Item 4311Schwimmpolypen (Swimming polyps)
Chromolithograph, circa 1895. 240mm by 150mm (sheet). Key below image. From Meyers Konversations Lexikon, a German encyclopaedia.
Marine - Natural History
Item 1724Crustaceans
1837. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 1837. 212mm by 130mm (sheet). From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837. A couple of very small foxing spot."
Item 1725Crustaceans
1837. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 1837. 212mm by 130mm (sheet). From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837. A couple of very small foxing spots on left hand side.."
Item 1726Crustaceans
1837. Copper-line engraving. 1837. 212mm by 130mm (sheet). From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837. A couple of very small foxing spot."
Item 1727Crustaceans
1837. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 1837. 212mm by 130mm (sheet). From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837. A couple of very small foxing spot."
Item 1728Crustaceans
1837. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 1837. 212mm by 130mm (sheet). From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837.
Item 1729Crustaceans
1837. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 1837. 212mm by 130mm (sheet). From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837. A couple of very small foxing spot."
Item 1730Crustaceans
1837. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 1837. 212mm by 130mm (sheet). From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837. A couple of very small foxing spot."
Item 3547Leopard Seal
1895. Chromolithograph. 1895. 130mm by 200mm (image) 170mm by 255mm (sheet). Signed 'PJ Smit' in the lithograph bottom right corner of the image.
Item 1778Pollan and Powan
1879. Chromoxylographs (colour wood engravings). 1879. 265mm by 360mm (sheet). From Rev William Houghton's 'British Fresh-Water Fishes'. The fish are portrayed as game-landed freshwater fish set on the pastoral riverbanks and shorelines of the British Isles. Alexander Francis Lydon was an English watercolour artist, illustrator and engraver of natural history.....
Item 1779Roach
1879. Chromoxylographs (colour wood engravings). 1879. 265mm by 360mm (sheet). From Rev William Houghton's 'British Fresh-Water Fishes'. The fish are portrayed as game-landed freshwater fish set on the pastoral riverbanks and shorelines of the British Isles. Alexander Francis Lydon was an English watercolour artist, illustrator and engraver of natural history.....
Item 1777White Bream
1879. Chromoxylographs (colour wood engravings). 1879. 265mm by 360mm (sheet). From Rev William Houghton's 'British Fresh-Water Fishes'. The fish are portrayed as game-landed freshwater fish set on the pastoral riverbanks and shorelines of the British Isles. Alexander Francis Lydon was an English watercolour artist, illustrator and engraver of natural history.....
Item 4310Medusen I (Jellyfish)
Chromolithograph, circa 1895. 240mm by 150mm (sheet). Key below image. From Meyers Konversations Lexikon, a German encyclopaedia.
Item 3575Phosphorescent Animals
1900. Chrmolithograph. 1900. 270mm by 170mm (sheet). Key to sea creatures below the image - firefly, jelly fish, dogfish, star fish. CONDITION : Some faint foxing in the margins.
Item 1839Balennottero Rorqual (Whale)
C1850. Steel engraving with hand-coloiuring. C1850. Italian engraving depicting a beached whale.
Item 1800Dolphins
C1836. Steel-engraving with original hand-colouring. C1836. 225mm by 140mm (sheet). Cetaces - 1 Le Dauphin Vulgaire 2 Le Dauphin Marsouin 2 Le Dauphin Orque' French engraving, published in Paris, from 'Oeuvres du Comte de Lacepede contenant L'Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupedes Ovipares des Poissons et des Cetaces'.Three foxing spots."
Item 1865Johnston - Sharks
1657. Copper-line engraving. 1657. 290mm by 180mm (platemark). Seventeenth century engraving from John Johnston's 'Historiae Naturalis de Serpentibus', 1657. John Jonston (1603 - 1675) was a Polish scholar and physician, descended from Scottish nobility.One small spot in the image."
Item 1802Poissons (Fish)
C1836. Steel-engraving with original hand-colouring. C1836. 230mm by 140mm (sheet). 1 Le Callionyme Lyre 2 L'Uranoscop Rat 3 Le Trachine Vive' French engraving, published in Paris, from 'Oeuvres du Comte de Lacepede contenant L'Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupedes Ovipares des Poissons et des Cetaces'."
Item 1803Poissons (Fish)
C1836. Steel-engraving with original hand-colouring. C1836. 230mm by 140mm (sheet). 1 Le Caranxomore Pelagique 2 Le Caranxomore Plumerien 3 Le Coesiomore Bloch' French engraving, published in Paris, from 'Oeuvres du Comte de Lacepede contenant L'Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupedes Ovipares des Poissons et des Cetaces'."
Item 1804Poissons (Fish)
C1836. Steel-engraving with original hand-colouring. C1836. 230mm by 140mm (sheet). 1 Le Scombre Bonite 2 Le Scombre Maquereau 3 Le Scomberoide Sauteur' French engraving, published in Paris, from 'Oeuvres du Comte de Lacepede contenant L'Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupedes Ovipares des Poissons et des Cetaces'."
Item 1806Poissons (Fish)
C1836. Steel-engraving with original hand-colouring. C1836. 230mm by 140mm (sheet). 1 Le Caranx Beau 2 Le Caranx Amie 3 Le Trachinote Faucheur' French engraving, published in Paris, from 'Oeuvres du Comte de Lacepede contenant L'Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupedes Ovipares des Poissons et des Cetaces'."
Item 1807Poissons (Fish)
C1836. Steel-engraving with original hand-colouring. C1836. 230mm by 140mm (sheet). 1 Le Kurte Blochien 2 Le Toenioide Hermannien 3 Le Gobie Lanceole' French engraving, published in Paris, from 'Oeuvres du Comte de Lacepede contenant L'Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupedes Ovipares des Poissons et des Cetaces'."
Item 1808Poissons (Fish)
C1836. Steel-engraving with original hand-colouring. C1836. 230mm by 140mm (sheet). 1 Le Gade Capelan 2 Le Gade Mustel 3 Le Batrachoide Tau' French engraving, published in Paris, from 'Oeuvres du Comte de Lacepede contenant L'Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupedes Ovipares des Poissons et des Cetaces'."
Item 4205Sea Anemones
1895. Chromolithograph. 1895. 160mm by 240mm (sheet). German chromolithograph. CONDITION : Crease along bottom of the sheet just under publication line.
Item 1667Redoute shells
C1780. Line engraving with later hand-colouring. C1780. 290mm by 210mm (sheet). French late 18th century engraving of shells after the drawings of Henry Redoute, the brother of the great botanical artist Pierre Joseph Redoute.