EditorialThirsty sweet pea, Lathyrus odoratus, flower fairy kneeling on the ground drinking water from the spout of a watering can. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from "Les Fleurs Animees," P...
EditorialAtrocities committed in Ireland in the 17th century. Image from 'The teares of Ireland'. The Teares of Ireland... A. N. for John Rothwell: London, 1642. Image taken from: The Teares of Ireland. Wherein is lively presented as in a map, a list of the unh...
EditorialWindmill cup Silver windmill cup with hunting scenes and allegorical scenes, Windmill cup made of silver. The bell-shaped cup is entirely engraved with hunting scenes and allegorical representations. On the stairs in front of the mill, the miller, a tr...
EditorialFour medallion portraits in frame, Four portraits to the left, contained in one frame with oak faith in relief on punched ground and a border of volutt-shaped tendrils and cartouch shaped ends above and below., windmill, miller, ornament derived from p...
EditorialAn English civil war tract on the subject of Prince Rupert and the royalists. An anti-royalist broadsheet outlines thirty-eight acts of deceit and cruelty of Which Prince Rupert is accused. The woodcut showing a figure, in doublet and straight breeches...
EditorialAtrocities committed in Ireland in the 17th century. Image from 'The teares of Ireland'. The Teares of Ireland... A. N. for John Rothwell: London, 1642. Image taken from: The Teares of Ireland. Wherein is lively presented as in a map, a list of the unh...
EditorialThe leopard and the panther. Bestiary. England; between 1255 and 1265. (Whole folio) The leopard, a blood-thirsty creature, is attacking a ram. Below, the panther, a gentle animal, emerges from its cave, with other animals. The text explains that when ...
EditorialAn English civil war tract on the subject of Prince Rupert and the royalists. An anti-royalist broadsheet outlines thirty-eight acts of deceit and cruelty of Which Prince Rupert is accused. The woodcut showing a figure, in doublet and straight breeches...
EditorialAn anti-royalist tract describing atrocities such as the torturing and killing of prisoners of war. England's Wolfe with Eagles Clawes: or, the cruell impieties of Bloud-thirsty Royalists, and blasphemous Anti-Parliamentarians under the command of that...
EditorialThe leopard and the panther. Bestiary. England; between 1255 and 1265. (Whole folio) The leopard, a blood-thirsty creature, is attacking a ram. Below, the panther, a gentle animal, emerges from its cave, with other animals. The text explains that when ...
EditorialAtrocities committed in Ireland in the 17th century. Image from 'The teares of Ireland'. The Teares of Ireland... A. N. for John Rothwell: London, 1642. Image taken from: The Teares of Ireland. Wherein is lively presented as in a map, a list of the unh...
EditorialTHE NAUTICAL ADVENTURES OF A CAT: 1. We Found Him on Board a Derelict in Mid-Ocean. 2. Somehow He Managed to Get Round an Ancient Officer, who was also a Bit of a Naturalist. 3. Next Day He had a Field Day among the Specimens. 4. He then "Went For" the...
EditorialThirsty sweet pea, Lathyrus odoratus, flower fairy kneeling on the ground drinking water from the spout of a watering can. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from "Les Fleurs Animees," P...