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Working drawing for Malady.
Lower left (l.l.) in ballpoint pen: Working drawing for Malady; l.r. in ballpoint pen: Hotere ’70
Working drawing for Malady.
Margin below image lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Wont work; margin below image c. - r. in ballpoint pen: Working drawing for Malady Hotere '70
Drawing for O.E. Middleton
Upper right (u.r.) in pencil: Hotere
Drawing for O.E. Middleton
Upper right (u.r.) in pencil: Hotere
Drawing for O.E. Middleton
Upper right (u.r.) in pencil: Hotere
Drawing for O.E. Middleton
Upper right (u.r.) in pencil: Hotere
Drawing for O.E. Middleton
Upper left (u.l.) in pencil: Hotere
Drawing for O.E. Middleton
Upper left (u.l.) in pencil Drawing for O.E.M.
Drawing for O.E. Middleton
Upper right (u.r.) in pencil: Hotere
Drawing for O.E. Middleton
Upper left (u.l.) in pencil: Drawing for O.E.M.
Drawing for O.E. Middleton
Upper right (u.r.) in pencil: Hotere
Drawing for O.E. Middleton
Upper right (u.r.) in pencil: 5
Drawing for Ian Wedde
Lower centre (l.c.) - lower right (l.r.) in ink: Drawing for Ian Wedde
The retinue of the Dutch Ambassadors in their journey to Court.
In 1691 Kaempfer (a physician) travelled with the Dutch ambassadors from Nagasaki to Yedo, seeking an audience with Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. The retinue of the Dutch Ambassadors, in their journey to court, compos'd of the following persons. 1,…
Romae antiquae notitia: or, the antiquities of Rome
First published in 1696, this short history by the Anglican churchman and scholar, Basil Kennett, recounts the rise, progress, and decay of Ancient Rome eighty years before Gibbon's Decline and fall …. A popular publication, it was reprinted no…
China monumentis [frontispiece].
Kircher was ordained a Jesuit in 1628 in Mainz, Germany, but fled his homeland and settled in Rome in 1634 to escape the Thirty Years War. He remained in Rome most of his life researching a wide variety of disciplines, from geography and astronomy to…
The gentleman's recreation
The 2d ed.
The Rev. John Laurence (1668-1732), was the first of sixteen clergymen to write important gardening books in the 18th century. His first work The Clergy-Man's Recreation (1714) aimed to preserve the health of clergy by encouraging them…
The Rev. John Laurence (1668-1732), was the first of sixteen clergymen to write important gardening books in the 18th century. His first work The Clergy-Man's Recreation (1714) aimed to preserve the health of clergy by encouraging them…
A treatise on forming, improving, and managing country residences
In 2 vols.
Rural scenery is so congenial to the human mind, that there are few persons who do not indulge the hope of retiring at some period into the country.' So begins John Claudius Loudon's A Treatise on Forming, Improving and Managing Country…
Rural scenery is so congenial to the human mind, that there are few persons who do not indulge the hope of retiring at some period into the country.' So begins John Claudius Loudon's A Treatise on Forming, Improving and Managing Country…
Aedificiorvm et rvinarvm Romae ex antiqvis atqve hodiernis monimentis liber primus
This book on the buildings and ruins of Rome by the 17th century artist and engraver, Giovanni Maggi, is typical of the works by which the ruins of antiquity became known outside Italy through that century. The remnant of the Temple of Jupiter Stator…
The ruins of Pæstum
The Greek temples at Paestum in southern Italy were almost unknown until the 1750s. They became better known through publication. This book by Thomas Major was one of the first that enabled architects of Northern and Western Europe to study the three…