Natural History Engravings

Vintage illustrations representing scenes from the Eocene period and other natural landscapes, featuring wildlife and geological formations.

Vesuvius eruption in May 1885, Italy. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1885

$Horizontal Moon observed when the full Moon is close to the horizon and its shape is distorted by atmospheric refraction. From 'The Beauty of the Heavens' by Charles F Blount (London, 1845). Coloured lithograph.$

Satirical cartoon depicting John Tyndall (1820-1893) an Irish physicist. Dated 19th Century

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 - August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and the kingdom Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany.

Geography: whirlpools. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.

Mathematicians and astronomers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Waterspout seen off Worthing on Sunday, 21 August, United Kingdom, illustration from the magazine The Illustrated London News, volume XLIV, September 3, 1864. Digitally colorized image.

Roman Civilization. Land survey. Roman Centuriation (geometrical diagram of an agricultural territory) traced with the assistance of a ""groma"" (the principal surveying instrument of the Roman agrimensores). Color illustration

French Scientific Mission to Cape Horn, 1882-1883. Native family from the Land of Fire at Cape Horn, Chile. South America. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1883

Map of Florida showing the position of the launch site of the space craft 'Columbiad'. From Jules Verne 'De la Terre a la Lune', Paris, 1865. Wood engraving.

A sketch of Renato Niccolai's garden at Trans-en-Provence, France, where he claims a UFO came down from the sky, hovered or landed for a few seconds, then shot away again, leaving traces on the ground. Date: 8 January 1981

Three researchers outside the British experimental hut set up near Ostia to verify the mosquito-malaria theory. Coloured photograph of a pen drawing by A. Terzi, ca. 1900.

Charles Hunt, Sr., "Phosphorus", published July, 1837, color aquatint on paper.

David Livingstone (1813-73) Scottish missionary and explorer of Africa. Chromolithograph from The Life and Explorations of Dr Livingstone c1875

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