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Dr Harold Norman Fisk’s Outstanding Maps of the Mississippi River – 1944

Dr Harold Norman Fisk’s Outstanding Maps of the Mississippi River – 1944

Geographer's lush maps flow like the River their depict ...
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How To Recognise Clouds – The International Cloud Atlas, 1896

How To Recognise Clouds – The International Cloud Atlas, 1896

In 1896 an international atlas taught us the language of clouds ...
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Frederic Edwin Church’s Iceberg Paintings – 1859 – 1861

Frederic Edwin Church’s Iceberg Paintings – 1859 – 1861

An American artists beautiful pantings of icebergs between Labrador and Greenland ...
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Buy Prints Johann Bayer’s 12 Maps Of The Zodiac – 1603

Johann Bayer’s 12 Maps Of The Zodiac – 1603

Hand-coloured engravings from Johann Bayer's star atlas 'Uranometria Omnium Asterismorum' ...
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Arnold Genthe’s Cats : Women Posing With ‘Buzzer’ From A Century Ago

Arnold Genthe’s Cats : Women Posing With ‘Buzzer’ From A Century Ago

It is told that at the age of four, when I was taken by the nurse to look at my newly arrived brother Hugo, I seriously remarked, ‘I’d like a little kitten better. ...
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Explorer’s Stunning Photographs of The Arctic Sun from 100 Years Ago

Explorer’s Stunning Photographs of The Arctic Sun from 100 Years Ago

Donald Baxter MacMillan's fabulous photos of the Artic Sun ...
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Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine, the Only Work of Art You Look at With Your Eyes Closed

Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine, the Only Work of Art You Look at With Your Eyes Closed

It was Gysin who invented cut-ups, in his sound and film experiments with mathematician Ian Sommerville, using techniques Burroughs would later take up in his own occult experiments. ...
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Buy Prints Eric Ravilious’ Visionary Views of England

Eric Ravilious’ Visionary Views of England

"I never saw Eric Ravilious depressed. Even when he fell in love - and that ...
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Richard and Cherry Kearton – Two Wildlife Photography Pioneers, Baby Birds And One Stuffed Ox

Richard and Cherry Kearton – Two Wildlife Photography Pioneers, Baby Birds And One Stuffed Ox

At a time when hunting was fashionable and nature conservation was in its infancy, the brothers recognised the need to respect wildlife and to capture it through photography rather than by hunting down trophies ...
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The Insect Alphabet by Léon Becker – 1883

The Insect Alphabet by Léon Becker – 1883

Belgian scientist Léon Becker and French artist Fortuné Méaulle enlist insects to teach us our A to Z ...
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Louis Renard’s Superb Illustrations of the East Indies Marine life He Never Saw

Louis Renard’s Superb Illustrations of the East Indies Marine life He Never Saw

Louis Renard was a publisher and spy for the British crown who never left the Netherlands and drew surreal Indian Ocean fish ...
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The Harrowing Photographs and Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

The Harrowing Photographs and Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Photographed by Arnold Genthe, George R. Lawrence, and others, the photos reveal the vast extent of the devastation and the scale of the military relief effort. They also sometimes show the breakdown of civil order, as in photographs of soldiers looting during the fires. ...
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