I love old landscape sketches, and the warping of these through the digitization process makes them all the more interesting.

theartofgooglebooks:

Invented topographies (plates left folded through digitization).

Throughout A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean: Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty … in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780, v. 2, by James Cook, Charles Clerke, John Gore, and James King (1784). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized January 7, 2009.