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Editorial Athene cunicularia, Print, The burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia) is a small, long-legged owl found throughout open landscapes of North and South America. Burrowing owls can be found in grasslands, rangelands, agricultural areas, deserts, or any other ...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Platalea melanorhyncha, Print, Spoonbill, Spoonbills are a genus, Platalea, of large, long-legged wading birds. The spoonbills have a global distribution, being found on every continent except Antarctica. The genus name Platalea derives from Latin and ...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Limosa aegocephala, Print, Godwit, The godwits are a group of large, long-billed, long-legged and strongly migratory waders of the bird genus Limosa. Their long bills allow them to probe deeply in the sand for aquatic worms and molluscs. They frequent ...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Phymata, Print, Phymata is a genus of assassin and thread-legged bugs belonging to the family Reduviidae, subfamily Phymatinae.
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Platalea tenuirostris, Print, The African spoonbill (Platalea alba) is a long-legged wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. The species is widespread across Africa and Madagascar, including Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia,...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Oxytelus, Print, Oxytelus is a genus of spiny-legged rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are more than 50 described species in Oxytelus.
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Brachymeles bonitae, Print, Brachymeles bonitae, commonly known as Hikida's short-legged skink or the stub-limbed burrowing skink, is a species of skink found in the Philippines. It was first described in 1839 by Andr? Marie Constant Dum?ril and Gabrie...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Diphylla ecaudata, Print, The hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata) is one of three extant species of vampire bats. It mainly feeds on the blood of wild birds, but can also feed both on domestic birds and humans. This vampire bat lives mainly in...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Cariama cristata, Print, The red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata), or crested cariama, is a mostly predatory terrestrial bird in the seriema family (Cariamidae), included in the Gruiformes in the old paraphyletic circumscription, but increasingly plac...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Oxytelus, Print, Oxytelus is a genus of spiny-legged rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are more than 50 described species in Oxytelus.
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Furnarius leucopus, Print, The pale-legged hornero (Furnarius leucopus) is a species of bird in the family Furnariidae. It includes the Pacific hornero (F. leucopus cinnamomeus) and the Caribbean hornero (F. leucopus longirostris), which often are cons...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Cariama cristata, Print, The red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata), or crested cariama, is a mostly predatory terrestrial bird in the seriema family (Cariamidae), included in the Gruiformes in the old paraphyletic circumscription, but increasingly plac...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Bledius, Print, Bledius is a genus of spiny-legged rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least 100 described species in Bledius.
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Antidorcas marsupialis, Print, The springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) is a medium-sized antelope found mainly in southern and southwestern Africa. The sole member of the genus Antidorcas, this bovid was first described by the German zoologist Eberhard ...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Apocellus, Print, Apocellus is a genus of spiny-legged rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are about 11 described species in Apocellus.
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Shaka Nyorai.
- 2019-10-28
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Editorial Seated female figurine.
- 2019-10-28
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Editorial Seated Ganesha.
- 2019-10-28
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Editorial Great Buddha (Daibutsu) (1252). Depicts Amida Buddha, seated cross-legged. Detail. Kotoku-in Temple. Kamakura. Japan.
- 2019-08-02
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Editorial Clotho on a column with skull and baton; skeletons, Epicure accompanied by a piglet and Zenon with bag and staff. Three-legged goblet, silver, traces of gold in the rose-garland. 1st CE, latest date 79 CE, eruption of Vesuvius. Silver, H: 10,4 cm BJ 19...
- 2019-07-16
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Editorial Birth of Athena. The goddess springs fully armed from the head of Zeus. Her birth is attended by the Eilithies spirits helpful in labour, by Hephaistos and Poseidon. Three-legged exaleiptron (pyxis) for cosmetics. From Thebes, 570-560 BCE. H: 14 cm, CA...
- 2019-07-16
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Editorial Cook on a stool, turning a ladle in a three-legged pot with two handles. A dog lies next to her. The cook wears a long chiton and a hairband. Terracotta (last quarter 6th BCE) from Boeotia, Greece. Height 9 cm. CA 634.
- 2019-07-16
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Editorial Terracotta figure seated on a throne, Mycenaean, from Greece, c1300 BC. This charming little terracotta shows a small female figure seated on a three-legged high-backed chair or throne. She wears a flat polos (headdress) and sits with her arms upraised...
- 2019-07-16
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Editorial Woman stirring with a long ladle in a three-legged pot with two handles. Terracotta figurine (last quarter 6th BCE) from Tanagra, Boeotia, Greece. Height 9 cm. CA 634.
- 2019-07-16
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Editorial Psalm 59; saint preaching. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] End of Psalm 58. Psalm 59 beginning with decorated initial 'D'. Border decoration. In the lower margin, a saint stands preaching to a group of seven men;...
- 2019-07-09
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Editorial On Mount Prasrava?a, the two princes wait until the advent of autumn and of the season for going to war, in the meantime revelling in the beauty of the flora and fauna on the mountain and the wonders of the rainy season. But once enthroned, Sugrīva ...
- 2019-07-09
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Editorial New morality; or The promis'd installment of the high-priest of the Theophilanthropes, with the homage of Leviathan and his suite, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraving 1798, french politician and Theophilanthropist Louis Marie standing on a three-legge...
- 2019-07-09
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Editorial New morality; or The promis'd installment of the high-priest of the Theophilanthropes, with the homage of Leviathan and his suite, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraving 1798, french politician and Theophilanthropist Louis Marie standing on a three-legge...
- 2019-07-09
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Editorial Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution. Column erected in memory of a one-legged combatant who was killed during the fighting in Budapest. For the one-legged revolutionary, see 56-09-11 / 34 and 56-01-11 / 5.
- 2019-05-16
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Editorial Wide-legged man with bare upper body. Draughtsman: Richard Roland Holst. Dating: 1878 - 1938. Measurements: h 508 mm ? w 328 mm.
- 2019-04-16
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Editorial Li, Hollow-Legged Tripod, late 2nd or early 1st millennium BC. China, Inner Mongolia, lower stratum of the Xiajiadian culture, late 2nd or early 1st millennium BC. Dark grey earthenware; overall: 22.9 x 17 cm (9 x 6 11/16 in.).
- 2019-04-01
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Editorial Fragment of a Band with Vines Surrounding a Monkey, Lion, and an Unidentified Four-Legged Animal, 16th century. Italy, 16th century. Needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in two directions); bleached linen (est.); overall: 20.1 x 80.5 cm ...
- 2019-04-01
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Editorial Three Bears, plate ten from Four-Legged Animals. Nicolaes de Bruyn (Flemish, 1571-1656); published by Assuerus van Londerseel (Flemish, 1572-1635). Date: 1594. Dimensions: 124 x 84 mm (sheet, trimmed within plate mark). Engraving in black on cream laid...
- 2019-04-01
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Editorial Hollow-Legged Tripod (Li Ding), late 900 BC. China, Shaanxi province, Xi'an,, Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1046-771 BC). Bronze; diameter: 27.7 cm (10 7/8 in.); overall: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.).
- 2019-04-01
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Editorial The Funny Stories of the 3-Legged Boy.
- 2019-03-20
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Editorial Three Bears, plate ten from Four-Legged Animals. Nicolaes de Bruyn (Flemish, 1571-1656); published by Assuerus van Londerseel (Flemish, 1572-1635). Date: 1594. Dimensions: 124 x 84 mm (sheet, trimmed within plate mark). Engraving in black on cream laid...
- 2019-03-11
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Editorial Satyr Family (Pan and his Family), from the Scherzi.
- 2019-02-22
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Editorial Costume design for Polovtsian girl in "Prince Igor".
- 2019-02-22
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Editorial house model.
- 2019-02-22
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Editorial The Ratcatcher.
- 2019-02-22
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Editorial Red-legged honeycreeper, Cyanerpes cyaneus, and bananaquit, Coereba flaveola. Handcoloured lithograph from Th. Lejeune's Complete Works of Buffon, Oeuvres Completes de Buffon, Brussels, 1837.
- 2019-02-22
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Editorial Spot legged turtle, Rhinoclemmys punctularia 1, Indian flapshell turtle, Lyssemys punctata 2, and North African helmeted turtle, Pelomedusa subrufa olivacea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by David after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from ...
- 2019-02-22
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Editorial Dandies in Rotten Row.
- 2019-02-15
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Editorial [Boy Seated Cross-legged, Partially Covered by Blanket, Leaning Against Cushion].
- 2019-02-15
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Editorial Library Table.
- 2019-02-15
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Editorial Terracotta female figure in three-legged chair.
- 2019-02-15
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Editorial Four-Legged jar.
- 2019-02-15
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Editorial SOFA.
- 2019-02-15
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Editorial Ritual wash basin.
- 2019-02-15
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Editorial Shaka Nyorai.
- 2019-02-11
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Editorial Plate with youths and winged horses.
- 2019-02-11
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Editorial Stela of Intef and his wife, Dedetamun.
- 2019-02-11
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Editorial Statuette of Beset (Besis).
- 2019-02-11
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Editorial Stela of Merneptah.
- 2019-02-11
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Editorial Legged Box with Design of Bush Clover along a Stream.
- 2019-02-11
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Editorial Terracotta vase in the form of a three-legged horse.
- 2019-02-11
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Editorial Seated female figurine.
- 2019-02-11
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Editorial Turned Armchair.
- 2019-02-11
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Editorial Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts (High Tide).
- 2019-02-01
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Editorial Rider with hat seated on a three-legged stool, lighting his pipe with a brazier. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: c. 1600 - c. 1699. Place: Netherlands. Measurements: h 214 mm ? w 170 mm.
- 2019-02-01
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Editorial Study of a man, sitting wide-legged, full-length. Draughtsman: Rik Wouters. Dating: 1892 - 1916. Measurements: h 382 mm ? w 479 mm.
- 2019-02-01
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Editorial Woman in cross-legged pose. Draughtsman: Jan Brandes. Dating: 1770 - 31-Aug-1808. Measurements: h 195 mm ? w 155 mm.
- 2019-01-25
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Editorial Wide-legged man with bare upper body. Draughtsman: Richard Roland Holst. Dating: 1878 - 1938. Measurements: h 508 mm ? w 328 mm.
- 2019-01-25
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Editorial Courtesan seated cross-legged beside a 'nargila' pipe. Inscribed: '42. A public woman'. c.1865. Watercolour and silver paint. Source: Add.Or.906.
- 2019-01-24
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Editorial On Mount Prasrava?a, the two princes wait until the advent of autumn and of the season for going to war, in the meantime revelling in the beauty of the flora and fauna on the mountain and the wonders of the rainy season. But once enthroned, Sugrīva ...
- 2019-01-24
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Editorial Portrait of a Chinese Pilot. Portrait of a man with a thin moustache and his hair in a plait rolled around the top of his shaved head, dressed in knee-length wide trousers and a loose long-sleeved chemise, full-length smoking a long pipe and sitting cr...
- 2019-01-23
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Editorial A woman worships the four-headed Hindu deity Brahma who sits cross-legged between two small fires, 1760. From a "Ragamala" series. ID: Add Or 28.
- 2019-01-23
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Editorial Gold belt buckle fom the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, early 7th century. It is hollow and made in two parts joined by a hinge. The master-craftsman who made it devised a locking system involving a complex system of sliders and internal rods whic...
- 2019-01-23
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Editorial Psalm 101; grotesques. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 101. Border decoration with grotesques; in lower margin, two-legged grotesque with unicorn head Image taken from Luttrell Psalter. Originally publish...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Courtesan seated cross-legged beside a 'nargila' pipe. Inscribed: '42. A public woman'. c.1865. Watercolour and silver paint. Source: Add.Or.906.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Bas-de-page scene of the serra, a winged sea monster (with the body of a four-legged animal); a decorated initial 'D'(omine). Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Royal 2 B. VI...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Cary's New Terrestrial Globe, 1800. ary's New Terrestrial Globe, exhibiting the tracks and discoveries made by Captain Cook; also those of Captain Vancouver on the North West Coast of America; and M. De La Pe?rouse, on the Coast of Tartary ... Made .....
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Cary's New Terrestrial Globe, 1800. ary's New Terrestrial Globe, exhibiting the tracks and discoveries made by Captain Cook; also those of Captain Vancouver on the North West Coast of America; and M. De La Pe?rouse, on the Coast of Tartary ... Made .....
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial H.H. the Maharajah of Bhoondi. c. 1887. Sir Ram Singh sits cross-legged holding a sword and shield. Portrait. Originally published/produced in c. 1887. . Source: OIOC Photo 209/4,.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Celestial globe. A new celestial globe / by Richard Cushee. [London?] : Richard Cushee, 1730. Mounted on a four-legged wooden stand with a brass meridian ring and wooden horizon ring. Forms a pair with Richard Cushee's terrestrial globe, 1730. Physica...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial One bird. Colour Illustration by Audubon; Long-legged Avocet. The Birds of America, from original drawings. London, 1827-38. Source: N.L.TAB.2.(3) plate 328.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial A yogi in Machendra asana. Asanas and Mudras (Hata yoga). 19th century. A yogi in a cross-legged position doing Machendra asana, seated on a tiger skin. Image taken from Asanas and Mudras (Hata yoga). Originally published/produced in 19th century. . ...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Celestial globe. Globus coelestis novus. [Nuremberg?] : [Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr], 1728. Forms a pair with Doppelmayr's terrestrial globe at Maps G.36b. Signs of the zodiac printed on globe. Physical Description: 1 globe : col., mounted on a four-leg...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Cary's New Terrestrial Globe, 1800. ary's New Terrestrial Globe, exhibiting the tracks and discoveries made by Captain Cook; also those of Captain Vancouver on the North West Coast of America; and M. De La Pe?rouse, on the Coast of Tartary ... Made .....
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Jewish Fish and Kitchen Utensils. A Shilling Cookery for the People ... Eightieth th. George Routledge & Co.: London, 1855. Here Soyer provides a recipe for 'Fried Fish, Jewish Fashion', and describes the 'mighty monarch' of kitchen utensils, the three...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Cary's New Terrestrial Globe, 1800. ary's New Terrestrial Globe, exhibiting the tracks and discoveries made by Captain Cook; also those of Captain Vancouver on the North West Coast of America; and M. De La Pe?rouse, on the Coast of Tartary ... Made .....
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial A one-legged pirate holding a sword and a pistol. To the left, his parrot kept saying, "pieces of eight!". The Pearl and the Pumpkin ... With pictures by Denslow. T. Fisher Unwin: London; New York printed, 1904. Source: 12809.o.48, page 121. Language: ...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Terrestial globe on a stand. [A Celestial Globe, 18 inches in diameter, with dedicatory title as follows:] Britanniarum Regi Augustissimo Georgio Tertio Astronomorum Patrono Munificentissimo, Celeberrimo, Globum hunc Caelestem, novam et emendatiorem ca...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Celestial globe. Globus coelestis novus. [Nuremberg?] : [Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr], 1728. Forms a pair with Doppelmayr's terrestrial globe at Maps G.36b. Signs of the zodiac printed on globe. Physical Description: 1 globe : col., mounted on a four-leg...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Psalm 79; grotesque. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 79. Border decoration; including, in the lower margin, a two-legged animal grotesgue, with red head and two tusks Image taken from Luttrell Psalter. Or...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial The long legged Plover. The British Zoology. T. Pennant; London, 1766. Source: 459.g.1, opposite 128.2.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Mr Senex's Terrestrial Globe, ca.1757. Mr Senex's Terrestrial Globe, Now drawn and improved according to the latest Observations by James Ferguson. Thos. Bowen Sculpt. London : Made and Sold by Benj. Martin Fleet Street, [ca.1757]. Mounted on a four-le...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial A celestial globe. A New C?lestial Globe whereon y Stars are Carefully laid down from y Correct Observations of Mr Hevelius, Capt Halley & c. By Ion Senex F.R.S. London : Now made & sold with very considerable Improvements By B. Martin in Fleet Street...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Celestial globe. A new celestial globe / by Richard Cushee. [London?] : Richard Cushee, 1730. Mounted on a four-legged wooden stand with a brass meridian ring and wooden horizon ring. Forms a pair with Richard Cushee's terrestrial globe, 1730. Physica...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Globe. Globus terrestrius. [Nuremberg? : Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr], 1728. Forms a pair with Doppelmayr's celestial globe at Maps G.36a. Physical Description: 1 globe : col., mounted on a four-legged wooden stand with a meridian ring and an hour ring...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Psalm 102; grotesques. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 102. Border decoration with three grotesques, including one with a human upper body, wearing gloves and a blue hood, and the tail of a fish. In the low...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Mr Senex's Terrestrial Globe, ca.1757. Mr Senex's Terrestrial Globe, Now drawn and improved according to the latest Observations by James Ferguson. Thos. Bowen Sculpt. London : Made and Sold by Benj. Martin Fleet Street, [ca.1757]. Mounted on a four-le...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Long-legged men. Two men from the 'land of the long-legged people'. [From a book of Japanese comic verse illustrated by Hokusai]. Shikinamigusa [waves of migrants from strange lands]. Edo, 1796. Source: 16099.c.60, 4v. Language: Japanese.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Yogi. Asanas and Mudras (Hata yoga). 19th century. Yogi seated cross-legged. Image taken from Asanas and Mudras (Hata yoga). Originally published/produced in 19th century. . Source: Add. 24099, f.73. Language: Hindi.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Cary's New Terrestrial Globe, 1800. ary's New Terrestrial Globe, exhibiting the tracks and discoveries made by Captain Cook; also those of Captain Vancouver on the North West Coast of America; and M. De La Pe?rouse, on the Coast of Tartary ... Made .....
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Cary's New Terrestrial Globe, 1800. ary's New Terrestrial Globe, exhibiting the tracks and discoveries made by Captain Cook; also those of Captain Vancouver on the North West Coast of America; and M. De La Pe?rouse, on the Coast of Tartary ... Made .....
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Globe. Globus terrestrius. [Nuremberg? : Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr], 1728. Forms a pair with Doppelmayr's celestial globe at Maps G.36a. Physical Description: 1 globe : col., mounted on a four-legged wooden stand with a meridian ring and an hour ring ;...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Globe on a stand. Globum terrestreum. Londini : [George Adams, ca. 1769?]. Paired with George Adams' celestial globe at Maps G.42b. Language note: In Latin with months of the year on horizon ring in English. Physical Description: 1 globe : col., mounte...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Celestial globe. Globus coelestis novus. [Nuremberg?] : [Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr], 1728. Forms a pair with Doppelmayr's terrestrial globe at Maps G.36b. Signs of the zodiac printed on globe. Physical Description: 1 globe : col., mounted on a four-leg...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Psalm 59; saint preaching. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] End of Psalm 58. Psalm 59 beginning with decorated initial 'D'. Border decoration. In the lower margin, a saint stands preaching to a group of seven men;...
- 2018-12-06
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