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wallacegardens:

Cereus peruvianus (Night Blooming Cactus). Karlsruher Tulpenbuch, 1730.
115 ♥
heaveninawildflower:

Passion flower (Passiflora × lawsoniana, as Passiflora amabilis) from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (1848).
W.H. Fitch.
Wikimedia.
61 ♥
heaveninawildflower:

Champion quince (Cydonia oblonga)
Watercolour by Amanda A. Newton (12/03/1909)
From: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cor/pwc/cydonia-art.html
United States Department of Agriculture
Wikimedia.
64 ♥
heaveninawildflower:

Carnation type flowers by Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 – 4 May 1605).
Source - vintageprintable.com
16 ♥
terramantra:

Albertus Seba
1098 ♥
stilllifequickheart:


Mary Vaux Walcott
Bourgeau Rose
1923


ani
133 ♥
stilllifequickheart:

Christophe-Paulin de la Poix
The Swimming Crab and the Fiddler Crab
1822-39
375 ♥
muirgilsdream:


Pears, etc. Georg Bocskay, calligrapher; Joris Hoefnagel, artist
64 ♥
loverofbeauty:


Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522 - 1605)  Specimens of Nature
63 ♥
ifellforaghost:

Renaisance notebooks on We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/193980/via/araneus
318 ♥
scientificillustration:

n366_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.
The Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., during the years 1843-1846 /.London :Reeve and Benham,1850 [i.e. 1848-1850].biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39771172
72 ♥
heaveninawildflower:

Sirfolia from Collection Précieuse et Enluminée des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent dans les jardins de la Chine que dans ceux de l’Europe.(A Rare, Illustrated Collection of the most Beautiful and Exotic Flowers, Grown in the Gardens of China as well as Europe), Pierre-Joseph Buchoz, Paris, 1776.
Source - theantiquarium.com 
23 ♥
6 ♥
2248 ♥
whitehotel:

After Heinrich Füllmaurer and Albrecht Meyer (Italian copy), Solomon’s seal (1560)
264 ♥
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