Paul D Stewart / Illustration 'Skinning of the Aboma Snake', J. G. Stedman, Narrative (1796), the plate designed by Stedman and originally engraved by Blake shows slaves in Surinam skinning an anaconda while Stedman l...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'Beagle laid ashore, River Santa Cruz'. Copperplate engraving, art by Conrad Martens, engraved by T. Landseer. Published by H. Colburn 1838. Plate from 'The Narrative of the Surveying...

Paul D Stewart / Various mid to late 19th Century editions of Darwin's 'Journal of Researches' from his Beagle voyage. After the Origin of Species this book is Darwin's most numerously republished and widely read book...

Paul D Stewart / M. Boitard's drawing of a simian fossil man was published after his death in the 1861 book 'Paris Avant Les Hommes' (engraving by Moreau). The book places his time-travelling author in other epochs to...