Florilegius

Florilegius is a digital image library specializing in antique prints. The website offers a huge range of exquisite engravings taken from rare books from the 17th to 19th centuries. If you are looking for antique images of flowers, birds, animals or other natural history subjects, Florilegius has examples from the golden age of European illustrated books. These images illustrate an extraordinary era of discovery and exploration, when scientists and artists were determined to name, depict and describe every rare and exotic species in the known world.

Selections of our images can also be found on Alamy and Amana Images in Japan. They will also be available soon from the British Library, the Natural History Museum, FotoFinder, and others.

All images and descriptive text on the Florilegius website are copyrighted.

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