A page from The Heliand, an epic poem in Old Saxon, written in the first half of the 9th century, Germany
Marie-Jeanne Manon Roland de la Platiere, 1754-1793, born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, known under the name Madame Roland, was a French revolutionary, salonniere and writer, France
Gaspard de Coligny, Seigneur de Chatillo, French nobleman and admiral, best remembered as a disciplined Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion, France, 1890
Francois Rabelais, French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar, France, 1890
Wilhelm Freiherr von Engerth, 1814-1884, Austrian architect and engineer, known for being the designer of the first practical mountain locomotive, Austria
Marguerite de Navarre, Marguerite d'Angouleme, princess of France, Queen of Navarre, and Duchess of Alencon and Berry, France, 1890
Dog-Faced Man, Fedor Adrianovich Jeftichew, Fyodor Yevtishchev, born 1868, died 1904, better known as Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, Dog-Faced Man, Russia
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance, Italy, 1890
Page of Codex argenteus at Upsala, fragment of bishop Ulfilas gothic bible translation in the fourth century, Sweden
Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist and writer of the Renaissance period, Italy, 1890
John Calvin, Jean Calvin; born Jehan Cauvin, French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation, France, 1890
Spluegen, Spluga, is a municipality in the Viamala Region in the Swiss canton of Graubuenden, 1855, Switzerland
Emilie Friederike Henriette Freifrau von Gleichen-Russwurm, 1804-1872, youngest daughter of Friedrich and Charlotte von Schiller, 1885, historical woodcut, Germany
Karoline von Hessen-Darmstadt, Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, 1746-1821, Landgravine consort of Hesse-Homburg by marriage to Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, 1885, historical woodcut, Germany
David Friedrich Strauss, 1808-1874, a German liberal Protestant theologian and writer, 1885, historical woodcut, Germany
Maria Karolina Zofia Felicja Leszczynska, 1703-1768, noble family of Leszczynska, Queen of France by marriage to Louis XV, 1875, historical woodcut, France
Henri I. de Lorraine, duc de Guise, Heinrich von Guise, 1550-1588, and Francois de Montmorency, Second Duke of Montmorency, 1530-1579, 1875, historical woodcut, France
Butterfly blenny and Greater weever, (Blennius ocellaris, Trachinus draco), 1881, historical woodcut illustration, Germany
Banded archerfish and Scrawled Butterflyfish, (Toxotes jaculator, Chaetodon meyeri), 1881, historical woodcut illustration, Germany
European sea sturgeon and Wels catfish, (Acipenser sturio), (Silurus glanis), 1881, historical woodcut illustration, Germany
Nile bichir and West African lungfish, (Polypterus bichirnischer), (Protopterus annectens), 1881, historical woodcut illustration, Germany
The boa constrictor, red-tailed boa or the common boa, 1881, historical woodcut illustration, Germany
