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  1. Filamentose Oxide of Copper (*Cuprum oxygenizatum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

    Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

    pdimagearchive.org/images/2649

    #minerals #geology #rocks #mineralogy #bookillustration #engraving #art #publicdomain

  2. Filamentose Oxide of Copper (*Cuprum oxygenizatum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

    Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

    pdimagearchive.org/images/2649

    #minerals #geology #rocks #mineralogy #bookillustration #engraving #art #publicdomain

  3. Filamentose Oxide of Copper (*Cuprum oxygenizatum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

    Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

    pdimagearchive.org/images/2649

    #minerals #geology #rocks #mineralogy #bookillustration #engraving #art #publicdomain

  4. Filamentose Oxide of Copper (*Cuprum oxygenizatum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

    Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

    pdimagearchive.org/images/2649

    #minerals #geology #rocks #mineralogy #bookillustration #engraving #art #publicdomain

  5. Filamentose Oxide of Copper (*Cuprum oxygenizatum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

    Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

    pdimagearchive.org/images/2649

    #minerals #geology #rocks #mineralogy #bookillustration #engraving #art #publicdomain

  6. Blemmyes and other “monsters” (1696), from Specula physico-mathematico-historica (A physico-mathematical-historical mirror).

    Source: Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University / Internet Archive

    Available to buy as a print.

    pdimagearchive.org/images/09a7

    #hairy #exploration #ears #clubs #bestiary #humananimalhybrid #faces #deformity #monsters #tails #bookillustration #engraving #art #publicdomain

  7. Ostrich Egg-Shell Fragments Painted with Bitumen, From Grave at Kish, Mesopotamia (1926), from Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times.

    Source: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Biodiversity Heritage Library

    Available to buy as a print.

    pdimagearchive.org/images/2f41

    #eggs #whatdoostricheseat #naturalhistory #ostriches #birds #anthropology #fragment #bookillustration #photography #art #publicdomain

  8. Ornamental Page and Glorification of Jesus Christ (9th century) (1868) by John O. Westwood, from Fac-similes of the Miniatures & Ornaments of Anglo-saxon & Irish Manuscripts.

    Source: Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University / Internet Archive

    pdimagearchive.org/images/9ff4

    #manuscripts #books #religion #ireland #design #bookillustration #manuscript #art #publicdomain

  9. Illustration by N. Rémond, from Iconographie descriptive des cactées, ou, Essais systématiques et raisonnés sur l'histoire naturelle, la classification et la culture des plantes de cette famille (1841).

    Source: Missouri Botanical Garden / Internet Archive

    pdimagearchive.org/images/f8fc

    #spines #botany #botanical #cactaceae #flora #flowers #cacti #plants #bookillustration #art #publicdomain