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Editorial Mammals: horses, real pigs, hippos, 1. The horse, 2. The zebra, 3. The wild pig, 4. The Aelian warthog, 5. The hippo, Taf. X, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz: Abbildungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Z?rich: bei Friedrich Schulthess, [1824].
Editorial Costumes of a man from Yemen, an Arabian woman, a common Arab on horseback, and a mounted Bedouin tribesman. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples i...
Editorial Costumes of Turkey including high ranking officials: foreign minister (Reis Effendi), interpreter (dragoman), Muslim scholar (ulama), judge (cadi) and high-ranking Janissary soldiers. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaen...
Editorial Costumes of Turkey including high ranking courtiers: sultan, sultana, odalisque or chambermaid, Chief Black Eunuch (Kislar Aga), and an officer of the sultan's court or harem guard, Kapidschi Baschi. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goeds...
Editorial Costumes of high ranking Persian men and women at top, and commoners below. Physiognomy of a Persian man in turban. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Pe...
Editorial Costumes of northern India including Burmese nobleman, cavalryman, infantry, minister and wife. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictur...
Editorial Indian rhinoceros or greater one-horned rhino, Rhinoceros unicornis, vulnerable.
Editorial Uniforms of the new Turkish army above (cavalry, artillery man with scimitar and bombardier) and Turkish women and children below. Turkish flag and gold coins. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in g...
Editorial Costumes of China including high-ranking Chinese with tobacco pipes, milkmaid, soldiers and nightwatchman with lantern. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery o...
Editorial Khoikhoi in fur capes resting around a campfire near the Orange River estuary, and Gonaqua man and woman with bow and arrow, necklace, and beaded apron. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen...
Editorial Costumes of Algiers: Jewish man and woman in veil and a resident Moor in hooded cape above, and members of the National Guard below, lower and higher ranks of the Divan. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergal...
Editorial Title page to volume one: calligraphic title and vignette of peoples of Asia. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circ...
Editorial Peoples of the Caucasus mountains: Tungus priest, inhabitants of Turkestan in front of a tent, and Circassian man and prince in chain-mail armour on horseback. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in g...
Editorial Chinese flag, women's shoes and feet, men's shoe, Chinese writing characters and the Porcelain Pagoda at Nanking (Nanjing) built during the Ming dynasty. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreue...
Editorial Coptic man and woman in robes, veil and turban in front of the pyramids, portrait of a bearded Copt in turban, and two upper-class women of Cairo in hats, veils and elaborate robes seated shoeless on a platform. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich W...
Editorial Inhabitants of the Aleutian, Kuril and Fuchs islands. Aleut men in hunting clothes, Ainu man and woman of Kuril, and a Fuchs islander in hunting garb. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen A...
Editorial Siberian Tatars: A man from the Sayan mountains firing a musket in front of a woman and child, and a man and two women Tatars from Tomsk. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (...
Editorial Carolinian natives of the Marianas: man with cape over tattooed body, tattooed women with baby and basket, and men in loinclothes dancing. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" ...
Editorial Title page to volume two: calligraphic title and vignette of peoples of Africa. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, ci...
Editorial Kyrgyz men on horseback and on foot above, and Kyrgyz men hunting with falcons, dogs and guns. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Picture...
Editorial Eskimo or Inuit man riding an animal-skin inflatable raft with oar and arrow, and eskimo huts with sled and dogs. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peop...
Editorial The colossi of Memnon in the Theban necropolis at Luxor and the Nilometer at Kahira in Cairo with its octagonal pillar marked in cubits to measure the water of the Nile. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergal...
Editorial Costumes of Mongol men and women, physiognomy of a Mongol with long moustache. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, cir...
Editorial Man in waistcoat and turban with cloak and woman in robes of Algiers above, and Algierian women in house wear below. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of P...
Editorial Costumes of Tripoli (Libya), North Africa: a woman in robes seated on a large cushion above, and a woman in full burqa and veil below with a man in a turban. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in get...
Editorial Birds: buntings, finches, ravens, racks, starlings, oriole, birds of paradise, swallows, sailors, night swallows, 1. The Yellowhammer, 2. The Bullfinch, 3. The Chaffinch, 4. The Distal Finch, 5. The Magpie, 6. The Almond Crow, 7. The Staar, 8. The Gold...
Editorial Egyptian riders wearing turbans and robes, Egyptian women and a girl in burqa, and a woman from a harem in elaborate headdress and coat over embroidered harem pants. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergalleri...
Editorial Costumes of a man from Yemen, an Arabian woman, a common Arab on horseback, and a mounted Bedouin tribesman. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples i...
Editorial Temple ruins on Java, Indonesia. Examples of Asian languages including Sanskrit and Burmese alphabets, and Balinese writing. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gall...
Editorial Costumes of the islands of Indonesia: Bugis native of Sulawesi with shield and spear, Makassar islanders with blowpipes, Ambon man and wife and natives with wide-brimmed hats of the Moluccas (Maluku). Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goed...
Editorial National dance of the Circassians above, and a princess, an armourer in chain mail and a nobleman below. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in Tr...
Editorial A Georgian merchant store above, and a Circassian and Ingush man below. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835...
Editorial Costumes of Mandarins (officials) from Tunkin (Tonkin, north Vietnam) and a noble and girl from Malaya (Malaysia). Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peo...
Editorial Egyptian chieftain in turban and robes with servant boy with curved sword, and a Mamluk warrior with spear on horseback. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery ...
Editorial Costumes of Turkey, including a man with tobacco pipe and woman from Smyrna, Armenian men and women, and a woman from the island of Chios. Grousch or Turkish piastre coins. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lker...
Editorial Egyptian farmers (fellach or fallah) washing clothes in a river, Bedouin family in robes and turban, and Bedouin and Mamluk cavalry in turbans and robes on horseback carrying spears and curved sword. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goeds...
Editorial Natives of the island of Papua (New Guinea): coastal dwellers with hair combs and body scarification at top, and natives of Rawak island off Waigeo. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abb...
Editorial Natives of New Granada (Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela) in long capes, Peruvian man with feather headdress and axe, and Patagonians in tunics and tattoos. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie ...
Editorial Khoikhoi in fur capes resting around a campfire near the Orange River estuary, and Gonaqua man and woman with bow and arrow, necklace, and beaded apron. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen...
Editorial Tools and accessories of the natives of Brazil: necklace of animal teeth 1, palm-leaf papoose 2, lip and ear disks 3,4, bone tool 6, knife with neck cord 7, woven apron 8, bag 9, feather hat 10, bead necklace 11. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich ...
Editorial Costumes of the people of Baraabra, a Nubian people of Sudan, and a man of the town of Dongola with spear. Young Barabra boys in loinclothes and girls in skirts below. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergalle...
Editorial Title page to volume three: calligraphic title and vignette of peoples of America and Australia. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictu...
Editorial Khoikhoi in fur capes resting around a campfire near the Orange River estuary, and Gonaqua man and woman with bow and arrow, necklace, and beaded apron. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen...
Editorial Uniforms of the new Turkish army above (cavalry, artillery man with scimitar and bombardier) and Turkish women and children below. Turkish flag and gold coins. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in g...
Editorial Temple ruins on Java, Indonesia. Examples of Asian languages including Sanskrit and Burmese alphabets, and Balinese writing. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gall...
Editorial Costumes of China including high-ranking Chinese with tobacco pipes, milkmaid, soldiers and nightwatchman with lantern. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery o...
Editorial Costumes of China: guard with shield and sword in tiger suit, a monk burning an offering, merchants making a deal, a traveling barber, and fishermen with boat and fishing birds, circa 1800. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vol...
Editorial A Georgian merchant store above, and a Circassian and Ingush man below. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835...
Editorial Chinese flag, women's shoes and feet, men's shoe, Chinese writing characters and the Porcelain Pagoda at Nanking (Nanjing) built during the Ming dynasty. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreue...
Editorial Coptic man and woman in robes, veil and turban in front of the pyramids, portrait of a bearded Copt in turban, and two upper-class women of Cairo in hats, veils and elaborate robes seated shoeless on a platform. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich W...
Editorial Egyptian farmers (fellach or fallah) washing clothes in a river, Bedouin family in robes and turban, and Bedouin and Mamluk cavalry in turbans and robes on horseback carrying spears and curved sword. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goeds...
Editorial Natives of the island of Papua (New Guinea): coastal dwellers with hair combs and body scarification at top, and natives of Rawak island off Waigeo. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abb...
Editorial Costumes of northern India including Burmese nobleman, cavalryman, infantry, minister and wife. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictur...
Editorial Costumes of the people of Baraabra, a Nubian people of Sudan, and a man of the town of Dongola with spear. Young Barabra boys in loinclothes and girls in skirts below. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergalle...
Editorial Setina aurita moth 1,2, dew moth, Setina irrorella 3-5, and Setina roscida moth 6,7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.
Editorial Clostera anastomosis 1-5, muslin footman, Nudaria mundana 6, Phalaena donasa. Phalaena anastomosis, munda, donasa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der N...
Editorial Cream-spot tiger moth, Epicallia villica. Phalaena villica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.
Editorial Oak eggar moth, Lasiocampa quercifolia 1,2, and poplar lappet, Gastropacha populifolia 3,4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.
Editorial Grass eggar, Lasiocampa trifolii, male, female, larva, pupa, chrysalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.
Editorial White satin moth or satin moth, Leucoma salicis, and white prominent, Leucodonta bicoloria. Phalaena salicis, Bombyx bicoloria. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildung...
Editorial Spotted clover, Schinia scutosa 1,2, Epilecta linogrisea 3, Guernsey underwing, Polyphaenis sericata 4, and straw underwing, Thalpophila matura 5,6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schme...
Editorial Underwing moths, Catocala pacta and Catocala coniuncta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.
Editorial Burnished brass moth, Diachrysia chrysitis 1-5, and green silver-spangled shark, Cucullia argentea 6-9. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erla...
Editorial Red-necked footman, Atolmis rubricollis 1,, four-spotted footman, Lithosia quadra 2-6, and buff footman, Katha depressa 7,9. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen...
Editorial Sloe emperor moth, Saturnia spini. Male, female, juvenile and adult larvae, pupa, chrysalis. Phalaena Attacus pavonia media. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildun...
Editorial Catocala hymenaea 1, Amerila puella 2,3, and Isturgia famula moths 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.
Editorial Scarce hook-tip, Sabra harpagula 1,2, and pebble hook-tip, Drepana falcataria 3-6. Phalaena Bombyx harpagula, falcula. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach d...
Editorial Pharmacis carna 2-4, orange swift, Triodia sylvina 5,6, and gold swift, Phymatopus hecta 7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.
Editorial Small lappet, Phyllodesma ilicifolia, and autumn silkworm moth, Lemonia taraxaci. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.
Editorial Sweetfern underwing, Catocala antinympha 1-3, Catocala nymphaea 4 , and oak yellow underwing, Catocala nymphagoga 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach de...
Editorial Nut-tree tussock, Colocasia coryli, and plumed prominent, Ptilophora plumigera. Phalaena coryli, Phalaena plumigera. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der...
Editorial French red underwing, Catocala elocata 1,2, and dark crimson underwing variety, Catocala sponsa 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen,...
Editorial Leopard moth, Zeuzera pyrina. Phalaena aesculi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.
Editorial Merveille du jour, Dichonia aprilina 1-4, scarce merveille du jour, Moma alpium 5-7, and marbled green, Cryphia muralis 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen n...
Editorial Eastern eggar, Eriogaster catax, male, female, larva, pupa, chrysalis. Phalaena catax, Phalaena lentipes. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur,...
Editorial Malacosoma franconicum moth and festoon, Apoda limacodes. Phalaena franconica, Phalaena limacodes. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, ...
Editorial Mammals: walruses, dog seals, whales, dolphins, 1. The Wallross, 2. The curled seal, 3. The whale, 4. The potty, 5. The narwhal, 6. The dolphin, Taf. XII, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz: Abbildungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Z?rich: bei Friedrich Schulthess, [1...
Editorial Amphibians and reptiles: vipers, adders, crawlers, tree frogs, salamanders, 1. The Souterklappers, 2. The adder, 3. The grass snake, 4. The slow-worm, 5. The tree frog, 6. The salamander, Plate II, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz: Abbildungen aus der Naturgesch...
Editorial Mammals: monkeys and bats, 1. The orang-utang, 2. The brown baboon, 3. The gray long-arm, 4. The magot, 5. The red howler monkey, 6. The flying dog, 7. The vampire, 8. The common bat, Taf. I, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz: Abbildungen aus der Naturgeschichte....
Editorial Mammals: deer, gazelles, antelopes, 1. The deer, 2. The doe, 3. The fallow deer, 4. The elfin, 5. The reindeer, 6. The cow antelope, 7. The common gazelle, 8. The deer, Plate VIII, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz: Abbildungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Z?rich: be...
Editorial Birds: plovers, oystercatchers, avocets, flamingos, snipe birds, whales, 1. The hooded kibitz, 2. The oystercatcher, 3. The blue-footed avocet, 4. The dark-winged stilt, 5. The European flamingo, 6. The big curlew, 7. The Snipe, 8. The Black Coot, Plat...
Editorial Mammals: dogs, hyenas, martens, mongooses, 1. The English Mastiff, 2. The Wolf, 3. The Striped Hyena, 4. The Fox, The Big Weasel, 6. The Ichneumon, 7. The European Otter, 8. The Polecat, 9. The Sable, Taf. IV, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz: Abbildungen aus de...
Editorial Mammals: Sloths, Armadillos, Anteaters, Pangolins, Platypuses, 1. The collar lazybeast, 2. The anteater, 3. The armadillo, 4. The African pangolin, 5. The brown beaked animal, Taf. VI, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz: Abbildungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Z?rich...
Editorial Fish: salmon, carp, perch, herring, eels, catfish, 1. The salmon, 2. The carp, 3. The perch, 4. The herring, 5. u., 6. The golden carp, 7. The eel, 8. The catfish, 9. The loach, Plate III, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz: Abbildungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Z?...
Editorial Insects 1, dung beetle, wood wasp, wood bee and other insects, Taf. V, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz: Abbildungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Z?rich: bei Friedrich Schulthess, [1824].