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Lindenia : Iconographie des orchidées - 1885 - via Internet Archive
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Spécimen typographique de l'Imprimerie royale (edited) - 1845 - via Gallica
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Die Wunder der Natur - Adolf Heilborn - 1912 - via Internet Archive
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Orpheus Charming the Animals - Jacob Hoefnagel - 1613 - via The Morgan
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Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière : avec la description du cabinet du roy - Georges Buffon - 1749 - via Internet Archive
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Naturgeschichte der Vögel - Gotthilf Heinrich Schubert - 1842 - via Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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A treasury of verse for little children - M. G. Edgar - 1923 - via Internet Archive
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The naturalist's library - William Jardine - vol. 24, 1833 - via Internet Archive
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Zoology: Animals including Alligators, Crocodiles, Geckos - Johann Georg Heck; F.A. Brockhaus, pub. - 1850 - via David Rumsey Map Collection
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Polypodium (Wall fern) - Georg Dionysius Ehret - c.1760s - via The Morgan
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Japanische Färbeschablonen - 1899 - via Sachsen Digital
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Царство животныхъ въ картинахъ для дѣтей - Тулупов Н.В. - 1900 - via Internet Archive
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Hamlet [a set of 121 original drawings] - John Austen - before 1922 - via Folger Library
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The animal alphabet - Harrison Cady - 1927 - via Internet Archive
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General zoology; or, Systematic natural history - George Shaw & James Francis Stephens - c.1800-1826 - via Internet Archive
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The Dogana, Venice (replica) - Maurice Denis - 1909 - via Sotheby's
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Father Thrift and his animal friends - Joseph Charles Sindelar - 1918 - via Internet Archive
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