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beautiful swiss stamps from the 40’s through 70’s. (source: brainpickings)
Antilopina (Antelopes), plate 100, Kunstformen der Natur (1904) by Ernst Haeckel
1: Four-horned Antelope
2: Black Wildebeest
3: Sitatunga
4: Pronghorn
5: Waterbuck
6: Sable Antelope
7: Addax
8: Greater Kudu
9: Bushbuck(right to left each row)
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n570_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.
1 Northern Giraffe
2 Northern Giraffe (three-horned variety)
3 Southern Giraffe
n151_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.
A monograph of the Nectariniidae, or, Family of sun-birds
London :Published by the author,1876-1880.
biodiversitylibrary.org/item/113608
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Liam Stevens Illustration for The Ride Journal V on Friday night group riding in and around Sheffield.
this illustration is absolutely beautiful.
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Moby Dick illustrated by Maaike Verwijs :: via maaikeverwijs.com
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i love it when maps are supplemented with awesome information like this.
1922 Map of Fiji
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n120_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.
Die Vögel Afrikas. atlas.
Neudamm,J. Neumann,1900-05.
biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47716
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some illustrations for children’s books are stunningly beautiful.
Alice & Martin Provensen, A Child’s Garden of Verses
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