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Ornithology
"Land birds. Order: Galline"
Genus Ottis Bustard - Genus Struthio Ostrich
Copper engraving by Milton dated 1805.
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Random #highlight from stock: #firstedition (Leiden, ca. 1720) of very rare collection of 80 #engravings & #etchings, depicting exotic #trees plants & #animals from East & West Indies #Africa & #China:
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#rarebooks #strangebeasts #animals #unicorn #zoology
"Eschsholzia de Californie"
State Flower of California, California Poppy
Copper engraving printed in color and hand-finished from "La flore et pomone fracaises".
By Jaume Saint-HIlaire. Published from
Extra page of text about the California poppy.
https://t.co/Rh18Qoq2WU
This #StaffPick is my favorite book in the collection, 'Lac des Pleurs' by Gaylord Schanilec & his Midnight Paper Sales press. It's a truly beautiful book and the quality of the materials and work (especially the wood engravings) is beyond! Learn more: https://t.co/Bxiwf42epL
SWORDTEMBER DAY 22: HORNS
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"A ruthless blade. No ornamentation, no engraving. No handle, just leather wrapped tang. A blade for those who see their destination ahead of them - it's just a matter of getting there."
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#swordtember2022
The Vacheron Cal. 2260 has 231 components, including 31 jewels. Known as the Mécaniques Gravées collection, these watches apply meticulous hand-engraving procedures to in-house Vacheron calibers.
Waterbirds:
1. A proud Duck
2. Some???? - who can help?
3. Seagull, Moeve
Wood engraving printed in color with hand finihing. Dated 1863.
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It's #WoodEngravingWednesday! This week we present wood engravings by three notable French artists, Jacque Boullaire, Fernand Siméon, and Constant Le Breton. These engravings appear in the first volume of the English annual 'The Woodcut.' Learn more: https://t.co/6gL2thzg1m
@AntjeTheise "Exposition Universelle. - Types nationaux. - Costumes du Mecklembourg"
Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Trachten
Wood engraving published 1862.
Spooky Advent: Diorama of Doom 🪲🧃
13 ̷l̷u̷c̷k̷y̷ unlucky random folks will lose their heads!
🪦 Free & open to all followers; comment w/your OC's ref & the headstones' engravings will be revealed day by day throughout the 13 days leading up to Halloween!🎃
#Halloween2022
Albert Henry Payne lived and produced his work throughout the 1800s. He created Pilgrims in the Desert via steel engraving. Steel engraving was initially invented for printing banknotes, and was adapted for illustrations in 1820.
Pyrrhus, when a child, brought to Glaucias, king of Illyria, for protection
John Hall, Benjamin West
Prints, Engraving
American, 18th century
🐘 Engravings of lions, tigers, panthers, leopards, dogs, &c.
London, H.G. Bohn, 1853.
https://t.co/vKrzX8IhAI
"Stellatum Planisphaerium" - handcolored engraving by Louis Vlasblom and Johannes van Keulen, Netherlands, c. 1675; a double hemisphere planisphere with additional illustrations of the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems @AdlerPlanet https://t.co/aQjPW3fQvL
This impressive collaboration by Marie-Josee Roy and Jerome Prieur needs to be seen in person to be properly appreciated. Here we try to show you just how beautiful this work is, with the play of light on the surface of the aluminum showing off the engraving by Prieur.
"The very best of cooks are sorcerers, wizards, shamans and tricksters. They must be, for they are capable of powerful acts of transformation.
-Midori Snyder - In Praise of the Cooks
Alchemists in workshop engraving 1580
#folkloreSunday
September and October; two dancing couples; from a series of ten engravings, 1546-7.
Sebald Beham.
(British Museum)