EditorialSword of Honor, slightly curved saber blade with back but without heel. The sword has an open hilt basket with large anchor, grip cap with inscription and knob in the shape of a lion's head. The handle is lined with shark skin and wrapped in horizontal...
EditorialLog Timer, Vaartmeter in the form of a hourglass to be stopped. The upper part contains the hourglass bottle in a round brass sleeve. With a lever, this bottle can be opened, so that the sand can run to the lower part, where a long sight glass with a s...
EditorialPortrait of Multatuli, Under the portrait signature of the person portrayed: Eduard Douwes Dekker, portrait of a writer, Multatuli, August Alleb? (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1874, paper, h 344 mm ? w 241 mm.
EditorialScale for Navigation, Wooden bowl and two documents. The scale is a flat wooden slat with a number of scale divisions on one side and a number of tables and two noniuses on the other. This scale was intended to replace the regular regional tables for s...
EditorialSun Compass, Compass in cardan ring in a wooden box with handles. The square wooden compass boiler is weighted with a lead weight at the bottom. A tilting sundial has been erected on one side: it consists of a circle divided into two times twelve hours...
EditorialWoodcut showing a witch, named Mother Sawyer. The Witch of Edmonton, a known true story. Composed into a tragi-comedy [in five acts and in prose and verse] by divers well esteemed poets, W. Rowley, T. Dekker, J. Ford, &c. Never printed till now. London...
EditorialA woodcut showing disasters affecting London. A Rod for Run-awayes. Gods tokens, of his feareful iudgements, sundry wayes pronounced vpon this city, and on seuerall persons, both flying from it, and staying in it. Expressed in many dreadfull examples o...
EditorialDEKKER, Eduard Douwes (Amsterdam, 1820-Nieder Ingelheim, Alemania, 1887). Escritor y mas?n holand?s conocido por el seud?nimo de MULTATULI. Trabaj? como funcionario en las Indias Orientales holandesas (Indonesia) dimitiendo en 1857 a causa de los abuso...