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The incredible, psychedelic tropical fish fantasy of Louis Renard & Samuel Fallours : 1719’s Natural history of the rarest curiosities of the Indian Sea.

Histoire naturelle des plus rares curiositez de la mer des Indes (1719),...

AIRSCAPES of CALIFORNIA. Otherworldly 1920s aerial photography by U.S. government pilots.

A last look at the ramshackle, pre-gentrification streets of Amsterdam’s Jordaan neighbourhood. Urban renewal assessment photographs from 1970-1983, by an anonymous city planning employee.

A working-class stronghold, renowned for tight community bonds, radical politics, a love...

In the 1920s Paramount Pictures did imagine their black and white films in colour : colour publicity for black & white silent Westerns : The Covered Wagon.

In the 1920s, if you ran a film production house in American,...

Rare photographs, taken in Moscow when the Cold War was at its coldest. Step inside the real Iron Curtain of 1958-1959.

Taken by unknown visitors to Moscow between 1958 and 1959, this group...

The very strange tale of “The World Is Round”, Gertrude Stein’s long lost psyche-searching children’s book.

In 1938, the children’s author, Margaret Wise Brown asked a series of...

Æolididae e famiglie affini del porto di Genova & Bologna. Salvatore Trinchese, the man who fell in love with a certain sea slug.

Æolididae are a family of sea slugs, marine gastropod molluscs without shells....

Colour plates from 1916’s “The main poisonous snakes of the Dutch East Indies by Pieter Antonie Ouwens : With a treatise on the phenomena and on the treatment of poisonous snakebite by Dr. G.W. Kiewait the Younger”.

Dr. Tuzson draws for Issue 24 of The Hungarian National Museum Natural History Booklet, 1901.

Természetrajzi Füzetek kiadja a Magyar nemzeti Muzeum. No. 24. 1901. The Hungarian...

Nature Obscurity

They’ve been here for 310 million years and they gather on the full moon for their magical blue blood to be milked. In 1873, the French scientist, Milne-Edwards opened up the alien so we can have a good look inside.

Alien. There’s something alien about the Atlantic horseshoe crab, (also known as...

1903’s Familiar Wild Birds by W. Swaysland. The illustrations of birds are rather ordinary, their eggs however, are quite the opposite.

Tragically, only 2 drawings by the totally obscure Dutch botantical wallchart artist, D. van Laren are known to exist. Here they are.