Pretty, but deadly: an illustration of poppies, from which opium comes, from an 18th-century Chinese woodblock printed book Photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard ...

Detail of 17th century Chinese woodblock illustration showing the 'Nine Needles' (jiu zhen) (see also L0034712 and L0034714). The Nine Needles was the collective term for the needling instruments used ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese ... woodblock-printed illustration from Sancai Tuhui (in English, Compendium of the Three Powers), a 49-volume ...