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Illustrations of experimental equipment by Alessandro Volta estimated to be from between 1770 and 1830

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Plaster models of mouths pronouncing vowel sounds from Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris ser.10:t.14 (1925).

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Sea snail shells from Thomas Martyn's The universal conchologist (1789). Full text here.

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A stamp-enthusiast with stamp from Wilhelm Görges's Deutscher post-almanach für das jahr 1852-1853.

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A variety of beetles from Georges Cuvier's The animal kingdom, arranged according to its organization, serving as a foundation for the natural history of animals v.4 (1837).

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Sun birds from G. E. Shelley's A monograph of the Nectariniidae, or, Family of sun-birds (1876-1880).

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Several species of ladybug larvae of subfamily Chilocorinae from Memorie della Società entomologica italiana v.20:fasc.1 (1941). Full text here.

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Indonesian fabric pattern from G. P. Rouffaer's De batik-kunst in Nederlandsch-Indië en haar geschiedenis (1914).

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A liontail macaque from The Zoogoer v.13:no.6 (1985).

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Several grasshopper species from Transactions of the Entomological Society of London v.77 (1929).

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The frontispiece from Thomas Keightley's The fairy mythology, illustrative of the romance and superstition of various countries (1889).

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Flowering plant (currently accepted name: Staurogyne itatiaiae) from Heinrich Wawra's Itinera principum S. Coburgi v.1 (1883). Full text here.

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An apparatus for testing a skeleton's range of motion from the 1929 volume of Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

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Custom cover illustration by De Loria Norman (also known as Belle Elkin Mitchell) from a 1907 copy of From the hills of dream by Fiona Mcleod (a pen name of William Sharp). Full text here.

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A scissor-tailed flycatcher and painted bunting from The bird life of Texas v.2 (1974).

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Anatomy of a soldier fly from Bollettino della Società entomologica italiana v.134 (2002).

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A sunfish larva from Zoological Society bulletin v.29 (1926).

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