Primitive Life Forms and Environments

Vintage engravings depicting primitive life, including cave bears and early human habitats, showcasing a prehistoric atmosphere with detailed illustrations.

Indian extracting pulque, Mexico, drawing by Edouard Riou (1833-1900) Travel in Mexico, 1854-1855 by Ernest Vigneaux. Le Tour du Monde 1862
Indian extracting pulque, Mexico, drawing by Edouard Riou (1833-1900) Travel in Mexico, 1854-1855 by Ernest Vigneaux. Le Tour du Monde 1862
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Barrel jellyfish, Rhizostoma pulmo 1, 1* and Catablema vesicarium 2. Medusa pulmo, and Medusa campanula. Copperplate engraving by Milton from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, London, 1813.
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Rossie lead vein.. Prints. 1838. General Research Division. Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.), Lead mining , New York (State)
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The eruption of the Mount Tarawera volcano on June 10, 1886 in the North Island, New Zealand. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886
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Formation of the Georges volcano in the Aegean Sea in February 1866, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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The Krakatoa volcano before the eruption of 1883, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Insects, Swarm of the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria), Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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An engraving depicting the production of turpentine.
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Engraving depicting the Aurora Borealis as viewed from Orleans. Dated 19th century
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Trace of the mountain generating the earth, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.The three crosses. Etching rembrandt 1643.
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Cut through a few layers of the Earth’s crust with the skeleton of a mastodon, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Engraving depicting a sectional view of a termites nest, along with the Queen, workers, soldiers, and a winged termite. Dated 19th century
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Drilling using fire in Brazil, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Compress, illustration application to head, heart, abdomen, and arm, vintage engraved illustration.
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Ideal geological profile that illustrates the various rock layers of the earth's crust and their penetration by volcanic rocks, geology, reproduction of a historical school painting, mural or teaching board, authentic, exact date unknown
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This late 18th-century drawing by an anonymous artist depicts mining activity with workers and geologists, executed with black ink and brown brush over pencil, emphasizing figures, equipment, and spatial organization.
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Engraving depicting Brazilian native heating latex from Hevea Brasiliensis in a forest encampment.
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Light buoy calcium phosphide, vintage engraved illustration. Industrial encyclopedia E.-O. Lami - 1875.
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Table of the ages of the earth and the great geological epochs, showing the superposition of the lands and the progressive evolution of the organized beings
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Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) in Finland, 1736. In 1736 Maupertuis, French astronomer and mathematician, led an expedition to Lapland to measure the length of a degree along the meridian. The expedition included the French mathematicians Alexis Claude Clairault (1713-1765) and Charles Etienne Louis Camus (1699-1768). They set up their headquarters at Torino in Northern Finland. In summer they were plagued by insects and in winter suffered from the cold. From 'Vies des Savants Illustres du XVIIIe Siecle', Louis Figuier, (Paris 1874).
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1860s 1870s TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT LANTERN SLIDE THE DRUNKARD'S CAREER SCENE 12 THE DEATH THAT PRECEDES ETERNAL DEATH
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Explorer Captain Carl Larsen at South Pole 1933
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Crude materials from the earth, vintage engraving. Crude materials from the earth, vintage engraved illustration. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10656341
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'THE WAR OF THE WORLDS' The Martians are seen to be working by night Date: First published: 1898
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Fig. 2 - A Tagal Naturalist. The phrenological journal, 1871.
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Topics tchouk-tchouk resume their occupations, vintage engraving Topics tchouk-tchouk resume their occupations, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Cesar Cascabel, 1890. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10659777
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Mount Vesuvius: interior of the crater showing the flow of lava in an eruption. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776, after his painting, 1756.
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The Sucuruhyu or Boa gigas, vintage engraving. The Sucuruhyu or Boa gigas, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1861. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10674052
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An engraving depicting restored skeletons of mammoths on display. Dated 19th century
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Diagram of slaves packed in a slaver ship, 1848.
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Illustration showing Making fire by rubbing a hardwood stick on a softwood core - the blister making method
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Endless hours go well, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Cesar Cascabel, 1890.
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Chase and capture of the sperm whale, page 173. text. Illustrations. 1839. General Research Division. Whales, Sperm whale hunting
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.exampel on reproduction after a copper stick in tomb stickers.
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The life and metamorphoses of the Dragonfly, (Libellula depressa). A. The perfect insect B. The insect casting off its worn out nymph's skin C. D. Larvae and nymph. From The Universe or, The Infin
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Night Excavations, Chemistry & Physics
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The stages of formation of a lunar crater. Date: 1928
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Manioc roots (jatropha manihot) with natives harvesting tubers, from Florindie ou histoire physico-Äconomique des vÄgÄtaux de la Torride (plants of the torrid regions), 1789 watercolour by G. S. Delahaye
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Endless hours go well, vintage engraving. Endless hours go well, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Cesar Cascabel, 1890. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10659854
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Engraving depicting a meteorite found by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld. Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901) a Finnish and Swedish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. Dated 19th Century
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French agriculture. Sowing seed broadcast. From late 18th century edition of La Fontaine 'Fables' Engraving
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Artist's impression of midnight landscape on Saturn looking towards the rings. Dated 19th century
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Into the deep, the experiences of an amateur surface-supplied diver, illustration from the magazine The Graphic, volume XXIX, n 755, May 17, 1884. Digitally colorized image.
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W. Cheselden, Ostoegraphia, or the anatomy of bones.
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Africa. Native affected by sleeping sickness. Engraving by Thiriat, 1903. Colored.