Paul D Stewart / Engraving of an ape-like cave man accompanying an article by Boitard in the French 'Magasin Universel' (April 1838). This is the earliest reconstruction of a pre-historic human. It is striking that it...

Paul D Stewart / A rare British broadsheet illustration with contemporary hand colouring, drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published by James Reynolds in 1849. It shows reconstructions of extinct creatures in the...

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 / First edition of Erasmus Darwin's 'Zoonomia', Part 1 'The Laws of Organic Life' with section revealing his remarkably prescient 'world without end' text on evolution. Erasmus Darwin was Charles Darwin...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) from a picture by Wright of Derby, reproduced with later hand colouring by his grandson, Charles Darwin in 'Life of Erasmus Darwin' 1879 (Ernst Krause co-author)...

Paul D Stewart / A rare British informational broadsheet illustration with contemporary hand colouring, drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published by James Reynolds in 1849. It shows reconstructions of extinct cr...

Paul D Stewart / A rare British broadsheet illustration entitled 'The antediluvian world', with contemporary hand colouring, drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published by James Reynolds in 1849. It shows reconstr...