EditorialPrayer nut, Prayer Nut in Original Casing, with Box and Magnifying Glass, A small silver-coated prayer nut consisting of two miniature reliefs of the Adoration of the Kings and the Nativity. Both reliefs are made of boxwood and mounted in two hinged, s...
EditorialFlora, crowned with a garden of flowers, offering floral tributes to three figures - Botany (shown holding an alembic), Physics (who is looking through a magnifying glass) and Pomona (who holds a spade and basket of fruit). Handcoloured copperplate eng...
EditorialFlea. Micrographia, or some physiological descriptions o. I. Martyn and J. Allestry: London, 1665. A flea. Image taken from Micrographia, or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses, with observations and inquiries t...
EditorialAn illustration of a flea. Micrographia, or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses, with observations and inquiries thereupon. London : Printed by Jo. Martyn, and Ja. Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, 1665. S...
EditorialNetsuke of Monkey Looking at a Fly through a Magnifying Glass, 19th century, Japan, Ivory, H. 1 3/16 in. (3 cm); W. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm); D. 1 1/18 in. (2.9 cm), Netsuke.
EditorialFlora, crowned with a garden of flowers, offering floral tributes to three figures - Botany (shown holding an alembic), Physics (who is looking through a magnifying glass) and Pomona (who holds a spade and basket of fruit). Handcoloured copperplate eng...