoptere and a plant of slums. Lithograph by John Curtis (1791-1862) published in “British Entomology”, a collection of 770 illustrations and descriptions of British insects, London, England, 1824 to 1839. Adactylus bennetii, Agdistis staticis, Sea-side Plume moth and green-and-gold carex, Carex limosa grass. Handcoloured copperplate by John Curtis (1791-1862) for his own “” British Entomology, 770 Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland,” London, from 1824 to 1839. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4610125: Butterfly limnephillus and plant of water aloe or false aloe or water pineapple. Lithograph by John Curtis (1791-1862) published in “British Entomology”, a collection of 770 illustrations and descriptions of British insects, London, England, 1824 to 1839. Limnephilus elegans, Elegant Grannom or Caddis-fly, with fresh-water soldier, Stratiotes aloides. Handcoloured copperplate by John Curtis (1791-1862) for his own “” British Entomology, 770 Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland,” London, from 1824 to 1839. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4605373: Portrait of Montezuma II (Moctezumaii, 1466-1520), Aztec Emperor of Mexico, in gold crown and gorgette, and of David Cusick (c.1780-c.1831), a Tuscarora Baptist preacher and author, in western clothes. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his Natural History of the Human Species. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4605289: Elau, a Papua-Malay girl from the cannibal island of Tikiene, and a man of Malakula, Vanuatu (Malicolo). Polynesians with elevated foreheads. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his Natural History of the Human Species. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4605770: Amyris elemifera or Elemi Tree (Commiphora gileadensis) Strong water by William Clarke to illustrate “” Medical Botanical, Description of the Medicinal Plants of London, Edinburgh and Dublin” by John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill, published in London by John Churchill in 1831 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4606338: Woman in the Oriental hairstyle with hat decorated with flowers and feathers, tied with a fur band. Oriental hairstyle. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzane's Stylish Hairstyle or Eccentric Finery from the era of King Louis XVI, Hairstyles de Style, La Parure Eccentric, Rouveyre, Paris, 1895. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4611896: Bandages, corbin beak pliers, cane spout pliers, balls removal pliers and various sutures - Plate taken from “” L'Encyclopedie”” by Denis Diderot (1713-1784) and Jean Le Rond D'Alembert (1717-1783), 1779 - Examples of 18th century bandages 1, beak-de-corbin flip-flops 2, flops 4, bullet-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-cane flip-de-de-de-de-de ver flip flops 4, and various sutures 5-11. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia, Pellet, Geneva, 1779. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4612009: Copies of the white dodo by Salomon Savery, male: Michiel de Groot, 1682 (17), Gijsbert de Groot, 1724 (18), Isaak van der Putte, 1733 (19) and Jan Morterre, 1757 (20). Heliotype by Van Leer from Dr. Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans' Dodo Studies, Amsterdam, Johannes Muller, 1917. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4612247: Water rail, Rallus aquaticus. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own “Natural History of British Birds,” London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4612357: Yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own “Natural History of British Birds,” London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4612392: Robin redbreast, Erithacus rubecula. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own “Natural History of British Birds,” London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / Bridgeman Images