Antique Postcard, c. 1908. Curt Teich & Co Chicago-Berlin.
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Tabulae anatomicae: quas ad naturam accurate descriptas in lucem edidit by Friedrich Arnold
Illustration of an early 1900’s public zoo suicide that rocked the headlines of Europe. A young woman willingly climbed into the polar bear’s zoo enclosure and was mauled and eaten.
A few more illustrations of cactus plants taken from ‘The Cactaceae’ by N. L. Britton, J. N. Rose.
Published 1919 by
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