"Brilliant Plumage, Exquisite Technique: An unsurpassed monument in the history of scientific illustration Edward Lear may be best known for his nonsense verse, but in his early years he excelled as an illustrator of birds and reptiles. This set of 42 hand-colored lithographs, originally entitled Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots, was the finest achievement of his relatively brief career as a natural history draftsm ..."
"Edward Lear completò questa raccolta di tavole nel 1832 all'età di vent'anni. Si trattava di 42 litografie colorate a mano dal titolo "Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or Parrots" ed era la prima collezione di questo tipo dedicata interamente ai pappagalli. Le specie raffigurate provenivano dall'Africa, dall'Australia e dall'America. A differenza di altri illustratori Lear non si rifaceva a modelli impagliati, ma ritraeva gli ..."
"Antoine Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (1680 1765) was so bewitched by seashells that he authored one of the world's most spectacular books dedicated to seashells. His La Conchyliologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Coquilles de Mer, d'Eau Douce, Terrestres et Fossiles, published at Paris in 1780, was a summa of contemporary knowledge in the complementary fields of mineralogy and conchology, and was so popular as to turn the study of natural ..."
Rechinii by SophiaWillmann Published 2014 ISBN-13: 978-606-8434-85-8, ISBN: 606-8434-85-0
Pixi Wissen 46 Haie: Einfach gut erklärt!sAllgemeinwissen für Grundschulkinder. (46) by SophiaWillmann Paperback, 33 Pages, Published 2022 by Kiligry ISBN-13: 978-3-551-24226-6, ISBN: 3-551-24226-7