An informal and sporadically updated collection of images intended to delight and inspire.
 

Recent: Biblioteca taurina 2012.07.18 [Library]


Recent: Erpétologie générale 2012.07.18 [Library]


 
Thomas Herbert
A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno 1626...
1634

August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof
Historia Naturalis Ranarum Nostratium
1758

Antonio José Cavanilles
Monadelphiæ classis dissertationes decem[...]
1790

Jean Claude Delamétherie
Théorie de la Terre
1797

Chaumeton, de Chamberet, Poiret, Panckoucke
Flore Médicale
1814

Thomas Bell, James De Carle Sowerby, etc.
The Zoological Journal
1825-1835

Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842. (Coleoptera)

United States Pacific Railroad Expedition and Survey
1853-1861

André Marie Constant Duméril
Erpétologie générale, ou, Histoire naturelle complète des reptiles
1854

Annales de la Société Entomologique de France
1855, 1856, 1858

Recherches zoologiques pour servir à l'histoire de la faune de l'Amérique Centrale et du Mexique.
1870

W.L. Distant, W,W. Fowler, T.D.A. Cockerell
Biologia Centrali-Americana (Hemiptera)
1881-1909

Friedrich August Quenstedt
Die Ammoniten des Schwäbischen Jura
1883-1885

Charles S. Graham, illus.
Bird's-Eye View of the California Midwinter International Exposition
1893

Ernest Satow
Bamboos in Japan
1899


Catálogo de la biblioteca taurina de Luis Carmena y Millán
1903

Mary Vaux Walcott
North American Pitcherplants
1935

Jakob E. Lange
Flora Agaricina Danica
1935-1940

 

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