EditorialHomopus signatus, Print, Chersobius signatus is the world's smallest species of tortoise (family Testudinidae). The species is commonly known as the speckled tortoise and also known locally as the speckled padloper and internationally as the speckled C...
EditorialAnser albifrons, Print, The greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons) is a species of goose related to the smaller lesser white-fronted goose (A. erythropus). It is named for the patch of white feathers bordering the base of its bill, in fact albif...
EditorialMarie Antonin Carême (1784 – 12 January 1833) was an early practitioner and exponent of the elaborate style of cooking known as grande cuisine, the "high art" of French cooking: a grandiose style of cookery favoured by both international royalty and...
Editorial[Landscape, Pride's Crossing], ca. 1856, Salted paper print from paper negative, 10 1/8 x 13 1/2, Photographs, Samuel Masury (American, 1818?1874), Masury is known primarily as an early daguerreian portraitist who learned his trade in 1842 at John Plum...
EditorialLeft Gauntlet, ca. 1485?95, Innsbruck, probably Austrian, Innsbruck, Steel, H. 14 1/2 in. (36.83 cm), Armor Parts-Gauntlets, This left gauntlet, while unmarked, is of an Innsbruck type. The armorers of Innsbruck, capital of the Austrian Tirol, thrived ...