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.
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.
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.
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).
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. |
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.
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.