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Hand-colored plate of five figures showing puffball fungi growing on dead wood, with detail sketches of individual specimens.

Histoire des champignons de la France, ou, Traité élémentaire, renfermant dans un ordre - Plate 503

From: Histoire des champignons de la France, ou, Traité élémentaire, renfermant dans un ordre, 1791

Colour plate of nine speckled bird eggs labelled dotterel, killdeer plover, ringed plover, kentish plover and little ringed p

A history of British birds - Plate 26

From: A history of British birds, 1883

Coloured plate of numbered orange fritillary butterflies showing upper and undersides, from a 1906 West Coast butterfly book.

The butterflies of the West Coast of the United States - Plate XV

From: The butterflies of the West Coast of the United States, 1906

Hand-coloured plate of five bivalve seashells, some with reddish-brown banded exteriors and one shown pale from inside.

The natural history of British shells - Plate LXVIII

From: The natural history of British shells, 1799

Engraved botanical plate of an Eugenia branch with leaves, flower clusters and numbered dissections of flower, fruit and seed

Icones plantarum Indiae Orientalis - Plate 545

From: Icones plantarum Indiae Orientalis, 1840

Plate IX showing numbered mayfly-like insects and artificial fishing flies on a cream page.

The fly-fisher's entomology - Plate IX

From: The fly-fisher's entomology, 1901

Hand-coloured plate of several bivalve and conch shells labelled Donax and Venus, from an 1811 natural history book.

Conchology, or, The natural history of shells - Plate 58

From: Conchology, or, The natural history of shells, 1811

Hand-coloured plate of a dark-coated fallow deer with pale antlers standing on sandy ground with grass and a rock.

Histoire naturelle des mammifères - Plate (page 218)

From: Histoire naturelle des mammifères, 1824

Printed page of twelve numbered botanical illustrations of flowering plants under the heading Didynamia.

The pictorial flora - Plate (page 147)

From: The pictorial flora, 1840

Hand-colored engraving of two yellow-green finches perched on a gnarled branch, male and female, with caption below.

Naturgeschichte der Vögel deutschlands in getreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen - Plate 57

From: Naturgeschichte der Vögel deutschlands in getreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen, 1805

Engraved plate of numbered bivalve mollusc shells, one large central shell surrounded by smaller specimens in various views.

Illustrations of the recent conchology of Great Britain and Ireland - Plate XLI

From: Illustrations of the recent conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, 1844

Coloured botanical plate of Platanthera chlorantha orchid with leaves, flowering spike, roots and dissected flower parts.

Abbildungen der in Deutschland und den angrenzenden gebieten vorkommenden grundformen der - Plate 38

From: Abbildungen der in Deutschland und den angrenzenden gebieten vorkommenden grundformen der, 1904

Hand-coloured plate of a fanciful crested bird with spread wings perched on a branch with orange flowers.

The language of birds - Plate 11

From: The language of birds, 1837

Hand-coloured engraved plate of numbered leaf beetles in side and top views with Latin captions, Tab. XXVIII.

Illustratio iconographica insectorum quæ in Musæis Parisinis - Plate XXVIII

From: Illustratio iconographica insectorum quæ in Musæis Parisinis, 1799

Plate of engraved figures showing numbered views of shelled molluscan larvae with ciliated margins and spines.

Figures of molluscous animals - Plate 58

From: Figures of molluscous animals, 1859

Three lithograph views of a whale skull labeled 1, 2 and 3, showing rear, side and top angles on a cream page.

Plates prepared for an unpublished monograph on the mammalian orders Cete and Sirenia - Plate VIII

From: Plates prepared for an unpublished monograph on the mammalian orders Cete and Sirenia, 1881

Hand-coloured botanical plate of yellow daisy-like Senecio littoralis with leaves and numbered flower dissections.

Illustrations of the flowering plants and ferns of the Falkland Islands - Plate 29

From: Illustrations of the flowering plants and ferns of the Falkland Islands, 1921

Hand-coloured plate VIII showing many insects at different life stages, including larvae, pupae, flies, beetles and bees.

Manuscript notes from my journal - Plate VIII

From: Manuscript notes from my journal, 1874

Lithograph plate of black-striped and common wallabies among grass and rocks in an Australian landscape, 1871.

The mammals of Australia - Plate XI

From: The mammals of Australia, 1871

Hand-coloured engraving of several agaric mushrooms with labelled caps, gills, stems and cross sections on a page.

Histoire des champignons de la France, ou, Traité élémentaire, renfermant dans un ordre - Plate 534

From: Histoire des champignons de la France, ou, Traité élémentaire, renfermant dans un ordre, 1791

Engraved plate of a swan named Cygnus Bewickii standing on rocks and grass at the water's edge.

Sir William Jardine's illustrations of the duck tribe - Plate 8

From: Sir William Jardine's illustrations of the duck tribe, 1840

Engraved illustration of Narathura achelous butterfly, wings open, one side dark and the other spotted grey, on beige page.

Rhopalocera Malayana :a description of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula : with 46 co - Plate (page 653)

From: Rhopalocera Malayana :a description of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula : with 46 co, 1882

Coloured plate of five numbered murex sea shells in brown, yellow and cream tones from an 1811 conchology book.

Conchology, or, The natural history of shells - Plate 1

From: Conchology, or, The natural history of shells, 1811

Engraved botanical plate of a thorny Randia dumetorum branch with leaves, flower dissection, fruit and seed details.

Icones plantarum Indiae Orientalis - Plate 580

From: Icones plantarum Indiae Orientalis, 1840

Coloured plate of numbered orange fritillary butterflies with spotted and checkered wing patterns, labelled Plate XVII.

The butterflies of the West Coast of the United States - Plate XVII

From: The butterflies of the West Coast of the United States, 1906

Engraved plate XLVII showing many numbered mollusc shells and small anatomical diagrams, from an 1844 British conchology book

Illustrations of the recent conchology of Great Britain and Ireland - Plate XLVII

From: Illustrations of the recent conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, 1844

Sideways black and white plate of American elk with large antlers beside a fence, a second elk at lower left, shrubs and a bu

The mammals of Minnesota - Plate VI

From: The mammals of Minnesota, 1892

Page of twelve numbered pen-and-ink botanical drawings of flowering plants under the heading Tetradynamia, from 1840.

The pictorial flora - Plate (page 169)

From: The pictorial flora, 1840

Hand-colored engraving of a young male orange silky bird, red head, black throat, yellow belly, perched on a branch.

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des épimaques - Plate 25

From: Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des épimaques, 1835

Hand-coloured plate showing numbered insects and matching fishing flies tied to hooks on a cream background.

The fly-fisher's entomology - Plate XII

From: The fly-fisher's entomology, 1901