natural history
Thalie vulgt. Galère, ver zoophite de l'ordre des Molusqueae peacay / Paul K link
19 Feb
W5RAn best-of-wknd: Gyroscope
W5RAn best-of-wknd: Gyroscope
This illustration is from “The Home and School Reference Work, Volume IV” by The Home and School Education Society, H. M. Dixon, President and Managing ...
03 Feb
besler plate
besler plate
First edition of the most celebrated florilegium ever published. The Hortus Eystettensis is a magnificent pictorial record of the flowers growing in the greatest German ...
25 Dec
Best-of-the-First-Year: Bartram’s Botanical Expedition through Southeast North America
Best-of-the-First-Year: Bartram’s Botanical Expedition through Southeast North America
Bartram, William (1739–1823). Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida. . . . Philadelphia: James and Johnson, 1791. Jay I. Kislak ...
16 Dec
Best-of-the-First-Year: moss table xx
Best-of-the-First-Year: moss table xx
I bought a few engravings from disbounded books a while back, a bon marche. Little info without bindings. Probably around 1850 engraved by Edwards dedree drees image link
14 Dec
Best-of-the-First-Year: Architectura Regia (stairs)
Best-of-the-First-Year: Architectura Regia (stairs)
feature credit: paul k bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2010/11/architectura-regia.html
13 Dec
Best-of-the-First-Year: 25 country cottages and dwellings
Best-of-the-First-Year: 25 country cottages and dwellings
Summary plate showing 25 country cottages and dwellings designed by French architectJoseph Jacques Ramée. Lithograph by Rittner & Groupil, Paris, 1837. From the U.S. Library of Congress.
05 Dec
Best-of-the-First-Year: diderot sandals
Best-of-the-First-Year: diderot sandals
from Denis Diderot et al ,Encyclopédie, 1750 to 1772 feature credit: dedree drees image link
05 Nov
Architectura Regia (stairs)
Architectura Regia (stairs)
feature credit: paul k bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2010/11/architectura-regia.html
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