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Natural History of Shakespeare; Being Selections of Flowers, Fruits, and Animals (1877)
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Natural World

Natural History of Shakespeare; Being Selections of Flowers, Fruits, and Animals (1877)

Birds from *The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands* (1754)
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Animals & Beasts

Birds from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands (1754)

Images from the First Colour Publication on Fish (1754)
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Animals & Beasts

Images from the First Colour Publication on Fish (1754)

Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851)
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Animals & Beasts, Natural World, Science & Medicine

Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851)

A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)
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Animals & Beasts, Strange Phenomena

A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)

A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s *Les Pigeons* (1811)
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Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)

*Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times* (1926)
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Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture

Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)

Gilded Fish: Illustrations from *Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine* (1780)
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Animals & Beasts

Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)

Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for *Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle* (ca. 1485)
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Customs & Culture, Religion, Myth & Legend, Travel & Exploration, Colonialism & the ‘Other’

Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)