EditorialRoughbark lignum-vitae or guaiacwood, Guaiacum officinale, Guayacum officinale, Gayac. Endangered. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Heri...
EditorialStanding Cup and Cover, 1600-1700. Boxwood standing cup and cover, northern Europe, 17th century. This beautifully made rose engine-turned cup is similar to lignum vitae wassail bowls made in England in the 17th century.
EditorialStanding Cup and Cover, 1600-1700. Boxwood standing cup and cover, northern Europe, 17th century. This beautifully made rose engine-turned cup is similar to lignum vitae wassail bowls made in England in the 17th century.
EditorialMedical instrument, Stethoscope, 1750-1850 The single-ear wooden stethoscope was developed from Rene Laennec's paper roll of 1819. These were vase- or trumpet-shaped, turned in one piece from cedar, boxwood, ebony, or lignum vitae. They were superseded...
EditorialStanding Cup and Cover, 1600-1700. Boxwood standing cup and cover, northern Europe, 17th century. This beautifully made rose engine-turned cup is similar to lignum vitae wassail bowls made in England in the 17th century.
EditorialMedical instrument, Stethoscope, 1750-1850 The single-ear wooden stethoscope was developed from Rene Laennec's paper roll of 1819. These were vase- or trumpet-shaped, turned in one piece from cedar, boxwood, ebony, or lignum vitae. They were superseded...
EditorialArmchair; Unknown; Italy, Europe; about 1620 - 1630; Mahogany with inlaid oak, spindle tree, and lignum vitae; Object: H: 100 x W: 62 x D: 51.7 cm (H: 39 3/8 x W: 24 7/16 x D: 20 3/8 in.).
EditorialRoughbark lignum-vitae, Guaiacum officinale. Endangered tree. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany...
EditorialRoughbark lignum-vitae or guaiacwood, Guaiacum officinale, Guayacum officinale, Gayac. Endangered. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Heri...
EditorialRoughbark lignum-vitae or guaiacwood, Guaiacum officinale. Endangered. Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Henry Sowerby from Edward Hamilton's Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852.
EditorialA large red and white rose, with four other smaller roses in profile. - the upper branches of an apple tree, from which is suspended a Christ-like figure (labels either side, 'Lingnam sapientiae' (sic) and 'Lignum vite'); from the trunk of the tree, a...
EditorialRoughbark lignum-vitae or guaiacwood, Guaiacum officinale (Guajacum officinale). Endangered. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialArmchair; Unknown; Italy, Europe; about 1620 - 1630; Mahogany with inlaid oak, spindle tree, and lignum vitae; Object: H: 100 x W: 62 x D: 51.7 cm (H: 39 3/8 x W: 24 7/16 x D: 20 3/8 in.).
EditorialRoughbark lignum-vitae, Guaiacum officinale 1, seedpods a, (endangered), and cascarilla, Croton eluteria 2, bark b. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792.
EditorialRoughwood lignum vitae, Guaiacum officinale. Endangered. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustra...
EditorialRoughbark lignum-vitae, Guaiacum officinale. Endangered tree. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany...