EditorialMap of Louisiana (Mississippi), Johann Baptista Homann, 1664 1724, Etching and engraving, hand-colored, on white laid paper, Map of Louisiana shows the Eastern part of the United States up to Canada; different colors are used for Louisiana (green), Eas...
Editorialmedal, Martinus Holtzhey, 1742, minted, General: 4.3 x 0.2cm (43 x 2mm), Weight: 30.3g, woman, cityscape, snake, Silver medal on the 25th anniversary of the society 'Het Slangennest. On the front is a standing female figure in a pleated robe with a sta...
Editorialmedal, Martinus Holtzhey, 1742, minted, General: 4.3 x 0.2cm (43 x 2mm), Weight: 30.3g, woman, cityscape, snake, Silver medal on the 25th anniversary of the society 'Het Slangennest. On the front is a standing female figure in a pleated robe with a sta...
EditorialSt. Ignatius Loyola. Vita Petri Fabri, qui primus fuit sociorum B. Igna. Lugduni, 1617. St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556). Portrait. Spanish soldier and founder of the Jesuits. Portrait. Image taken from Vita Petri Fabri, qui primus fuit sociorum B. Ign...
EditorialJohann Adam Von Schall. Historica Relatio de ortu et progressu Fidei Ortho. A. Hanckwitz: Ratisbon, 1672. A portrait of Johann Adam Von Schall (1591 - 1669). German missionary, in China, and astronomer. Image taken from Historica Relatio de ortu et pr...
EditorialKing bird-of-paradise, Cicinnurus regius, and two Suriname hummingbird species. (Le petit oiseau de Paradis, Paradisea regia, deux colibris de Surinam.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Leitner jun. after an illustration by Georg Wolfgang Knorr...
EditorialKirch and Collegium of the Societatis IESU in Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt Jesuit College (Bavaria, Germany), Fig. 117, p. 62, Wening, Michael (del. et sc.), 1701, Michael Wening: Historico-topographica descriptio. Das ist: Beschreibung, dess Churf?rsten- un...
EditorialPerillustri royal society of london, Gorge with Waterfall, Caption: Sumptibus D. Isaaci Newton Equitis Aurati Societatis Regalis Praesidis, & c, Bound by title page;, 1723, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Ouresiphoites Helveticus, sive, itinera per Helvetiae ...
EditorialSt. Ignatius Loyola. Vita Petri Fabri, qui primus fuit sociorum B. Igna. Lugduni, 1617. St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556). Portrait. Spanish soldier and founder of the Jesuits. Portrait. Image taken from Vita Petri Fabri, qui primus fuit sociorum B. Ign...
EditorialJohn Gerard (1564–1637). An English Jesuit priest, operating covertly in England during the Elizabethan period. Gerard was captured in London on 23 April 1594. He was later sent to the Salt Tower in the Tower of London, where he was further question...
EditorialAmerica. Atlas Novus, exhibens Orbem Terraqueum per naturae. Dilingae & Francofurti : Apud Joannem Casparum Ben. Map of America. Image taken from Atlas Novus, exhibens Orbem Terraqueum per naturae opera, historiae novae ac veteris monumenta, artisque ...
EditorialSt. Ignatius Loyola. Vita Petri Fabri, qui primus fuit sociorum B. Igna. Lugduni, 1617. St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556). Portrait. Spanish soldier and founder of the Jesuits. Portrait. Image taken from Vita Petri Fabri, qui primus fuit sociorum B. Ign...
EditorialThe Tower of London. The description of the Tower of London, with all the buildings and the remains of the Royal Palace A true and exact draught of the Tower Liberties, surveyed in the year 1597 by Gulielmus Haiward and J. Gascoyne. Scala perticarum, 1...
EditorialAmerica and Asia. Atlas Novus, exhibens Orbem Terraqueum per naturae. Dilingae & Francofurti : Apud Joannem Casparum Ben. Map showing part of America and Asia. Image taken from Atlas Novus, exhibens Orbem Terraqueum per naturae opera, historiae novae ...
EditorialAmerica. Atlas Novus, exhibens Orbem Terraqueum per naturae. Dilingae & Francofurti : Apud Joannem Casparum Ben. Map of North and Central America. Image taken from Atlas Novus, exhibens Orbem Terraqueum per naturae opera, historiae novae ac veteris mo...
EditorialJohann Adam Von Schall. Historica Relatio de ortu et progressu Fidei Ortho. A. Hanckwitz: Ratisbon, 1672. A portrait of Johann Adam Von Schall (1591 - 1669). German missionary, in China, and astronomer. Image taken from Historica Relatio de ortu et pr...