EditorialPhotograph - Warloy-Baillon Cemetery, France, Sergeant John Lord, World War I, 1916-1917, Black and white photographic print which depicts the cemetery at Warloy-Baillon Cemetery. The fighting from July to November 1916 on the northern front of the Som...
EditorialJean-Marc Nattier, the Broglie, Marquise de Broglie (1718-1777) as Sultana, Markisinnan de Broglie (1718-1777) som sultaninna, painting, oil on canvas, Height, 81 cm (31.8 inch, Width, 63 cm (24.8 inches).
EditorialCup with roses in a basket, Porcelain cup painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, brown and gold. Cylindrical, slightly tapering wall, angular ear and wide neck with lid. The lower part of the head is painted as a basket with roses, som...
EditorialPhotograph - Bridge Over River, Belgium, Private John Lord, World War I, 1916, One of 75 black and white photographs in black covered album, taken in France and Belgium during World War I by Sergeant John Lord. These photographs provide a record of som...
EditorialSt. Annaschloss near Rorschach, Anish of the St. Annaschloss near Rorschach from the 19th century, signed: E. Heyn; A. Closs X.J, E. Klarholz sc, Ab., 36, p. 42, Heyn, Ernst; Closs, Adolf; Klarholz. E. (sc.), Woldemar Kaden: Das Schweizerland: eine Som...
EditorialLake Neuch?tel near Yverdon, Illustration of a game on the shores of Lake Neuch?tel near Yverdon from the 19th century, signed: Ar., Calame, Alex., Calame, Fig. 246, p. 284, Calame, Arthur; Calame, Alexander, Woldemar Kaden: Das Schweizerland: eine Som...
EditorialPhotograph - Warloy-Baillon Cemetery, France, Sergeant John Lord, World War I, 1916-1917, Black and white photographic print which depicts the cemetery at Warloy-Baillon Cemetery. The fighting from July to November 1916 on the Northern front of the Som...
EditorialNymphalis, Print, Nymphalis, commonly known as the tortoiseshells or anglewing butterflies, is a genus of brush-footed butterflies. The genera Aglais, Inachis, Polygonia and Kaniska, were sometimes included as subgenera of Nymphalis but they are by som...
EditorialSigaretus convexus, Print, Sinum, Sinum is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails. Most naticids have shells that are globular, but the shell of species in the genus Sinum is flattened to som...
EditorialColias, Print, Colias is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae. They are often called clouded yellows; the North American name "sulphurs" is elsewhere used for Coliadinae in general. The closest living relative is the genus Zerene, which is som...
EditorialDasyprocta acouchy, Print, Agouti, The term agouti (Spanish: agut?) or common agouti designates several rodent species of the genus Dasyprocta. They are native to Middle America, northern and central South America, and the southern Lesser Antilles. Som...
EditorialA sermon on the Gunpowder Plot. The Reality of the Powder Plot vindicated from som. The University Press, for the Author: Oxford, 1806. A sermon preached before the University of Oxford on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1805, regarding the Gunpowder Plot. Image tak...
EditorialTHE CONDEMNED CRUISER: H.M.S. "BACCHANTE" IN A GALE, 1897: H.M.S. Bacchante, which is to be broken up, is the cruiser in which the Prince of Wales's sons made their trip round the world in 1880. She has been lying dismantled in Plymouth Harbour for som...
EditorialA sermon on the Gunpowder Plot. The Reality of the Powder Plot vindicated from som. The University Press, for the Author: Oxford, 1806. A sermon preached before the University of Oxford on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1805, regarding the Gunpowder Plot. Image tak...
EditorialTwo trees, a shrub and accompanying text. Aja'ib-almakhlukat wa ghara'ib almaujudat. This is an undated translation from Arabic into Persian of the first part of 'Aja'ib-almakhlukat wa ghara'ib almaujudat' by the thirteenth century sage al-Kazwini (som...
EditorialMen playing 'Pitch-in-the-Hole'. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 105. Border decoration with a large grotesque. Lower margin; two men playing a game called 'Pitch-in-the-Hole'. One man is about to throw som...
EditorialThe blue-winged goose. A natural history of uncommon birds, and of some other rare and undescribed animals To which is added a general idea of drawing and painting in water colours; with instructions for etching on copper with Aqua Fortis: likewise som...
EditorialPlaque with an Eros, 4th?5th century, Made in Byzantine Egypt, Coptic, Bone, traces of red and blue paint, Overall: 3 9/16 x 2 3/8 x 3/16 in. (9.1 x 6 x 0.4 cm), Ivories-Bone, Bone plaques were used to decorate couches, chests, and other furniture. Som...
EditorialFolio from the Kathasaritsagara, ca. 1590, Attributed to India, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, 12 3/4 x 8 1/8 in. (32.4 x 20.6 cm), Codices, This folio is from a vast compilation of tales in Sanskrit written by the eleventh-century poet Som...
EditorialGold Belt Mount with Loop, 700s, Avar, Gold, cast., 2 1/8 ? 1 9/16 ? 1/4 in., 1 Troy Ounces (5.4 ? 3.9 ? 0.6 cm, 55g), Metalwork-Gold, The treasure contains an array of belt fittings, some elaborately decorated, some unfinished or defectively cast. Som...
EditorialDish (one of a pair), Anthony Ficketts (British, active 1635?85), 1664/65, British, London, Silver gilt, Overall (confirmed): 2 7/8 x 18 in., 78 oz. 9 dwt. (7.3 x 45.7 cm, 2.4395kg), Metalwork-Silver, Anthony Ficketts (British, active 1635?85), The som...
EditorialTHE CONDEMNED CRUISER: H.M.S. "BACCHANTE" IN A GALE, 1897: H.M.S. Bacchante, which is to be broken up, is the cruiser in which the Prince of Wales's sons made their trip round the world in 1880. She has been lying dismantled in Plymouth Harbour for som...