The Liber chronicarum, 15th C

The Liber chronicarum, (image source from provided ebay link) a universal history compiled from older and contemporary sources by the Nuremberg doctor, humanist, and bibliophile Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514), is one of the most densely illustrated and technically advanced works of early printing. It contains 1809 woodcuts produced from 645 blocks. 

The Nuremberg entrepreneur Sebald Schreyer and his brother-in-law, Sebastian Kammermeister, financed the production of the book. Michael Wolgemut and his son-in-law Wilhelm Pleydenwurff executed the illustrations in around 1490, a time when their workshop was at its artistic peak and the young Albrecht Dürer was just completing his apprenticeship there. 

The views of towns, some authentic, some invented or copied from older models, are of both artistic and topographical interest. This brilliantly colored copy, owned by Schedel, contains valuable additional matter, such as Erhard Etzlaub's map of the road to Rome. Along with the rest of Schedel's library, the book became part of the library of Johann Jacob Fugger, which in 1571 came into the possession of Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria.

This Chronicle is probably the most sophisticated printed book published before the year 1500 because of its use of different graphic layouts that integrate text and image in more varied ways than anything that had previously been attempted. 

Thevast majority of the images above were obtained from a ebay shop (digital facsimil for 14 USD, shipping worlwide)

There are also images at Biblioteca Digital de Obras Raras e Especiais atUniversidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

Wikimedia has a lot of illustrations in three categories: one, two, three; a few of which also appear above.

MorseLibrary at Beloit College in Wisconsin have an extensive website devoted to'Liber Chronicarum' 

Others...

Central European costume, 19th C

Shepherd on stilts.
From Central European costume (Miscellaneous engraved plates of Central European costume and fashion, collected and pasted into scrapbooks)

Fish sellers.

Woman from Tatenberg.

People from Störort.

Cook.

From the Nuremberg area.

Found this jewel at archive.org this weekend, original digitalization was done by Glasgow School of Art. Not too much information, the web only provides very basic info like the number of pages (70) and… the camera used for this job (canon 5D) ¿? Well… investigation this time has not provided more data (not even the Author’s name).

Only text provided by the web is “Miscellaneous full-colour engraved plates of Central European costume and fashion, collected and pasted into scrapbooks”.

Chinese Empire illustrated, 19th C

Pavilion of the Star of Hope, Tong Chow (?).

Thomas Allom, from China vol. 2, by George Newenham Wright, London, circa 1843.

George Newenham Wright (c. 1794–1877) was an Irish writer and Anglican clergyman. He was born in Dublin; his father, John Thomas Wright was a Doctor. He graduated B.A. from Trinity College in 1814 and M.A. in 1817. He held several curacies in Ireland before moving to St Mary Woolnoth, London.

By 1851, he was a teacher of classics, resident in Windsor with his wife. In 1861 he noted having a number of pupils boarding with him at Frome. By 1863 he was master of Tewkesbury Grammar School

From the 1820s to the 1840s some minor topographical works and schoolbooks on subjects ranging from the Greek language to biography and philosophy by Wright were published. 

List of works

·         Historical Guide to Ancient and Modern Dublin (Petrie, George, illustrator).

·         AGuide to the Lakes of Killarney

·         AGuide to the County of Wicklow

·         Ireland Illustrated

·         Scenes in North Wales. London: T. T. & J. Tegg; reissued: ISBN 978-0-217-54512-9

·         China (Allom, Thomas, illustrator) London: Fisher, Son & Co.

·         The Chinese Empire illustrated. London : London Printing & Publishing Co., [1858, 59.]

Boudoir and bed-chamber of a lady of rank.

An itinerant doctor at Tien-Sing (Tianjin).

Showroom of a lantern merchant at Beijing.