Minus Collection

American woodcock, Scolopax minor. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Edwin Sheppard from Thomas George Gentrys Nests and Eggs of the Birds of the United States, J.A

American kestrel, Falco sparverius, with nest and egg. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Edwin Sheppard from Thomas George Gentrys Nests and Eggs of the Birds of the United States, J.A

Lesser meadow rue, Thalictrum minus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1791

Lesser burdock or cocklebur, Arctium minus (Xanthium, Lappa minor). Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattiolis Discorsi

Sea holly, Eryngium minus, and hogs fennel, Peucedanum officinale. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Lesser burdock, Arctium minus, and water chestnut, Trapa natans. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Houseleek, Sempervivum tectorum, and rock stonecrop, Sedum reflexum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Garden pea, Pisum sativum
Garden pea varieties, Pisum sativum (P. majus and P. minus). Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Dyers croton, Chrozophora tinctoria, and water forget-me-not, Myosotis scorpioides. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt

Horsetail varieties, Equisetum species. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Lesser celandine, Ficaria verna, and fumitory, Fumaria officinalis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Creeping yellowcress, Rorippa sylvestris, and pepperwort, Lepidium campestre. Thlaspi minus tenuifolium, Thlaspi minus latifolium

Houndstongue species, Cynoglossum officinale. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Italian bugloss species, Anchusa azurea. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Dark mullein, Verbascum nigrum, varieties. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Clary sage varieties, Salvia sclarea. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Basil varieties, Ocimum basilicum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Field sow-thistle, Sonchus arvensis, and mouse-ear hawkweed, Hieracium pilosella. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt

Ox-eye daisy, Buphthalmum salicifolium, and lesser ox-eye, Buphthalmum minus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Greater centaury, Centaurium majus, and common centaury, Centaurium erythraea. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Smelly wallflower, Erysimum odoratum (Sweet-scented alpine hedge mustard, Erysium lanceolatum minus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis

Curtis British Entomology Plate 664
Hymenoptera: Tiphia minuta [Plant: Thalictrum minus (Lesser Meadow-rue)] Date: 1824-39

Page design, personality, School Silhouettes
Page design for personality (plus and minus, I love, I hate), in School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA

Building with icicles, Berlin, New Hampshire, USA
A building covered in icicles in Berlin, New Hampshire, USA, on 4 February 1908. The temperature was minus 20 degrees. The building had been on fire

Dunne D6 in the shed of W E Gibson minus wings circa 1911
Dunne D6 in the shed of W.E. Gibson, minus wings. circa 1911. Date: 1911

Gloster Meteor F1 EE221 / G minus its upper fin
Gloster Meteor F1, EE221/G, minus its upper fin

Plants / Shamrock
A shamrock may be either - a - white clover (trifolium repens); or b - wood sorrel (oxalis aceto sellar); or c - lesser clover (trifolium minus) Date: 1926

Crystal Palace Odds / Ends
ODDS & ENDS A greedy gentleman who has lost his party; a rather large lady who cannot get through the entrance and the said party minus provisions

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