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Drawings and Plates

Botanical, anatomical and scientific plates, and drawings. Each one is printed to order at a size its file can hold.

From Cartographer’s Dream 41The Firmament 31Cabinet of Curiosities 21The Alembic 15 and 4 more houses

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The Planetary Mounts of the Hand

Engraver unknown

Engraving, c. 1650

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The Seventh Key

Matthaeus Merian the Elder, engraver (text attributed to Basilius Valentinus)

Engraving, Late 17th century; text tradition traced to ca. 1599

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The Ninth Key

Matthaeus Merian the Elder, engraver (text attributed to Basilius Valentinus)

Engraving, Late 17th century; text tradition traced to ca. 1599

PA-00528from $55

The Zytglogge Sketches — 1534

Unknown draughtsman

Plate, 1534

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The Tabula Rogeriana

Muhammad al-Idrisi

Plate, 1154

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The Emerald Tablet

Engraved by Matthäus Merian

Engraving, c. 1625

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The Woman at the Furnace

Michael Maier (author); engraved by Matthäus Merian the Elder

Engraving

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The King’s Vapor Bath

Michael Maier (author); engraved by Matthäus Merian the Elder

Engraving

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Ripley Scroll — Getty Research Institute, 950053

Unknown English scribe-illuminator; verses traditionally attributed to George Ripley

Plate, c. 1600–1700

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The Griffin, Guardian of Gold

Unknown English illuminator (made for the Benedictine priory of St Andrew, Rochester)

Illuminated manuscript, c. 1230

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The Fox Who Feigned Death

Unknown English illuminator

Illuminated manuscript, c. 1200

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The Beaver's Sacrifice

Unknown English illuminator

Illuminated manuscript, c. 1200

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The Waldseemüller Map

Martin Waldseemüller & Matthias Ringmann

Plate, 1507

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The Cantino Planisphere

Anonymous Portuguese cartographer

Plate, 1502

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The Kangnido

Yi Hoe & Kwon Kun (Joseon Korea)

Plate, 1402

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The Peutinger Table

after a late-Roman original

Plate, c. 1200 copy

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Emblem I — The Wind in the Belly

Michael Maier; engraved by Matthäus Merian

Engraving, 1617

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Emblem VIII — The Egg and the Sword

Michael Maier; engraved by Matthäus Merian

Engraving, 1617

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Emblem XXI — Squaring the Circle

Michael Maier; engraved by Matthäus Merian

Engraving, 1617

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Emblem XLII — Nature as Guide

Michael Maier; engraved by Matthäus Merian

Engraving, 1617

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Go to the Woman Washing Clothes

Michael Maier (author); engraved by Matthäus Merian the Elder

Engraving

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Join the Brother and the Sister

Michael Maier (author); engraved by Matthäus Merian the Elder

Engraving

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The Dragon Devouring Its Own Tail

Michael Maier (author); engraved by Matthäus Merian the Elder

Engraving

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The Wolf Devours the King

Michael Maier (author); engraved by Matthäus Merian the Elder

Engraving

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The Sleeping Hermaphrodite

Michael Maier (author); engraved by Matthäus Merian the Elder

Engraving

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Nature, Reason, Experience, and Reading

Michael Maier (author); engraved by Matthäus Merian the Elder

Engraving

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The Dragon and the Woman

Michael Maier (author); engraved by Matthäus Merian the Elder

Engraving

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Mirror of the Whole of Nature

Robert Fludd

Plate, Early 17th century

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The First Key

Matthaeus Merian the Elder, engraver (text attributed to Basilius Valentinus)

Engraving, Late 17th century; text tradition traced to ca. 1599

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The Fourth Key

Matthaeus Merian the Elder, engraver (text attributed to Basilius Valentinus)

Engraving, Late 17th century; text tradition traced to ca. 1599

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The Panther's Sweet Breath

Unknown English illuminator

Illuminated manuscript, c. 1200

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The Caladrius

Unknown English illuminator

Illuminated manuscript, c. 1200

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Threshing at Harvest — The Luttrell Psalter

Unknown East Anglian illuminator, commissioned by Sir Geoffrey Luttrell

Illuminated manuscript, c. 1325–1340

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The Dance of Death

Jacques Gamelin

Plate, 1779

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An Anatomical Tableau

after Frederik Ruysch

Plate, early 18th c.

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The Phases of the Moon

Maria Clara Eimmart

Plate, c. 1690s

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