EditorialMalabar tiger shell. Illustration copied from Georg Knorr. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, London, 1800.
EditorialChambered or great nautilus shell, Nautilus pompilius. Illustration copied from Georg Knorr. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, London, 1800.
EditorialTerra sigillata scale (29), reconstructed from fragments. Some small parts are supplemented with plaster. Stamp: COSIRV, means Cosius and Rufinus, La Graufesenque, Flavian (Oswald). Pictured Knorr 1919, Taf. 24. Der Bl?tterkranz der mittlerer Zone kenn...
EditorialFragment of a cup or bowl of terra sigillata, Dragendorff 30, with egg list and vegetation decoration. Hailing from La Graufesenque. Leaf as Knorr 1952, Taf. 2 and 76 (both AMANDVS). 1 small glueing, cup, fragment, pottery, terra sigillata, 9.5 x 10.2 ...
EditorialPinktoe tarantula, Avicularia avicularia 1,2, Italian species of tarantula wolf spiders, Lycosa tarantula 3-6, venomous spider from Curacao 7,8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Christian Leinberger from Georg Wolfgang Knorr'...
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...
EditorialVarieties of butterflies including a swallowtail. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771.
EditorialVarieties of lead ores and crystals. Handcoloured copperplate engraved and drawn by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771.
EditorialVarieties of gold and silver ores. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771.
EditorialGiant forest scorpion, Heterometrus indus, and other species of scorpions from America, Germany, Italy (Scorpio afer, Scorpio americus, etc.). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G.W. Knorr after an illustration by Christian Nicolaus Kleemann from Ge...
EditorialFour hummingbird species with a nest and two eggs. (Trois colibris avec un nid et deux oeufs). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration drawn from nature by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaam...