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FISH SKELETON by Vintage and antique treasures on Flickr.
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F. Andrew Michaux and Thomas Nuttall
1865
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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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Cocos nucifera
Posted on May 27, 2012 via AINSI SOIT-IL with 73 notes
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Color-printed spread digitized by the page; half in color, half in black and white.
From p. 260-61 of Microscopic Cabinet of Select Animated Objects, by Andrew Pritchard, C. R. Goring (1832). [Here]
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‘Doryanthes excelsa’ - Plate 13 from Ferdinand Bauer’s Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae, published in London - 1813
via wikipedia
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Deer and Rattlesnake - Harper’s New Monthly Magazine - 1855 by Thomas Shahan 3 on Flickr.
(via greatplates)
Posted on October 8, 2011 via with 108 notes
Source: grumble-grumble
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I found several amazing natural history plates yesterday. This is an orange-hued hydra-from the Mediterranean.
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Posted on September 4, 2011 via Antique Memes with 60 notes
Source: antiquememes
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Fern Illustrations by vintagebutterfly94 on Flickr.
From the Book of Knowledge
1952
Groliers Children’s Encyclopedia


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