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Scientific Plate

293 pieces in the Scientific Plate manner, each sold only at the sizes its file can hold.

From Cabinet of Curiosities 41The Alembic 13The Anatomy Theatre 12The Complication 10 and 2 more houses

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The Golden-Winged Woodpecker

Mark Catesby

Plate, 1731–1743

PA-00287from $55

The Weighing of the World Systems

Giovanni Battista Riccioli

Plate, 1651

PA-00986from $60

The Wild Turkey

John James Audubon (engraved by Robert Havell Jr.)

Engraving, 1827

PA-00277from $60

The Baltimore Oriole

John James Audubon (engraved by Robert Havell Jr.)

Engraving, 1828

PA-00278from $60

The Carolina Parrot

John James Audubon (engraved by Robert Havell Jr.)

Engraving, 1828

PA-00279from $60

The Mocking Bird

John James Audubon (engraved by Robert Havell Jr.)

Engraving, 1827

PA-00281from $60

The Purple Martin

John James Audubon (engraved by Robert Havell Jr.)

Engraving, 1827

PA-00282from $60

The Sun Rises Over the City

Unknown illuminator (text attributed to Salomon Trismosin)

Plate, 1582 copy

PA-00507from $60

The Dragon Arum

William Ward, after Peter Charles Henderson and Robert John Thornton

Plate, 1801

PA-00249from $60

The Book of the Fixed Stars

'Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi

Plate, Copied late 15th century

PA-00259from $60

Cepheus

Sidney Hall

Plate, 1825

PA-00263from $60

Discomedusae

Ernst Haeckel (lithograph by Adolf Giltsch)

Lithograph, 1899–1904

PA-00270from $60

Cubomedusae

Ernst Haeckel (lithograph by Adolf Giltsch)

Lithograph, 1899–1904

PA-00272from $60

Trochilidae

Ernst Haeckel (lithograph by Adolf Giltsch)

Lithograph, 1899–1904

PA-00273from $60

The Snow Bird

John James Audubon (engraved by Robert Havell Jr.)

Engraving, 1827

PA-00283from $60

The Booby

Mark Catesby

Plate, 1731–1743

PA-00286from $55

Spiders, Ants, and a Hummingbird

Maria Sibylla Merian

Plate, 1705

PA-00290from $55

The First Parable: Miners at the Rock

Unknown illuminator (text attributed to Salomon Trismosin)

Plate, 1582 copy

PA-00502from $55

The Peacock’s Tail

Unknown illuminator (text attributed to Salomon Trismosin)

Plate, 1582 copy

PA-00506Display only

The Orloj, Engraved — 1837

after Czermak / Kandler

Engraving of the Prague astronomical clock, 1837

PA-00540Display only

A Skeleton, from the Osteographia

William Cheselden

Plate, 1733

PA-00940Display only

The Body at Life Size

Paolo Mascagni

Plate, 1823–1831

PA-00946Display only

Garden Parsley

Elizabeth Blackwell

Plate, 1737–1739

PA-00254Display only

Rosemary

Elizabeth Blackwell

Plate, 1737–1739

PA-00255Display only

Mint

Elizabeth Blackwell

Plate, 1737–1739

PA-00256Display only

The Fourth Muscle Man

Andreas Vesalius (woodcut, Basel workshop of Johannes Oporinus)

Woodcut, 1543

PA-00276Display only

The Bat’s Flea, with Fleabane

John Curtis

Plate, 1830

PA-00291Display only

Arma Artis — The Arms of the Art

Unknown illuminator (text attributed to Salomon Trismosin)

Plate, 1582 copy

PA-00500Display only

The Knight Upon Two Fountains

Unknown illuminator (text attributed to Salomon Trismosin)

Plate, 1582 copy

PA-00501Display only

The Fifth Parable: The Two-Headed Figure

Unknown illuminator (text attributed to Salomon Trismosin)

Plate, 1582 copy

PA-00503Display only

Three Birds Contend Within the Vessel

Unknown illuminator (text attributed to Salomon Trismosin)

Plate, 1582 copy

PA-00504Display only

The Three-Headed Dragon of the Sun

Unknown illuminator (text attributed to Salomon Trismosin)

Plate, 1582 copy

PA-00505Display only

Immersion in the Bath

Unknown (anonymous woodcut artist)

Woodcut

PA-00519Display only

Ripley Scroll — Beinecke Mellon MS 41

Unknown English scribe-illuminator; verses attributed to George Ripley and Richard Carpenter

Plate, c. 1570

PA-00521Display only

The Divine Monochord

Robert Fludd

Plate, Early 17th century

PA-00523Display only

The First Pendulum Clock

Christiaan Huygens

Plate, 1673

PA-00534Display only

Horologium Oscillatorium — Title Leaf

Christiaan Huygens

Plate, 1673

PA-00535Display only

A Bracket Clock Movement

after Abraham Rees (ed.)

Plate, c. 1810s

PA-00536Display only

Voyage Fait par Ordre du Roi, 1768–1769

Ferdinand Berthoud

Plate, 1768–1769

PA-00537Display only

Holbein’s Design for a Clocksalt — 1543

Hans Holbein the Younger

Plate, 1543

PA-00542Display only

De Vick’s Clock of 1379

after Abraham Rees (ed.)

Plate, c. 1810s

PA-00543Display only

Galileo's Moon

Galileo Galilei

Plate, 1610

PA-00973Display only

Coronelli's Celestial Globe Gores

Vincenzo Coronelli

Plate, c. 1693

PA-00988Display only

Pieces

The Golden-Winged Woodpecker

The Weighing of the World Systems

The Wild Turkey

The Baltimore Oriole

The Carolina Parrot

The Mocking Bird

The Purple Martin

The Sun Rises Over the City

The Dragon Arum

The Book of the Fixed Stars

Cepheus

Discomedusae

Cubomedusae

Trochilidae

The Snow Bird

The Booby

Spiders, Ants, and a Hummingbird

The First Parable: Miners at the Rock

The Peacock’s Tail

The Orloj, Engraved — 1837

A Skeleton, from the Osteographia

The Body at Life Size

Garden Parsley

Rosemary

Mint

The Fourth Muscle Man

The Bat’s Flea, with Fleabane

Arma Artis — The Arms of the Art

The Knight Upon Two Fountains

The Fifth Parable: The Two-Headed Figure

Three Birds Contend Within the Vessel

The Three-Headed Dragon of the Sun

Immersion in the Bath

Ripley Scroll — Beinecke Mellon MS 41

The Divine Monochord

The First Pendulum Clock

Horologium Oscillatorium — Title Leaf

A Bracket Clock Movement

Voyage Fait par Ordre du Roi, 1768–1769

Holbein’s Design for a Clocksalt — 1543

De Vick’s Clock of 1379

Galileo's Moon

Coronelli's Celestial Globe Gores

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