Box 01

Scope and Contents This collection features 4 engravings of male family members of the Bauhin family in Switzerland.One engraving features Swiss physician Johann Bauhin (1541-1612) and brother of Caspar (Gaspard) Bauhin.One engraving features Swiss botanist and anatomist Caspar (Gaspard) Bauhin (1560-1624). The engraving is a variation possibly by Flemish artist Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623). One engraving features Swiss physician Hieronymus Bauhin (1637–1667). He was a...

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The materials consist of 3 pages of book plates featuring butterflies and moths. Plate 12 featuers hand written notes. Plates are identified as Plate 12, Plate 13, and Plate 14 from the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York Volume VIII, 1867.

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These book plates are of parasite illustrations from Mikrographische Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der wirbellosen Thiere (Micrographic Contributions to the Natural History of Invertebrates) by biologist Alexander von Nordmann.

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This book plate contains a series of different animals from mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, and amphibians. The plate contains no text.

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The two book plates show a single bird posed on a branch. There is no text on one book plate, and the other book plate has a number "13__" cut off the page.

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The illustrated print is of a horned cattle. No text is avalible that describes the cattle.

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This book plate is an engraving of various animals to scale. The plate was drawn by William Croome and published by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford as part of A Comprehensive Atlas, Geographical, Historical & Commercial.

Scope and Contents This collection includes 11 book plates from Universal Technological Dictionary, or, Familiar Explanations of the Terms Used in All Arts and Sciences Containing Definitions Drawn from the Original Writers, and Illustrated by Plates, Epigrams, Cuts, &c. by George Crabb. The engraver was J. Shury.The mammal book plate features of 7 various mammals. The botatny book plates consists of 8 plates. The conchology book plate features 33 figues. The naturalist book plate features 20...

Scope and Contents This collection contains 17 drawings of insects ranging from beetles, butterflies, moths, a phasmid, and beyond. The drawing types include: orignal drawings, book plates, and engravings from publications. Some drawings are in color while others black and white. A small selection included localities such as Mexico, China, Africa, Australia, and Great Britain. Two items have been attributed to: --A clipped cover of The Naturalist's Library Entomology Vol III British Butterflies,...

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This collection contains 6 copies of a self-portrait of entomologist and artist John Abbot (1751—c. 1840).