jomobimo:

Needle-Tailed Swift, Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands / issued by Lord Lilford, 1885-1897

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compendium-of-beasts:

The atropos, or life-consuming viper. (1801)

NYPL

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scientificillustration:

A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

London :Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans,1851..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24081192

omnipollent:

This is how I feel about tax season.

(From the Biodiversity Heritage Library)

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compendium-of-beasts:

Eutania faireyi, young, Prairie Water Snake. (1860)

NYPL

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premierepage:

[Illustrations de Histoire naturelle des mammifères, t. II] / Wermer, Huet, Maréchal… [et al.], dess. ; C. de Lasteyrie, lithogr. ; Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Frédéric Cuvier, aut. du texte

1819

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thingsmagazine:

The natural history of many curious and uncommon zoophytes… systematically arranged and described by Daniel Solander

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erosethieros:

Ernst Haeckel, in Kunstformen der Natur, 1904

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somelaceandpaperflowers:

little bee

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muirgilsdream:

Dipteres.

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