1879 Wood Engraving Mountains Tahiti Landscape Peak French Polynesia Art XGS9 XGD1 Galerie der Bibliothek Vatikan

Galerie der Bibliothek Vatikan

This is an original 1939 black and white print ad for The New Ford V8 Ford Trucks

and a fold-out map of Central Park

Weissman & Co

1879 Wood Engraving Mountains Tahiti Landscape Peak French Polynesia Art XGS9 XGD1 Galerie der Bibliothek VatikanThis is an original 1879 black and white wood engraving of the mountains of Tahiti. This image was procured from a rare portfolio of wood engravings and lithographs which delves into the culture and landscape of Australasia in the late 19th century. It accompanied the work of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 1913), the British anthropologist, biologist, and naturalist. Wallace is remembered for first proposing the theory correlating evolution and natural