Month: March 2017
Japanese Animals
Posted on March 25, 2017 by Kathleen - No Comments
From pre-1915 woodblock prints in the collection of the Library of Congress.
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Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (1490)
Posted on March 22, 2017 by Kathleen - No Comments
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516). The Garden of Earthly Delights. Oil on oak panel, 220 × 389 cm.; circa 1480-1490.
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The Alhambra (1842)
Posted on March 18, 2017 by Kathleen - No Comments
Jules Goury (1803-1834), Owen Jones (1809-1874), and Pascual de Gayangos (1809-1897). Plans, elevations, sections, and details of the Alhambra, from drawings taken on the spot in 1834. Vol. II. London: Owen Jones, 1842.
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Optical Toys (1833, 1893)
Posted on March 15, 2017 by Kathleen - No Comments
Two sets of optical illusion discs: eleven “Phenakistoscope” discs from McLean’s Optical Illusions, by Thomas McLean (London, 1833), and four “Zoopraxiscope” discs by Eadweard Muybridge (San Francisco, 1893).
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Atalanta Fugiens (1617)
Posted on March 11, 2017 by Kathleen - No Comments
| Secretioris naturae secretorum scrutinium chymicum (original title: Atalanta Fugiens), by Michael Maier. Frankfurt: George Heinrich Oehrling, 1617. |
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The Great Barrier Reef (1893)
Posted on March 4, 2017 by Kathleen - No Comments
The Great Barrier Reef of Australia: its products and potentialities, by W. Saville-Kent. London: W.H. Allen, 1893.
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Cephalopods of Naples (1896)
Posted on March 1, 2017 by Kathleen - No Comments
I Cefalopodi viventi nel Golfo di Napoli (sistematica): monografia, by Giuseppe Jatta. Berlin: R. Friedländer & Sohn, 1896.