16th Century Collection

Mandragora officinarum, mandrake
Illustration of the male and female mandrake, from The herbal of generall historie of plantes (1636) by John Gerard (1545-1612), edited by Thomas Johnson

Conrad Gessner (1516-1565)
Conradus Gesnerus, Medeus & Philosophus. Plate 4, Isis 22

Hoorn - The Netherlands - Hoofdtoren Tower
Hoorn is a town and a former Dutch East India Company base in the Dutch province of North Holland. It lies on the IJsselmeer, a lake north of Amsterdam

Shakespeare's Birthplace - Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Shakespeare's Birthplace - a restored 16th-century half-timbered house situated in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England

Bruce Castle is a Grade I listed 16th-century manor house in Lordship Lane, Tottenham, London. It is named after the House of Bruce who formerly owned the land on which it is built. Date: 1875

The Beggar Maid
The King and the Beggar-maid is a 16th-century ballad that tells the story of King Cophetua of Ethiopia and his love for the beggar Penelophon.Artist: Frances Brundage Date: 1914

Nervi, a former fishing village in Liguria, Italy. Gropallo tower, built in the 16th-century as a lookout watchtower for pirates. Date: circa 1902

Bird-of-paradise
Plate 612 from Konrad Gesners Historia Animalium, Vol.3, (1555)

Owl De Ulula
Illustration of Owl De Ulula by Konrad Gesner (1516-1565)

Title page from A New Herball by William Turner
The title page complete with Royal crest of King Edward VI from A New Herball (1551) by William Turner

Rembert Dodoens (1516-1585)
Portrait of Rembert Dodoens, a botanist and herbalist, aged 35, from Trium priorum de stirpium historia

Cicinnurus regius, king bird-of-paradise
Plate 362 from Carolus Clusius Exoticorum libri decem : quibus Animalium, Plantarum, Aromatum, alioramque peregrinorum Fructuum Histori describuntur, (1605)

Magellans Tomb, Mactan, Philippines
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Tomb of Will Adams, First Englishman in Japan. Japan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Solanum lycopersicum, garden tomato
Drawing of the garden tomato from Herbal (1597) by John Gerard. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Rhinocerotidae (family), rhinoceros
Woodcut engraving published on page 953 of of Historiae Animalium, Vol. 1 De Quadrupedibus Viviparis (Viviparous Quadrupeds), 1555-1558, by Konrad Gesner (1516-1565)

Study of a ray
Page 450 by Ulisse Aldrovandi from his De Piscubis et de Cetis, 1638

Study of shark
Page 397 by Ulisse Aldrovandi from his De Piscubis et de Cetis, 1638

Anatomical study of a ray
Page 451 by Ulisse Aldrovandi from his De Piscubis et de Cetis, 1638

Page 217 from Herbarium (1532) by Otto Brunfels
Herbarum vivae eiconeb (1532) by Otto Brunfels (1488-1534). Illustrations by Hans Weiditz the Younger (1495 Freiburg im Breisgau - c1537 Bern). Tom I, 2nd edition

Homo sapiens skeleton
An illustration showing a male human skeleton, page 40 from Histoire de la Nature by P Belon, 1555. In the publication this is ompared with skeleton of a bird on page 41. (See image 6887)

Skeleton of a bird
Page 41 from Pierre Belons Histoire de la Nature (1555). Compare with skeleton of a man on page 40, (picture ref. 6886)

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