



Manipuri Manuscript



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'Projet du feu d'artifice tiré à Versailles en présence de sa majesté Louis XV, le 15 mai 1771, à l'occasion du mariage de Monseigneur le comte de Provence et de Marie-Joséphine de Savoie'

'Le Trianon à Versailles' 1684 by William Swidden



"De Atlas van der Hagen and Atlas Beudeker is a joint project of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the British Library. This project led to the digitising of the Atlas Van der Hagen (ca. 1690) and the Atlas Beudeker (ca. 1750). The Atlas Van der Hagen shows topographical images from the whole world, whereas the Atlas Beudeker focuses solely on the northern and southern Netherlands."

Carlina Acantiflora

'Flora Pedemontana'

'Fakire und Fakirtum im alten und modernen Indien: Yoga-Lehre und Yoga-Praxis nach den indischen Originalquellen'



(shamelessly ganked from Will's

Horst Sagert, technical drawing for J. Schwarz' The Dragon(shamelessly ganked from Will's Horst Sagert and The Dragon 1

'Übersicht'

[image spliced together from two digital files]

"The library of [Conrad Zaccharias von] Uffenbach, at one time mayor of Frankfurt, was one of the largest of his time, counting, according to Buzas, 40,000 titles bound in 12,000 volumes, among them 413 incunabula. Towards the end of his life he decided to dispose of it, but frustrated by the unpredictable results of book auctions, decided to take matters into his own hands, himself compiling its catalogue, and affixing to each item the price he wished to obtain for it."



'The Sailing and Fighting Instructions or Signals as they are observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain'

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Gallus varius

Euplocamus pyronotus

'A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of Pheasants'

'Sammlung von Nestern und Eyern verschiedener Vögel..'

'Inhalt'

'Vorschau'

'Parabelen van Cyrillus'

'Le Monde Renversé'

Peruvian Bitters advertisement - Bird's Eye View of San Francisco, 1880s.



"The aerial view, a true birds eye looking at San Francisco toward the West from a flying pigeon above, carrying a Peruvian Bitters advertising piece in it's beak, issued as a color supplement from the SF Newletter" (Peruvian Bitters was a San Francisco patent medicine company)

'The Lake Regions of Central Africa - A Picture of Exploration'

"Burton's account of his penetration into the interior of Africa, with John Hanning Speke as his second in command, in search of the source of the Nile River. The journey was to become as famous for the acrimonious relationship between the two explorers as for any geographical knowledge gained, although the latter was significant."

(however redundant an adjective that may be on this site)