Impossible places and creatures (illustrations left folded).
Throughout A Voyage to the Coast of Africa, in 1758 by Rev. John Lindsay (1759). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 28, 2007.
May 6, 2013
May 5, 2013
Digital gutter splits botantical illustrations.
Throught Plantae Javanicae Rariores by Thomas Horsfield, Johannes-Josephus Bennett, and Robert Brown (1852). Original from Austrian National Library. Digitized September 2, 2011.
April 10, 2013
Don’t touch that! An employee’s hands over an illustration of the Portuguese man o’ war.
From p. 8 of Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australia by George Bennett (1860). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 11, 2006.
September 30, 2012
Plate left folded.
From p. 108 (?) of An Introduction to the True Astronomy: or, Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford by John Keill (1739). Original from Ghent University. Digitized January 22, 2008.
June 26, 2012
Plates photographed through protective tissue (brains).
From Views of the Basis of the Brain and Cranium by Thomas J. Pettigrew (1803). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized April 26, 2010.
