thegiftsoflife:

Leonhart Fuchs. New Kreuterbuch, Basel 1543.

(Source: leprocrastinateur)

Timestamp: 1369292442

(via beatpie)

Timestamp: 1363208468
Timestamp: 1363165243

oldbookillustrations:

Greenland Gyrfalcon.

Archibald Thorburn, from Coloured figures of the birds of the British Islands vol. 1, by Thomas Littleton Powys (Lord Lilford), London, 1885.

(Source: archive.org)

(via mudwerks)

Timestamp: 1361869229

ratak-monodosico:

Absolutely loving this story of Genevieve Jones—and subsequently her family after her untimely death—who set out to write the “missing” companion to Audubon’s Birds of America. Genevieve and the Jones family set out to illustrate a volume documenting the nests and eggs that Audubon had omitted from his epic work. In the end they only were able to document one state, Ohio, but their multi-generational book has now been turned into a biography, America’s Other Audubon. Via Design*Sponge.

(via fuckthereallife)

Timestamp: 1361826083

heaveninawildflower:

Flora Sinensis - Pi Pa Ko (1656). One of the earliest natural history books about China. Jesuit Missionary author. (obviously includes some non-Chinese {and non-floral} species).

Bibliothèque Universtaire Moretus Plantin.

Michael Boym (Michał Piotr Boym). Wikimedia.

(via sleepless-academia-deactivated2)

Timestamp: 1357462839

ratak-monodosico:

Anatomical flap-up illustrations from 1901, adapted as animated GIFs

(via 2headedsnake)

Timestamp: 1356231650