EditorialBalance cock / coque de montre, Gilt brass, Keyhole-shaped. Circular upper portion containing pierced ornament of foliated scrolls, centered with an engraved rosette. Lower portion with engraved mask, rosettes and scrolls., probably France, 18th centur...
EditorialIndian berry, fish berry or Levant nut, Anamirta cocculus, Coque du Levant. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal:...
EditorialBalance cock / coque de montre, Gilt brass, Keyhole-shaped. Circular upper portion containing pierced ornament of foliated scrolls, centered with an engraved rosette. Lower portion with engraved mask, rosettes and scrolls., probably France, 18th centur...
EditorialNorthern stone crab, Lithodes maja 1, and brown crab, Cancer pagurus 2 (Crab epineuse, Cancer spinosus, and ecrevisse a coque unie, Brachyurus laevis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kab...
EditorialIndian berry, fish berry or Levant nut, Anamirta cocculus, Coque du Levant. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal:...