posted on: 16 June 2009
On BibliOdyssey scans from “The Treasury of Ornament” by Heinrich Dolmetsch, first published as “Der Ornamentenschatz” by Verlag von Julius Hoffman in Stuttgart in 1887 :
And there is going to be a fourth post with more scans.
posted on: 01 April 2009
“ ERNEST HAECKEL (1834 - 1919) was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist. With all of these professions, he left something for for all of us. His famous book, “Kunstformer der Natur” is the source for these incredible engravings. ”
posted on: 21 January 2009
A post on New Zealand birds via BibliOdyssey :
At the bottom of the page a link to NZTEC - “free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials, which offers an ever expanding, fully searchable, set of images and full-text books, manuscripts and journals [..] contains over 2,600 texts (around 65,000 pages)”
posted on: 08 May 2008
posted on: 18 February 2008
Two posts on The Nonist:
posted on: 19 October 2006
“ This site currently contains more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts. There is also the most comprehensive Darwin bibliography ever published and the largest manuscript catalogue ever assembled. More than 150 ancillary texts are also included, ranging from secondary reference works to contemporary reviews, obituaries, published descriptions of Darwin's Beagle specimens and important related works for understanding Darwin's context.”
posted on: 09 August 2006
posted on: 30 July 2006
“ The voyage of HMS Endeavour (1768-1771) was the first devoted exclusively to scientific discovery. The Botany Library at the Natural History Museum holds all of the surviving botanical artwork from Captain James Cook's first Pacific voyage. Represented are works of the artists Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771), John Frederick Miller and Frederick Polydore Nodder, among others. These artists' works feature in the finished watercolours made during and after the voyage, between 1773 and 1784. Of the three, only Parkinson sailed on the ship and it was he who made the first sketches of the plants which were encountered and collected.”
