Historical Exploration and Discoveries

Engravings depict historical scenes of exploration, including gold prospectors, ancient ships, and geological investigations in outdoor settings.

Old illustration from the nineteenth century of Adventures of a cricket by Ernest Charles Auguste Candèze (1827-1898) Belgian doctor and entomologist. Old 19th century engraved illustration from El Mundo Ilustrado 1879

Gold prospectors throwing earth into a makeshift canal, United States of America, illustration by Jules Gaildrau from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 538, Volume XXI, June 18, 1853.

Shell Mound People or Kitchen-Middeners. Late Mesolithic-early Neolithic 4,000-2,000 BC. North & South Europe, Iberia, North Africa, North & South America similar patterns found. Artist's impression c188. Engraving

Panning for diamonds. From the book Chips From The Earth's Crust published 1894.

Natives of Patagonia encountered by Ferdinand Magellan during the first voyage of circumnavigation (1519-22). engraving published Leipzig 1754

Old illustration from the nineteenth century of Adventures of a cricket by Ernest Charles Auguste Candèze (1827-1898) Belgian doctor and entomologist. Old 19th century engraved illustration from El Mundo Ilustrado 1879

'Ancient Ship recently discovered at Brigg, Lincolnshire', 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

Suspension bridge in a tropical virgin forest, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.

An engraved guide of the Grotto del Cane, demonstrating the dangers of suffocating in the grotto by holding his dog in the fumes until it was almost unconscious. Dated 19th century

Prehistory. Stone Age. Ship construction. Engraving, 19th century.

Old Testament. Book of Genesis. The flood. Engraving. "Los Héroes y las Grandezas de la Tierra". Volume I. 1854.

THE COMING TRANSIT OF VENUS, THE TRIANGULATION OF THE ISLAND OF RODRIGUEZ, 1874 engraving

Man digging for roots of, Gentian (Gentiana), for medicinal purposes, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date not known

The astronauts surveying the Moon. From Jules Verne 'Autour de la Lune', Paris, 1865. Wood engraving.

Reconstruction of Ancient Roman reaping cart, as described by Pliny. Aristotle believed that motion was a continuous pushing action, and that objects could only travel in a single direction at any one time, that is, in straight lines, not arcs. Engraving, 1860

Old illustration from the nineteenth century of Adventures of a cricket by Ernest Charles Auguste Candèze (1827-1898) Belgian doctor and entomologist. Old 19th century engraved illustration from El Mundo Ilustrado 1879

Chinese washing auriferous sands, San Francisco, California. United States of America, drawing by Eustache Lorsay (1822-1871) Trip to California, 1859 by Louis Simonin (1830-1886) Le Tour du Monde 1862

Manure pit, vintage engraving. Manure pit, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673740

An engraving depicting the President of the British Association Meeting, Roderick Impey Murchison, delivering a geological lecture in on board the De Saumarez in Whitecliff Bay. Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871) a British geologist. Dated 19th century

Lost hundred meters underground. The paper in question contained only a few lines, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyages, Travel Journal, (1879-80).

Building the Pyramids, 1844. Diagram showing the possible method of construction of the Egyptian Pyramids. 'Mr Perigal supposes the vast stones of which the pyramids were built to have been raised to their several positions by successive tiltings...The first "purchase" he concludes to have been obtained by removing the earth, beneath the stone to be raised, to the extent of one half, and then lowering the huge block into the space so formed, by the weight of a labourer placed on its unsupported end. After each tilt, he imagines the height gained, to have been secured by the

Illustration from Theatrum Machinarum Novum 1661 by Georg Andreas Böckler; A hand operated irrigation pump

George du Maurier's vision of the application of Edison's telephonoscope. London, 9th December 1878.

An engraving depicting termite mounds: when the termites fly from the nest to form new colonies they are trapped by the native Africans and are roasted and eaten. Dated 19th century

Erection of the summit cross of Mt Zugspitze by member of the German-Austrian Alpine Club, woodcut, historical engraving, 1882

The trumpet of the judgment of science rings, vintage engraved illustration. Earth before man 1886.

Mammoth found in the ice of Siberia, with its meat and skin, vintage engraved illustration. Earth before man 1886.

Edible mussels, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1873.

Engraving of a Grapple Anchor, a device used to connect a vessel to the bed of the body of water to prevent a craft from drifting away. Dated 19th Century

Discovery of the mound where the message left by Crozier and Fitzjames explaining the end of the Franklin expedition was found, in May 1859, Back Bay, King William Island, Canada. Story of Franklin's lost expedition in the Arctic (1786-1847) Old 19th century engraving from Le Tour du Monde 1860

Hurricane in the Antilles, illustration by Yan Dargent from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1189, Volume XLVI, December 9, 1865.

Engraving depicting a bee-keeper collecting a swarm of bees. Dated 19th century

Explosion of Fire-damp (methane) in a mine. From 'Le Journal de la Jeunesse' (Paris 1885). Wood engraving.

The first American steamboat. John Fitch conducts an experiment in 1789, near Philadelpia on the Delaware

Gold prospector with a sieve, shovel and pickr, United States of America, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 538, Volume XXI, June 18, 1853.

Conjuror performing tricks. From 1715 edition of JB della Porta 'Magia Naturalis' Engraving.

An engraving depicting the Turon gold field, New South Wales: panning for gold. Dated 19th century

Action of the hollow or burning mirror, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.

Engraving depicting a syringe with reservoir for use as a disinfectant spray or as spray for plants and flowers. Dated 19th century

Crater of the island of Ferdinandea (Nerita), also Isola Ferdinandea, sunken volcanic island in the Mediterranean (historical, old lithograph), black and white drawing, illustration of a volcanic eruption with smoke and ash, geology, volcanology, artist: Bernhard von Cotta, Italy, Europe

Cannibalism in Africa: Joints of human meat in a butchers shop, northern region of the Congo described by Italian traveller, late sixteenth century. From Mans Place in Nature, London, 1894, by Thomas Henry Huxley.

An old man searches for objects among the garbage, painting by Carlos Franck. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Ilustración Artística 1882

Climbing the hummocks towards the mainland, drawing by Edouard Riou (1833-1900) from the German edition, from The Tegetthoff Odyssey and the discoveries by lieutenants Payer and Weyprecht between 80 and 83 North latitude, 1872-1874, from Il Giro del mondo (World Tour), Journal of geography, travel and costumes, Volume V, Issue 22, May 3, 1877.

Portable darkroom Nollet, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1876.

A European archaeologist, probably one of Layard's team does an observational sketch in the archive chamber found at Tell Kuyunjik, the site of the citadel of Nineveh. Date: 1853

Objects from Franklin's lost expedition. Story of Franklin's lost expedition in the Arctic (1786-1847) Old 19th century engraving from Le Tour du Monde 1860

An engraving depicting the process of making turpentine: workers collect the resin of Pistacia terebinthus, the source of Chian turpentine. Dated 19th century

A sailor retrieving an anchor from the bottom of the sea, diving equipment designed by Pierre Amable de Saint-Simon-Sicard, illustration by Le Breton from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 531, Volume XXI, April 30, 1853.

The trumpet of the judgment of science rings, vintage engraving. The trumpet of the judgment of science rings, vintage engraved illustration. Earth before man 1886. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10647622

The penitent setting fire to grisu gas in a coal mine. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886

South Pole, Volcano Island in Beaufort, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque (1882).

History of navigation. Offecer on watch. Iconographic Encyclopaedia of science, Literature and Art, 19th century. Engraving.

Discovery of a tomb, illustration of the frontispiece from Collection de Vases Grecs de Ms le Comte de Lamberg, by Alexandre de Laborde, 1813-1824, Paris.

An engraving depicting the process of making turpentine: workers collect the resin of Pistacia terebinthus, the source of Chian turpentine. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicting various applications of the inclined plane. Dated 19th Century

The earthquake, vintage engraving. The earthquake, vintage engraved illustration. Earth before man 1886. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10647739

Claude Chappe's (1763-1805) aerial telegraph (semaphore) system in use in Algeria. From Louis Figuier 'Les Merveilles de la Science', Paris, c1870. Engraving.

An engraving depicting a man hacking away a V-shaped piece of bark on the trunk of a pine tree to encourage it to exude the resin which was distilled to make turpentine. Dated 19th century

The main inhabitants of the land during the Devonian period. The world before the creation of man, vintage engraved illustration. Earth before man 1886.

Sugar extraction from maple plants, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 673, Volume XXVII, January 19, 1856.

Insects, 1. wall wasp, Odynerus parietum, 2. ruby-tailed wasp (Chrysis ignita) or fire golden wasp, 3. French paper wasp, Polistes gallicus, Synonyms: P. foederata and P. omissa is a Hymenoptera of the wrinkled wasp family, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Constellation of Argo Navis from Johannes Bayer 'Uranometria' Ulm 1723. Copperplate engraving

This plague of insects, vintage engraving. This plague of insects, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne 3 Russian and 3 English, 1872. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10647578

Diver at work wearing a suit of the kind designed by August Siebe (1788-1872) German-born British engineer. Engraving c1890.

Two thousand miles across South America, He takes a piece and wrap around the finger, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, (1880-81).

The earthquake, vintage engraved illustration. Earth before man 1886.

Illustration showing the formation of surface features by the folding of rock strata.

Maelstrom, whirlpool in the group of Lofoden islands, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.

Grinding of ore using an old Mexican method, California. United States of America, drawing by Gustave Adolphe Chassevent (1818 - 1901) Trip to California, 1859 by Louis Simonin (1830-1886) Le Tour du Monde 1862

Engraving depicting the filling of a balloon in England. Dated 19th Century

Loading of logwood in Central America, woodcut, historical engraving, 1882

Iguanadon (herbivorous dinosaur) fossils discovered by Jules Creteur in coal mine, Bernissart, Belgium 1878. He and his workmates uncovered 39 Iguanadon skeletons. Wood engraving c1880

Robert O'Hara Burke (1821-1861) and William John Wills (1834-1861) who led an expedition of 19 men with the intention of crossing Australia from Melbourne in the south to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north. From a woodcut in a contemporary Australian account of the expedition.

Escarpments by inclined layers, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1841.

Commencement of the earthquake at Messina, 1783. Engraved by Berry after Craig.From the book ""The Gallery of Nature and Art"" volume II. Published London c.1823.

Engraving depicting Australian aboriginal using a bow drill a prehistoric form of drilling tool, which was used to produce fire. Dated 19th Century

An engraving depicting a unicycle invented by Langmaak and Strief of San Francisco. Dated 19th century

Australian climbing along a tree, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.

The experiment of the electric kite conducted in Philadelphia by Franklin in September 1752

Illustration showing Diver's helmet fitted with an incandescent electric light and telephones 1887

Illustration titled 'Trombe sur terre' from the 'Histoire des Meteores' by J. Rambosson. Dated 1869

The Gold Rush, prospector using the reeker, engraving 1897

Ideal landscape from the coal period, Carboniferous, 350 million years ago, illustration from 1870 / Ideallandschaft aus der Steinkohlenperiode, Karbon, vor 350 Millionen Jahren, Illustration aus 1870, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Astronomers will look, vintage engraving. Astronomers will look, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne 3 Russian and 3 English, 1872. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10647493

Hyphaene thebaica, hyphaene, woodcut from 1880 / Doumpalme, Holzschnitt aus dem Jahre 1880, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

The physicist Richmann is struck in his Physics Labaratory in St. Petersburg, by the electricity from a thundercloud on 6 August 1753

History of Arabia. Distillery. Engraving by Vernier. Panorama Universal. History of Arabia, 1851.

Crater of Mount Etna, between 1805 and 1809, from Meyers Konversationslexikon encyclopedia, 1897

Illustration from Theatrum Machinarum Novum 1661 by Georg Andreas Böckler

Perier measuring the height of the tube of Torricelli on the top of the Puy de Dome

Picardy phosphates. Research for phosphates in Beauval (Somme) using the arm probe. Old illustration from La Nature 1887

Solar Eclipse Observatory, Nicobar Islands. Showing various illustrations including 'The Equatorial Camera', 'Brownings Reflector and Spectroscopic Camera' and 'Sig Tacchini's Observatory'. Other geographical scenes include the village of Malakka, and views from observation stations. This plate was taken from 'The Illustrated London News', Vol. 66, 1875.

Experiment of the Marquis of Worcester, which is said to represent the invention of the steam engine, around 1660, historical, digitally enhanced reproduction of a model from the 19th century.

The astronomer and his colleague bowed, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne 3 Russian and 3 English, 1872.

In the Sicilian sulfur mines, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.

Design for a perpetual bycicle. Punch 1869

Seed on the fly, vintage engraving. Seed on the fly, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673941

Otto von Guericke conducts the experiment of the Magdeburg hemispheres with 24 horses

HERO OF ALEXANDRIA - 1st century ADReconstruction of Hero's steam engine. (Action and reaction)

The great flood from Arca Noe, (building the ark), by Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680). Published Amsterdam 1675. Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit, was a polymath and Jesuit. The Arca Noë was based on strict Catholic orthodoxy. In it, he describes the condition

An engraving depicting the HMS Challenger in Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago during the Challenger expedition of 1872-1876. The journey was a scientific exercise that made many discoveries to lay the foundations of oceanography. Dated 19th century

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