EditorialJug with lid, with a poem by Goethe, Flat foot. Convex trunk, curved chalice. Bell-shaped lid with a faceted button. Between two vases filled with flowers and fruit a poem by Goethe: Willst du immer weiter schweissen? / Sieh, das Gute lie so nah, / Ler...
EditorialCup with a poem by Goethe, Flat foot. Convex trunk, curved chalice. Bell-shaped lid with a faceted button. Between two vases filled with flowers and fruit, a poem by Goethe: Willst du immer weiter schweissen? / Sieh, das Gute lie so nah, / Lerne nur da...
EditorialHorned or Slavonian grebe, Podiceps auritus, and great northern loon, Gavia immer. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Chius...
EditorialHorned or Slavonian grebe, Podiceps auritus, and great northern loon, Gavia immer. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Chius...
EditorialJug with lid, with a poem by Goethe, Flat foot. Convex trunk, curved chalice. Bell-shaped lid with a faceted button. Between two vases filled with flowers and fruit a poem by Goethe: Willst du immer weiter schweissen? / Sieh, das Gute lie so nah, / Ler...
EditorialCup with a poem by Goethe, Flat foot. Convex trunk, curved chalice. Bell-shaped lid with a faceted button. Between two vases filled with flowers and fruit, a poem by Goethe: Willst du immer weiter schweissen? / Sieh, das Gute lie so nah, / Lerne nur da...
EditorialBaillon's crake, Porzana pusilla, and great northern loon, Gavia immer. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natural History), Pa...
EditorialGreat northern loon or diver, Gavia immer. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own "Natural History of British Birds," London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist...
EditorialHorned or Slavonian grebe, Podiceps auritus, and great northern loon, Gavia immer, with the foot of a guillemot. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology," Paris, France, 1816-...
EditorialGreat northern loon or diver, Gavia immer. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own "Natural History of British Birds," London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist...
EditorialHorned or Slavonian grebe, Podiceps auritus, and great northern loon, Gavia immer. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Chius...
EditorialEaster Island: the famous " moai" -statues were all quarried from the tuff of the crater walls of Rano Raraku volcano. Each statue had its front and sides finished before being detached from the bedrock. An unfinished " moai" lies o...