EditorialBag in a flat, rectangular design, of cream-colored cotton macram? with a cream-colored satin lining, the lower half of which is cream-colored cotton macram?, in a pattern of diagonal webs is knotted. A macram? handle on both sides that is knotted so t...
EditorialHelix aspersa, Print, Cornu aspersum, known by the common name garden snail, is a species of land snail. As such it is a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae, which includes some of the most commonly familiar land snails. Of ...
EditorialHelix tristis, Print, Tyrrhenaria ceratina is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails. This species is endemic to Corsica.
EditorialHelix pomatia, Print, Helix pomatia, common names the Roman snail, Burgundy snail, edible snail or escargot, is a species of large, edible, air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod terrestrial mollusc in the family Helicidae. It is a European sp...
EditorialHelix pomatia, Print, Helix pomatia, common names the Roman snail, Burgundy snail, edible snail or escargot, is a species of large, edible, air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod terrestrial mollusc in the family Helicidae. It is a European sp...
EditorialHelix pomatia, Print, Helix pomatia, common names the Roman snail, Burgundy snail, edible snail or escargot, is a species of large, edible, air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod terrestrial mollusc in the family Helicidae. It is a European sp...
EditorialGround ivy, Glechoma hederacea, and ivy, Hedera helix. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, wit...
EditorialCommon or European ivy, Hedera helix (Hedera arborea). Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Peda...
EditorialCommon or European ivy, Hedera helix (Hedera arborea). Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Peda...
EditorialRenaissance Art. France. 16th century. Castle of Chambord, built by order of King Francis I between 1519-1539, along the river Closson. Double-helix staircase. It consists of two separate intertwined staircases that go up three floors without meeting. ...
EditorialGround ivy, Glechoma hederacea, and ivy, Hedera helix. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, wit...
EditorialCommon or European ivy, Hedera helix (Hedera arborea). Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Peda...
EditorialPila ampullacea (Dilated snail, Helix ampullacea). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1802.
EditorialCitron snail, Helix citrina. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1804.
EditorialSnake-skin snail, Helix pellis serpentis. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1810.
EditorialFossil skeletons of extinct great Irish deer Cervus megaceros and woolly mammoth Elephas primigenius, and freshwater Diluvial snails Succinea oblonga, Helix hispida and Pupa muscorum. Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolle's "Geology and Paleontology" sec...
EditorialCommon ivy, Hedera helix. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) was one of the ...
EditorialRingent snail and lamp snail, Helix ringens and Helix carocolla. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1799. Most of the 1,064 illustrations of animals, birds, insects, crustace...
EditorialCommon nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos, and goldcrest, Regulus regulus, on ivy leaves, Hedera helix. Cinereous tit, Parus cinereus, and great tit, Parus major, on a holly bush, Ilex aquifolium. Handcoloured engraving on steel by Fournier after a dra...
EditorialCommon ivy, Hedera helix, showing leaves and berries. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurn...
EditorialIvy with flowers and fruit, Hedera helix. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn from nature by Mrs. Rebecca Hey from her own "Spirit of the Woods," London, Longman, Rees, 1837. Rebecca Hey was a Victorian writer, poet and artist who wrote "Moral of...