digital scan of a black and white book plate, illustration of three horseshoe crabs at the sea bottom, one in front center flipped over to show underside, two others in side and front profiles behind it

For International #HorseshoeCrabDay:
"Schwertschwänze oder Molukkenkrebse" ["Swordtails or Mollucan Crabs," aka Horseshoe Crabs]
From Brehms Tierleben, Leipzig & Wien, 1893.
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color bookplate, vertical orientation, illustration of two servals in native landscape, one of left sitting in side profile and one on right sitting in front profile Felis Serval, Plate 26 in Daniel Giraud Elliot's A Monograph of the Felidae, London, 1883 (print artist: Joseph Wolf)

color bookplate, horizontal orientation, illustration of two servals in native landscape, one on left standing in side profile and one on right sitting in side/front profile The Serval, Plate VIII in Joseph Wolf's Zoological Sketches, Vol. 1, London, 1861 (print artists: Joseph Wolf & Joseph Smit)

For #WorldServalDay:
1. Felis Serval, Plate 26 in Daniel Giraud Elliot's A Monograph of the Felidae, London, 1883 (print artist: Joseph Wolf)
2. The Serval, Plate VIII in Joseph Wolf's Zoological Sketches, Vol. 1, London, 1861 (print artists: Joseph Wolf & Joseph Smit)
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