Collection of drawings depicting specimens from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne
circa 1768
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Specimens of sea weed
circa 1840?
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Topsell, Edward, 1572–1625?
The history of four-footed beasts and serpents
MDCLVIII [1658]
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Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), male, with Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne
circa 1768
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Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne
circa 1768
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Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Caesalpinoid legume, possibly a species of Caesalpinia L.; Blackburn's Earth Boring Beetle (Geotrupes blackburnii), Seven-Spotted Ladybird Beetle (Coccinella septumpunctata), Purple Emperor (Apatura iris), (Lepidoptera Hesperiidae) and (Nymphalidae cf. Haematera); shells, from left: (Cypraea ocellata L. 1758), (Conus marmoreus L. 1758), and (Semicassis granulate Born, 1778), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne
circa 1768
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Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
?White-cheeked Starling (Sturnus cineraceus), with bramble (Rubus fruticosus L.), and Eurasian Comma (Polygonia c-album), both closed and open, and Seven-Spotted Ladybird Beetle (Coccinella septumpunctata) on leaf, from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne
circa 1768
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Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Beautiful Nuthatch (Sitta formosa), with hazel (Corylus avellana L.), oak (Quercus L.) and bramble (cf. Rubus), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne
circa 1768
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Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
European robin (Erithacus rubecula) and eggs, with wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca L.), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne
circa 1768
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Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
?Subalpine warbler (Sylvia cantillans), male, and eggs, with strawberry (Fragaria L.), and Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), both closed and open, with wasp cocoon, ants and cocoons, from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne
circa 1768
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Ingpen, Abel, -1854
Instructions for collecting, rearing, and preserving British & foreign insects
1839
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Decalcomania sample book
circa 1870
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Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900
Wild flowers worth notice
1861
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Houghton, W. (William), 1828–1895
Sea-side walks of a naturalist with his children
1870
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Musée des dames et des demoiselles
[ca. 1825?]
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Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800–1877
The pencil of nature
1844 [i.e. 1844-1846]
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Atkinson, John Augustus, 1775–approximately 1833
Sixteen scenes taken from The miseries of human life
March 1st 1807
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Martin, John, 1789–1854
Characters of trees
1817
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Sowerby, James, 1757–1822
A botanical drawing-book, or, An easy introduction to drawing flowers according to nature
[1807?]
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Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Ocean and river gardens
1857
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Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
History of British birds
1797 [i.e. 1798]-1804
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Spooner's transformations
1838 [-39]
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Pratt, Anne, 1806–1893
Wild flowers
1852-53
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The therd booke of flowers fruits beastes birds and flies exactly drawne
1661
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Ward, Mary, 1827–1869
Sketches with the microscope
1857
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Coles, Frederick Rhenius, 1853 or 1854–
This book contains drawings of marine shells (from Forbes & Hanley) generally considered as specially British