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Engraving of a mare standing with its back, left side towards the viewer on a rocky seaside cliff opening its mouth to inhale the wind of Zephyr. Three horses in the top right corner gallop away from the mare. The horse is explicitly identified as a…

Engraving of a centaur family. A mother centaur nurses one of her two children, while the father centaur holds up a cub that he has brought to them in a wooded landscape.Engraved by Collaert, Jan (1566-1628)and published by Galle, Philippe…

Image from page 260 of The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse(1905) byRidgeway, William, Sir, 1853-1926.Cropped image of an engraving originally from the series, Equile Ioannis Austriaci Caroli V. Imp. F., of horses drawn from the stables…

Engraving of the title-page: title in central cartouche, surmounted by John of Austria's coat-of-arms, adorned with the Order of the Golden Fleece; three horses on either side, those in the forefront tied to the cartouche by their reins; stable…

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (pronounced [tʰɛˈaːtrʊm ˈɔrbɪs tɛˈrːaːrʊm], "Theatre of the World") is considered to be the first true modern atlas. Written by Abraham Ortelius and originally printed on May 20, 1570, in Antwerp,[2] it consisted of a…

Original Manuscript commissioned by Lorenzo Medici; Copyist: Demetrio Damilas; Illuminations credited to Mariano del Buono and the Master of the Hamilton Xenophon.

Title Page of Le Regne animal

Entry on hippopotamuses from Vol 1. of Cuvier's Le Regne animal

All five volumes of Cuvier's 2nd edition of Le Regne animal