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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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19th Century Japanese postcards from Ehagaki = [A collection of Japanese pictorial postcards] (1868).

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Illustration of various sea shells from Franz Regenfuss's Auserlesne Schnecken, Muscheln und andre Schaalthiere (1758).

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Fennec foxes from Zoogoer v.6:no.4 (1977). Full text here.

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"Tissandier's electric balloon" from Science new ser.:v.3 (1884).

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Blood vessels of an adrenal gland from Bulletin international. Resumés des travaux présentés. Classe des sciences mathématiques, naturelles et de la médecine Annee 10:pt.2 (1905).

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A variety of Hemiptera (also known as "True Bugs") from Memorie della Società entomologica italiana v.60 (1981).

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A Brazilian opossum being presented to Queen Isabella of Spain in the year 1500 from The Zoogoer v.15:no.1 (1986).

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