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Old Book Illustrations offers a wide range of public domain, royalty-free restored images scanned from old books.

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Calliandra houstoniana.
Philip Reinagle, from "New Illustration Of The Sexual System Of Carolus Von Linnaeus... " By R. J. Thornton, London: 1807 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/calliandra-houstoniana/

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A group of carnations.
Robert John Thornton, from "New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus... " by R. J. Thornton, London: 1807 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/carnations/

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Ancient Greek ornaments (N° 4).
From "The Grammar of Ornament" by Owen Jones, London: 1868 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/greek-4/

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Italian Ornaments (N° 2).
From "The Grammar of Ornament" by Owen Jones, London: 1868 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/italian-2/

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Indian ornament (N° 6).
From "The Grammar of Ornament" by Owen Jones, London: 1868 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/indian-6/

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Five hours (and who can do it less in?)
By Mr. Pink was spent in dressing.
From "The Dandy's Perambulations," London: 1819 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/pink-dressing/

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Cooling breezes shake the reed.
Myles Birket Foster, from "Odes and Sonnets, Illustrated," collective work, Boston: 1866 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/evening-ode/

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Don Quixote knighted.
Adolphe Lalauze, from "The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha," vol. 1 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Edinburgh: 1908 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/quixote-knighted/

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Arthur to the Fight
Walter Crane, from "Spenser's Faerie Queene," vol. 1 by Edmund Spenser, London: 1894 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/redeem-deare/

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The guilefull great enchaunter.
Walter Crane, from "Spenser's Faerie Queene," vol. 1 by Edmund Spenser, London: 1894 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/guileful-great-enchaunter/

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The squirrels got up very early and went fishing.
From "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin," written & illustrated by Beatrix Potter, New York: [ca. 1903?]
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The cracs of the Matterhorn, during the storm, midnight, August 10, 1863.
From "Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69" by Edward Whymper, London: 1871 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cracs-matterhorn/

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Girl with orange.
Louise Catherine Breslau, from "L'Estampe Moderne," vol. 2 (May 1898-April 1899), Paris: [ca. 1899] https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/girl-orange/

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Pompadour cotinga on the branch of a pond apple.
From "Oiseaux brillans du Brésil" written & illustrated by Jean-Théodore Descourtilz, Paris: 1834 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/pompadour-cotinga/

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Opium poppy.
J.-J. Grandville, from "Les fleurs animées," vol. 1 by T. Delord, A. Karr, L.-F. Raban, Paris: 1867 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/opium-poppy/

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Tulip.
J.-J. Grandville, from "Les fleurs animées," vol. 1 by T. Delord, A. Karr, L.-F. Raban, Paris: 1867 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tulip/

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Paradise fish.
From "Brehms Tierleben," vol. 8 by Alfred Edmund Brehm, Leipzig, Vienna: 1900 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/paradise-fish/

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Pressure of the air.
E. Pérot, from "Les récréations scientifiques" by Gaston Tissandier, Paris: [1884] https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/air-pressure/https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/air-pressure/

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The praxinoscope theatre.
C. Gilbert, from "Les récréations scientifiques" by Gaston Tissandier, Paris: [1884] https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/praxinoscope-theater/

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Magnolia campbellii.
John Fergusson Cathcart, from "Illustrations of Himalayan Plants" by Joseph Dalton Hooker, London: 1855 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/magnolia-campbellii/

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They were made to gallop, to canter, to trot.
Cecil Aldin, from "Cecil Aldin's Merry Party" by May (Mary Clarissa) Byron, London: 1913 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/gallop-canter-trot/

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The Island of Austvågøy.
From "Norway and its Glaciers, Visited in 1851" written & illustrated by James David Forbes, Edinburgh: 1853 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/raftsundet-lofoten/

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Busy in the bow.
Léon Benett, from "The Clipper of the Clouds" by Jules Verne, London: 1887 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/busy-bow/

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The Clipper of the Clouds.
Léon Benett, from "The Clipper of the Clouds" by Jules Verne, London: 1887
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