Paul D Stewart / Illustrationg of great white shark jaw with fossil shark teeth, copperplate after Nicolas Steno 1667. Steno produced a book 'Head of a shark dissected' from his dissection of a great white shark caugh...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of War Elephant (Elephas maximus), 1552, The Cosmographia, Book V, by Sebastian Munster (the early latin edition from the Basel printing house of Sebastian Heinrich Petri). Woodcut plate...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration 'Of the Tiger' (Panthera tigris) a 1607 engraving with later tinting from Edward Topsell's 'History of four Footed Beasts'. Topsell produced one of the first printed English Bestiaries, c...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Indian Elephant (Elephas maximus) 'Of the Elephant' a 1607 engraving with later tinting from Edward Topsell's 'History of four Footed Beasts'. Topsell produced one of the first English...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Gaius Plinius Secundus, army commander, naturalist and author (23AD to 25 August 79AD). Copperplate engraving from Andre Thevet's 'Portraits et vies des hommes illustres' publ Guillaume Ch...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut of Common electric ray (Torpedo torpedo) with old colouring. From Conrad Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. The torpedo or electric ray had been well know by...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Sea Serpents from Gessner's 'Historia Animalium', volume 4, 1558. Later hand colouring. Gessner's accounts included creatures which exist, and creatures which we now know do not. There...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Sea Serpents from Gesner's 'Historia Animalium', volume 4, 1558. Later hand colouring. Italic marginalia by contemporary scholar. Gessner's accounts included creatures which exist, and...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut with old colouring of shark and shark tooth fossil from Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560 (also 1558 in Historiae Animalium, Liber IIII). This is the first West...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration from Sebastian Munster's 1552 'Cosmographia' published by S.H. Petri in Basel, depicting ficticious people thought to live in India beyond the Ganges. He follows Pliny in describi...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Indian/Asian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), Gesner Woodcut from 'Icones Animalium' 1560, reproduced from 1551. Published Christoph Froschover, Zurich. Gesner reproduces this image...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Conrad Gesner (or Gessner) Swiss Natural Historian (1516- 1565). His major four volume work Historiae Animalium (1551-1558) is considered the beginning of modern zoology. In it he summaris...