FLO4571909: Marie Adelaide of Savoy, wife of Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy, 1685-1712. Marie Adelaide of Savoie, Duchess of Burgundy, Dauphine of France. Handcoloured lithograph by Breton after a print by Bonnard from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historique de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4572337: French Herald of Arms, King of Arms, 1720. He wears a violet velvet coat of arms with fleurs de lis and Mont-Joye, Saint-Denis embroidered in gold on the sleeves. Handcoloured lithograph after a portrait in Roger de Gaignieres' gallery portfolios from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historique de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4572573: Artist's view of a nova recurrente - Recurrent nova. Artwork - Artist's view of a nova, a white dwarf star that attracts the material of a companion star at the end of life, a red giant, and compresses these gases and then releases a nuclear fusion reaction releasing a huge amount of energy in the form of a brief, extremely bright light. A nova recurrente is a star with at least two nova-type explosions / Bridgeman Images
FLO4573628: Roman antiquite: seat machines, shelter for digging a tunnel 1, semi-circular shelter 2, shelter with belier 3, shelter on rolling cylinder 4 - Roman siege engines: shelter for sappers digging a tunnel, Vineae 1, semi-circular shelter Pluteus 2, shelter Testudo with battering ram Aries 3, shelter on rolling cylinders Musculus 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4572766: Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino and Musignano, younger brother of Napoleon 1775-1840. Handcoloured lithograph by Legenissel from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historique de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4573911: Goliath bird-eating spider, Theraphosa blondi, with hummingbird 1, Italian tarantula, Lycosa tarantula 2, orange spider of Curacao 3, and species of scorpions of India 4, America 5, and Europe 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574143: Crystals magnified under a microscope: silver solution and Diana's tree 1, camphor 2, and niter 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
FLO4574148: Pineapple flower 1 and fruit 2, Pineapple comosus. 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
FLO4574183: Magnified image of common moss, Phasum cuspidatum 1, and microscopic enlargment of pond algae. 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
FLO4572907: Uniform of a Colonel-General in the English Dragoons, Napoleonic era. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard 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