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Images from the 1665 edition of Fortunio Liceti’s De Monstris, originally published, without the illustrations, in 1616. More here: https://t.co/33TI8de2az

Sacred Egyptian Bean — one of the many exquisite illustrative plates to be found in Robert John Thornton's "The Temple of Flora" (1807).

Read more in our Martin Kemp essay here: https://t.co/SOboV41G6h

And see our Temple of Flora prints for sale here: https://t.co/XkcvZo1qro

Plates I, II and III from Charles Owens' Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents (1742).

Available as prints in our online shop — : https://t.co/LX50ECM0WS

Stunning set of maps depicting the changing course of the Mississippi River over millennia, created by US Army engineer Harold Fisk in 1944: https://t.co/t1jIwrdaLN

Prints also available here: https://t.co/3pwyqKYSZO

These 1920s costumes for dancing — more sculpture than clothing — by the avant-garde couple Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt, were born of an artistic philosophy of suffering: https://t.co/oowJyziflG

To all those celebrating today, a very happy #Thanksgiving! If you are in need of some last minute improvised table decorations this could be of use... The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling, from 1910: https://t.co/N5dO82OBw4

Beautiful series of images by Eduard Pechuël-Loesche from an 1888 book on the strange skies produced the world-over after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.⠀⠀

More here: https://t.co/UTAX8292fM

Nudibranchs as pictured by a Japanese illustrator named Kumataro Ito, artist for the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition, 1907–10. More of his stunning images here: https://t.co/GuHUxgLF1M