Lithographs of the world under the sea to make you think you’re living inside an aquarium. From Baltic German biologist and explorer Alexander Theodor von Middendorff’s tome “Kopffüsser; Aufzählung und Beschreibung der zur Meersfauna Russlands gehörigen Einschaler” (Enumeration and description of shellfish and marine fauna of Russia).

Art book/folio, Lithographs 1 Minute
Plate 1.
Plate 1. In the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1924. via http://magictransistor.tumblr.com/post/107376792916/alexander-theodor-von-middendorff-kopff%C3%BCsser
Plate 2.
Plate 2. In the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1924. via http://magictransistor.tumblr.com/post/107369732631/alexander-theodor-von-middendorff-aufz%C3%A4hlung-und
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Plate 3. in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1924. http://animalia-life.club/other/vintage-jellyfish-illustration.html
Meeresfauna II. Plate 4.
Meeresfauna II. Plate 4. In the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1924. via http://magictransistor.tumblr.com/post/107369732631/alexander-theodor-von-middendorff-aufz%C3%A4hlung-und

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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