creatures n critters

An alchemical diagram from <n>Elias Ashmole</n>'s 1652 book, <n>Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum</n>.

A 15th-century illustration from the Northern Italian herbal manuscript <n>Erbario: Penn MS LJS 419</n>.

<n>Coitus</n>, an alchemical diagram from the 18th-century German manuscript <n>Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln</n>.

A 1520 botanical illustration of a <n>Palma Christi</n> from an Italian herbal manuscript.

An illustration from the <n>Voynich Manuscript</n>, a mysterious codex from the 15th century.

<n>Cherub of Jekeskiel</n> by <n>Eliphas Levi</n> from the 1896 edition of The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regum.

A woodcut of a male mandrake from '<n>Hortus Sanitatis</n>' (1491), published by <n>Jacob Meydenbach</n>.

<n>Illustration from a herbal and bestiary</n>, a 17th c. watercolour from <n>Isfahan</n>, Iran.