EditorialPlate associated with the bust of Dr. A. Pit (1860-1944), director of the Ned. Museum of History and Art, Plate belonging to the bust of Dr. A. Pit (1860-1944), director of the Ned. Museum of History and Art. The text on the plate reads: Understanding ...
EditorialSongbook, entitled, 'A syverlyck Boecxken understanding all that Gheestelyke Liedekens ghemaeckt once with the salute Tonis Harmansz van Warvershoef ...', Liederenboek, 'A syverlyck Boecxken understanding all that Gheestelyke Liedekens ghemaeckt honors...
EditorialReformation in England Title page for: G. Burnet, Brief Understanding of the History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 1689, Three scenes of the English Reformation superimposed. Above: The king in conversation with an Anglican clergyman. Mi...
EditorialTerracotta pelike (jar), Classical, ca. 430 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm), Vases, Komos (revel). Obverse, flute-player and youth with skyphos Reverse, two youths The young men are the same Athenian citizens who par...
EditorialImage understanding soul, Pictorial representation of the anima cognescens (sensitiva and rationalis) with the 5 senses (above: sensus communis, phantasia, memoria, dianoia, doxa, empsteme, nus), p. 192, 1586, Konrad Gessner, Caspar Wolf: Conradi Gesne...
EditorialNegative - Coleambally Area, New South Wales, 1928, A sawmill on 'Willowvale' station. The sawmill had been lent by Walter Guymer for a share of the timber. The steam engine was lent by'Yamma' station on the understanding that some of their timber woul...
EditorialA voyage to the South Sea. A chart for the better understanding of the voyage to the South Sea... A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in 1712, 1713 and 1714. [Translated from the French.] With 37 copper-cutts. A postscript ...
EditorialA voyage to the South Sea. A chart for the better understanding of the voyage to the South Sea... A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in 1712, 1713 and 1714. [Translated from the French.] With 37 copper-cutts. A postscript ...
EditorialPortrait of Charles I, King of England. Bibliotheca regia, or, The royal library, containing a collection of such of the papers of His late Maiesty King Charls, the second monarch of Great Britain, as have escaped the wrack and ruines of these times. N...
EditorialUnderstanding the Lord’s Supper. A short and plain instruction for the better understanding of the Lord’s Supper ... To which is annex’d, the office of the Holy. 1736. Binding. Source: 223.b.12 Front binding.
Editorial'An Allegory of a Prosperous Germany', 1586. Seated in the centre is Pallas Athene, the Greek goddess of wisdom. She is attended by Bacchus, god of wine, and Ceres, goddess of wheat. They represent the abundance of drink and food. In the foreground are...