Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'The Entomologist'. Rare copper print with original hand colouring, drawn by George Spratt, printed by George Madely, and sold individually as part of a series through Charles Tilt's F...

Christophe Courteau / Close up of man's hand harvesting Pyrethrum, which refers to several Old World plants of the Chrysanthemum genus which are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flower heads. Pyrethrum is also the...

Juan Manuel Borrero / Upturned canoes (caballitos) owned by the Fishermen of Totora, on Pimentel beach at sunset. Chiclayo. Peru November 2009

Gavin Hellier / Wat Pho, Reclining Buddha, 46 metres long made of brick plaster and Gold leaf, hand detail. The soles of the feet are inlaid with 108 lakshana, or auspicious images that identify the true Buddha craf...

Christophe Courteau / Close up of man's hand harvesting Pyrethrum, which refers to several Old World plants of the Chrysanthemum genus which are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flower heads. Pyrethrum is also the...

Nick Turner / Workman next to infomation sign at wood recycling centre, where wood is made into soil conditioner, Gloucestershire, UK, February 2008.

Klaus Echle / Sooty hand holding charcoal made in a burner. Black Forest, Germany, July.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian woman making a shigra. Shigras are hand-knotted bags made from a fibre extracted from a palm leaf. The fibre is dryed and sun bleached before being rolled into sting for either bags or...

Jeff Rotman / Tourist trinkets made from teeth of Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) held in the palm of a traders hand, South Australia.

Jeff Rotman / Bluewater hunter surfaces with giant Yellowfin Tuna (Thunnus albacares) killed with a hand-made, 2m speargun, Mexico, Pacific Ocean.

Patricio Robles Gil / Young boy painting hand-made butterflies, Yucatan, Mexico

Niall Benvie / Detail of annular tree rings in a hand-made wooden box, Scotland.

Pete Oxford / Vaquero Simon Cedeño, San Ramón, nr Balsar coastal plain, Ecuador. Saddles in this region are hand made from a single piece of wood. 2005

Daniel Gomez / Blankets hand-made by Tarahumara natives, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Jose B. Ruiz / Hand-made baskets for sale, Cesteria, Gata, Valencia, Spain, Europe.

Paul D Stewart / 'Organic Remains restored' front page illustration of the Penny Magazine, October 26th 1833, with wood engraving illustration and later hand colouring. This is the first illustrated popular article on...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of tribal chief with Macaw (Ara sp.) feather ornaments. Early Lithographic print by Brodtmann, from Dr. Shinz, 'Naturgeschichte und Abbilldungen der Saugethiere' 1827/1840, with hand colo...

Paul D Stewart / Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1 August 1744 - 18 December 1829) portrait when old and blind. A later hand coloured frontis engraving by Lizars from his Cabinet Cyclopaedia series. Lamarck was a french pre-Da...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of George Cuvier, naturalist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist (23 August 1769 - 13 May 1832). Portrait engraving by James Thompson, issued by Mackenzie Glasgow around 1833 with late...

Paul D Stewart / 1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) the fourth day of creation folio copper engraving (with later hand colouring) drawn by a team of engravers under the direction of J...

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of mythical hydra with hand colouring by J. Chapman 1806 after engraving by Seba in his 'Treasury of Natural History' (1734). In 1735 a young Linnaeus visited Hamburg. While ther...

Onne van der Wal / Tender moored with hand-made rope bow fender at the Newport Wooden Boat Show, Rhode Island.

Angelo Giampiccolo / Bernini's Fontana dei 4 fiumi (fountain of the four rivers) in Rome's Piazza Navona. The statute seen here represents the Rio della Plata River and the riches of the Americas. ^^^The fountain represen...

Angelo Giampiccolo / Bernini's Fontana dei 4 fiumi (fountain of the four rivers) in Rome's Piazza Navona. The statue seen here represents the Rio della Plata River and the riches of the Americas. In the background is the...

Angelo Giampiccolo / Bernini's Fontana dei 4 fiumi (fountain of the four rivers) in Rome's Piazza Navona. The statute seen here represents the Rio della Plata River and the riches of the Americas. ^^^The fountain represen...

Angelo Giampiccolo / The Fontana dei 4 fiumi (fountain of the four Bernini's Fontana dei 4 fiumi (fountain of the four rivers) in Rome's Piazza Navona. The statue seen here represents the Rio della Plata River and the ric...

Roberto Rinaldi / Burano lace, handmade in Burano, Venice province, Italy.

Roberto Rinaldi / Woman weaving traditional hand-made lace, Gozo, Malta.

Nick Upton / Tao tribe crew push ten-man hand-made traditional plankboat or “Cinedkeran” ashore, Orchid Island, Taiwan. Small “tatala” plank boat in background. 2007

Nick Upton / Traditional hand-made Plank boats of various sizes, built by Tao (Yami) people, Langdao village, Orchid Island, Taiwan 2007

Nick Upton / Traditional hand-made 14-oar plank boat, the “Ipanga na” (keep rowing), built by Tao people, Orchid Island, Taiwan, 2007. (NB this is a larger boat than usual, which was rowed to Taiwan in 2007 to ra...

Nick Upton / Traditional ten-man hand-made plankboat or “Cinedkeran” with crew of Tao people, Orchid Island, Taiwan 2007

Nick Upton / Tao tribe skin-diver hands catch of reef fish netted using Mitawah technique to oarsman of ten-man hand-made traditional plankboat or “Cinedkeran”, Orchid Island, Taiwan. 2007

Nick Upton / Traditional ten-man hand-made plankboat or “Cinedkeran” with crew of Tao people, Orchid Island, Taiwan. 2007

Mark Moffett / Researcher Mohammed Javidkar with hand made rodent trap, Zabul, Iran