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From:
The Universal Herbal by T. Green
The complete title of this accurately & absolutely delightfully hand-colored work is: "The Universal Herbal" or Botanical, Medical & Agricultural Dictionary, containing an Account of all the known Plants in the World https://t.co/J2RULrQyb6

Stunning #Ananas!
"Ananas folio vix Ferrato"
Copper etching with superb original hand color.
Engraver: Johann Jakob Haid
Drawing by Georg Dionysus Ehret

Published in: "Plantae Selectae"
Nuremberg, 1750-1773
https://t.co/NnKRyMF2JN

No title. Sea rescuers heading in a row boat to save sailors from ships in a storm

SEA RESCUE - Seenotrettung - Havarie - Sea Average

Hand-colored anonymous aquatinta

Published by William Miller (1769-1844)

Dated 1805. But watermark i paper 1817

"Brasilianischer Kalmar Riesenkraken ein Segelschiff ueberfallend"
(attacking a sailing vessel)

Wood engravings printed in color after Denys Montfort ca 1905.

From Julius Ceasar's "War Commentaries on the Celts". he described the perplexing encounters with people north of the Alps.
Copper-engraved 1753 by A. van Buysen.

From Julius Ceasar's "War Commentaries on the Celts". he described the perplexing encounters with people north of the Alps.
Copper-engraved 1753 by A. van Buysen.

"A Augusta Imperatrice de toutes les Prusses"
Lithograph by Faustin

"De cette roche Sans tréve comme le remord Entends-tu la plainte..."

History of the Franco-Prussian war 1870/1871

Augusta Princess of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach (1811-1890) Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia

"Zatoka pod Zopoli n Bulgaryi" (Satoka, Ukrania)
"Die Rheede bei Zopoli in Bulgarien"

Copper etching Leop. Beyer in Vienna after L. Fuhrman.

@p_historians "Augurium"
by Salomon after Friese
Ca. 1830/40
An Augur was, in classical Roman times, a priest who practiced augury (prophecy).
He interpreted the will of the Gods by observing the flight of birds. This practice was called
"taking the auspices". Any major undertaking…

"Eine Opiumkneipe im chinesischen Quartiere zu San Francisco"
Wood engraving published 1879 showing an opium bar in San Francisco.
https://t.co/VtcYoppBmp