oldbookillustrations:

Grey Peacock-Pheasant (Polyplectron bicalcaratum)

From Bilder-atlas zur Wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Vögel ( Atlas, or Volume of plates to Scientific and popular natural history of birds), by Leopold Joseph Fitzinger, Vienna, 1864.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae)

From Bilder-atlas zur Wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Vögel ( Atlas, or Volume of plates to Scientific and popular natural history of birds), by Leopold Joseph Fitzinger, Vienna, 1864.

(Source: archive.org)

punkrockpinup:

i need him.

oldbookillustrations:

Once a water nymph with long flowing hair was sitting on the ground.

Erich Schütz, from Historie von der schönen Lau (The story of Lau, the beautiful water nymph), by Eduard Friedrich Mörike, Vienna, 1921.

(Source: archive.org)

theclearlydope:

This is where you want to go if you want to go DEEPER into the Internet.

bunnyfood:

(via nickholmes)

re-ink:

I’m Not Mad

moleskinelovers:

http://discoveringsunshine.tumblr.com

theaestate:

via

fuckyeahbookarts:

A Forest for Two: Miniature Artist’s Book by Elsa Mora