Encyclopedia Collection (page 6)

Anise and cumin
Anise or aniseed, Pimpinella anisum 1, and cumin, Cuminum cyminum 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795

Fennel and black cumin
Fennel, Foeniculum vulgare 1, and black cumin, Nigella sativa 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802

Sahara sand viper and black asp
Sahara sand viper, Cerastes vipera 1, and black asp, Vipera aspis atra, vulnerable 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Mustard and tarragon
White mustard, Sinapis alba 1, and tarragon or estragon, Artemisia dracunculus 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Indian cobra and black snake
Indian cobra, Naja naja 1, and black snake, Anguis niger (Pantherophis obsoletus?) 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Monkshood and datura
Monkshood, Aconitum napellus 1, jimson weed or datura, Datura stramonium 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Sweet chestnut and almond tree
Sweet chestnut, Castanea sativa 1, and almond, Prunus dulcis 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795

Metamorphosis of honey bees, honeycomb, queens, drones and chain of worker bees. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Hops and coriander
Hops, Humulus lupulus, male 1, female 2, and coriander, Coriandrum sativum 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Saw-wort, safflower and dyers broom
Saw-wort, Serratula tinctoria 1, safflower, Carthamus tinctorius 2, and dyers broom, Genista tinctoria 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Human flea and louse
Human flea, Pulex irritans 1, and human louse, Pediculus humanus 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795

Silver maple and potato
Silver maple, Acer saccharinum 1, and potato, Solanum tuberosum 2, tubers a, b, c. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Flax and cannabis
Flax, Linum usitatissimum 1, and hemp or cannabis, Cannabis sativa, male 2, female 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Corn and millet
Corn or maize, Zea mays 1, and millet, Panicum miliaceum 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795

Flying fish, suckerfish and boxfish
Flying fish species 1, 2, remora or suckerfish 3, and round boxfish 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Coconut palm and Caribbean royal palm
Coconut palm tree, Cocos nucifera 1, coconut fruit a, and Caribbean royal palm, Roystonea oleracea 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Queen sago palm, Cycas circinalis, and date palm, Phoenix dactylifera. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795

Carp and perch varieties
Carp, Cyprinus carpio 1, 2, barbel, Barbus barbus 3, pike-perch, Sander lucioperca 4, and European perch, Perca fluviatilis 5

Metals including lead, iron, mercury and bismuth
Metals including lead 1, iron 2, 3, 4, mercury 5, 6, bismuth 7 and antimony 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Mushroom varieties
Mushrooms: Russula integra 1, 2, 3, Lactarius torminosus 4, 5, Amanita muscaria 6, Coprinopsis radiata 7, and Lactarius piperatus 8

Roman legionnaires and musicians
Heavily armed Roman legionnaires 1, 2, lightly armed soldiers 3, 4, Roman soldier with pack on a march 5, eagle bearer 6 and trumpet and horn players 7, 8

Precious metals including gold, silver, copper and tin
Precious metals including gold 1, silver 2, 3, copper dendrite 4, blue copper 5, malachite copper 6, garnet tin 7, tin crystal 8, and tin sand 9

Woad and dyers rocket
Woad or glastum, Isatis tinctoria 1, and dyers rocket, Reseda luteola 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar

Dragons blood palm and areca palm trees
Dragons blood palm, Daemonorops draco 1, and areca palm, Areca catechu 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after C. Franck from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Egyptian mummies and coffins
Egyptian mummies: mummy in coffin 1, coffin cover 2, bird urn 3, bird urn without cover 4, mummy of an embalmed ibis 5, and plan of underground chambers in a pyramid

Achiote and saffron crocus
Achiote, Bixa orellana, and saffron crocus, Crocus sativus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795

Cassava and sweet potato
Cassava or manioc, Manihot esculenta 1, and sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Domesticated horse and dziggetai
Domesticated horse, Equus ferus caballus 2, and dziggetai or Gobi khulan, Equus hemionus luteus 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Christian Wilhelm Waitz from Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur

Opium poppy and Cretan milk-vetch
Opium poppy with seedpod, Papaver somniferum 1, and Cretan milk-vetch, Astracantha cretica 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Coffee and sugar cane plants
Coffee tree with ripe fruit, Coffea arabica 1, and sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Ostrich, cassowary, extinct dodo and penguins
Ostrich, Struthio camelus, cassowary, Struthio casuarius, extinct dodo, Raphus cucullatus, and species of penguin. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Dutchmans pipe and asarabacca
Dutchmans pipe, Aristolochia macrophylla 1 and asarabacca, Asarum europaeum 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Vertical section of the cave at Gailenreuth, Germany
Vertical section of the cave at Gailenreuth, near Muggendorf, Germany, after William Buckland, and entrance to the cave below

View of the city of Cairo, Egypt, with its
View of the city of Cairo on the River Nile, Egypt, with its mosques, churches and synagogues, 1820. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Theodore Goetz after Cooke from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs

View of the River Thames and the Tower of London, 1820. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823

Asian palm civet and African civet
Asian palm civet, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus 1 and African civet, Civettictis civetta 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Workers harvesting pink salt from the salt lakes near Perekop, Crimea, 1820. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

View of the town of Hobart, Tasmania, 1821
View of the town of Hobart, Tasmania, with 2, 700 inhabitants in 400 homes, 1821. Showing the government building, school, church, prison, battery and telegraph signals

Smooth newt, Lissotriton vulgaris: female 1, male 2, female depositing eggs on an aquatic leaf 3, egg 4, development of the young 5-12

Asian fairy-bluebird and racket-tailed treepie
Asian fairy-bluebird, Irena puella, male 1, female 2, and racket-tailed treepie, Crypsirina temia 3. Copied from Horsfelds Zoological Researches in Java

View of the Himalayan mountains. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Theodore Goetz from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823

Temple of Olympian Zeus, Arch of Hadrian
Modern Athens built from the ruins of ancient Athens, 1800. View from the south-east showing the Temple of Olympian Zeus and its three columns in the foreground, the Arch of Hadrian

American black bear and brown bear
American black bear, Ursus americanus 1, and brown bear, Ursus arctos 2. Copied from illustrations by Louis Chloris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by A

Diving bell with two divers on board, circa 1820. An improved version of Edmond Halleys diving bell, this hermetically sealed diving chamber was supplied by air through a copper pipe from

Cowslip, Primula veris, and scarlet pimpernel
Cowslip, Primula veris 1, and scarlet pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823

Dugong and Amazonian manatee
Dugong, Dugong dugon, vulnerable 1 and Amazonian manatee, Trichechus inunguis, vulnerable 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Natural history of cloud formations
Natural history of clouds: cirrus, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, nimbus, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Interior and entrance to the Church of
Interior (left) and entrance (right) to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

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