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Stunning Atlas title Page. Published by Henrico Hondius
The upper part of this title page is devoted to Astronomy: Atlas carrying the earth. And astronomers eager observing, studying and deciphering the riddles of the world.
Amsterdam, 1641
https://t.co/J4YHcYFAvm

"Gang zur Christ-Mette im bairischen Hochgebirge"
Going to the Christmas Mass in the Bavarian mountains.
Wood engraving by Kollarz after Stauber, 1879.

to our friends in Berlin, when was Rummelsberger See last frozen like this?

"Eisgewinnung auf dem Rummelsberger See..."
by Kollarz after Hosang published 1879.

Screenshot of 1893 Google Earth map (add the @rumseymapcenter to your Google Earth)

Woodcuts from "Hebarium Bohemiae", 1590.
"Daucus" "Berwuertz"
"Momordica, vulgo Balsamina Balsam oepffel"
"Origanum Onyte Wolgemut"
"Sium Wasserpungen"
https://t.co/Ebp8iOYSlC

These paintings of Vesuvius were done by an anonymous artist. Ca. 1860
https://t.co/2p1Lz6lpNH
#MountVesuvius #volcano #Italy

Lithograph. Original hand coloring
Painting by Charles Bird King (*1785)
Publ. in: "History of the Indian Tribes of North America"
Authors: Thomas Loraine McKenny (*1785) and James Hall (*1793)
Folio edition
Sheet size : 46 x 34 cm

"Le Soldat du Chene. An Osage Chief"

In Greek mythology cyclopes were three sons of Uranus and Gaea. Their names were Arges, Brontes and Steropes. They had to forge the thunderbolts for Zeus. And that is the scene we are looking at. Three immensely muscular males at work.
"The Cyclops at their Forge"
dated 1788

"Land- und Meeres-Ungeheuer"
This is a hand-colored zincograph of the famous woodcut published in "Cosmographia" by Sebastian Muenster.
This print was published in a German book "Weltall und Menschheit" by Hans Kraemer, Berlin, 1902.
(not the 1553 version on right)

Gorgeous!
"The Antiquarian"

Lithograph by George Spratt with original hand coloring.
It was published in "Purcell's Lithographic Drawing Book"

By Charles Tilt. London, 1830
https://t.co/pnKZfSfWwx