[Hand-painted title page]
Franz Bauer (1758–1840)
from a work by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin (1727-1817)

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[Portrait of Albertus Seba]
from the work Locupletissimi rerum...(1734-65)

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[Cabinet of curiosities]
Ole Worm (1588–1654)

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Lilium Neilgherriense
Henry John Elwes (1846–1922)

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Agaricus muscarius Linn.
Karl August Friedrich Harzer (1784–1846)

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Opuntia ochrocentra
Mary Eaton (1873–1961)

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Malus communis
Engraving by Panacre Bessa (1772–1835)
from a work by M. Duhamel du Monceau (1700–82)

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The Blue Egyptian Water-Lily
from a work by Robert John Thornton (1768?–1837)

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