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Basilius Besler (1561-1629). Plate 14 published in the Hortus Eystettensis.
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Gravure par Claude Aubriet (1665-1742).
In : Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. Relation d’un voyage du Levant, fait par ordre du roy (1718).
Book on line : here.
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James Sowerby (1757-1822). Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms.
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Employee holds plate closed. Discovered by Christina Paik of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Paratexts.
From the back matter of A Description of the Mermaid, Now Offered to the Inspection of the Public, which was Found on Board a Native Vessel in the Archipelago of the Malaccas, and Carried to Batavia in a Dutch Ship (date unknown). Original from Oxford University. Digitized May 18, 2009.
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Plate left folded.
From p. 108 (?) of An Introduction to the True Astronomy: or, Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford by John Keill (1739). Original from Ghent University. Digitized January 22, 2008.
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Plate left folded.
From A Treatise on the Ananas or Pine-apple by Adam Taylor (1769). Original from Oxford University. Digitized May 15, 2006.
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Mikrokosmographia
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Moiré in color spectrum charts.
From The Theory of Color and Its Relation to Art and Art-Industry by Wilhelm von Bezold (1876). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 15, 2008.
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Foreshortening of the body when a plate is left folded; fracturing the body with the page gutter.
From A System of Anatomy for the Use of Students of Medicine, v.1, by Caspar Wistar (1835). Original from Harvard University. Digitized November 27, 2007.
