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Keramic studio - 1899 - via Internet Archive
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de Rabié - Original water-colour paintings on the natural history of St. Domingo - 1785 - via Internet Archive
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The Workshop - 1868 - via Internet Archive
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The animal alphabet - Harrison Cady - 1927 - via Internet Archive
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Au Bon Marché, nouveautés, maison Aristide Boucicaut; Comptoir des rideaux blancs et couleurs - c.1893 - via Paris bibliothèques
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Illustrated London Almanack - Vol. 24 - 1868 - via Internet Archive
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Flowers in a stoneware vase on a ledge with a lizard and a snail - Jacob Marrel - 17th c. - via Christie's
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Die Wunder der Natur - Adolf Heilborn - 1912 - via Internet Archive
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Vollständige Naturgeschichte der forstlichen Culturpflanzen Deutschlands - Dr. Theodor Hartig - 1851 - via e-rara
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Musterbuch “Verschiedene Muster” - c.1920-1950 - via Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB)
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Brown Pelican, Pelicanus Puscus - after John James Audubon, from The Birds of America - 1838 - via Bonhams
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Bilder zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für die Jugend - 1839 - via Staatsbibliothek Berlin
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C. & J. G. Potter's patterns for 1894-95 - via Internet Archive
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Le livre de la jungle - Rudyard Kipling; Paul Jouve, ill. - 1919 - via e-rara
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Fringilla, or, Tales in verse by Blackmore - Will Bradley, ill. - 1895 - via Internet Archive
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Alpenblumenmärchen - Ernst Kreidolf - 1922 - via Internet Archive
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The royal natural history, being a systematic arrangement of descriptive zoology - Andrew Wilson - c.1881 - via Internet Archive
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