Rare Natural History

Wiegmann, Arend Fridericus Augustus. 1834. Herpetologia Mexicana, seu descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae . C. G. Lüderitz, Berolini, vi...

Rare Natural History is part of a group of websites high-lighting Natural History books and their illustrations. The menu bar above contain...

Hoffstetten, Benno Ignatius von, Joseph Zweissig and Nicolaus Tolent Feichtmayr. 1765. Tractatio de theoria descensus et ascensus gravium ...

I finished On the Origin of Species a couple of months ago and have been thinking about what I can say about it ever since. It would be u...

Joan François Obbes (1869-1963) a well-known artist from the Netherlands, worked for a time at the Amsterdam Zoological Museum. While at the...

Antoine Jean Baptist Vaillant was an artist at thé Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He illustrated numerus zoological works. A...

After reading Art and Nature I started thinking about the original art that I have - I don't have many. I may as well try to post the ...

Art and Nature: Three Centuries of Natural History Art from Around the World By Judith Magee Art and Nature is a well illustrated bo...

Images of Science: A History of Scientific Illustration by Brian J. Ford In my efforts to study the history of natural history il...

Over the past couple of months I happen to read two books about Darwin: The first was Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott and the second ...