Editorial'The Conjurer'. Engraving of a conjurer or magician in a dancing posture. He has a girdle round his waist, from which in front hangs a skin, folded over to show the animal mask; and at the side, a bag made from skins, with a long fringe. Attached to th...
EditorialThe death of Captain Cook'. Captain James Cook was killed in Hawaii in a fight with Hawaiians during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779. A collection of drawings by A. Buchan, S. Parkinson, and J. F. Miller, made in the Countries visi...
EditorialThe pleas of the young prince on horseback fail to move his chaste beloved in her window. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatures. c.1575. Source: I.O. ISLAMIC 3214, f.80. Language: Persian.