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These small images are elements composing an engraving from the atlas volume to accompany the polymathic Alexander von Humboldt’s (1769-1759) Kosmos, published in 1856 (the atlas volume online here, at the Biodiversity Library). Each of the small images is about 1.5″ square, with great detail–tiny and remarkable, and very well designed.
