London Londen Londinium - a panoramic bird's eye view cityscape print by Engelbrecht, 1720 art poster canvas map gift London antique plan A Curious Herbal was a

A Curious Herbal was a success because of the meticulous quality of the illustrations

He was the first to receive the Victoria gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society (1902) for "his efforts during 40 years to introduce scientific methods into the cartography of the United Kingdom"

Common Red Poppy flowering plant - Papaver erraticum rhoeas - an antique engraved and hand-coloured print by Elizabeth Blackwell from her famous work "A Curious Herbal"

The upper left part of the chart is dominated by the world's greatest rivers

Its head resembled a horses' head and it had a mane

London Londen Londinium - a panoramic bird's eye view cityscape print by Engelbrecht, 1720 art poster canvas map gift London antique plan A Curious Herbal was aLondinum Londen London an extremely rare early copperplate engraved panorama of London as seen from the South Bank. View to the City of London showing Wren's St Paul Cathedral, Monument and Old London Bridge, with Latin key to the buildings below. Drawn by Friedrich B. Werner, engraved by Johann G. Ringle and published by M. Engelbrecht in Augsburg, Germany in 1720. Martin Engelbrecht (1684 1756, Augsburg) was a German Baroque engraver and publisher.