FLO4574624: Goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis 1, blue chaffinch, Fringilla teydea 2, siskin, Carduelis spinus 3, linnet, Carduelis cannabina 4,5, and redpoll, Carduelis flammea 6. 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
FLO4574824: Hammer oyster (hammer oyster), Malleus malleus 1, cone shell varieties, Conus cedonulli (Granada cone) 2, Conus ammiralis (cone checkerier) 3-5, precious wentletrap (scalaire precieuse), Epitonium scalare 4, and common wentltrap (common scalar), Epitonium clathrus 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574585: Chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs 1, brambling, F. montifringilla 2, white-winged snowfinch, Montifringilla nivalis 3, house sparrow, F. domestica 4, tree sparrow, Plier montanus 5, and rock sparrow, Petronia petronia 6. 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
FLO4574576: Duck-billed platypus 1, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, skull 2, and meadow jumping mouse, Zapus hudonius, awake 1 and hibernating 2. 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
FLO4574826: Sandfish skink (sand fish or skink officinale), Scincus scincus 1, sand lizard (agile lezard or strains), Lacerta agilis, male 2, female 3, and roughtail rock agama (agame stellion), Laudakia stellio 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575030: Small pink centifolia rose, Rosa centifolia minor, and Frankfort rose, Rosa turbinata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from an illustration drawn from nature by Stark from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575538: Chinese cassia or Chinese cinnamon, Cinnamomum cassia, and greater galangal (grand galanga), Alpinia galanga. 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
FLO4574312: Common toad, Bufo bufo 1, natterjack toad, Bufo calamita 2, fire-bellied toad, Bombina bombina 3, lineated frog, Leptodactylus fuscus 4, common frog, Rana temporaria 5, edible frog, Pelophylax esculentus 6,7, tree frog, Hyla arborea 8. 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
FLO4574118: European roller, Coracias garrulus 1 (near threatened), hoopoe, Upupa epops 2, red crossbill, Loxia curvirostra (red 3, yellow 4), and thrush nightingale, Luscinia luscinia 5. 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
FLO4574175: Mistle thrush, Turdus viscivorus 1, fieldfare, T. pilaris 2, redwing, T. Iliacus 3, song thrush, T. philomelos 4, blackbirds, T. merula 5.6, and ring ouzel, T. torquatus 7. 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
FLO4574542: Purple mangosteen tree, flower, leaf and fruit, Garcinia mangostana 1, and rattan tree, Calamus rotang, branch and leaf 2, and “” dragon's blood”” fruit 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
FLO4586631: Variety of evening primrose or grass with donkeys - Evening primrose, Oenothera fruticosa subsp. glauca (Glaucous oenothera, Oenothera glauca). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Sydenham Edwards' Botanical Register, Ridgeway, London, 1832., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4587006: Orchid variete Saccolabium - Acampe praemorsa orchid (Pimpled saccolabium, Saccolabium papilosum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by M. Hart from Sydenham Edwards' Botanical Register, Ridgeway, London, 1833., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4587093: Australian gompholobium variete - Capitate gompholobium, Gompholobium capitatum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Sydenham Edwards' Botanical Register, Ridgeway, London, 1833., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4587119: Stygmaphyllon, native to South America - Strong water by S. Watts from an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register, 1834, by Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819) - Awned stigmaphyllon, Stigmaphyllon auriculatum (Stigmaphyllon aristatum), Native to South America - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake, from Sydenham Edwards' “” The Botanical Register,”” London, Ridgway, 1834, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4592389: Engine for cutting the Screw of Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800)'s straight line dividing engine, 18th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after John Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1811. / Bridgeman Images