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"Vornehmer Singalese"
"Page des Gouveneurs von Ceylon"
"Singalesen (Ceylon)"

Wood engraving 1885.

Guest bathrooms deserve odd décor.

"Fish of Cape Mesurado" by G. Child
London, 1745-47
Cape Mesurado (also Montserrado), near Monrovia, capital of Liberia in Africa.
This was the place, where African American settlers, freed slaves, landed and founded their colony in 1822.

Energize!

"Paraguay - Monographie du Mate - Monographie des Mate"
Publ, 1840
Yerba mate or yerba-maté (Ilex paraguariensis; ka'a) is a plant species of the holly genus Ilex native to South America. mate straw;
Angiosperms, Eudicots, Asterids, Aquifoliales, Aquifoliaceae, Ilex

Rome. - "Primo Giorno del Anno"

no credit for artist, no name of publisher.

We have checked the internet up and down, also the publicized inventory of the British Library, usually a sure source of knowledge.

Any hint is very welcome.

"Ananas folio vix Ferrato"

Engraver: Johann Jakob Haid (1704-1767)

Drawing by Georg Dionysus Ehret (1708-1770)

Publishe in: "Plantae Selectae"

Publishers: Christoph Jacob Trew (1695-1769) and (later) Benedict Christian Vogel (1745-1825)

Nuremberg, 1750-1773

Sandy Ray
Shagreen Ray
Torpedo
Sting Ray

Original hand-colored wood engravings by Jonathan Couch.

Published in London, 1870

"Provincia Castellae cum confiniss"
Castilla, Kastilen, España, Spanien, Spain, Segovia
Copper etching by Giovanni (Johannes) Montecalerio 1649.
In the middle of this map is Segovia.
Southeast is Madrid. Ciudad Real is at the center bottom of the map.

Humor, Caricature, Four Seasons, Rowlandson, Tegg

"The Four Seasons of Love" - Spring Summer, Autumn, Winter.

Copper etching after Thomas Rowlandson. Fine original hand coloring.

Publshed by Thomas Tegg

Originally published in London, 1814.

"Duché Holstein - Corps Ingenieurs - Major & Lieutenant" - (Troupes royales danoises)
Holstein, Eckert und Monten, Deutsches Bundesheer
Die Dänische Zeit von Holstein dauerte von 1460 - 1864. Holstein war in dieser Zeit Teil des Heiligen Römischen Reiches Deutscher Nation...

@JocAPhotography "Histoire Naturelle, La Grenouille Mugissante - Le Crapaud Pipa"
Nordamerikanischer Ochsenfrosch - Lithobates catesbeianus - American Bullfrog
from "Encyclopedia" By Denis Diderot (1713-1784
and Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (1717-17839
Quart edition. Paris, 1751-1772