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This image from Jacob Christian Schaffer’s Elementa entomologica features a jar and drawer of the type used to store natural history collections in museums of the eighteenth century.
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 Bloch’s work is one of the high points in the history of ichthyology, both graphically and taxonomically. It is still in use as a standard reference for identification. Bloch described fishes from all over the world, relying on numerous contacts around the globe. In all, he listed more than 169 new species. A French edition, published in Berlin in 1785–97, allowed the work to reach a wider audience. Various engravers produced the plates in a remarkably consistent style over a 12-year period. The Smithsonian is one of only nine institutions in the world to hold a complete set of the original German editions and one of only two libraries to hold both the German and the French.
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 Gart der Gesundheit is one of the first printed herbals to be published in a vernacular language instead of Latin. Herbals combined folklore and home remedies, information from classical sources, and religious symbolism into a popular mix of botanical and medical advice.
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 Dickinson’s comprehensive pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851 captures many colorful moments of the World’s Fair. The volume contained 55 colored lithographic reproductions of original paintings by Joseph Nash, Louis Haghe, and David Roberts.
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 Notable book illustrator Owen Jones (1809-1874) demonstrated his mastery of the chromolithographic process in this architectural work from 1842. Jones was known for his rich, saturated colors printed in layers. This detail is taken from Plans, elevations, sections, and details of the Alhambra, from
drawings taken on the spot in 1834 by Jules Goury, and in 1834 and 1837
by Owen Jones / With a complete translation of the Arabic
inscriptions, and an historical notice of the kings of Granada from the
conquest of that city by the Arabs to the expulsion of the Moors, by
Pasqual de Gayangos. This collection of illustrations and translations was published in two volumes by Owen Jones between 1842-1845, and is held in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Library in New York. For more about this image, and more images from Owen Jones, visit SIL's Galaxy of Images.
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