EditorialEngraving. Ordo apparatusque funebris Mauritii illustr: ... P. Amsterdam, 1626. Engraving. Image taken from Ordo apparatusque funebris Mauritii illustr: Principis Auraic?, etc.[An engraving by J. van den Velde under the direction of J. de Geyn, the Y...
EditorialMap of Fort of St Philip (Castle of San Felipe), 1756. Island of Menorca. A British-controlled fortress, it was besieged by the French and taken on 29 June 1756. Engraving published in 1765 by the cartographer Jean de Beaurain (1696-1771) as an illustr...
EditorialCharles the Bald (823-877), Holy Roman Emperor, from an illuminated Bible in the church of San Calisto, Rome. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century," Frankfurt, 1879. Illustr...