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."
Marine - Natural History
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 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 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 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 4457Meerwasser - Aquarium
Tinted wood-engraving, circa 1895. 245mm by 305mm (sheet). German late 19th century tinted wood-engraving. Central vertical fold as issued.
Item 4379Muscheln I (Shells)
1920. Chromolithograph. 1920. 245mm by 155mm (sheet). German chromolithograph. Black and white photogravure of shells on the reverse.
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 4748Schnecken I (Meeresschnecken) (Sea Snails)
1908. Chromolithograph. 1908. 180mm by 265mm (sheet). Each snail is identified in the key below the image. From an early 20th century German encyclopedia.
Item 4378Sea Creatures
1889. Chromolithograph. 1889. 235mm by 150mm (sheet). German chromolithograph. Unrelated engraving on the reverse.
Item 4458Tiefseeleben (Deep Sea Life)
Wood-engraving, circa 1895. 245mm by 305mm (sheet). German late 19th century wood-engraving. Central vertical fold as issued.
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.
Item 1774Cetaces - Dauphin ordinaire (Dolphin)
C1849. Steel-engraving with original hand-colouring. C1849. 160mm by 245mm (sheet). From Dictionaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle, c1849, a French natural history series reknown for the quality of it's engravings and especially their colouring. Edouard Travies is regarded as one of the great French natural history artists of the 19th century."
Item 1760The Skate
1842. Wood-engraving with original hand-colouring. 1842. 335mm by 275mm (sheet). From Whimper's 'Plates Illustrative of Natural History'. Published for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1842.
Item 2509Spine-backed Shark (Squalus Acanthias)
1805. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. 1805. 115mm by 195mm (platemark). Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish writer, natural history illustrator, and amateur zoologist. From 'The natural history of British fishes : including scientific and general descriptions of the most interesting species, and an extensive selection of accurately finished coloured plates.....
Item 3141Fish
C1815. Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. C1815. 220mm by 170mm (platemark). From 'Bilderbuch Zum Nutzen und Vergnugen Der Jugend' by Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747-1822), an encyclopedic collection of Interesting Animals, Plants, Flowers, Fruits, Minerals, Costumes, Antiquities and other Interesting Objects published in multiple volumes between 1801 and 1815.