2016-03-19 18:53
'The Writing Pen: a new book containing several alphabets and various moral judgements as well as descriptive formulae, bills of exchange, maritime policies, waybills, and other trade writin… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
'Atlas de Zoologie : ou Collection de 100 Planches' by Paul Gervais (1844) is a supplementary volume of illustrations, originally produced for a large French series on zoology published betw… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Graphic design posters by contemporary Japanese artists,hosted by Takushoku University Arts Library [link]All the images below were spliced together from screen shots. These images rema… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
"This is an album (muraqqaʿ) compiled in the late 13th century AH / 19th CE, or possibly later. It contains nineteen Deccani paintings and four pages of shikastah calligraphy, one of wh… Read More
2015-08-31 15:12
A Little Book of Nature'New little book of flowers, in it all kinds of beautiful flowers, also fruits and little animals, which are very useful to painters, silk embroiderers, goldsmiths and… Read More
2015-08-23 13:00
Illuminated Appreciation AlbumsFrom 1885 to 1890 Lord Carrington was a popular Governor of NSW. He and his wife were held in such high regard by the people of NSW that a grand series of pres… Read More
2015-07-06 16:14
'Armée Française : Nouvel Alphabet Militaire'Text by Pierre Léon VanierIllustrations by Henri de StaThis 1880s book - obviously aimed at young people - offers satirical… Read More
2015-06-22 15:25
Early 19th century hand-coloured engravings of heath flowersThe vast majority of the 860+ species in the genus Erica (heaths/heather) are endemic to southern Africa. Plants from this genus d… Read More
2015-05-19 14:40
These woodblock illustrations of falcon training come from a mid-1860salbum called 'Ehon Taka Kagami' (~The Illustrated Mirror of Falconry)"Kawanabe Kyôsai (Gyôsai) (18… Read More
2015-04-17 17:00
This striking set of hand-painted botanical and insect prints was produced by Johanna Helena Herolt, a lesser known member of the 17th c. German-Dutch Merian family of artists… Read More
2015-02-28 14:26
Fior di Battaglia = Flower of Battle = Flos Duellatorum,a combat manual created in the first decade of 15th cent."Like people today, people of the medieval and Renaissance periods read how-t… Read More
2014-11-12 13:13
Album of 100 Portraits of Personages from Chinese OperaPeriod: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)Date: late 19th–early 20th centuryCulture: ChinaMedium: Album of fifty leaves; ink, color… Read More
2014-11-06 12:20
A Calligraphy Master's Album'Werke der Schönschreibmeister' by FH Brechtel (1573) is available from Bamberg State Library in Germany.The 24 page paper manuscript is dominated by Middle… Read More
2014-11-01 17:29
Advertising posters for music-hall cabaret shows in Paris in the late 19th centuryTitle: Folies-Bergère, tous les soirs, Thaumaturgie humoristique par le Comte Patrizio de Castiglione… Read More
2014-10-03 15:00
"[S]till enjoying, though in the afternoon of life, a reasonable share of health and vigour, I am now ready to proceed to any part of the globe, to which your Majesty's commands direct me. M… Read More
2014-09-08 12:55
It is well that there are palaces of peaceAnd discipline and dreaming and desire,Lest we forget our heritage and ceaseThe Spirit’s work — to hunger and aspire:Lest we forget that… Read More
2014-08-10 19:30
Family crests from Estonia, Latvia & Lithuaniain a 1902 calendar of colour woodblock printsEach coat of arms^ has the corresponding family name printed (in some swish, Art Nouveau-influe… Read More
2014-08-02 17:18
An 1860s pomological manuscript documentsthe varieties of pears (birensorte) and apples (apfelsorte) unique to SwitzerlandPomology is a branch of botany relating to the study and cultivation… Read More
2014-07-28 14:00
The images below are Japanese posters from ~the first quarter of the 20th century."The Taishō period^ (大正時代 Taishō jidai?), or Taishō era, is… Read More
2014-07-23 14:15
A mid-20th century collaboration between artists, poets and printers gave rise to a unique book of surrealistic creatures accompanied by complementary typographic art poems.The original goua… Read More
2014-07-13 03:34
The illustrations below were designed by the German artist and naturalist, Maria Sibylla Merian. The plates were originally prepared for a mid-1670s book on the metamorphosis of caterpillars… Read More
2014-05-29 14:38
These chromolithographs* come from a decorative arts book published in about 1910 (or a little later) called 'The Decorative Use of Wallpapers'. The book gave homemakers help in visuali… Read More
2014-05-12 04:40
"[John] Gould (1804–1881) [photo], one of the most prolific ornithological artists of the 19th century, had a romantic enthusiasm for winged creatures, as well as a passion for natural… Read More
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